Obama himself chimed in on Twitter to say he's "proud of how they’re continuing to fight for an America that’s better."
Nearly 150 black former staffers from the Obama administration signed a letter condemning President Donald Trump’s recent racist “go back” remark aimed at four congresswomen of color ― and got a word of support from the former president himself.
Although the president didn’t name his targets in the tweet, he was widely condemned for reinforcing a common racist and xenophobic trope used against people of color. “Black and brown people in America don’t hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we’ve felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid.”
Story continuesAmong the letter’s co-signers is Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s former senior adviser. Jarrett was notably the subject of a racist and Islamophobic tweet by disgraced comedian Roseanne Barr comparing Jarrett to the “Planet of the Apes.”
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