If Democrats and their voters didn’t have double standards, they’d have no standards at all. How else could one explain that John Fetterman, who once pulled a gun on a black jogger because he wrongly assumed he was a criminal, is the Democratic nominee for the Pennsylvania Senate election? This is the kind of situation that left-wing politicians, pundits, and media members have routinely bemoaned over the years, yet they nominate a man who admitted to doing this? Are Democrats returning to their slave-owning, segregationist roots?
According to multiple reports, in 2013, while Fetterman was mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, he suspected a black man he saw jogging of committing a crime. Rather than call the police, Fetterman, a beacon of racial equality, chose to follow him in a pickup truck and pull a 20-gauge shotgun on him when he confronted the man. Fetterman used the gun to detain him until police arrived. Ultimately, the man was not involved in any wrongdoing.
Furthermore, when discussing the incident in a 2013 interview, Fetterman even admitted he probably broke the law but brushed it off because he felt he “did the right thing.”
“I believe I did the right thing, but I may have broken the law during the course of it,” Fetterman said in the interview.
Yet, somehow, Fetterman is the progressives’ choice this year?
Had this been a Republican, we all know what would be happening right now. Al Sharpton would be on every news channel, and Jesse Jackson would visit Pennsylvania. The mansion-purchasing, million-dollar-siphoning social justice group Black Lives Matter would be holding marches whining about systemic racism and white privilege. Democrats would condemn the candidate as unfit for office.
Additionally, Fetterman’s actions deserve significant scrutiny because it certainly was not normal — especially given his position of authority. Just think about this: A white mayor followed a black man in a pickup truck, pulled a shotgun on him, and then detained him.
Now, I was born and raised in South Philadelphia, a predominantly black area. A group of black children tried to steal my backpack and hat outside my middle school. I was attacked and beaten by two black men who called me “cracker” and “honkey” while slugging me. I went to high school in a section of the city that was also predominantly black, where I was frequently harassed on the subway ride there by black people.
On several occasions, while walking from the subway station to my school, black men held me up and tried to steal my money. One summer day, a black man stole my bike, which I briefly left outside my house while I went inside to grab a drink. Yet, despite all of this, I have managed to go my entire life without ever pulling a gun — or any weapon, for that matter — on a black jogger. And he did so while mayor of a city?
But the Democratic nominee for senator in Pennsylvania did, and he gets widespread support from Democrats? What happened to black lives mattering? What happened to systemic racism? Fetterman’s candidacy is the living embodiment of what every leftist preaches ad nauseam about white privilege.
Fetterman is typical of the hypocrisy Democrats display when it comes to minorities, black people in particular. They parade themselves as champions of racial equality, yet, in reality, they harbor the very feelings they claim to be against. Pursuing an innocent black man in a pickup truck with a shotgun reveals Fetterman’s true character. The fact that Democrats nominated and supported him after this shows their lack of it. Racism is just a tool they use to exploit black people to help win elections.
