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Racism is an act of self-destruction, warns podcaster Wajahat Ali and independent reporter Joy Ann-Reid. But that destruction extends to everything around them when they manage to grab the levers of power.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI mean there’s a big hole in the White House. The lawn where they built that ugly UFC ring is now brown. They’ve destroyed the Jackie Kennedy garden. [President] Donald Trump is supposed to be a builder but he physically destroyed D.C.,\u201d said Reid. \u201cAnd then that the poor pathetic little fair that he had, his little world’s fair with the fake arch made of plastic. And they painted it. America right now is a laughingstock. I think we created 57,000 jobs last month. That is sad. It’s a sad birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n

But this is the mess that comes of a nation that \u201crefused to acknowledge and uproot its dark sin of white supremacy,\u201d said Ali. \u201cWe whitewashed our history books, made heroes of racist traitors, and decided to elect the most incompetent, corrupt vulgarian after electing the first Black president.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRefusing to learn our lesson, we re-elected Trump, even though we could have had a competent Black woman as President. Now? America is turning into a s\u2014\u2014hole,\u201d Ali lamented. \u201cJust look at the Reflecting Pool as a tragic example of our downfall. Take a trip to Washington, D.C., and see the absolute mess that is the White House. Our infrastructure is collapsing, our economy is ailing, and our public health is deteriorating. Measles, death, gun violence, and suicide are on the rise. But it doesn\u2019t matter. White supremacy will destroy everything, including itself, instead of sharing power. It will burn everything down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe right wing is not satisfied with just having physically destroyed the country,\u201d said Reid. \u201c[They] destroyed the morale of the country on our birthday where we’re sad and pathetic and can’t even pull off a world’s fair.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court, meanwhile, barely protected birthright citizenship with a six-to-three vote when all the justices had to do was read the Constitution and see that if you’re born here, you’re a citizen, said Ali.<\/p>\n

With the war on birthright citizenship and MAGA cries to sterilize brown immigrants, Reid said MAGA and Trump are laboring for a very specific kind of America.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf they were successful at removing everyone who looks like you and me \u2014 all the Blacks, all the browns, all the Muslims all the AAPI, all the Latinos \u2014 if they got their way, you know what America would look like? It would look like Trump\u2019s pathetic American state fair,\u201d said Reid. \u201cThat was a place where there were no Blacks. There were no gays. There were no brown people. It was just MAGA white folks. The one\u2019s who weren\u2019t broken by [Trump\u2019s] economy, who could afford to get on a plane or drive to DC with these gas prices. It was an estimate that the first day was like a 1,000 people \u2014 only tens of MAGA could even afford to go there. \u2026 [because] they<\/em> are the poor. They<\/em> are broke. They’re bored. And they’re boring<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no musical entertainment,\u201d Reid raged. \u201cThat cultural anti-phenomenon that we saw at that pathetic Trump celebration supposedly of America\u2019s birthday and Donald Trump \u2014 that is what’s left when you get rid of all of us. If you really get rid of people of color then American culture is like sad Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike a crusty, crusty mayo sandwich that has been left in the sun for two days,\u201d added Ali.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne-hundred percent,\u201d confirmed Reid. \u201cYou’d get no Janet Jackson, no Michael Jackson, no Prince, no Whitney Houston, no Aretha Franklin, no jazz, no gospel, no hip-hop. What do you actually have? What is your culture? What is this white culture that you’re trying to preserve at all costs, at the cost of your own economy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ali added that even MAGA doesn\u2019t like MAGA America.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they move to the Southern states where do they move to when they move to Texas? Austin! When they move to Tennessee, they move to Nashville,\u201d said Ali. \u201cEven MAGA influencer] Nick Fuentes was like \u2018yeah, I don’t want to really move to a red state. So, they know that their mayo sandwich is s\u2014\u2014. They know their potato salad sucks. They know their chicken is dry and has no spice. They know that they’re bland and pasty and that they have no culture and no rhythm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Fox host warns Trump will pay for his \u2018breathtaking\u2019 corruption<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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