Racist of the day for today, meet YouTube employee Christopher Cukor. Christopher, while accompanied by his sensitive, honest, empathetic young son, whom he sadly ignored, apparently could not fathom why an African-American man might be waiting for a friend outside his friend’s building. He called the police to report a tresspasser.
What’s heart-rending to me is the young boy’s reaction. His innocent reaction is to feel bad about what’s happening, he knows there’s no reason to be harrassing this guy. The racist in question seems like the cliched bully you’d expect to see in every one of these type of stories. Smarmy, self-righteous, hostile and completely denying the fact that the person he’s calling the police on is a human being. They’re all being so brainwashed into racist, hateful ideas and there’s no reaching them. There’s a lot of denial that Trump supporters (and a large slice of this country) are racists, and it’s only the internet and smartphones which are helping us to reveal otherwise. So, so, so tired of these bigots and bullies.