When then-presidential candidate Joe Biden said black voters who didn’t support him “ain’t black,” he gave away that the liberal love for “diversity” and “inclusion” only matters if racial minorities are liberal.
While Biden eventually tried to walk that back, the New York Times has instead embraced it.
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The outlet sent John Branch (who is white) down to Wrightsville, Georgia, where Herschel Walker was born and raised. Walker is running for the Senate as a Republican and, therefore, he “ain’t black,” as the New York Times helpfully reminds everyone. “Herschel’s not getting the black vote because Herschel forgot where he came from,” one resident said to Branch. “He’s not part of the black community.”
You see, Walker made the grave mistake of being an 18-year-old college football prodigy who “never got involved” in civil rights protests in 1980. According to the New York Times Magazine in 1981, “there were a few times after the Friday night football games when some of the protest leaders grabbed Walker, still in uniform and pads, and demanded he join them.” Because he did not, and because he went on to become a college football legend and professional football player, we are told that Walker isn’t really black after all.
The New York Times goes on to quote Andra Gillespie, a professor at Emory University who teaches African American politics. Because of Walker’s public gaffes and the fact that he is running as a Republican, his candidacy “smacks of what [black voters] view as tokenism.” The same scrutiny does not apply to Democratic gaffe machines (hello, Kamala Harris), but something sinister must be afoot with Walker’s campaign because he is a black Republican.
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Branch finally laments that Walker’s campaign is too white and that his supporters, even in his hometown, are too white. And all of this stems, we are told, from when an 18-year-old Walker was not sufficiently black enough for Wrightsville. The message of the entire piece is clear: Walker’s hometown black community doesn’t trust him, so why should voters?
This is a piece that simply wouldn’t be written about a black Democrat, but Walker is not a Democrat, and, according to Democrats, that means he shouldn’t be viewed as black either. This is how the Democratic Party and their media allies view minority voters. If they aren’t useful to the Democratic Party, they are little more than white tokens. Walker isn’t the first black Republican to receive this treatment and as Democrats cling to their dreams of demographic dominance, he won’t be the last either.
