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One of the best written articles I've read - re: Trump' s unpatriotic racist rhetoric
[link:https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article232738672.html|
The writer was on Lawrence O'Donnell earlier tonight.
Well worth the read.
Dear Donald Trump:
Years ago, I got to visit Kwethluk, an Alaskan town of fewer than 900 souls. It is an isolated place where the people, most of them Yupik and Eskimo, live on what the tundra provides: ptarmigan, moose, seal, salmonberries. I remember standing upon that snowbound landscape and marveling that I was further than Id ever been from everything Id ever known.
It was a feeling Id had once before, at a village in Niger. But this was different, because Id needed no passport to get to Kwethluk. Though I stood in a distant place with people who did not look like me and whose traditions were not like mine, the marvel of it was that I was yet standing with fellow citizens, together in our country. Because this was America, too.
I doubt you would have understood that. Your vision of what makes an American is too niggardly and cramped to allow it.
Best line of the article
Go back where you came from? Weve heard that one often. It is less an expression of geographic reality again, three of the women you slurred were born in the USA than it is of white fear. The notion that you live here on probation if you are black or brown is one of racisms oldest canards. And it was not surprising to see members of your party offer tepid rebukes of your behavior or none at all, while stepping gingerly around the r word like a body on the sidewalk.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,127 posts)Sorry about that.