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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Ill explain it in Leftspeak much more quickly and simply.
Theyre Leftists. Trump opposed them. Therefore Trump is racist.
Thats it. Thats the entire thought process of Leftists.
Just because everyone has a race, does not mean everything is about race.
Yes, if I have a question about racism, I seek knowledge from such as this.
AND all of them are white. I'm tired of people who make a profession out of hating this country and running non-stop pity parties (only for themselves)... Let me pull up some things President Lyndon Johnson (D) said about ‘the black community’... or even Al Gore's white supremacist FATHER (D) had to say...or the former head of the Senate - democrat Robert (KKK) Byrd said... YOU want ‘white supremacists’? Find a democrat...
check this out Ibram Kendi... yeah, there have been racist Presidents, but they were all democrats.
President Lyndon B. Johnson on Negroes... Johnson WAS A DEMOCRAT - AND RUMORED TO BE A KKK MEMBER. The Morning Joe Historian needs to read some history...
President Johnson (democrat): These Negroes, theyre getting pretty uppity these days and thats a problem for us since theyve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now weve got to do something about this, weve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we dont move at all, then their allies will line up against us and therell be no way of stopping them, well lose the filibuster and therell be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. Itll be Reconstruction all over again. [Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Bill Clinton to Ted Kennedy: A few years ago, this guy (Obama) would be getting us coffee.
This guy is very unconvincing. Today I do not know what a racist is. When I was a young man I had it figured out. A racist was a person who in his heart, felt blacks, negroes, were an inferior race and unworthy of interaction with the caucasian race. I am a white Southerner and have been around blacks all my life, much of which was during the days of segregation. But even so, as a kid I played with black kids, We got to know each other pretty well, we respected each other and generally got along well. I heard of but never saw a KKK rally or anyone wearing the traditional garb. There were several black kids with whom I played sandlot sports who I considered friends. In the Army I served with blacks and, except for one case (a black belligerent from Detroit), we got along exceptionally well. (both training and combat) Today, in my latter years, I have several older black friends with whom I talk and joke around with. So, I am confused. What is a racist and am I one!!!
Wrong. Scot’s have been telling Brit’s to go home for over 700 years. And before that, we told the Roman dogs the same.
If you can’t hear dog whistle, then it doesn’t exist.
If you didn’t blow a dog whistle, only a crazy dog will hear one.
This guy is an idiot regardless of degrees. His name says it all.
Exactly. This clown has a grad degree in African American Studies. He had a journalism degree and tried 3-4 newspapers.
He was not successful.
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