Lynnette Hardaway, left, and Rochelle
Richardson, a.k.a. Diamond and Silk, arrive at the LA Premiere of "Death
of a Nation" at the Regal Cinemas at L.A. Live on Tuesday, July 31, 2018,
in Los Angeles. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
OXON HILL, Md. — Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle
Richardson, known popularly as "Diamond and Silk," gave an
impassioned pro-America, pro-capitalism, and pro-life speech at the
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday.
Most notably, they
attacked the idea of racial reparations for slavery, telling 2020 Democrat Sen.
Kamala Harris (D-Calif.):
"We have a message for Kamala Harris: You can keep
your reparations. You don't get to buy my silence," Hardaway declared.
"We will never let the Democratic Party forget that they are the party of
Jim Crow. They are the party of slavery."
Hardaway and Richardson emphasized their independence
from identity politics, emphatically saying that they can think for themselves.
Turning to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.),
Hardaway denounced socialism as a source of poverty.
"What makes America
great is through capitalism, how we can pull ourselves up by our
bootstraps" she declared. "So we can live the American dream and not
have to live through an American nightmare."
Hardaway addressed the issues of immigration and abortion
in one powerful phrase.
"When an illegal
immigrant comes through the border illegally, the Left wants to help them. But
when a baby comes through the birth canal legally, they want to kill
them."
The pair praised America as "the greatest country on
earth," and firmly defended the Constitution against Democrat efforts to
change it.
"We don't need to rewrite the Constitution. They need to reread
the Constitution," Hardaway said to loud applause.
