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It was "National Bigots Weekend." At least, Ana Navarro described it that way on "The View" on Monday. It was the only way to describe the soul-crushing drumbeat of hatred that dominated the weekend news. The Black musician Ye, real name Kanye West, threatened to kill Jews on Twitter by saying they had "toyed with me and tried to black ball everyone who opposes" their "agenda."

Then there was Marjorie Taylor Greene, a white congressman from Georgia, who warned an audience of white people that "illegal aliens are on the verge of replacing you, replacing your employment, replacing your kids in school, and... they're also ruining your culture."

In the meanwhile, a covert tape of Nury Martinez, a Los Angeles city councilwoman of Mexican descent, was heard calling Black children "monkeys" who needed to be "beaten down" and referring to people from Oaxaca as "little small dark people."

A white senator from Alabama named Tommy Tuberville also cautioned a white audience that Democrats "want reparations" for slavery "because they think the ones that conduct the crime deserved that."

It was sufficient to raise the question of whether the country's water supply had been tampered with. However, the notion that this baseness, this vile profanation of our shared humanity, must be the result of something external, is a deflection, isn't it? No, of course, it isn't. 

The only aspect of "The National Weekend of Bigots" that stands out is the fact that all of the hate was focused on a short period of time and did not feel the need to be subtly expressed, as has been the case lately. Whistles for dogs are so 2007.

However, there were some weak attempts to give the haters some cover. If you are an honest person, you couldn't see West's vomitous swill as anti-Semitic, according to the invariably stupid pundit Candace Owens. 

In fact, if you are an educated person, you would consider the danger to "death con" individuals whose places of worship are frequently targeted to be anti-Semitic and deserving of the attention of federal officials.

Rep. Don Bacon, a colleague of Tuberville's, told NBC News that while he did not think the remark was racist, he did tell the senator to "Be nice." Because hate is so incredibly disrespectful, that is, in fact, its worst problem.

The fact that Navarro's National Weekend of Bigots coincides with a National Era of Enforced Amnesia, in which historical memory is being destroyed, and in which any attempt to reflect on the struggles of our tribes is forbidden from the public stage for fear of offending someone, is not at all surprising. 

That is how Holocaust memoirs are made illegal in schools and how shacks, where slaves were once kept, are converted into bed and breakfasts.

This is how false histories end up in school libraries and truthful lessons end up being dropped from curricula. It's how you get ostensibly intelligent people to hold ridiculous beliefs, like Rick Santorum who claimed that there was nothing in America prior to European colonization, or Nikki Haley who claimed that there have never been any laws or actions taken in this country based on race or religion regarding immigration.

Who can be shocked that we experience weekends like the one we recently experienced when forgetfulness is so severe? Note that it has been more than 50 years since this nation's one and only attempt to deal with its racial baggage in a meaningful and consistent manner. Instead, we'd prefer to impose ignorance.

And can hatred be far behind when you do that?