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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took a break from clapping back against conservatives on Twitter to sit down for a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper. The freshman congresswomans appearance on Americas highest-rated news program, which aired Sunday night, was the first extra-Internet opportunity for Ocasio-Cortez to broadcast some of her policy beliefs to a national audience. As was revealed in a teaser clip posted Friday, these include a 70 percent marginal tax rate on the wealthy, which was bandied about online throughout the weekend. 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. Cooper then asked her to state the obvious.
The president certainly didnt invent racism, said Ocasio-Cortez, but hes certainly given a voice to it, and expanded it, and created a platform for those things.
Do you believe President Trump is a racist?
Ocasio-Cortez could hardly believe the question. Yeah, she said, shaking her head. No question.
How can you say that? asked Cooper.
Cooper seemed to be asking Ocasio-Cortez to elaborate not so much because he doesnt believe it to be true, but as a way to allow the new Democratic star to flesh out the claim to Americans who may still be grappling with the idea. When you look at the words that he uses, which are historic dog whistles of white supremacy, when you look at how he reacted to the Charlottesville incident, where neo-Nazis murdered a woman, versus how he manufactures crises, like immigrants seeking legal refuge on our borders its night and day, Ocasio-Cortez responded.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-trump-racist-775626/
Rizen
(721 posts)or sexist etc. We need to bring these things into the light.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)Never knew
George II
(67,782 posts)irisblue
(33,018 posts)It will be the starting of some white people taking some responsibility for their own racism.
:: And if you are not racist or are working on, consciously stopping/ending your own internalized racist/white supremacist responses, good.on ya and may karma reward you::
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'm saying that racists call Rump a racist.
Note: Thank you Andrew Gillum for giving us such wonderful sayings to play with!
aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I thought it was a highlighted selling feature of the candidate/man? It's what makes him so popular with his base.
If he wasn't a racist he would not be where he is today.
VOX
(22,976 posts)When do we beat Mexico at the border? Theyre laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But theyre killing us economically.
And infamously: When Mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best. Theyre not sending you. Theyre not sending you. Theyre sending people that have lots of problems, and theyre bringing those problems with us. Theyre bringing drugs. Theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Racist to the core, as is his base.
Gothmog
(145,481 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 8, 2019, 02:21 AM - Edit history (1)
I agree with AOCs opinion on this