Article snippet: In a Washington Post op-ed, the former Obama administration officials discussed how they “witnessed firsthand the relentless attacks on the legitimacy of President Barack Obama and his family from” their “front-row seats to America’s first black presidency. “Witnessing racism surge in our country, both during and after Obama’s service and ours, has been a shattering reality, to say the least. But it has also provided jet-fuel for our activism, especially in moments such as these,” they wrote. “We’ve heard this before. Go back where you came from. Go back to Africa. And now, ‘send her back.’ Black and brown people in America don’t hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we’ve felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid.” Referencing Trump’s “go back” tweets that a majority of Americans in numerous national polls have said were “racist,” the group argued that there is “nothing more un-American” than telling U.S. citizens to leave the country. “We stand with congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, as well as all those currently under attack by President Trump, along with his supporters and his enablers, who feel deputized to decide who belongs here — and who does not. There is truly nothing more un-American than calling on fell... Link to the full article to read more