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Dear Medhi Hasan
Get to Know the American History Behind the Labels
Dear Medhi, welcome to America. You’ve been in America a long while, I know, but now you have Zeteo, and you are on your own. Love the program and coverage of the Gaza and Middle East war sessions. Talking about genocide, can’t you get canceled like your previous network peers? Liberating.
But I hope you learn a little history while you’re here and not feign surprise at the actual historical answer. Especially about Democrats. We might all know “Trump is bad,” that worn-out liberal perspective. But he won precisely 50% of the vote, and 40 percent of Arabs voted for him in Michigan, even after he banned their countries under his first term. Muslims, it appears, have the same short memories as Christians when it comes to politics in America.
Since you seem naive about America’s past, here are a few facts on Democrat senators, governors, and party members. For 125 years, the Democrat Party was the party of severe and violent racist beliefs, causing pogroms and stealing elections, like the one stolen in 1878 in Louisiana through the killing of over 4,000 black Americans, as per the Senate record in 1880.
It was continuing the awful conservative Democratic Party bill, The Indian Removal Act of 1830, where the conservative Democratic President and war hero…