Just yesterday, former Ronald Reagan policy analyst and co-director of the anti-Obama film 2016: Obama's America - Dinesh D'Souza - decided to make the following Thanksgiving Day tweet, before deleting it later in the afternoon:
"I am thankful this week when I remember that America is big enough and great enough to survive a Grown-Up Trayvon in the White House!"
At first glance, this tweet didn't make a great deal of sense to me, but until D'Souza explains himself, I'm left with the following possible interpretations:
1) Racism - Many right-wing commentators have labeled both Trayvon Martin and President Obama as thugs. While they may defend their label by saying, "That's not racist," if you were to ask them what a thug looks like, they'd likely respond with, "Someone like Trayvon or Obama." In other words, thug = black thug.
2) Confusion - President Obama has admitted to experimenting with drugs many years ago. Perhaps D'Souza thinks he's also fond of carrying around ice tea and a bag of Skittles while wearing a hoodie while walking in neighborhoods.
3) Shallow - D'Souza may not have been thinking a great deal at the time of the tweet, which seems to be quite commonplace for him, and tried to cleverly spin Obama's previous comment about how he could have been Trayvon Martin many years ago. Of course, this quote by the president dealt with the hardship many African-Americans face in this country with prejudice. So, if this was the intent of Mr. D'Souza, he obviously didn't think about the matter very thoroughly.
4) Denial - Mr. D'Souza may have forgotten or still been in denial about the fact that Trayvon Martin was the one who was followed, shot, and killed by George Zimmerman, and made this tweet, without even thinking about how that could potentially relate to a madman attempting to assassinate the president.
5) Stupidity - Lastly, I wouldn't put it past Dinesh D'Souza to have woken up yesterday morning from a deep slumber and, without thinking much about it, tweeted the first Thanksgiving-Day sentence that sprung to mind.
While the quantity of interpretations to Dinesh D'Souza's tweet are numerous, none of these interpretations place him in a positive light. One thing I'm thankful for this week is that I don't have the demented mind of Dinesh D'Souza.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/dinesh-dsouza-trayvon-tweet_n_4345318.html
"I am thankful this week when I remember that America is big enough and great enough to survive a Grown-Up Trayvon in the White House!"
At first glance, this tweet didn't make a great deal of sense to me, but until D'Souza explains himself, I'm left with the following possible interpretations:
1) Racism - Many right-wing commentators have labeled both Trayvon Martin and President Obama as thugs. While they may defend their label by saying, "That's not racist," if you were to ask them what a thug looks like, they'd likely respond with, "Someone like Trayvon or Obama." In other words, thug = black thug.
2) Confusion - President Obama has admitted to experimenting with drugs many years ago. Perhaps D'Souza thinks he's also fond of carrying around ice tea and a bag of Skittles while wearing a hoodie while walking in neighborhoods.
3) Shallow - D'Souza may not have been thinking a great deal at the time of the tweet, which seems to be quite commonplace for him, and tried to cleverly spin Obama's previous comment about how he could have been Trayvon Martin many years ago. Of course, this quote by the president dealt with the hardship many African-Americans face in this country with prejudice. So, if this was the intent of Mr. D'Souza, he obviously didn't think about the matter very thoroughly.
4) Denial - Mr. D'Souza may have forgotten or still been in denial about the fact that Trayvon Martin was the one who was followed, shot, and killed by George Zimmerman, and made this tweet, without even thinking about how that could potentially relate to a madman attempting to assassinate the president.
5) Stupidity - Lastly, I wouldn't put it past Dinesh D'Souza to have woken up yesterday morning from a deep slumber and, without thinking much about it, tweeted the first Thanksgiving-Day sentence that sprung to mind.
While the quantity of interpretations to Dinesh D'Souza's tweet are numerous, none of these interpretations place him in a positive light. One thing I'm thankful for this week is that I don't have the demented mind of Dinesh D'Souza.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/dinesh-dsouza-trayvon-tweet_n_4345318.html
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