Piers Morgan, in a February podcast, accused his guest, "trans activist" Blossom Brown, of "race-baiting." Brown replied, "Black women cannot be racist to white women." Brown then added this inability to be racist to white women extended to Morgan: "How am I racist to you? I'm Black. I can't be racist to you." Brown also accused Morgan of lacking "the intellectual capacity to understand" this position.
Ryan Clark is a black ESPN host. After Donald Trump won reelection, he posted a video in which he said he voted for Kamala Harris, that former President Barack Obama's administration was "scandal free" and that Obama conducted his presidency with "grace and with elegance and with decency." As for Trump, Clark said: "The difficult part is I do understand that not everyone that supports him believes in his rhetoric. Not everyone that supports him thinks bigotry is OK ..."
Ryan Clark recently spoke about the conflict between WNBA stars Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark and criticized former NFL star Robert Griffin III, who tweeted in support of Caitlin Clark. Ryan Clark said: "The one thing we know about RG3 is he's not having conversations at his home about what black women have to endure in this country. About what young black women and athletes like Angel Reese have had to deal with being on the opposite side of Caitlin Clark's rise and ascension into stardom.
"If you're RG3, when is the last time within your household you've had a conversation about what (Angel Reese is) dealing with? You haven't been able to do that because in both of your marriages, you've been married to white women."
Ryan Clark insisted the failure to appreciate challenges faced by black females applies to black men who chose to "date or marry" white women. The man who referred to Trump's alleged "bigotry" engaged in his own. And, get this, Ryan, married to a black woman, has a biracial child through a previous relationship with a white woman.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) made a similar slur against Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.). In a discussion about the breakdown of the nuclear family, Donalds factually noted that during Jim Crow, a black child was more likely than today to be raised by a married mother and father. Crockett said: "The fact that you're sitting around talking about 'life was better under Jim Crow,' like, is this because you don't understand history? Or literally it's because you married a white woman and so you think that whitewashed you?"
"Whitewashed"?
Does this apply to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, former Vice President Kamala Harris, ex CNN host Don Lemon, to name a few, who married "outside their race"?
Director Spike Lee, who hosted a 2017 fundraiser for then-President Obama, once criticized "interracial couples." In 1992, Lee said, "I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street." He apparently never apologized. What's the statute of limitations for such a blatantly racist comment? By the way, does this apply to, say, the interracial marriage of Obama's mother and father?
A 2020 Rasmussen poll found that "75% of American Adults think the term 'racism' refers to any discrimination by people of one race against another." It found adults more likely to assert "most" blacks are racist than to make that claim about whites, Hispanics or Asians: "Eighteen percent (18%) say most white Americans are racist. But 25% believe most black Americans are racist. Fifteen percent (15%) think most Hispanic-Americans are racist, while nearly as many (13%) say the same of most Asian-Americans. ... These findings parallel surveying done in 2013, although Americans were even more likely at that time to identify blacks as the most racist group."
Anti-black racism, as an obstacle to success, has never been more insignificant. Thomas Sowell has said, "Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists.'"
Today we see black politicians like Crockett -- with no comment, let alone pushback, from Democratic Party leaders -- using ugly rhetoric reminiscent of the white "crackers" of yesteryear.
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an "Elderado," visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on X @larryelder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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