A wonderful high school teacher in Mobile, Alabama taught her students that our language “is our mother.” She meant it is the generative foundation of culture. She was right.

Words matter. Especially emotionally loaded words such as “racist.” That’s why it is so frustrating to see President Trump’s awful, inexcusable tweets telling Democratic congresswomen to “go back” to other countries mischaracterized as racist.

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