"In this case, I think it's safe to assume that RR is not in favor of segregation."
Black and white cookies are a metaphor for racial harmony because they taste better if you keep both halves segregated/separated? If a white supremacist sent the black & white cookie tweet, there is no question it would be horribly offensive. I'm not sure it's less horrible because we don't think RR "means it." And do we know for sure he doesn't mean it? He doesn't want "black noise" in his building... Going by his many racially-charged tweets, I think the jury is out on that one.
I think his defense in the article that the world was different in 2010 is quite telling. He says, "In 2010, we weren't anywhere near where we are now. Right now, systemic racism is killing people..." He doesn't seem to realize, even now, that systemic racism was killing people in 2010, too. It didn't start in 2016 when Trump got elected, which is what RR seems to think. |
