Is Make America Great Again Racist

More than 1,300 reader comments were fabricated in less than 24 hours in response to the story published on Freep.com Thursday evening nearly whether President Donald Trump's signature Make America Great Once again baseball caps have come to symbolize racism.

Some of the remarks were posted to the story itself, others on the Gratis Printing Facebook folio virtually the hats, which have become the subject of heated contend, specially post-obit a racially charged incident Jan. eighteen almost Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial.

That'southward where students from Covington Catholic School were wearing MAGA hats when they got into a confrontation with a Native American homo from Michigan. Also in the expanse at the fourth dimension of the standoff were four members of the fringe religious group the Black Hebrew Israelites, who hurled insults at the students.

The run into led some to say that the hats take come to represent racism and the president'southward white nationalist calendar. Others disagree.

Here's a sampling of what readers had to say (Comments take been edited to correct misspellings, capitalization, punctuation, and offensive words.):

Tim Rousse:The only person that could really think this hat is racist ... is the RACIST, the inferior person that wants privilege based on their own color of skin, the takers, the non-doers, the lazy, the ones who experience they are owed something.

That is the person that could really think a red hat of "Make America Bully Again" could exist a bad thing. Wow!

Damon Warren:I remember this defines the political debate in our country overall. Both "sides" are then convinced that not simply are their own views infallible, merely anyone who disagrees could only be an idiot. Add in a self-righteous overtone and yous've got this article; and your response to it. #exhibitA #twosides #samecoin

Ken Brockington: The MAGA hat is a symbol of support for Trump and his ideology. Not everyone who voted for Trump shares his racist ideology, however racist groups expressed overwhelming support for Trump and his racist credo. Sadly, many people who DON'T consider themselves to be racist were SOMEHOW able to vote for a human being who had made NUMEROUS narrow-minded comments. Ultimately, non all Trump voters were racist, but all Trump voters were undoubtedly either themselves racist or racist tolerant.

Laurie Grady: I don't even own a hat, just I will buy some now. Kinda like all the Trump signs you liberal loonies couldn't stand; everyone was stealing them. Didn't piece of work then, not working now.

Brady Borycki:Absolutely incredible. The hateful intolerant left will stop at nothing. It's America. Yous can vesture whatever yous want; information technology'south called the First Amendment. Make America Great Over again is racist? These people are Ill.

Robert Jenkins:If 1 has bothered to written report even the smallest fraction of American history, you would not but know that America never was great but also that a land with said history should ever make that claim. Has the country done "great things?" Yep. Even so, a few bright spots dotted over a almost 241-year history does not embrace up for all the wrongs committed. This hat is only political propaganda.

Geralyn Vertz: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Don't concur with the slogan on the lid? And then don't wear one. But respect the rights of free oral communication and stop trying to shout people into silence. That'south fascism.

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Buddy Osborne:At that place is a narrative that needs to be understood when people wear that hat. The person wearing it needs to be able to explain why America was no longer great in the commencement place and what they envision America condign in the future. Explain your points and you might actually exist treated with respect. Otherwise, people assume that yous believe America lost its greatness when a black president was elected and became peachy over again when a white, male president was back in the White House.

Cedric Powers:The media is working overtime to create a narrative out of whole material. Only the person who wants to see racism in a stupid chapeau will encounter it. This campaign to vilify the Trump campaign slogan and hurt his chances for the 2020 election means the Democrats are truly out of ideas.

Jeff Hadacz:My definition of "Brand America Great Once more" is making America an economic powerhouse, a military powerhouse, pride in being an American. Nobody complained when Ronald Reagan & Nib Clinton used the verbal phrase in speeches they gave years agone. People are but miserable because their own scumbag Hillary Clinton didn't win. You don't take to dearest your government just support your country, be a Patriot.

Judy Puhl: Hmmm. Black kids shouldn't wear hoodies if they don't desire to be seen as thugs, women shouldn't wearable skin-tight clothing if they don't desire to be seen as sluts, merely these white boys shouldn't exist judged by wearing MAGA hats? Sounds like a double standard to me.

Ramon Royce:For many people, MAGA supports the ideas of a specific population. A population that has been rooted in political control and racial intolerance. Although the hat does not contain a racist phrase, information technology does alienate cultural groups that have never experienced a fourth dimension when America was truly great.

Tom Salary: There are far worse things printed on shirts, posters, truck-dorsum windows, etc., even so nobody seems to care about that. It's a HAT, for gosh sakes! If yous are offended past something written on a hat, then the trouble isn't with the lid.

Chuck BigelowI recollect nosotros should have a hat that says "America is Great and together nosotros can make it even amend."

Joseph Perotta:I guess making America great again isn't for some people. They'd rather have more abortions, more perversion, more immorality, more dysfunctional individuals and families, more cleaved, single-parent, and fatherless homes, more semi-literate students and adults, more drug usage, more illegal aliens, more entitlement, more race pimping, more than racial partition. …

You lot are against making America nifty considering that requires hard work, sacrifice, honesty, morals, and a lot of things that plain you don't accept annihilation to practice with. You're more interested in a country that caters to your selfish and sinful nature, will let yous do whatever yous want, and volition provide everything in life for it (big "cradle-to-the-grave" government), enforce the remainder of the world to revolve around you lot and treat you with Christian virtues.

Davi Napoleon: The hat is racist, merely that'southward not all it is. It means "Take America back to the dark ages, before Roe v. Wade, before consenting adults could marry whomever they loved, before we made a small pace toward giving everyone health intendance, and a bunch of other things. And, certain, before we had an African-American president."

Annabel Bickel Walker:When one wears that hat, ane is proverb they hold with Trump's policies and behaviors. Since he has openly shown he is a racist, elitist, misogynistic, corrupt person, so wearing that lid says ane agrees with those ways. It is most definitely racist. Merely similar if someone were to moving ridge a Nazi flag, this chapeau too, shows one's beliefs.

Robert Stover:For all who say racist, was it racist when Pecker Clinton said it? I say neither but after reading all of these comments from all the sensitive crybabies that are offended by everything. It makes me want to buy i, I judge I must be racist and never fifty-fifty knew information technology.

Dawn Corbin Willmarth:Racist? This give-and-take is being used so much I think some people forget what it means.

Travis Lai: And h2o is moisture... MAGA Hat = White Hood . That's what information technology means and that'southward what information technology'south MEANT to hateful to others.

David Hiser: To all the snowflakes responding hither, I judge y'all didn't have a problem when Bill Clinton used the aforementioned phrase when he campaigned. If you don't want to MAGA, stay on the sidelines, ride the pine, and go along watching those who want to MAGA piece of work hard for anybody, even you!

Tom Stechow: What does information technology matter if a MAGA hat is a political argument? Y'all may agree with or you may not, but it is still a political statement. Why were students representing their school wearing a political statement on their heads? Where were the chaperones and school/church assistants? Many of the aforementioned people supporting the students wearing the hats would have a fit if students from a public schoolhouse went on a field trip making a political statement. Since parochial schools are tax-exempt they are really indirectly partially funded by the taxpayers.

Contact Kristen Jordan Shamus: 313-222-5997 or kshamus@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @kristenshamus.

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Source: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/25/trump-maga-hats-racist-make-america-great-again/2677458002/

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