Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard slammed the use of racially divisive politics, accusing politicians and the “mainstream propaganda media” of dividing the country.
“My dear friends, my fellow Americans. Please, please, let us stop the racialization of everyone and everything. … We are all children of God and are therefore family in the truest sense,” Gabbard said in a video posted to her Twitter account Sunday. “No matter our race or ethnicity, this is aloha, and this is what our country in the world needs.”
Gabbard, an Army veteran and Democrat who made a failed bid for her party’s presidential nomination in 2020, also took aim at politicians and the media for continuing to focus their attention on skin color.
“The mainstream propaganda media and politicians, they want us to constantly focus on our skin color, and the skin color of others, because it helps them politically or financially,” Gabbard said. “Aloha means respect and love for others. It’s what enables us to see beyond our skin color and see the soul of person within. So let’s do our best to cultivate this aloha in our hearts and see and treat others through this prism of love, not through the prism of race and ethnicity.”
“Please, let us not allow ourselves to be led down this dark and divisive path of racialism and hate,” Gabbard concluded.
Please, let us stop the RACIALIZATION of everyone and everything. We are all children of God, and therefore family in the truest sense, no matter our race or ethnicity. This is aloha – love & respect for others. This is what our country & the world need. pic.twitter.com/W8wqqMj1jf
— Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) April 25, 2021
Gabbard’s comments come as much of the national conversation has centered on issues of race following multiple high-profile police shootings and the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd.
The comments also come after President Joe Biden made calls for police reform, blaming “white supremacy” for many of the problems facing America’s minority communities.
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“One of the core values and beliefs that should bring us together as Americans is standing against hate and racism, even as we acknowledge that systemic racism and white supremacy are ugly poisons that have long plagued the United States,” Biden said in his address following the announcement of the Chauvin verdict. “We must change the laws that enable discrimination in our country, and we must change our hearts.”
