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In in the present day’s episode of Racists Who Declare They’re Not Racist Simply As a result of They Publish Racist Issues, the vice chair of the Republican Get together in Wyoming is dealing with backlash for posting a meme that urged feloniousness is a defining trait of Blackness. Now, you’re in all probability considering: “Wait, doesn’t Donald Trump have 34 felonies beneath his belt?” Nicely, sure, and that was the joke. Apparently, Donald Trump is “Blacker” than Barack Obama as a result of the latter has a clear prison document.
Meet Wyoming GOP Vice Chair David Holland.
Holland, predictably, believes persons are being overly “delicate” over the “joke” he posted to his Fb web page of a photograph of Trump talking to Obama finally week’s funeral for Jimmy Carter beneath a caption that reads, “Do you understand, by the point I’m sworn in I’m going to be a felon that labored at McDonald’s? I’m blacker than you.”
Yeah — that’s solely humorous should you’re white and racist.
“I feel it’s a joke, I’m not racist,” Holland commented in response to the backlash.
“Clearly, if anyone had any humorousness they might have understood it,” he continued. “Persons are past (delicate).”
Look, all by itself, the “joke” Holland posted was a major instance of white individuals getting means too comfy. It’s the form of humor Black individuals can have interaction in as a result of that has at all times been the way in which we snicker to maintain from crying. Nevertheless, when white individuals begin ki-kiing over a “joke” like that, Black individuals will at all times assume: “Nah — that’s what y’all actually take into consideration us.”
And it’s…
In any case, Trump (and loads of different white conservatives) spent his complete final marketing campaign bragging that his mugshot and designation as a felon triggered Black voters to flock to him — which they didn’t. Black persons are additionally coping with a social and political surroundings that has fully normalized white individuals referring to any Black individual they see able of energy and affect a “DEI rent” as a result of, apparently, MAGA America doesn’t imagine your common Black individual is certified to do something moreover turn out to be felons or work designated “Black jobs.”
So, no, white individuals, your anti-Black “jokes” aren’t humorous, they’re simply racist, as are you.
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