Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, is urging Americans to reject the “racialization of everyone and everything” because it leads down a “dark and divisive path.”
“My dear friends, my fellow Americans, please, please let us stop the racialization of everyone and everything — it’s racialism,” she said in a video posted to Twitter on Sunday morning. “We’re all children of God and are, therefore, family in the truest sense, no matter our race or ethnicity. This is Aloha. This is what our country and the world need.”
“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,” the former lawmaker continued. “Aloha means respect and love for others. It’s what enables us to see beyond our skin color and see the soul, the person within.”
Gabbard went on to encourage Americans to “do our best to cultivate this Aloha in our hearts.”
“Please let us not allow ourselves to be led down this dark and divisive path of racialism and hate,” she concluded.
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In March, Gabbard condemned cancel culture, arguing during an appearance on Fox News that the “final expression” of this movement can be found in Islamic terrorism.
“In a cancel culture, you have some people who believe that they are special, that they are superior, that they have the power to be able to shut down those who have ideas and views that are different, who may follow a path that they deem to be the wrong path and will therefore say, ‘No, we’re going to place obstacles in front of you, we’re going to silence certain voices, so that only those who agree with us and the path that we deem to be right as the one that is before you to choose,’” she said.
Gabbard added she is “happiest” when she is “trying to live my life to be pleasing to God.”
The former congresswoman’s comments Sunday came the same day entertainment mogul Tyler Perry delivered a powerful speech at the Oscars, where he told viewers to “refuse hate.”
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“In this time, with all the internet and social media and algorithms and everything that wants us to think a certain way — the 24-hour news cycle — it is my hope that all of us will teach our kids, and not only remember, but just refuse hate,” Perry said. “Don’t hate anybody.”
“I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are black or white or LGBTQ,” he continued. “I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian. I would hope we would refuse hate.”