Glaude on Covington Students: The MAGA Hat in Some Ways Represents ‘Racial Animus; Segregation’

‘Alyssa Milano described the hat as a modern day white sheet’

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GLLAUDE JR.: “There was a sense in which the hat announced a certain set of political commitments. Alyssa Milano, I think, the actress, described the hat as the modern day white sheet. I think that’s what she -- how she described it. The hat in some ways represents for many of us a kind -- a kind of racial animus. 'Make America Great Again' is a kind of nostalgic longing for the 1950s, not by a way of public policy, Craig, but by a way of the cultural ethos of the '50s, which meant a society organized along the lines of segregation, in which black people were to stay in their place, brown people were to stay in their place and white people were to be treated and valued differently according to the color of their skin. So, yes, I think if the hats weren’t involved, it might not have been as -- as intense, but there are also -- there were also words.”

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