Racism Showcased In Two Separate Ways
Over the past years, there have been many stories of angry caucasian Americans ranting against minorities in public locations, either for speaking their native language, doing their job, or having a different skin color.
These incidents are almost always rooted in bigotry, which in turn is brought about by a lack of education. However, if one ever needed an astute example of how poorly educated some Americans can be,
one is welcome to look at the latest viral instance of an American criticizing a supposed “non-American.
” On July 7, 2018, a video was published on Facebook from the perspective of a woman who was legally renting an area for a birthday party. In said video, she was approached by an older white man, identified as
Timothy G. Trybus, 62 of Illinois, who proceeded to verbally abuse her for wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rican Flag on it, due to it apparently being un-American. Despite the fact that the Puerto Rican flag is clearly
derivative of the American flag, bearing the same red, white, and blue, and a white star, which you’d think any idiot could figure out. But, not this idiot, it seems.
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However, as the woman calmly informed him, Puerto Rico is actually a part of the United States: it’s an unincorporated territory, though there has been a strong push for statehood. Though President Trump apparently
didn’t know which territories he’s the President of, and clearly didn’t care much about Puerto Rico, either.
Trybus was not having any of it. He instead chose to continue berating her, telling her that she was “not going to change us”. That racist statement is not very dissimilar from the chants of neo-nazi marchers who chanted
“you will not replace us,” and “Jews will not replace us,” as well as “blood and soil” in Charlottesville, and watching the video it seems to come from the same sentiment. Aside from that bit of racist commentary, the man
(Trybus) also stalked her, and aggressively got uncomfortably close to her.