For those out there who aren’t woke, there’s a relatively new saying out there: America isn’t so much a melting pot anymore as it is a salad. In a salad, you see, the ingredients don’t melt together but remain distinct, retaining their unique flavors and yet combining to make a delicious whole.
That metaphor isn’t just tedious; it’s incorrect. Take for example the melding of cultures that brought us one of America’s newest and most popular holiday staples: smashing a Donald Trump piñata at any opportunity.
Remember back in 2015 when the group Deport Racism released its video of foul-mouthed kids flipping off Trump and whacking away at a piñata in his image? That celebration is still going strong, and was a feature of Monday’s May Day rallies.
File any of these under, “Imagine if this were Obama.”
Many car horns honking as man dangles POTUS piñata above 110 freeway during LA May Day march @KQEDnews pic.twitter.com/DtJQhzzMsY
— steven a. cuevas (@scuevasradio_66) May 1, 2017
That piñata got around Los Angeles Monday, mostly by being dragged.
#MayDay2017 Thousands move out of MacArthur Park in resistance march to Los Angeles City Hall. WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/a8eFAqjJ8p pic.twitter.com/9JVnHn7vwv
— Marc Cota-Robles (@abc7marccr) May 1, 2017
Santa Ana had plenty on hand for everyone.
#MayDay2017 in Santa Ana about to start at Sasscer Park. Activists localized by creating piñatas of Trump and a Santa Ana councilman. pic.twitter.com/i5WD6Y4hii
— Jessica Kwong (@JessicaGKwong) May 1, 2017
Something about seeing crowds cheer as a child beheads an effigy of the president really makes you think about immigrant and worker rights.
This is about as violent as the #MayDay2017 rally in Santa Ana has gotten – boy beating and beheading a #Trump piñata. Video: pic.twitter.com/AY7NNv3pi7
— Jessica Kwong (@JessicaGKwong) May 1, 2017
#trump piñata and Trump-masked protester here at Houston's Guadalupe Plaza pic.twitter.com/xpl4axIpYW
— Keri Blakinger (@keribla) May 1, 2017
The big guy’s sign — “I’m am a bastard Nazi racist terrorist domestic” — is clear; the sign on the little guy with the horns reads, “The Son of Satan, Donald Trump.”
We’re not entirely sure if it’s more cost effective to buy the Donald Trump piñata or the traditional donkey with a Trump mask to reuse later.
We passed some folks who hung a piñata with a Trump mask on it. The giant black flag started hitting it. Big cheers! #MayDay #Chicago pic.twitter.com/bfDOhCIHWn
— Barefoot Cuntessa (@megmantis) May 1, 2017
This might have been an early May Day celebration, but passerby identified it on Twitter as a birthday party. We’ll allow it, since the child is adorable.
Kids having fun with a #Trump piñata @ Tompkins square park #nyc pic.twitter.com/xZcur7AuDY
— Misha Gutkin (@MishaGutkin) April 30, 2017
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'Deport Racism' shoots ad featuring profane kids trashing Trump, offers cash prize for disrupting SNL https://t.co/DxrL5ztZgp
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 5, 2015
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