Hasan Piker

So you'd like to find different ways of, of analogizing the N word by, uh, attacking black people, uh, from the point of welfare, claiming that black people are welfare Queens, things like that, that Ronald Reagan did.

Um, this is, uh,

We all know that Donald Trump is racist.

We all know that he is deeply invested in anti-blackness as a primary part of his politics.

I mean, this is the same person that took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to demand the execution of the Central Park Five.

This is a person whose family was prosecuted by the federal government for refusing to rent out their properties to black people.

So we already knew this, and yet the Republicans are acting as though they're shocked now because he has finally touched on this untouchable position where he is –

depicting barack and michelle obama as as apes is completely unacceptable but i think it's uh it should maybe hopefully serve as a wake-up call for a lot of americans who are still questioning whether or not he's racist but i think at this point we all know like i mean he is i mean he's been calling he he ran and campaigned on saying that haitians were eating cats and dogs which i thought was

Turning point or a wake up call for many Americans to go, wait a minute, you're you're talking about a bunch of black immigrants that have temporary protected status that you gave them actually living in Springfield, Ohio, boosting the economy of Springfield, Ohio.

And you're just saying that they're eating.

You're you're using incredibly racialized narratives about black people.

In that regard, you've said Somalis are a parasitic force that must be forcibly excised from the country, even though 95 percent of Somalis are are American citizens.

So there is no anti-immigrant advocacy there.

There is no ICE action that is justified at all in that circumstance.

These are all very clear demonstrations of anti-blackness that is, I think, foundational to the Republican Party's politics.

And this is completely indefensible even by other racists.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, this is a big part of the Republican strategy is to deny the very real racial wrongs that have been committed in this country on the basis of blackness, like directly on the basis of blackness.

And the solution, of course, is also going to be on the basis of blackness as well.