Rep. Lateefah Simon Reminds Us Democrats Don’t Want a Colorblind America

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

The most repeated line has to do with his children and how he hopes they will one day be judged:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Some 62 years later, the Democratic Party has committed itself to making sure King's dream never becomes a reality. Instead, they push for "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI), an actual form of systemic racism that judges people by the color of their skin, content of character be damned.

That's why Democrats hail George Floyd as a hero, but call Charlie Kirk "racist" and "divisive." It's why Axios was mad that White men made up the majority of new directors at S&P 500 companies for the first time since 2017. It's why Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris to be his running mate and put Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court, making their race and gender his explicit qualification requirements.

As it turned out, they were both monumentally bad choices. Democrats are souring on Kamala Harris as she begins her international book tour, and Brown Jackson has been chided by several of her Supreme Court Justices, including Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor.

Following the death of George Floyd in 2020, Simon pushed to cut funding for law enforcement on public transit in the Bay Area by $2 million and shift the resources to “unarmed ambassadors,” The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Nearly half of people who ride public trains in the Bay Area said they had witnessed a crime, and roughly 85% of riders reported they would use the system more often if it were cleaner or safer, according to a 2023 poll.
“This call for defunding and abolishing — it really means defund and abolish the way we did things before,” Simon said about her push to reduce the number of transit police in the Bay Area, according to the Chronicle. Simon brags on her campaign website about implementing “progressive policing policies” during her time as a public transit official.
After Harris hired Simon in 2005 to oversee a program in the San Francisco Attorney General’s Office that expunged the criminal records of some first-time drug dealers, she joined the Rosenberg Foundation in 2011 as its program director, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The Rosenberg Foundation joined forces with the Soros family’s Open Society Foundations in 2014 to successfully advocate for a ballot initiative that sought to decriminalize drug dealing and retail theft.

Back in March, she accused Republicans of being -- you guessed it -- racist for demanding Rep. Al Green (D-TX) adhere to some modicum of respectable behavior after Green screamed at President Trump during his State of the Union address. She also gave a TED Talk where she called for people to "fight in the streets" for "queer families" and called MAGA a "new neo-Nazi movement."

Democrats get no political advantage from a colorblind society, because it erases the concept of "oppressor" and "oppressed" classes (where they say White people are always the "oppressors" and racial minorities are always "oppressed.") This includes people like Joy Reid, the former MSNBC host who was being paid $3 million per year from the network before she was let go in February of this year. Reid proudly said she only got into Harvard because of DEI, and anyone who spent any time watching her show would know.

Democrats like Rep. Lateefah Simon don't like being reminded of King's words, not because Republicans are saying them, but because they're reminded of how they have become the party of racism.