President Trump is viewing public safety as an impediment to his re-election, and using racism as a weapon to strike back. Read JamilSmith's latest
of them are at risk of eviction by the end of September. Black and Latino renters are expected to be hardest hit, per the analysis by the, a Colorado-based community group.
Americans may not recognize a burgeoning eviction crisis as racism, however, if no one yells the word “nigger” or the president doesn’t exhibit similarly obvious bigotry. Racism can be most harmful when it is insidious, or even committed merely as a means to an unrelated end. Yes, this xenophobic policy is deliberately injurious — but is truly characterized best by its apathy for the fates of who it affects in the service of another, far more important goal: the maintenance of power.
Moves like this visa ban use bigotry to further soil whatever good reputation this nation had. Perhaps it can be rebuilt over considerable time, but it’s gone. If America ever truly was a nation that invited the tired, poor, and huddled masses to share in and keep its experiment running, it appears those days are over. That was true well before Trump let pestilence run amuck and other nations started banning us. Evenfrom entering for fear that they may carry the potentially fatal disease.
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