MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson said the “real religion in America” is the “worship of whiteness” and accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of using Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is black, as a ventriloquist dummy.
“To proudly stand up and say that he wanted to make [former President Barack] Obama a one-term president — this shows us that the real religion in America is whiteness,” Dyson said about McConnell on Joy Reid’s MSNBC program The ReidOut Thursday night. “The politics in McConnell’s orbit are whiteness, the worship of whiteness at the altar of whiteness, genuflecting before the god of whiteness.”
Dyson continued: “Donald Trump is the product of a womb that has generated this disfigured first person, in terms of politics. But Mitch McConnell is part of that womb. Mitch McConnell gives life and breath to the very denunciation of blackness that Trump has been so vehemently denounced for.”
Dyson then accused McConnell of using Cameron simply as a vessel to spread his racist message.
“Look, he then puts forward a blackface representation in Daniel Cameron,” Dyson said. “There’s a ventriloquism going on. Daniel Cameron’s mouth is moving. Mitch McConnell’s thoughts are coming through his tongue. This is the worst Geppetto we’ve ever seen, and pulling those strings is one of the worst white supremacists … we’ve seen in the last 15 years in American politics.”
Dyson says McConnell is proof that “the real religion in America is whiteness” who’s “puts forward a black face representation literally in Daniel Cameron” with “ventriloquism going on”: “Daniel Cameron’s mouth is moving. Mitch McConnell’s thoughts are coming through his tongue.” pic.twitter.com/YjFSLUZ51v
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Cameron has been the victim of several personal attacks regarding his race over his handling of the Breonna Taylor case in Kentucky, including in October when rapper Megan Thee Stallion said that he is “no different than the sellout negroes that sold our people into slavery.”
Cameron responded by saying the criticism was “something that I’ve had to experience because I’m a black Republican, because I stand up for truth and justice as opposed to giving in to a mob mentality, and those are the sorts of things that will be hurled at me in this job.”
