“Look, but she is gonna get—you know, I don’t want her stinkin’ Muslim crap in my country,” Roseanna said.
“Sharia law,” Amy chimed in. Her iridescent CoverGirl highlighter glinted under the stadium lights. “Sharia law.”
“That’s not America,” Roseanna said. “She is a Muslim through and through …She wants that all here.” She wondered whether Omar had come to the U.S. illegally.
Sharing this because it frustrates me to read. The scope of what constitutes racism to these people is so hilariously narrow that I have a tough time believing they genuinely feel the world is equitable, that race doesn't impact somebody's life trajectory.
Just remember that next time a Trump supporter claims to not be racist, there's a good chance they've never spent more than a moment thinking about phrases like "institutional racism" or "implicit bias".
It's nice when truth and meaning are infinitely malleable, so you can just say, "Oh that word doesn't mean that anymore", and go on with your happy (white) life.
Why do none of these articles/journalists ever bring up concrete racist policies and programs that Trump has put into place? Dozens of them are being fought in the courts today... pick any one of them!... and then ask the Trumpster supporter about that policy, but frame it in White terms.
"Trump's policy on X, says that whites can't do Y. Is that fair?"
"No!"
"Oh wait. No. That's his policy for blacks/latinos/non-whites...."