Hey. Twitter. Can we just say it. Race-baiting has been THE go-to political strategy at least since Nixon for the @GOP. It's evil bullshit garbage. Once in a while they throw the gays, the feminists and the Muslims in for variety, but white supremacy is their jam. 1/

I mean just listen to the fucking tapes. It's not a state secret. 2/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

. @realDonaldTrump just sweeps the curtain back and says the quiet part out loud. And 1/2 of Americans still vote for him. 3/

Economic anxiety. Anger at elites. Blah. Blah. Blah. In the end, they'll take a side order of white supremacy with the daily special. 4/

Every time. 5/

So for all the we need to come together stuff over the past 48 hours, how about reckoning with the deep racism that defines this country as much as it did apartheid era South Africa? 6/

We need to look evil in the face and realize it's us. 7/

So you do you and do your Kumbaya. If you want to move us ahead, we've got to have a national conversation about our history and our present and race. end/