Why Kicking Sarah Huckabee Sanders Out Of A Restaurant, Is The Version of America Worth Fighting For

Ezinne Ukoha
7 min readJun 25, 2018

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the beloved daughter of a government official who recently tweeted this gem:

She’s also a willing participant in President Trump’s toxic administration that has served as the rule book for White supremacists who stayed prayerful and hopeful during the Obama years — when things seemed bleak — and the climate was bloated with progression — and the images that seemed to encourage the approaching end of inequality.

Of course now we know better — and it’s hard not to look back in embarrassment at the sheer lack of awareness that permeated those of us who couldn’t get over the reality of the very first Black family in The House White — long enough to consider how the White nationalist movement was already moving in for the kill.

Even as the last couple of years of Obama’s administration seemed coated in the reminders of how racial strife is the drug of choice for a country that was founded on the principles that…

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