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Trump Critics Denounce Pro-Trump B****s as 'Sellouts' -- While Criticizing Trump for Not Having More 'Sellouts'
Larry Elder
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Posted February 7, 2020 in Politics
Commentary by Larry Elder
The Donald Trump White House put out a photograph of the president's task force on the c****av***s. CNN promptly showed its displeasure, not with the task force's effort but with its racial composition. There was insufficient "diversity" in the photo.
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In a piece called "C****av***s Task Force Another Example of Trump Administration's Lack of Diversity," CNN national political writer Brandon Tensley wrote: "Who are these experts? They're largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who've dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning.
"By contrast, former President Barack Obama's circle of advisers in the face of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was hardly so monochromatic. Neither was it so abysmal in terms of g****r diversity. (Of course, to contextualize, Obama's administration, on the whole, was far more diverse than Trump's.)
"And yet, as unsurprising as the diversity issue in the Trump era has become, it's still worth pointing out from time to time, especially as the country approaches the 2020 p**********l e******n in earnest.
"That's partly because the recent photos of 'the best experts' telegraph the kinds of people the administration deems worthy of holding power -- and even being in close proximity to it."
That's a mouthful.
The writer implies, without proof, that more racial and ethnic diversity in the Trump administration's c****av***s team means -- by definition -- a better response to dealing with this v***s in particular and a more effective government in general. But there's an interesting aspect to the Trump-White-House-lacks-diversity criticism. Minorities who (SET ITAL)do(END ITAL) work with Trump are maligned by the very same Trump-is-a-r****t critics as "sellouts," "Uncle Toms" and "self-loathers."
Bill Maxwell, a black columnist and editorial writer for the St. Petersburg Times, wrote a column years ago titled: "Black Republicans: Self-Loathers." Maxwell wrote: "By all standards, some creatures are just plain strange, making us do double takes because their compositions or habits or appearances defy our sense of logic and our way of viewing reality. Take the wildebeest, the warthog, the hyena, the brown pelican, the Shar-Pei. These animals, seemingly wrought by committee, make us laugh or shake our heads. Another such creature, of the human kind -- and perhaps the strangest of all -- is the black Republican. ...
"Black Republicans fail to understand that few white Republicans will accept them as equals. Although they will not acknowledge the t***h, most white Republicans, like most other w****s, view black Republicans as strange creatures."
About Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, who became secretaries of state under President George W. Bush, actor and left-wing activist Harry Belafonte said, "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich." When president-elect Trump met with b****s, including entertainer Steve Harvey and Pastor Darrell Scott, then-CNN political pundit Marc Lamont Hill dismissed them as "mediocre Negroes." Hill, a black Temple University professor of media studies and urban education, said: "They (the Trump t***sition team) keep bringing up comedians and actors and athletes to represent black interests. It's demeaning; it's disrespectful, and it's condescending. Bring some people up there with expertise, Donald Trump, don't just bring up people to entertain. ... Yeah, it was a bunch of mediocre Negroes being d**gged in front of TV as a photo-op for Donald Trump's exploitative campaign against black people."
During the George W. Bush administration, Claude Allen, a young black man, served as a domestic policy advisor. Allen, while working for Bush, got arrested and charged with stealing merchandise from stores like Target and Hecht's. A black Los Angeles Times columnist showed little sympathy while engaging in psychoanalysis. Erin Aubry Kaplan wrote: "I don't support conservatism in its current iteration, and I support black conservatives even less, but we cannot ignore the racial implications of this latest Republican fall from grace. ... Here is a man who, like most black conservatives, has had to do an awful lot of personal and political rationalizing to pay dues. ... That has unfortunately, but not always unfairly, invited comparisons to s***e times, when the most loyal b****s were those who worked in closest proximity to their white masters -- house Negroes, as they were derisively known. ... It's hard to imagine that such compromises and cognitive dissonance don't exact a psychological toll at some point, and Allen's alleged dabbling in crime might have been that point for him."
Liberals, like Kaplan and Maxwell, consider black conservatives not merely wrong on the issues or social outcasts but sufferers of a psychological illness, an illness which, left untreated, turns black conservatives into kleptomaniacs. Then the very same liberals who malign black Trump supporters as "Uncle Toms" and psychologically unhinged social pariahs call the Trump administration "r****t" for not having more psychologically unhinged social pariahs.
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. His latest book, "The New Trump Standard," is available in paperback from Amazon.com and for Nook, Kindle, iBooks and GooglePlay. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an "Elderado," visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @LarryElder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Black people who think for themselves are h**ed by the Progressive Democrats aren't they?
