U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
speaks at the National Action Network's annual convention on April 5, 2019, in
New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Based on their actions and rhetoric, one would think that
the growing socialist wing of the Democrat Party must really assume that blacks
are gullible non-thinkers who will fall for anything or any message.
Just look at the parade of 20/20 presidential hopefuls
before Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Conference.
I had thought that Ringling Brothers Barnum and Baily
Circus’ Clown College was extinct — until I watched these candidates bow and
scrape and do everything but kiss Sharpton’s ring and anoint him in oil.
The star of the show, who the assembled blacks treated
like a rock-star, was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. While they
applauded and cheered, she showed them what she thought of them — not much.
In true Hillary Clinton form, and to get down to what she
felt was their level, she changed her usual tone of voice and broke into a
phony black “accent”:
“Ain’t nothing wrong with that…”
John Cardillo, host of Newsmax TV’s "America Talks
Live" hit the nail on the nail on the head when he called her comments
verbal blackface: “this is what blackface sounds like.”
The highlight of this cascade of condescending pandering
was Sharpton asking the candidates if they would sign a bill that would create
a panel to study the possibility of reparations for the descendants of slaves.
They couldn’t say “yes” fast enough.
A few questions:
- Do
these candidates really believe that black descendants of slaves think
that their fellow Americans with no historical connection to slavery will
agree to pay reparations?
- Do
they really believe that black people believe in third trimester abortions
and infanticide when the baby is born alive?
- Do
they really believe that the millions of blacks working in the private
sector would want to give up their private health insurance for some
pie-in-the sky socialist “Medicare for all”?
- Do
they really believe that blacks are gullible enough to take them seriously
for apologizing for being white and criticizing “old white men” when they
likely took advantage of any privilege that “old white men” and their
color gave them — would they have preferred to have been born black?
- Do
they really believe that the majority of blacks, especially entrepreneurs,
in the United States would prefer to live in third world socialist
countries instead of capitalist America?
Another false assumption, which many black leftists have
developed into an art form, is that all a black liberal Democrat official has
to do to negate criticism or explain an election defeat is to yell racism or
white nationalism and all blacks will yell “Amen.”
So it was in the case of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim
Foxx, whose office dropped 16 felony counts against black "Empire"
actor hoaxer Jussie Smollett in spite of evidence that showed he staged a hate
crime.
The city has now filed a lawsuit to
make him reimburse the city for costs related to investigating his false
claims.
Supported and surrounded by a host of black community
leaders, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, at a press
conference, she said that criticism of her for dropping the charges
against Smollett was based on racism.
At the press conference U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, a
co-founder of the Illinois Black Panther Party, said the Chicago police union
was the “sworn enemy of black people.” Even worse, so-called community activist
Ja’Mal Green referred to police as the “Blue Klux Klan.”
They assumed that blacks in Chicago consider all cops,
black and white, including black Superintendent Eddie Johnson, to be their
enemy and would take their message as gospel.
On the contrary, I would think that many blacks in the
city wonder where Foxx, Jackson, Rush, and Green have been in the last several
years when black-on-black violence turned Chicago streets into urban killing
fields?
And what was the State Attorney’s reaction to her police
being called the enemy of black people and the "Blue Klux Klan"?
Silence!
The same for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Mayor-Elect Lori
Lightfoot — who will become Chicago’s fist black female mayor?
To the best of my knowledge neither condemned these
deplorable characterizations of their police.
Given the lack of support from elected officials, some
would argue that, since Chicago police can’t strike, perhaps, on a given day, a
significant number should come down with a case of the “Blue
Flu.”
It’s time for black Americans to let black and white
leftists know that disrespecting them by political and racial pandering won’t
work — they are not that gullible!
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. Read
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