by Roger Simon
One of the key reasons I left the Democratic Party years ago was the atrocious way they treated black people.
I’m not just talking about “Jim Crow” or LBJ’s well-known patriarchal and racist use of the “n-word” to celebrate blacks voting Democratic forever in gratitude for his ultimately useless early “virtue signaling” called the “War on Poverty.”
(Notice any difference between South Central then and now?)
Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Democrats calling Republicans “racist,” as they do on a ritual basis, is literally one of the more nauseating examples of projection in human history.
But before I go into the egregious details of today’s malfeasances, it should be noted that Larry Elder—the estimable black conservative talk show host who makes videos for The Epoch Times—is in a near-tie with Arnold Schwarzenegger for the percentage of votes garnered in the California gubernatorial recall election. Schwarzenegger got 48.5 percent and Elder, so far, 47 percent. And they’re still counting. (In both instances, they were competing against dozens of candidates.)
Readers will—excuse the redundancy—recall that one made two votes in that election, the first deciding whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom and the second for whom to replace him if recalled.
Elder won the latter in a landslide. But just who were the people (along with the predictable corruption) who blocked his way from the governor’s office by voting to preserve Newsom?
I submit that many of them were what we used to call “limousine liberals” and might today be called “Tesla-crats.” They are the rich, often mega-rich, almost always white, people who drive by the myriad horrific homeless encampments of California, trying not to look, as they head for the next trendy restaurant or their magnificent home.
And what is the largest group on a percentage basis in those homeless encampments? Well, I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that it’s blacks.
How can we not have contempt for the hypocritical (to say the least) “Tesla-crats”? But they’re only the plutocratic tip of the Democratic war on blacks we’re watching at this very moment.
Let’s start with the border.
At the moment, there is a crisis of crises at a place called Del Rio, Texas. The left-leaning New York Times is reporting:
“The U.S. Border Patrol said that more than 9,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, were being held in a temporary staging area under the Del Rio International Bridge as agents worked as quickly as they could to process them.
“The temporary camp has grown with staggering speed in recent days, from just a few hundred people earlier in the week. The authorities and city officials said they expected thousands more to cross the ankle-deep river between Mexico and Del Rio in coming days.”
How many of these people will ultimately enter our country we don’t know. Probably a lot. (It’s reported the numbers under the bridge have swelled to 12,000 now.) How many carry COVID? Again, we don’t know, but probably a lot. What we do know is that since they are, mostly, Haitian, they will likely end up in black communities, bringing their infections with them.
Where is there already the most COVID-19 on a percentage basis? Black communities.
War on blacks?
Okay, consider the next—if anything more horrible because more deliberate—example.
In their alacrity to punish Southern red states, our federal government is restricting the monoclonal antibody treatments given those states. Who suffers the most from this? Who may well die from this?
Again, the black community—where these treatments are most needed. Joel Pollak puts it succinctly over on Breitbart.com:
“President Joe Biden’s decision to cut deliveries of monoclonal antibodies to southeastern states, in what critics have called a politically-motivated effort to punish Republican states, could end up sentencing black people to death from coronavirus.”
Is this sadism or stupidity on the part of our president? An argument can be made for both.
Thankfully, Larry Elder is far from alone in standing up for the rights of his people.
Notable lately is rapper Nicki Minaj who has courageously stood up for the truth on Twitter by casting justifiable aspersions—or should I say “throwing shade”—on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Naturally she got a lot of pushback from the usual crowd who don’t know what pathetic conformists they are.
Someone named “hasanabi” wrote after the rapper appeared on Tucker Carlson, “You know he’s a white nationalist right?”
Minaj responded: “Right. I can’t speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party. [People] aren’t human any more… If another party [than the Democrat Party] tells u to look out for that bus, stand there & get hit.”
So far, no one has said it better.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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Roger L. Simon is an award-winning novelist, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of PJMedia, and now, editor-at-large for The Epoch Times. His most recent books are “The GOAT” (fiction) and “I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already” (nonfiction). He can be found on GETTR and Parler @rogerlsimon.
Photo “Larry Elder” by Larry Elder. Background Photo “Student with Mask” by National Governors Association.
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More on the Democrats and their attempt to “help” the Black people:
The Highlander Folk School in East Tennessee was started by do-gooder Myles Horton as a socialist experimental training center in the late 1930’s. Myles was a product of the Chicago Christian Socialist movement and Union Theological Seminary who wanted to “empower” the poor whites in Appalachia and bring in the Unions. In the 1950’s, the School became a civil rights activist center, teaching community organizing and protest techniques to the Black leaders of the Civil Rights movement like Martin Luther King, Jr and Rosa Parks. It was a closed after losing its non-profit status
The reincarnation of the Highlander Folk School, The Highlander Center, under the leadership of Ash-Lee Henderson, has over the years has gone full communist, aligning with groups like Liberation Road, BLM, Movement 4 BlackLives, and closer to home, the Nashville Justice League. These organizations which were supposedly set up to help Black people, have done nothing but harm to them, their lives and their futures. It’s so sad.
There is nothing dumber or more Boomer than the silly “Democrats are the real racist” card.
Elder “lost” the Governor’s race in California because of mail-in ballots. Every Californian (note I am not saying every registered or eligible voter) received a mail-in ballot. The California election commissions “count” these mail ballots, they will count them how they want to count them, they will be filled out by whoever wants to fill them out (in this case by Democrats). For so long as dumb-ass faux “conservatives” continue this ridiculous “Dems are the real racists’ b.s. and worry about 10 people “voting” who may or may not be dead and not see the real and only issue is mail-in ballots, the Republican party is doomed to be controlled opposition.