Roger Domeneghetti 🍉

This is getting tedious but… @AbdulElSayed has faced months of racism and bigotry that has put his safety & his families safety at risk. He has been defamed by politicians & the media relentlessly. Throughout he has maintained his dignity & good humour when most people would have cracked. The journalist in this clip was told repeatedly that Abdul was not giving interviews. He was told that Abdul wanted to focus only on Michigan. Recently the same journalist has said to Abdul “Trump says your full of shit”. Neither you nor I know the full context of this recent encounter because Sky chose to broadcast the short clip. It is a fact that victims of racism, in politics & elsewhere,are expected to play by a set of rules. They’re expected to take it. They are not supposed to react emotionally. They are not to push back. Because they know that when they do, their reaction will get more coverage & condemnation than the bigotry they face. Your response, joining in with a huge number of people, kind of proves the point. Take the shit thrown at you. Don’t be ‘unpleasant’. PS other cultures have different norms when it comes to physical contact. But you know that don’t you.