Vox’s Plank on Smollett’s Fake Hate Crime: ‘Racism Is Alive and Well in this Country’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

PLANK: "Exactly, we don't know what happened with Jussie, but what we do know that racism is alive and well in this country. Homophobia is alive and well in this country. 2017 set a record for the number of hate crimes. The president and his rhetoric has been cited by people who — there is real evidence of people"