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The Xenophobic Roots Of Trump's 'Go Back' Comment: Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When President Trump on Sunday told four congresswomen of color to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” it opened the door to a deluge of criticism, not only from the women — three of the four of them from the United States — towards whom he directed the comments, but from pretty much everyone who has ever been told to “go back” from whence they came, reports The New York Times.

The history of the phrase is rooted in xenophobia and, beginning in the nineteenth century, took on racist implications as the American Colonization Society sought to send freed slaves back to Africa.

“It’s like having a cold glass of water thrown in your face,” Shelly Jackson, an African-American woman who was one of a group of black children in the 1970s who was bussed to school in Los Angeles, told the Times. “You get a pass now to just say the things you only thought before.”

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