Hasan Piker

There's a couple of things that when you do it, even other racist white people will go, oh, that's a little bit too much for me.

And I feel like obviously the most the classic example of this is is perhaps best demonstrated by Lee Atwater, famous Republican strategist Lee Atwater, that said you can't say the N-word anymore after the after the civil rights movement.

So you'd like find different ways of analogizing the N-word by N-word.

attacking black people from the point of welfare, claiming that black people are welfare queens, things like that, that Ronald Reagan did.

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 issue

like untouchable position where, where he is depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as, as apes is completely unacceptable.

But I think it's, 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 would have been a 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 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.