Posted on 07/16/2019 8:02:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When President Trump tweeted on Sunday that "'Progressive' Democratic Congresswomen" an apparent reference to Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, who are all women of color should "go back" to their countries, the backlash was swift. It also sparked another conversation: What makes something racist?
Ibram Kendi, a professor and director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, joined "CBS This Morning" to address that question from a historical perspective and discuss whether racist actions or words make someone a racist.
Kendi explained the important historical context behind telling a person of color to go back to where they came from.
"In the 19th century, there were many, many reformers, racial reformers who thought the way to solve the race problem, the Negro problem, was to essentially send back all free blacks [to Africa]. And that started with Thomas Jefferson, his Notes to the State of Virginia which was published in 1787, and went up to Abraham Lincoln," Kendi said.
He also pointed out that this language is aimed almost exclusively at people of color because America is assumed to be a place for white people. "So where would they go back to? But people of color, it's assumed that this is not their country," Kendi said.
A common refrain among Trump supporters, whenever he sets off a furor with an early-morning tweetstorm, is that he's just inappropriate not racist. There's a difference, they say. And Mr. Trump asserted in a tweet, "I don't have a Racist bone in my body!"
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And people wonder why college tuition is getting so expensive.
The biggest racist problem is always looking to blame whites instead of minorities looking to lift themselves up.
I believe they can do it. Why dont they??
Idiocracy the movie is now our reality.
Why ar4e Alexandra O-C and Rashida Tlaib considered persons of color? They both appear to be white people to me.
Since their skin is white, they must be racists! So, there, I fixed it.
I havent been following this Squad. Are they all blacks?
At any rate, I do feel that the trump statement was xenophobic because he didnt say anything about their families country of origin. It may have been racist if he wouldnt say it to me or other white people. He wanted to send Americans (racist, crude, miserable, disrespectful, congressional (but I repeat myself) Americans) back to their countries. Might as well send me back to Nazi Germany.
I agree with Trumps love it or leave it (or love it and improve it). But I dont like the idea of sending Americans back to where their recent ancestors came from. Even unpleasant Americans.
If AOC considers herself “A Woman of Color”.,,,,,
Then why does she usually wear so much white pancake makeup so as to appear an albino in a black wig?
I want an apology from effing liberals who laughed when Hillary called us 'deplorable'... Liberals are such jerks.
Here's my suggestion - if you can't take it, quit dishing it out.
What all of the lefty actors are willfully ignoring is the original trash talk that led to Trump’s counterpunch.
The fact that the “squad” is composed of “women of color” has to do with their self-selection. If Theresa Heinz-Kerry, a white woman from Mozambique talked that way, he’d say the same to her, and it would be just as true, and just as unrelated to race.
If they have to be explained...then theyre not racist
I’ve had some exposure to American University.
It is a leftist scheissehole. It has declined rapidly to the point where nearly everything there is pure leftist, neo-marxist virtue-signaling. there’s no learning taking place, only inculcation of propoganda.
Yeah I need this jackass to explain it to me...
my only worry with the house vote condemnation is that the twitter platform will use it as grounds to censor or ban Trump from tweeting.
You need to go find out what Trump actually said.
The Left thrives on racial divisions.
The Right knows it’s unhealthy.
So, who’s instigating the discord?
Everything is racist in Socialist America 2019.
Except we also tell commies to go to commie countries if they don’t like it here. That’s political.
This person looks like a racialist punk.
Simple, all Repubs are racists and all Dems are not.
"His idea suggests" ... you mean his actual words aren't racist, the idea you think his words represent is something that suggests racism to you?
Thank you, your honor, no further questions.
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