When he criticizes the Black Republican validators of the GOP’s racial righteousness as woke, DeSantis is playing with fire.
at a campaign stop that Donalds has to choose if he will side “with Kamala Harris and liberal media outlets” or side with the state of Florida.“As the direct descendent of a slave, I have a hard time understanding Governor DeSantis’ position that transferrable skills learned in bondage are somehow a net benefit,” said Rep. Wesley Hunt , an ally of Donalds.
But the brouhaha reached a whole new level when a Black member of Congress who is not in Trump’s camp, 2024 presidential candidate“There is no silver lining in slavery,” . “Slavery was really about separating families, about mutilating humans and even raping their wives. It was just devastating.”“Part of the reason our country has struggled is because D.C. Republicans all too often accept false narratives, accept lies that are perpetrated by the Left,” he said during a swing through Iowa. “And to accept the lie that Kamala Harris has been perpetrating even when that has been debunked, that’s not the way you do it.
DeSantis is really playing with fire here. He does not appear to fully appreciate the important role the Black Republicans he’s trashing play in protecting the self-image of white Republicans. As the WashingtonThe true commitment of today’s Republican Party is not to racism . It is to what is best described as. In a sense, anti-antiracism is its own ideology.
Black Republican pols regularly reassure white brethren that their own successes in life and politics demonstrate America’s fairness, and that despising anti-discrimination measures is not only kosher, but essential to the “color-blindness” that is the only real guarantor of equality. While nonwhite candidates Scott,
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