It seems we like brown people in this country as long as they quietly do the jobs we don’t want to do: stoop labor, farm work, gardening and landscape maintenance, etc. We treat them as invisible until, quelle horreurs!, it is pointed out there are brown people among us!Leo Vanegas, the American citizen that @StephenM's goons arrested w/o a warrant at a home site twice, is the kind of home builder without which you can't build new homes.
— emptywheel (check) (@emptywheel) November 16, 2025
Stephen Miller is the problem.https://t.co/CEzcGT13wF pic.twitter.com/NXxo5vdXxB
But that horror has quickly turned to disgust as thugs round up brown people because they are brown and treat them as they often get treated, only much more publicly and with less decency. (The police officer who killed George Floyd would probably still be working for some police force had he not killed Floyd so publicly.)
Resorting to even more racism (“Poor brown people are buying up all our homes!”) is all the worst racists have. This is America. We like our racism discrete and, preferably, invisible. I’d like to see the statistics on farm labor and food prices. If shortages in housing drive housing costs, shortages in supply and ability to get food to markets certainly must drive food costs.
Trump and Bessent are going to be very disappointed in how long it takes the price of tariffs on coffee and bananas to work through the system. And how little those foods mean to seasonal meals in the winter.
This entire Administration is driven by nothing but animus and ignorance. Two things that can be widely accepted in the short term; but sooner or later (like everything else in the public square), soon lose their appeal.
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