Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy learned the hard way that although he may be a conservative, he is NOT caucasian.
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The 38-year-old Ramaswamy, who ended his presidential bid on Monday night, is Indian-American. However, quite a bit of his rhetoric seemingly convinced him that he’s not a minority at all. For example, last fall he compared Rep. Ayanna Pressley (a Black Democrat from Massachusetts) to “modern grand wizards” of the Ku Klux Klan. He called the US education system a “modern ghetto system” and claimed that the government pays women in inner cities to be single. He even argued with former CNN anchor Don Lemon on what it’s really like to live as a Black person in America.
However, the pièce de résistance came when Ramaswamy declared that the existence of white supremacy in America is about as real as a unicorn.
“I’m sure the boogeyman white supremacist exists somewhere in America. I’ve just never met him. Never seen one, never met one in my life,” Ramaswamy said at a GOP luncheon. “Maybe I’ll meet a unicorn sooner. And maybe those exist, too.”
Too bad Vivek somehow forgot that he, too, is a minority with brown skin and not some racially ambiguous conservative holding a welcomed invitation anytime he wants into White society. That lesson came last week when Republican voters in Iowa told Mrs. Ramaswamy of their intentions of never voting for her husband because they believe (like Barack Obama) he’s a secret Muslim.
Yes, the same racist rhetoric that Republicans attempted to use against former President Obama slapped Vivek Ramaswamy right in his brown, minority face.
According to NBC News, Apoorva Ramaswamy was caught completely off guard when she asked Iowa voters “What do people say” about not supporting her husband.
“Well, the only one I have and I couldn’t even remember who said it to me, but they mentioned his dark skin and they think he’s Muslim,” voter Theresa Fowler responded.
“They think he’s Muslim, so it’s his nationality more than anything. It’s just that they can’t get beyond when you look at someone and, you know…,” she continued.
Ramaswamy went on to lose Monday’s Iowa caucuses to Donald Trump, the king of the white supremacy movement. That same evening, he dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump as his monarch.
So, the lesson here is simple. Although Vivek may have talked the talk, walked the walk, and mingled among conservative circles, he is still brown skin, he is a minority, and therefore, in many White minds, he is NOT now nor will ever be ‘one of them.’
Welcome to America, Vivek!
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Most of them (American born children of immigrant parents of Color) never seem to learn do they. No matter how hard they try to pass themselves off as “White, they are not now, nor will they ever be accepted as “White.”
Move over Nikki Haley. You and Vivek have lots of company…smh!