Perry Greene, the ex-husband of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, recently went viral after being recorded in Alpharetta, Georgia, harassing a group of Muslim women who were doing their absolute best to mind their own business. On Friday, Perry issued a public apology to the women, but, predictably, he did so without mentioning in unambiguous terms exactly what he was apologizing for, which was bitter Islamaphobic bigotry that actually manages to rival that of his ex-wife, which is truly a white nationalist feat.
“I came today just to meet with the young ladies that I was mean to and treated disrespectfully about their religion and about what they were doing,” Perry said in his statement four days after the March 31 incident, according to Channel 2 Action News. “I just wanted them to know that I humbly apologized to them because no one should be treated that way, and that’s not the right way for us to treat anybody.”
I mean, seriously, there really isn’t a bigger indication that a person didn’t bother putting any real effort into writing a heartfelt apology than the sentence: “No one should be treated that way, and that’s not the right way for us to treat anybody.”
Again, if you’re going to stand behind a podium and make a big show of apologizing, at least be brave enough to say what you actually did. Don’t just describe your seething racism and xenophobic actions as being “mean.” Don’t use vague language to describe how your victims were “treated disrespectfully about their religion.” Nah, Perry, be as bold as you were when you stopped your car to berate these women and continued to follow behind them when they tried to walk away. Be bold enough to tell the whole truth about what you did — and then apologize.
“Go back to your country, please,” Greene shouted from inside his Tesla Cybertruck (of course he drives one of Elon Musk’s ugly-a** Nazi-mobiles). “We don’t want y’all. We don’t want any Muslims!”
“OK, thank you,” replied one of the three women, who have not been identified by name publicly.
When asked by the women if they had done anything to offend him, Greene responded, “Yes,” to which one of the women responded, “OK, I’m sorry.”
So, here we have a menacing white man verbally attacking and harassing women who were guilty of nothing but praying and, well, generally just existing in public, and the women responding to seething bigotry with generous benevolence — and yet, we still have the caucasity-infused white male aggressor suggesting that the peaceful Muslim women are terrorists.
“Y’all want to kill gays. Y’all want to do all kind of crazy s**t,” Greene insisted before asking the women, “Where y’all from? What country are you from?’
“It doesn’t matter where we’re from,” one of them responded, to which Greene responded, “Yes, it does.”
Greene then went from essentially calling the women terrorists for no other reason than their faith and ethnicity to preaching at them, telling them they are “worshipping a false god.”
As the women start to walk away from the wayward Klan reject, he starts to follow them in his car, calling them “pieces of sh*t.” Then, he continues to lecture them like a so-called good Christian.
“I want y’all to think about what y’all’s process is,” he said. “What y’all are thinking — y’all have been brainwashed…. Don’t come to America and believe this s**t. Go back to your f***ing country and leave your crazy (expletive) (expletive).”
After cursing perfect strangers out on behalf of America, white Jesus, and white people who want all brown people out of their country, one of the women tried to appeal to his sense of humanity and logic only to find Greene was fresh out of both.
“We’re sitting here. We were quiet. We were peaceful,” she said. “Praying, what does that have to do with you?’
“Go back to your country, your demolished poor (expletive) (expletive) Middle Eastern country,” the colonizer who was clearly running out of fresh insults, prompting him to recycle his stale-a** “Go back to your country” attack.
“First off, we’re actually born here,” one of the women says.
“No you weren’t,” Greene insists before berating them over their Muslim clothing.
“It did feel very long in the moment. Like, it just wouldn’t stop. Attack after attack, insult after insult,” one of the women told Atlanta News First last Tuesday. “All of it was just out of pure hate and his disgust of us, which I don’t understand.”
It almost makes you wonder why Perry and Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t work out. One would think that the couple that hates together stays together, but, apparently, that is not the case.
Still, MTG and her ex are birds of a feather. Marjorie sounded just like her was-band when she referred to congresswomen of color as the “Jihad Squad” and when she filmed herself ranting about an “Islamic invasion” of the U.S. government because Muslims were being elected to office.
Suffice it to say, Perry is likely only apologizing now because his private moment of racism became a big public spectacle. And, while the women are being lauded online for maintaining their composure throughout the episode, it should be noted how tired people of color are of having to take the high road in the face of bigoted attacks, lest we become the terrorists the bigots already believe we are.
But MAGA, amirite?
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