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1/ The #CovingtonBoys think blackface is OK (bc their substandard teachers never educated them about the history) & that tomahawk chops & war whooping at indigenous folk is ok (bc again, shitty teachers & parents), & that their ignorance makes them innocent. It does not...
2/ At some point you are responsible for knowing some things. And when you wear MAGA gear to be deliberately provocative, not back in your white small town enclave but a black city, you knew what you were doing...
3/ And yet few if any POC would think to themselves, "I think I'll come to the Covington Catholic football game wearing a hat that says 'America was never great,' or F Trump, bc they'd know there could b consequences...And if they did, Tucker Carlson wouldn't b defending them..
4/ But white boys know they're privileged enuf 2 wear that stuff & emerge unscathed. Wearing MAGA gear in DC, where u know most locals reject the idea that America was once 'great' signifies blatant racism or at least indifference to it...either way...not innocent little boys
