Did Marjorie Taylor Greene Lie?

Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks because the arrival of former President Donald Trump outdoors the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on August 24, 2023. | Supply: Anadolu Company / Getty

OOkay, we’ve talked rather a lot about white Republicans and their determined, disingenuous, delusional, utterly political and inherently racist scramble to gather Black associates. It’s pathetic the way in which they scour the sunken place for hard-right Black conservative politicians and pundits to throw their help behind and scour the web for any and all movies they will discover that present Black Trump supporters or Black folks in opposition to vital race concept and Black Lives Matter. Possibly they’re doing it to extend Black voter help. Possibly it’s as a result of they’re bored with being considered the “outdated white celebration,” which is precisely what they’re whatever the few folks of colour they preserve sprinkled amongst a sea of congressional Caucasians. Both method, white conservatives look like getting increasingly determined to uphold the phantasm that regardless of their hatred for CRT, BLM, variety, “wokeness,” police reform, the reparations dialogue, non-whitewashed Black historical past and the Black voters they constantly search to disenfranchise, the GOP is the celebration for “the Blacks.”

Now, it seems that Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken issues a step additional and simply began making up Black associates out of skinny air.

On Sunday, Greene tweeted about an expertise on the airport most individuals seem to agree was all cap, or what her MAGA messiah calls “faux information.”

“Center aged white girl with a black fabric masks on psychotically growls/screams unintelligible sounds at me as she walks by,” Greene claimed. “Then, pleasant airline worker smiles and says, ‘inform President Trump that African American Muhammad says hiya and is with him!’”

Now, actually, the primary half appears believable. Positive, it’s following the brand new white conservative pattern of turning their anti-woke ire towards white liberals, which is a few white-on-white-crime nonsense that’s actually none of Black folks’s enterprise. But it surely’s potential that a lot occurred. In spite of everything, if a random particular person “psychotically growls/screams unintelligible” at Greene they’d solely be doing what Greene did on a number of events to Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Hell, if I randomly occurred by MTG, on the very least, I’m going to loudly boo her like she was Ron DeSantis at a Jacksonville vigil.

As for the second half, yeah—of all of the issues that by no means occurred, that is the never-happenediest.

To begin with, you may inform it’s faux as a result of “Muhammad” is a kind of stereotypically Black names white folks provide you with once they’re making an attempt to mock Black names. “Muhammad,” “Jamal,” “Jerome,” “Tyrone,” “Bushwick,” “Willie,” “T-Canine”—that’s about as intelligent as racist white folks get. It simply appears unlikely that the supportive Black particular person Greene met occurred to be named “Muhammad,” which isn’t even remotely a typical title amongst Black People.

Then there’s the way in which Greene’s imaginary Black good friend fictionally launched himself: “African-American Muhammad.”

Sure, I’m certain in MTG’s aggressively white world, Black folks deal with their race and ethnicity prefer it’s their skilled title. I’m certain Martin Luther King didn’t truly ever introduce himself as “Reverend” or Dr.” Nah, he positively promoted the bus boycotts by strolling across the group in Montgomery and saying, “Hi there, my brotha’ and sista’. I’m, African-American Martin!”

I can’t inform you what number of classmates of colour I had rising up who got here as much as me at school and mentioned, “Hey, I’m African-American girl Keisha,” or “What up, man, let’s go hang around with Mexican Jose and Asian-American Wong.” (I strive actually laborious not to consider my worst academics like Ms. Caucasian Boltax and Mr. Anglo-Saxon Bennett.)

Anyway, of us on X seem to agree that MTG is almost definitely making issues up identical to she made up her personal false CRT definition and fictional “variety” price range for Illinois colleges.

Greene’s massive sombrero-sized cap apart, somebody ought to in all probability remind her that “Muhammad” is a reputation largely related to Islam, after which somebody ought to remind her what she thinks about Muslims and the “Islamic invasion.”

It’s nearly as if white Republicans are racist till it’s handy for them to be in proximity to Black folks—even the faux ones.