The Historic Racist Dog Whistle of Calling People “Animals”

found online by Raymond

 
From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:

Often our words are more than words—they are floodlights.
They pierce through our facades and our artifice, and into our shadow places, and they reveal who we are.
Many times our words illuminate what is most true about the contents of our hearts, even as we try to conceal them.

This week at a roundtable in California, Donald Trump said these words about undocumented immigrants and showed us who he is:

“We have people coming into the country—or trying to come in, we’re stopping a lot of them—but we’re taking people out of the country, you wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals.”

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