But for making racist comments, for supporting a racist candidate in
someone else's election, or for saying things that receive high praise
from David Duke and the KKK, nothing is going to happen. I have not
heard leaders in the Republican Party scrambling to say that Steve King
does not represent their views on race, religion, diversity, and the
threat that ``somebody else's babies'' pose to American civilization. A friend of mine in Chicago asked me what I thought was going on when
a Member of Congress says such hurtful, xenophobic things, calling,
essentially, on Black and Brown people to join in a race war. The answer is that people like Representative King feel empowered:
empowered by the presence of Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Jeff
Sessions; empowered by a President who wants us all to fear Muslims,
fear Mexicans, and, frankly, fear all Latinos, even my American-born
grandson. This is what happens when American men and women remain silent.
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