Deep racial divisions has always existed in American. This weekend with a
tweet, Donald Trump said: "So interesting to see 'progressive Democrat
congresswomen, who originally came from
countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the
worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a
functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the
people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful nation on
earth, how our government is to be run....and further...why don't they
go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from
which they came". Congresswomen IIhan Omar came to the US as a refugee at aged 12, but congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley were all born in this country.
Donald Trump is voicing a view which many racist groups has held for many years: "If you don't like America and want to criticize it, then you should go back to Africa or Latin America or wherever you came from".
Most older blacks who was brought up in the 1960's have experience blatant racism, so they are not as shock when we see people saying things in public which has always been said behind doors. Young minorities which has been brought up in a society where institutional racism has been couch in patriotic slogans and terms are sometimes confused or unable to handle blatant racism. Most of us who care about this country will have to work overtime to keep this country from being consumed by racial violence.
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