Among the reasons Sean Doolittle is not visiting the Trump WH on Mon: “I feel very strongly about his issues on race relations,” he said, listing the Fair Housing Act, the Central Park Five & Trump’s comments following a white supremacist rally in 2017.
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Doolittle’s wife has two mothers who are very involved in the LGBTQ community.
“I want to show support for them. I think that’s an important part of allyship, and I don’t want to turn my back on them,” he said.
“I want to show support for them. I think that’s an important part of allyship, and I don’t want to turn my back on them,” he said.
“I have a brother-in-law who has autism, and [Trump] is a guy that mocked a disabled reporter. How would I explain that to him that I hung out with somebody who mocked the way that he talked, or the way that he moves his hands? I can’t get past that stuff.”
“At the end of the day, it has more to do w/the divisive rhetoric & the enabling of conspiracy theories & widening the divide in this country. My wife & I stand 4 inclusion & acceptance, & we’ve done work w/refugees, people that come from, you know, the ‘shithole countries.’”
