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When I was younger, I grew up around these white guys who absolutely hated the way Black, Puerto Rican and Mexican girls would pop their gum when they chewed it.
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These guys wouldn& #39;t say anything to them but once those girls left, these dudes would explode with anger. At first, I just thought these guys had a pet peeve. But, as we got older, their real problem with these girls emerged.
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What the guys really hated was how these girls would get loud, how they didn& #39;t hesitate to speak their minds or express a strong opinion or cut somebody off if they felt slighted.
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Most of all, these guys hated it when the girls disagreed with them and weren& #39;t shy about it. And the only time these guys would really speak up is when the girls would talk about anything related to racism.
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They& #39;d go on and on about how these girls didn& #39;t know what they were talking about. And, almost every time, the girls would get qualified as "ghetto" and somehow that distinction meant the girls didn& #39;t know what they were talking about.
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What I came to realize was what these guys really hated was the confidence these girls had. The gum popping, to the white guys, was a symptom of what they considered to be the real problem: someone who didn& #39;t know their place.
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So, every time some dude in the GOP lobbies an attack on AOC, Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib, I& #39;m reminded of those white guys I grew up with.
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