Okay but I'm still left wondering why Truth needed to mention "American Congresswomen of color". Why is the color part relevant?

"What color do you think I am?"

>I haven't the slightest idea... A mix of blue and purple?

"Did you just presume I'm white?"

>No.

"So white is your default?"

>No.

"No wonder we still have a long fight ahead of us."

>What the hell are you going on about!? I'm trying to figure out what prompted these questions: "What color do you think I am?  Did you just presume I'm white?  So white is your default?" and I'm at a loss...

There is no line for Trump.  He doesn't view the president office like previous presidents, instead he views it like one of his business.  This is why him asking another sovereign nation to bar elected congress members never cross his mind on how stupid it is for the President of the United States to even consider doing.  Its this kind of dumb petty divisive mentality that he has shone before he ever got into office that make his base happy.  They see this as an improvement to the President office and will fight tooth and nail to defend what he does.  Of course that all goes out of he window if a Dem gets back the office and act the same way but for now its pretty much par for the course for this administration.  Everyone who would have told him this was a mistake have all been fired or quite.  The only ones like are the enablers or the ones who just shut up.

>Okay but I'm still left wondering why Truth needed to mention "American Congresswomen of color".

And I'm left wondering why you're asking such basic questions.

>Why is the color part relevant?

Because people who are of color have been attacked and considered to be illegitimate Americans.  And the president of the United States have backed those attackers.  

You can twist and turn his comments 1000 ways to make them seem good or less hurtful than they are, but to the people that have heard those comments a thousand times before, they know what he means.  

How?

The very first thing I would do if I was harassed or abused is try to get something down on tape. Would significantly bolster my case.

"Because people who are of color have been attacked and considered to be illegitimate Americans."

>Because of their color?

Oh,i'm not really a vengeful person and i'm not really feeling harassed or abused anymore.

I do not think it is healthy to be constantly thinking about "harming" others for the way they think,at best i can just change how they think by talking to them but a me against them mentality is mostly not constructive.

Yes because of color. I'm a light skinned mixed raced Mexican and I can tell you, from personal experience, I have to deal with my fair share of racists but my darker brothers and sisters have it harder than me due to the darker color of their skin. It's called colorism and it works in tandem with racism. Reading about it wouldn't do you any harm. 

Oh,i'm not really a vengeful person and i'm not really feeling harassed or abused anymore.

I do not think it is healthy to be constantly thinking about "harming" others for the way they think,at best i can just change how they think by talking to them but a me against them mentality is mostly not constructive.

Yes because of color. I'm a light skinned mixed raced Mexican and I can tell you, from personal experience, I have to deal with my fair share of racists but my darker brothers and sisters have it harder than me due to the darker color of their skin. It's called colorism and it works in tandem with racism. Reading about it wouldn't do you any harm. 

You do you then. I'd want to spotlight any and all abuses so as to prevent it from happening again.

What do you have to deal with. I'm curious.

You do you then. I'd want to spotlight any and all abuses so as to prevent it from happening again.

What do you have to deal with. I'm curious.

A lot, especially when I was younger in my formative years. There was a time when I felt ashamed of being who I was. People would falsely accuse me of being an immigrant and all the negative stigma that came with it effected me. I've had every racist stereotypical Mexican insult said or yelled at me at one time or another, "go back" insults are the most prevalent. Because of this I would intentionally lighten my skin and not go outside, I darken incredibly easily, in order to look as "white" as possible (it didn't really work.) And since I'm mixed there's a lot of racist shit I had to deal with even within my own family. At one of my jobs I had worked at, I was paid less than my white colleagues and they had the same job description and even had less experience than me. My brother had a similar issue in construction, he managed a group of people and he was being underpaid getting the same amount as the people under him, while his white colleagues with the same job description were getting paid the right wage.

That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface and people who are darker have it even more hard. I'm not gonna go through everything that's happened to me due to racism because it's just too much to count.

How do you come to learn the pay rate of your colleagues? I have no way of learning what my own colleagues are paid and it would be very awkward for me to just ask them hence I just don't.

How do you come to learn the pay rate of your colleagues? I have no way of learning what my own colleagues are paid and it would be very awkward for me to just ask them hence I just don't.

A lot, especially when I was younger in my formative years. There was a time when I felt ashamed of being who I was. People would falsely accuse me of being an immigrant and all the negative stigma that came with it effected me. I've had every racist stereotypical Mexican insult said or yelled at me at one time or another, "go back" insults are the most prevalent. Because of this I would intentionally lighten my skin and not go outside, I darken incredibly easily, in order to look as "white" as possible (it didn't really work.) And since I'm mixed there's a lot of racist shit I had to deal with even within my own family. At one of my jobs I had worked at, I was paid less than my white colleagues and they had the same job description and even had less experience than me. My brother had a similar issue in construction, he managed a group of people and he was being underpaid getting the same amount as the people under him, while his white colleagues with the same job description were getting paid the right wage.

That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface and people who are darker have it even more hard. I'm not gonna go through everything that's happened to me due to racism because it's just too much to count.

How would you prevent it by doing that,people being ignorant to you is no clear abuse but just stupid and it is a part of humanity in it's current form.

Making recordings of mean words by different people would give the cops a good laugh and that's it and besides of that it is unlogical to permanently focus your life on the negative,people are too obsessed with getting back at others that it makes even bigger gaps between groups that already do not understand eachother.