Everything old is new again, as some Democrats have unleashed their hateful and intolerant bigotry toward the latest black Republican politician running for office.
Last August, it was Larry Elder, whom a white woman accosted as she wore a gorilla mask in a naked display of racism. This year, it is Herschel Walker, the football legend and Republican nominee for Senate from Georgia.
“Walker has the backing of the Republicans,” Elie Mystal, the justice correspondent for The Nation, said on an MSNBC segment earlier this week. “Now you ask why are Republicans backing this man, who’s so clearly unintelligent, who so clearly doesn’t have independent thoughts. But that’s actually the reason. Walker’s going to do what he’s told, and that’s what Republicans like. That’s what Republicans want from their negroes — to do what they’re told. And Walker presents exactly as a person who lacks independent thoughts, lacks an independent agenda, lacks an independent ability to grasp policies, and he’s just going to go in there and vote like Mitch McConnell tells him to vote.”
Everyone should be offended by Mystal’s words. He should be forced to apologize to Walker, but this will never happen. This is a textbook definition of bigotry, and it’s the latest example of the utter hypocrisy of Democrats (especially black Democrats like Mystal) when it comes to racism. “Negroes” is supposedly highly offensive in nearly any context, but Mystal feels perfectly happy to use it to debase and put down an empowered black man who has a party nomination for Senate.
Evidently, “negro” isn’t as offensive and insulting as many Democrats have claimed — otherwise, they wouldn’t be using it so freely on television. It’s indicative of the total insincerity with which they discuss racial topics and bandy about accusations of racism. They do not do this out of any genuine concern for humanity — to them, the issue of race is just a way of intimidating others. When they feel it works in their favor, they’re willing to employ the ugliest racist rhetoric imaginable against distinguished black leaders such as Walker, Elder, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), among many others.
The notion that Walker will act as some kind of slave to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is demeaning and absurd — and, really, is anyone suggesting that black Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) shows any independence of thought from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and the Democratic National Committee? Give me a break.
Democrats cannot run on a record of helping black people succeed in this country — because they never have. That’s why they resort to ad hominem attacks and fearmongering like Mystal’s.
