Disturbing Racial Incidents That Occurred After The Election

Image for article titled Disturbing Racial Incidents That Occurred After The Election

Photo: Max Mumby (Getty Images)

On the High Performance podcast before America’s election, Sadiq Khan—the Mayor of London—said Donald Trump has consistently criticized him because Trump is racist. He also called Trump’s policies “sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist.”

Advertisement

“It’s personal, let’s be frank. If I wasn’t this colour skin, if I wasn’t a practising Muslim, he wouldn’t have come for me,” Khan said. “He wasn’t coming for me because I’m five foot six. He’s coming for me for – let’s be frank – my ethnicity and my religion, so it’s incredibly personal to me.”