Congressman Steve Cohen SLAMS Rudy Giuliani With Racially Tinged Tweet!

Democratic Congressman from Tennessee, Steve Cohen, just became my new favorite politician with one tweet:

Rep. Steve Cohen wins the Internet with devastating ?3 5? tweet on Giuliani's racism

In case you haven’t heard, Giuliani has been making outlandish comments recently. His latest retorts saying that Obama doesn’t love America because he wasn’t brought up in the same way, and wasn’t brought up TO love America. Yes, I think there are racial undertones in his remarks. This IS the same guy who recently blamed blacks for the police violence against them. This notion that Obama isn’t American enough and doesn’t love the country that twice elected him as leader of the free world, is not based on any fact, so…what else could it be based off of?

Cohen was of course invoking the famous “3/5 Compromise” ?which counted slaves as 3/5 human, for reasons of population counting in regards to legislative representation as well as taxes. This was obviously an egregious statement from our government in the late 1700s but its legacy remains.?With police leaving black bodies on the streets for hours to die, and our “justice system” letting their?killers go free, do we really think we see blacks as 100% human?

I love that Rep. Cohen didn’t actually call Giuliani a racist, but implied that his comments were racial. You know, the same way Conservatives don’t actually CALL black people lazy, they just imply that they prefer checks from the government over good paying jobs.

I am not saying that Cohen thinks Giuliani is a racist, and he may not be. That conclusion is still undetermined in my view, BUT, invoking this language is inflammatory and I like that. Giuliani has no basis for the crap he has been saying and some want to give him a free pass. I think we should get in there and verbally assault Giuliani the same way he has been assaulting others.

But representative Cohen still wins the day for me with this tweet. While perhaps a little sarcastic, it is obviously riddled with some insight. He IS effectively saying that Giuliani must think Obama doesn’t love America like Giuliani loves his friends and family. Again, creating a notion that “those people” don’t love America because they aren’t like us. It is the same “us vs. them” arguments white patriarchy has collectively been making for centuries.


If these comments weren’t because Obama is a person of color, who doesn’t drink the Conservative Kool-Aid like the embarrassing Ben Carson, where do his beliefs stem from? Republicans ALWAYS do this though. It is why they want to ban AP US History. If we actually bring up the bad things America has done or is still doing, we don’t love America and we are bad people. Because falsifying history, supporting inequality, and codifying bigotry really shows how much you love America right? Wrong.

So regardless of what Cohen was actually trying to say, this helps shed a spotlight on the racially incendiary language from Republicans like Giuliani, and I am happy about that.

 

I was born on January 13, 1990. I was born and raised in Charlotte, NC. I moved up north and attended the University of CT from 2008 to 2012. I currently also work at a law firm in Uptown Charlotte and have been helping with this organization entitled the National Independent Voter Coalition. My interests include: Politics (obviously), Basketball (playing and watching) and watching almost any sport, movies, reading, the law, human rights, entertainment, mostly Angelina Jolie and Beyonce. I am fun, caring, passionate, intelligent, and unique!