On Wednesday night, before a crowd of thousands of people in North Carolina, President Trump went on a vitriolic attack against Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. It’s not the first time he’s attacked Omar, but this time, his hateful speech promoted thousands of people to respond, chanting “send her back! send her back!”
Even after a relentless week of racism by the president, the video clip of the moment of the Trump supporters is hard to watch. It feels like he’s reached new levels of abjectly racist behavior. Except, he hasn’t.
View the complete July 19 article by Ophelia Garcia Lawler on the Mic.com website here.