MSNBC Video: As law enforcement and the Senate pursue accountability for the Capitol riot and insurrection, world leaders and cultural figures have been speaking out and condemning the attack on democracy. Rapper Marlon Craft has a new song challenging clichés about unity and arguing America cannot try to be unified until people confront things that should not be negotiated, from scientific truths about Covid-19 to white supremacy.
Craft joins MNSBC's Ari Melber and former RNC chairman Michael Steele to discuss his searing song and his hopes for America's future. This interview is from MSNBC's "The Beat with Ari Melber", a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. Aired on 01/22/2021.
Brookings: Make no mistake, the Capitol insurgency was about making America great for white people. In erecting a hangman's noose, waving the Confederate flag, and wearing white nationalist paraphernalia, including an Auschwitz Concentration Camp shirt, the domestic terrorists showed America they fundamentally believe in maintaining and enacting white supremacy.
Donald Trump, and Trumpism as an ideology, has opened a Pandora's box of hate into the American mainstream, giving the permission some racists needed to reveal themselves proudly and wreak havoc on symbols of American democracy that have withstood wars and attacks for centuries. (excerpt from a 1/12/2021 article by Rashawn Ray).
