This week will be the GOP’s “Week of Whiteness” Convention, which will feature white speaker after white speaker until the final day, where they will coronate white supremacist Donald Trump as their supreme leader. In preparation, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan did his part in posting a picture of Congressional interns: a sea of white teeth and white skin. Social media backlash was swift, but Ryan still doesn’t know what all the hubbub is about. Isn’t this how America should look?
The lack of racial diversity among the staff on Capitol Hill is nothing new, and is actually very well-documented, but nothing really drives that point home like Paul Ryan’s selfie.
So here’s the game that people are playing. In the picture, try to find the:
African-American (13% of the population) Hispanic-American (17% of the population) Asian-American (6% of the population) Native-American (1% of the population)No peeking.
Here’s the answer:
African-American (1 in the picture. Look waay in the back, top right, behind the white guy) Hispanic-American (0) Asian-American (0) Native-American (0)So….
One minority in the background.
As an added bonus: No Mexicans, no disabled, no Muslims.
Now that’s how to suck up to the Donald before the convention. Well-played, Ryan.