Wajahat Ali

I mean, this president, one thing I will say about him is that he doesn't shy away from showing us who he is time and time again.

But Don, this is so much bigger than President Donald J. Trump.

You know, I would almost be OK if it was only about him.

But this is about the fabric and the nature, the DNA of the United States of America.

You know, it just galls me to no end when I hear well-meaning people say this is not who we are.

No, this is exactly who we are.

This is exactly how this country was built.

And we have got to take an account in order to change something.

You know, James Baldwin, one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, once said, not everything that is faced can be changed.

but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

And so if this country continues to comport itself like this is not us, if the country continues to comport itself, everybody that's clutching their pearls right now over what the president put out, which they should, but were they clutching their pearls when President Joseph R. Biden said racist things?

Were they clutching their pearls when Senator Schumer called some of the ID requirements Jim Crow 2.0?

Jim Crow 2.0, sir, you don't even understand what Jim Crow was.

And so, Don, the monkey, the pseudoscientist, none of this stuff is new.

This pseudoscientist science that links black people to be a higher form of ape, to be able to justify for the ruling class whites of that time.

how they comported themselves and treated and dehumanized black people at the same time those black people that they called sub-human or somehow a higher form of ape they allowed to they had them watching their children we know that black women had to be wet nurses to their children we know that rape happened of black men and black women so if you truly thought that black

people were a higher form of ape or somehow subhuman, but yet you rape them.

You have the Black women take care of your own children.

All of this stuff is outrageous, Don Lemon.

And we don't even have to go as far back as that.