Ron DeSantis Saying Slavery Was A Job Training Program
There was no way to talk about racist comments without bringing up Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The GOP Presidential Candidate vigorously defended the state’s new curriculum that teaches that slavery benefited Black Americans by providing skills training. DeSantis said it was reasonable to “show that some of the folks…eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life.” YIKES.
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Trump Calling A Black Prosecutor An Animal
Former President Donald Trump has been consistently spurting out racially-coded attacks on the bevy of Black prosecutors with cases against him. But his comment on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is more than a dog whistle. Trump called Bragg “a Soros backed animal” — leaning into both antisemitic conspiracy theories about George Soros and racist stereotypes about Black people being akin to animals.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Saying Calling Someone A White Supremacist Was The New N-Word
In March, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene came for Rep. Jamaal Bowman, saying that he’d “physically threatened her” during an intense back and forth. The event was captured on camera, with both parties raising their voice, but no indication that things were going to get physical. Reporters on the scene from MSNBC noted that Green’s characterization was wrong and potentially dangerous, given the history of white Americans weaponizing feeling unsafe around Black Americans. What’s more, Greene claimed that Bowman calling her a White Supremacist was equivalent to saying the N-word.
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