Akilah Hughes

Yeah, this is explicit racism.

I don't think that it's even a new form of racism.

It's actually kind of the oldest American racism is comparing Black people to apes and monkeys.

So I really appreciate you saying we're not going to split hairs on whether it's racist or not, because it's a waste of everyone's time.

It's racist.

Somebody said hello in the comments.

Hi.

But I think what really struck me was how lazy Caroline Levitt's lie was today, like saying it's a frame from The Lion King when The Lion King for a very long time, most of my life was the highest grossing animated film.

I don't know a single soul who hasn't seen it.

We all know that there aren't gorillas in it and there certainly aren't palm trees that look like that.

It's just so stupid.

And she, you know, really boasts about being a young mother and being pregnant and having a kid on the way.

And I'm like, well, do you watch the movies your kids are watching?

Because this is the most popular animated film, you know, before Frozen and I guess most recently Zootopia 2.

So I think it's like actually damning to come up with a very lazy lie, which also like to your point,

makes it easy for the president to undermine her and say well he's just another person who works here without naming that person without calling for them to be fired without a real apology um just more of the same and so i think especially in black history month it's like a real slap in the face to black people in this country um but you know it's just more of the same from this racist administration hassan what do you say

He's not exactly hairy, but he's not.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

mean that's the thing like the fact that we could have a list of most racist things said by a president is ridiculous i don't know another president that i could do that for and be like confident that i have tin maybe ronald reagan but at least he was smart enough to code it like this is just blatant racism