Alex Wagner

I think it's like designed to be offensive and

And it is deeply reflective of a Department of Justice that likes to use race in a pernicious and damaging way.

They are charging you with a law from 1871 called the Klu Klux Klan Act.

And that historically is a law that's been used to

to protect against white supremacist violence.

Now it's being used against you, a person of color, alleging you were part of a conspiracy to intimidate churchgoers.

As one of the country's most prominent black journalists, do you think that this is a sort of deliberate play here?

I would take it one step further.

And racist.

And it's racist.

Let me get that.

I was going to say, I think this is a really- That's the first part I should have said.

This is a really, it's part of a suite of actions from this administration assisted by the Supreme Court

to first of all whitewash America's racist history and the legacy of slavery by saying that all of the civil rights protections that we have in place are effectively reverse racism against white people.

And to weaponize the legacy of King, to weaponize things like the Ku Klux Klan Act,

against people of color and therefore render the idea of disparity and institutional racism sort of moot, right?

No one's a racist.

Everyone's a racist.

White people are being discriminated against.

And therefore, any protections that exist in our society should be done away with because it's all kind of meaningless.