Hillary Clinton and her black and white supporters are the worst kind of racial hypocrites.
But, you can bet that their friends in the major media will do their best to hide their hypocrisy.
For example, during Monday’s debate, Clinton accused
Trump of perpetrating a “racist birther lie” against Obama. Yet, I have not
seen any media reports of how Clinton, her husband and her campaign dealt card
after card against Obama from the deck of racism when she ran against him in
2008 including:
- In
Pennsylvania, using the race card to attract white voters by attacking
Obama for his membership in Rev. Jerimiah Wright’s church saying she
“would have left” such a church.
- Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, who ran her campaign in the state, saying that white voters probably would not vote for Obama because of his race.
- After the South Carolina primary, husband Bill equating Obama’s campaign with the past Presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson implying Obama was just a marginal black candidate.
- Bill Clinton’s reported comments to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy that a “few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.”
She and husband Bill were not alone in making racist
comments about Obama. A few high profile so-called liberal Democrats were also
in the anti-Obama racism club.
When Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., recently
called Trump a racist, I did not see the major media point out his own racist
comments in 2008 when he said Obama was a “light-skinned” African American
“with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
In all of the reporting of Democrats calling Trump
racist, there were few reminders of Vice President Joe Biden’s comment on Obama
saying: “I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is
articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.”
And how could we forget or ignore, as the “drive by
media” apparently has, former President Jimmy Carter’s reference to Obama as
“this black boy?”
These racists comments by Clinton and her liberal
colleagues have been forgotten and buried by her friends in the media and the
black political elite as they sing “Trump is a racist” in unison and on cue.
I guess it all depends on which team the purveyor of
racist rhetoric is playing on.
Calling Trump a racist is not the only hypocrisy Clinton
is guilty of. While rioters were burning, looting, and attacking police and
innocents in Charlotte, N.C., all she could say was that the problems in inner
cities were due to systematic racism expressing no empathy with or sympathy for
innocent law abiding black residents.
As to the shootings and slaughter of blacks in Chicago
and other cities, neither Clinton, nor her buddies Obama and the attorney
general, found the time to strongly condemn such mayhem. Although she goes out
of her way to sympathize — not with the families of the slain in those cities —
but with the Black Lives Movement treating the slayings of blacks by police as
typical and ordinary.
The more she, Obama and black and white Democrats are
silent over lawlessness and the epidemic of murders in many urban cities, the
more they turn off law abiding black residents who feel she and Democrats care
more about those pulling the triggers and killing their children than they do
them.
Whether they know it or not, the more Hillary and her black and white supporters cry racism and express more empathy with rioters and looters than with law abiding black inner city residents, the more they will drive white Independents, borderline Democrats — and more blacks than they can imagine — into the Trump camp!
Whether they know it or not, the more Hillary and her black and white supporters cry racism and express more empathy with rioters and looters than with law abiding black inner city residents, the more they will drive white Independents, borderline Democrats — and more blacks than they can imagine — into the Trump camp!
History just may repeat itself. In 1968, the riots and
racial division helped to elect Richard Nixon. It could do the same for Trump
in 2016.
Clarence V. McKee is president of McKee
Communications, Inc., a government, political, and media relations consulting
firm in Florida. He held several positions in the Reagan administration as well
as in the Reagan presidential campaigns. He is a former co-owner of WTVT-TV in
Tampa and former president of the Florida Association of Broadcasters.
