Columnist Renée Graham struck a chord when she wrote that Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, has been “branded as a frightening ‘other’ ” because he is Muslim (“El-Sayed is the just latest liberal candidate forced to affirm his loyalty to America,” Oct. 29).
At no time in our history have prejudices been weaponized so successfully for political purposes. Always latent, they have crawled out from under their rocks and been given legitimacy under the MAGA brand.
These types of attacks are hardly new to America. We interred Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor; our history of slavery continues, with racial discrimination rampant.
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