A Racist True or False Quiz
By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO−President Trump tweeted today, “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” True: He doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. He has a racist mind, mouth, and political instincts. As far as bones go, he does have racist skeletons in his closet.
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Kellyanne Conway declared, “My ancestors are from Ireland and Italy.” True, but that begs the question. Why doesn’t President Trump demand that she return to Ireland to lobby it to leave the European Union or go back to Italy to combat the Mafia?
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Lindsey Graham is a racist for calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the other women of the squad “a bunch of communists” and “anti-America.” False: Lindsey Graham is a chauvinist and a McCarthyist.
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Senator Lindsey Graham defended President Trump from charges of racism by contending, “I really do believe that if you’re a Somali refugee who likes Trump, he’s not gonna say go back to Somalia. A racist says go back to Somalia because you’re Somali or Muslim or whatever. That’s just the way he is. It’s more narcissism than anything else.” False, a narcissist would say I’m perfect because my ancestors didn’t immigrate from a shithole nation like Somalia.
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Nancy Pelosi defamed President Trump by describing his tweets about the squad as “racist.” False, or as Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer put it: “This is the kind of WHITE NATIONALISM we elected him for.”
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com. San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.