Cory Booker, Senator from New Jersey and child of two wealthy executives at IBM, knows struggle – he’s seen every episode of “Dear White People.” The struggle is real…especially in the first two seasons. Or so it has been explained to him, as he’s led a charmed life, which would be impossible if the United States of America were half the racist hell hole he pretends it is to advance his political career.
It amuses me to no end when white liberals act like they are the saviors of black people, and it’s even more amusing when black politicians who grew up just as much, if not more, “privileged” than the white people they whine about don the racial hero cape. Cory Booker has wanted for nothing, except maybe hair and a non-grating personality, but he knows “struggle” because, well, his skin color.
He's been so privileged that he had to make up a drug dealer called “T-Bone” to pretend to know one. Seriously, look it up. Mr. “No Justice, No Peace” has known nothing but peace to the point that he probably didn’t even have a weed guy in college, let alone a real dealer.
Cory loves cosplaying poverty – imagine Carlton Banks in a stage production of Malcolm X – even moving into a “bad” neighborhood of Newark when he was Mayor there. But there’s a difference between experiencing poverty or oppression and watching it.
If we’re being honest, the only reason you know the name Cory Booker is the color of his skin and the bar being lowered by the liberal media because of it. He’s made a fool of himself repeatedly in politics – everything from the aforementioned T-Bone to his “Spartacus” rant – but being a liberal and a black man insulated him from the ridicule he’s so clearly earned.
Over the weekend, Democrats re-marched over the Edmund Pettus Bridge – which is remarkably easy to do now because there weren’t a bunch of Democrats on the other side ready to beat the hell out of them (funny how that works, isn’t it?). Afterwards, Cory whined on MS Now about the Supreme Court decision that “gutted the Voting Rights Act.” It did nothing of the sort, it actually upheld it by ending racial gerrymandering. Democrats screamed it would “end black representation in Congress,” and people like white Jewish Democrat Steve Cohen decided to retire after being in office since the Earth cooled, representing a gerrymandered majority black district. As I said, the struggle is real.
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Now, horror of horrors, that district will likely be represented for the first time since the 1980s by a black person, and a woman, no less! But she’s a Republican, so is she really black? According to Democrats, “Skin folk ain’t kin folk,” after all.
I, for one, and sick of this game and refuse to play it. When you see Booker cry about how not being able to herd all black people into a couple of districts that look like someone sneezed on a wet Rorschach test, as himself, how about half the black Members of Congress managed to get elected from majority white districts? Ask him how he, if the country is so racist, managed to win a Senate seat in majority white New Jersey?
He didn’t win because he’s black, he won because a majority of people in New Jersey are stupid.
On a show co-hosted by two gay black men (Why doesn’t anyone on the left ever whine about “overrepresentation” on television when it happens? Because they don’t really mean anything they say, that’s why.”), Booker declared, “We have a Supreme Court, six members, who are sending us back, uh, to that long, almost century where black, uh, political leadership and black electoral fairness was not represented in, uh, the House of Representatives. And we're going to see now, with surgical‑like precision, uh, statehouse after statehouse in, uh, Southern states, then writing maps to try to eviscerate black leadership.”
He'd just “marched” in Selma, because Democrats can’t tell the difference between 2026 and 1926, adding, “So, I was there because my roots go back to the south.” The only times Cory has ever lived in the southern half of the country was as a US Senator in DC and a spoiled football player at Stanford, but he watched Gone With The Wind once. Well, most of it, anyway.
These leftists would have you believe it’s 1950 all the time, everywhere. But it’s not. Sure, the racism Democrats practiced then to divide people and empower themselves still exists – they’ve changed tactics a little, but never their objective of gaining power for themselves – it’s just not working as well as it used to as generations have been trapped in poverty by their “help.” It’s not 1950 anymore because the black family hadn’t yet been destroyed by Democrat policies then, the Democrat education system hadn’t yet failed black students like it does now.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Democrats treat black people like they’re children, only Democrats are the abusive step-parent who insists the beatings are the best thing for them. Given their history – the party of slavery, creating Jim Crow, the KKK, segregation, welfare programs that decimated the family, the generational economic depression and crime in cities they’ve controlled for decades – the Democratic Party has been about as helpful as brick is to a drowning man. People are wising up to that fact and it scares the hell out of them.
People like Cory Booker and every other elected and media Democrat are terrified at the prospect of this realization, as they have nothing else to offer. They’re going to triple-down on racism because it’s easier than to not suck; they’re going to continue to treat black people like children because “the struggle” in 2026 is as real as the tooth fairy and once voters realize that, it’s over for them.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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