Today’s episode of The Daily was about what was going on in the Ohio town where Trump’s “Haitians eating dogs” conspiracy theory came from. It’s really sad. There’s an influx of Haitian immigrants there, doing work at new factories and basically creating growth there.
And of course, resentment from the existing White population. This happens every time. It’s why Vincent Chin was killed in the ‘80s in Michigan. Now I think about it, I’ve also seen it happen among white collar workers. I knew a dude who said that the Chinese were dirty literally because they worked harder than him in his white collar industry. He actually said their hard working was what made them dirty.
In this Ohio town, there was a car accident in which a Haitian driver, who was not under the influence, plowed into a school bus, killing a child.
That’s horrific, but instead of being about an individual’s criminal negligence, the White people in the town used it to get explicit about immigrants in general. Nationally, it took off among Republicans.
The family of the kid who was killed, on top of dealing with an unimaginable horror, had to deal with their kid’s death being a Trump weapon. The father spoke out against it and asked people to not be racist.
I’m afraid for him. The Sandy Hook parents were viciously harassed for years. The right has no mercy at all for people who have just lost a child.