Larry Elder
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Posted February 7, 2020 in Politics
Commentary by Larry Elder
The Donald Trump White House put out a photograph of the president's task force on the c****av***s. CNN promptly showed its displeasure, not with the task force's effort but with its racial composition. There was insufficient "diversity" in the photo.
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In a piece called "C****av***s Task Force Another Example of Trump Administration's Lack of Diversity," CNN national political writer Brandon Tensley wrote: "Who are these experts? They're largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who've dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning.
"By contrast, former President Barack Obama's circle of advisers in the face of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was hardly so monochromatic. Neither was it so abysmal in terms of g****r diversity. (Of course, to contextualize, Obama's administration, on the whole, was far more diverse than Trump's.)
"And yet, as unsurprising as the diversity issue in the Trump era has become, it's still worth pointing out from time to time, especially as the country approaches the 2020 p**********l e******n in earnest.
"That's partly because the recent photos of 'the best experts' telegraph the kinds of people the administration deems worthy of holding power -- and even being in close proximity to it."
That's a mouthful.
The writer implies, without proof, that more racial and ethnic diversity in the Trump administration's c****av***s team means -- by definition -- a better response to dealing with this v***s in particular and a more effective government in general. But there's an interesting aspect to the Trump-White-House-lacks-diversity criticism. Minorities who (SET ITAL)do(END ITAL) work with Trump are maligned by the very same Trump-is-a-r****t critics as "sellouts," "Uncle Toms" and "self-loathers."
Bill Maxwell, a black columnist and editorial writer for the St. Petersburg Times, wrote a column years ago titled: "Black Republicans: Self-Loathers." Maxwell wrote: "By all standards, some creatures are just plain strange, making us do double takes because their compositions or habits or appearances defy our sense of logic and our way of viewing reality. Take the wildebeest, the warthog, the hyena, the brown pelican, the Shar-Pei. These animals, seemingly wrought by committee, make us laugh or shake our heads. Another such creature, of the human kind -- and perhaps the strangest of all -- is the black Republican. ...
"Black Republicans fail to understand that few white Republicans will accept them as equals. Although they will not acknowledge the t***h, most white Republicans, like most other w****s, view black Republicans as strange creatures."
About Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, who became secretaries of state under President George W. Bush, actor and left-wing activist Harry Belafonte said, "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich." When president-elect Trump met with b****s, including entertainer Steve Harvey and Pastor Darrell Scott, then-CNN political pundit Marc Lamont Hill dismissed them as "mediocre Negroes." Hill, a black Temple University professor of media studies and urban education, said: "They (the Trump t***sition team) keep bringing up comedians and actors and athletes to represent black interests. It's demeaning; it's disrespectful, and it's condescending. Bring some people up there with expertise, Donald Trump, don't just bring up people to entertain. ... Yeah, it was a bunch of mediocre Negroes being d**gged in front of TV as a photo-op for Donald Trump's exploitative campaign against black people."
During the George W. Bush administration, Claude Allen, a young black man, served as a domestic policy advisor. Allen, while working for Bush, got arrested and charged with stealing merchandise from stores like Target and Hecht's. A black Los Angeles Times columnist showed little sympathy while engaging in psychoanalysis. Erin Aubry Kaplan wrote: "I don't support conservatism in its current iteration, and I support black conservatives even less, but we cannot ignore the racial implications of this latest Republican fall from grace. ... Here is a man who, like most black conservatives, has had to do an awful lot of personal and political rationalizing to pay dues. ... That has unfortunately, but not always unfairly, invited comparisons to s***e times, when the most loyal b****s were those who worked in closest proximity to their white masters -- house Negroes, as they were derisively known. ... It's hard to imagine that such compromises and cognitive dissonance don't exact a psychological toll at some point, and Allen's alleged dabbling in crime might have been that point for him."
Liberals, like Kaplan and Maxwell, consider black conservatives not merely wrong on the issues or social outcasts but sufferers of a psychological illness, an illness which, left untreated, turns black conservatives into kleptomaniacs. Then the very same liberals who malign black Trump supporters as "Uncle Toms" and psychologically unhinged social pariahs call the Trump administration "r****t" for not having more psychologically unhinged social pariahs.
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. His latest book, "The New Trump Standard," is available in paperback from Amazon.com and for Nook, Kindle, iBooks and GooglePlay. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an "Elderado," visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @LarryElder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
COPYRIGHT 2020 LAURENCE A. ELDER
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Black people who think for themselves are h**ed by the Progressive Democrats aren't they?
