Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers
questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 17, 2019, in
Washington, D.C.
(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., and House Democrats
really have some nerve calling President Trump’s tweets “racist” when she,
Democrats, and their media friends have made race baiting an art form.
Democrats have been using race and calling or implying
that Republicans and conservatives are racists so long that they have pretty
much made the word “racist” an almost meaningless cliché giving real racists
cover.
Race baiting and racist comments are no stranger to
Pelosi and her Democrat water carriers. As I have written in
this space, President Barack Obama and his first Attorney General, Eric Holder,
elevated identity politics and race
baiting to new levels with no complaints from
fellow Democrats or the media.
Former Vice President Joe Biden in 2012 told a diverse
group including many blacks that Mitt Romney and Republicans would “put
y’all back
in chains.”
William McGurn, writing
in The Wall Street Journal, referenced Biden appearing with Rev. Al Sharpton on
MSNBC saying there was only one reason Republicans support voter-identification
laws: “They don’t want black folks voting.”
Pelosi is a master at playing the race card!
On the citizenship question on the census she
said that it was an effort to “Make America White Again."
She used the same expression to characterize the “Make
America Great Again” (MAGA) hat to which President Trump responded:
"that's a very racist statement."
Democrats were silent!
Democrat race-baiting against Republicans had been
consistent for at least two decades — until presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala
Harris, D-Ca., made a not-so-subtle accusation of racism against fellow
Democrat Biden on his association with southern segregationists and opposition
to busing.
That was not the only racist “chicken coming home to
roost” in the Democrats’ “chicken coop” of racial hypocrisy.
Another one laying racist eggs in the Democrat nest was
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. She accused Pelosi
of “explicit singling out of newly elected women of color” for criticism of
their tactics.
So how did Pelosi return the favor?
She sponsored a resolution condemning
Trump’s tweet criticizing four non-white congresswomen as racist.
The entire uproar and cries of racism over the Trump
tweet represent an America where progressives, Democrats, and the media — all
birds of a feather flocking together — consider any criticism of policies or people
they support to be racist:
- If
you criticize the political position of a black, Hispanic, or Asian person
you are a racist.
- If you oppose open borders, you are a racist.
- If
you support the men and women of the Border Patrol, many of whom are
minorities, you are a racist.
- If
you oppose reparations for blacks for slavery, you are a racist.
- If
you believe a citizenship question should be on the census form, you are a
racist.
Regardless of his tweets, the president is doing
something that most conservatives and Republicans are either afraid or
unwilling to do — fight back and give progressives a taste of their own
medicine!
In many cases, when accused of being racist, most
Republicans fold like wet spaghetti and run like a dog with its tail between
its legs looking for the nearest reporter to show they are really not bigots.
Regardless of his terminology, the president is telling
progressives and his media enemies that he will not turn the other cheek.
It’s too bad those so anxious to call Trump a racist over
tweets don’t get just as upset and remain silent when an antifa terrorist group
allegedly tries to attack an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Tacoma,
Washington; or, when ICE protesters pull down an American flag, raise a Mexican
flag and vandalize a Blue Lives Matter banner at an ICE detention facility
in Aurora, Colorado.
Some will argue that the reason they are silent is that
they sympathize with the perpetrators — not the men and women of ICE and law
enforcement.
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
more of his reports.
