Fannish on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
8 Jan 2019 03:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firecat"Why Is It Still Controversial to Call Trump a Racist?" by Ryan Bort in Rolling Stone
But for all of her talk about tax rates, universal healthcare and a Green New Deal to combat climate change, Ocasio-Cortez has mostly abstained from taking on the president directly. When Cooper asked her why, she explained that she treats Trump as more of a “symptom of a problem.” Part of this problem, she went on, is racism in America.
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Date: 8 Jan 2019 03:52 pm (UTC)Right-wing media has been crying foul and tweeting pictures of the president taking selfies with black people to show he isn’t repulsed by them.
"Some of his best friends are black!"
It shouldn’t take a recording of Trump saying the n-word for America to accept that he’s racist.
Cue Chris Rock: "What do you have to do, shoot Medgar Evers?"
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Date: 8 Jan 2019 04:11 pm (UTC)