Feb 7, 2020 17:56:25 #
working class stiff
Loc: N. Carolina
"Black people who think for themselves are h**ed by the Progressive Democrats aren't they?"
That gives the game away for sure, as does your title.
The implication, of course, is that black Democrats don't think for themselves, thereby insulting 90% of black folks.
And you wonder why more b****s don't v**e Republican. You don't care that b****s are on a 'plantation' (which they are not....black folks know a plantation life when they see one), because you Republicans want only a certain type of black person in your party. If they don't think like you, you could care less about the 'plantation' b****s. The contempt in such a statement is plain to see.
You'd be better off worrying about the mote in your own party's eye. Why don't black folk v**e Republican? Are they r****t, ignorant, in shackles?
That gives the game away for sure, as does your title.
The implication, of course, is that black Democrats don't think for themselves, thereby insulting 90% of black folks.
And you wonder why more b****s don't v**e Republican. You don't care that b****s are on a 'plantation' (which they are not....black folks know a plantation life when they see one), because you Republicans want only a certain type of black person in your party. If they don't think like you, you could care less about the 'plantation' b****s. The contempt in such a statement is plain to see.
You'd be better off worrying about the mote in your own party's eye. Why don't black folk v**e Republican? Are they r****t, ignorant, in shackles?
Feb 7, 2020 18:35:50 #
working class stiff wrote:
"Black people who think for themselves are h*... (show quote)
Black folk know a plantation life when they see one?
Care to explain?
Feb 7, 2020 18:51:00 #
working class stiff
Loc: N. Carolina
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Black folk know a plantation life when they see one?
Care to explain?
Care to explain?
What's to explain? The claim by many conservatives is that black folks who back Democrats are on a plantation. Plantation, in this context, is a stand in for involuntary servitude....as though b***k A******ns are being held in bondage by the Democrats.
It assumes that b***k A******ns are incapable of v****g in their own interests. The whole 'plantation' argument allows the folks who make it to skim over the question of why b****s don't see v****g Republican as in their interest.
It's really rather insulting.
Feb 7, 2020 20:24:02 #
working class stiff wrote:
What's to explain? The claim by many conservative... (show quote)
Wasn't referring to the way folk v**e...
Was just interested why you think that black folk can spot "plantation life" any better than the rest of us?
I agree... The Republican platform that Democratic b****s are "s***es" is quite rude..
Feb 7, 2020 20:32:29 #
working class stiff
Loc: N. Carolina
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Wasn't referring to the way folk v**e...
Was just interested why you think that black folk can spot "plantation life" any better than the rest of us?
I agree... The Republican platform that Democratic b****s are "s***es" is quite rude..
Was just interested why you think that black folk can spot "plantation life" any better than the rest of us?
I agree... The Republican platform that Democratic b****s are "s***es" is quite rude..
Ok...I see the confusion. I wasn't implying they can see it better than anyone else, just that they can.
Saying b***k A******ns who v**e for Democrats are on a plantation is insulting. And goes to the heart of the question: why don't more b***k A******ns v**e for Republicans?
Feb 7, 2020 20:35:56 #
working class stiff wrote:
Ok...I see the confusion. I wasn't implying they can see it better than anyone else, just that they can.
Saying b***k A******ns who v**e for Democrats are on a plantation is insulting. And goes to the heart of the question: why don't more b***k A******ns v**e for Republicans?
Saying b***k A******ns who v**e for Democrats are on a plantation is insulting. And goes to the heart of the question: why don't more b***k A******ns v**e for Republicans?
We are in agreement here...
And I am not confident enough in my understanding of American socio-ethnic history to hazard a guess...
I have always wondered why more Muslims didn't join/support the Republican Party... The majority are conservatives... Joining the OPP has gone a long way to explaining that one...
Feb 7, 2020 20:46:25 #
working class stiff wrote:
Ok...I see the confusion. I wasn't implying they can see it better than anyone else, just that they can.
Saying b***k A******ns who v**e for Democrats are on a plantation is insulting. And goes to the heart of the question: why don't more b***k A******ns v**e for Republicans?
Saying b***k A******ns who v**e for Democrats are on a plantation is insulting. And goes to the heart of the question: why don't more b***k A******ns v**e for Republicans?
Democrats fuel class warfare and often treat b****s like they are lesser beings. Both parties have their issues.
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