What really is concerning to me as well is, it’s not just Democrats in Congress. I own this.Īnd so until we’re ready to have that conversation, this is going to continue. I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with expletives against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases, just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing, which essentially the message was clear, this is my country.
I was on Long Island this weekend, visiting a really dear friend and I was really disturbed. Until we can confront that and talk about that, this is really going to continue. We have to figure out how to get every American a place at the table in this democracy, but how to separate Americanness, America, from whiteness. I think as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with whiteness, this is going to continue. MARA GAY: The reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population - I don’t know how big it is, but we have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others.
NYT/MSNBC’s In Long Island last weekend, I saw “dozens of American flags,” which was “just disturbing” /RhGdqqJope
