“She says there is no way she would work with an individual who is racist,” Meadows said. By casting himself as the victim of racism, Meadows refused to even consider that his actions were offensive to Tlaib, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Although some whites assert that the country has made great racial progress, Petrella said, their language and posture reflect age-old racist attitudes. “ 'Not a racist bone in my body’ doesn’t make sense. “The seductive Hollywood script of how incidents of racial injustice are handled is very much that we’re not gonna critique systems,” Petrella said.

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2019 16:52 UTC