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Thursday, February 14, 2019
Elder Nails It!
The Virginia Blackface Follies
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The "blackface scandal" proved beneficial for two things. It displaced the frenzy over Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's support for a law lifting many restrictions on late-term abortion. It also took away headlines and news print space from the commonwealth's Democratic lieutenant governor, who faces two sexual assault allegations.
But the blackface controversy has legs.
Northam's 1984 medical school yearbook page depicted a photograph of someone in blackface and someone in a KKK outfit, both apparently holding cans of beer. At first, Northam apologized for the pictures, arguing that they do not accurately reflect his character. The next day he said that, upon review, he is neither the person posing in blackface nor the one in the KKK outfit. Nor did he know how the photos ended up on his yearbook page. He admits that he once learned the moonwalk and applied black shoe polish to his cheeks to appear as Michael Jackson for a dance contest. When a reporter asked Northam if he could still do the moonwalk, Northam's wife stepped in, calling the request "inappropriate." Maybe she had seen him do it and was not impressed.
A page designer of that yearbook explained the process. Each student, he said, submitted the pictures to appear on the student's page. This means, whether or not Northam is the person in blackface or in the KKK outfit, he nevertheless selected the photographs. The page designer doubts the pictures somehow got mixed up. Still, Northam insists he will not resign. "I have thought about resigning," he said, "but I've also thought about what Virginia needs right now. And I really think that I'm in a position where I can take Virginia to the next level, and it will be very positive."
But there's more. Turns out there are two Virginia blackface scandals.
Democratic Virginia Attorney General Matt Herring admits that he, too, wore blackface to a party to imitate "rappers we listened to ... like Kurtis Blow." Herring was 19. In his statement of apology, he said, "the shame of that moment has haunted me for decades." The "shame" of wearing blackface on one occasion to a party to impersonate a rapper Herring listened to "haunted" him "for decades"?
Virginia Democratic lawmakers demand Northam's resignation, as have many Republican members of the Virginia legislature. Hillary Clinton tweeted: "This has gone on too long. There is nothing to debate. He must resign." Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., tweeted, "The governor of Virginia should step aside so the public can heal and move forward together."
But wait. Blacks, the group presumably the most offended by blackface pictures, want the governor to stay in office. A new Washington Post-Schar School poll asked, "Considering everything, do you think that Northam should step down as a governor of Virginia or not?" While Virginians as a whole are split evenly on whether Northam "should step down," 58 percent of black Virginians want him to stay, with 37 percent disagreeing, a 21-point margin in favor of the governor. Apparently, blacks in Virginia have resisted the call to hop up and salute the flag of victimhood.
Critics of President Donald Trump accuse him of coarsening "race relations," of creating an atmosphere through the use of "racist dog whistles" to "normalize" racism. But according to Gallup polls since 2001, non-Hispanic whites' ratings of "relations between whites and blacks" as "very good" or "somewhat" good peaked at 75 percent in 2007, during the George W. Bush administration. It declined steeply during the presidency of Barack Obama, reaching a low of 45 percent in 2015. For blacks, ratings of "very good" or "somewhat good" race relations also peaked during the Bush administration, at 70 percent in 2001. As recently as 2013, the number for blacks stood strong at 66 percent, but by 2016, it had dropped to 49 percent. The drop in those perceiving "race relations" as "very good" or "somewhat good" occurred well before Trump descended the elevator at Trump Towers to announce his candidacy for president.
Get out the magic wand, wave it over America and remove the racism, along with any blackface makeup.
Nearly 70 percent of black kids are born to unwed mothers. The dropout rate in some urban high schools approaches 50 percent. Of those who do graduate, many cannot read or do math at a 12th-grade level.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young white men is accidents, such as car accidents. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is homicide, almost always committed by other young black men. In Chicago, a city approximately one-third white, one-third black and one-third Hispanic, blacks accounted for nearly 80 percent of homicide victims in 2018, and most of these cases remain unsolved. According to a 2017 report by the Centers for Disease Control, a black child is almost 10 times more likely to be a victim of a gun-related homicide than a white child.
But let's talk about 35-year-old blackface pictures.
Larry Elder is a best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an "Elderado," visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @LarryElder.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
The Mess That The Democratic Party Has Become!
Did This Dem Senator Tell Kyrsten Sinema To ‘Watch Your A**’ When She Clapped During Trump’s State of The Union?
We’re back for episode 51 of the podcast. First, the dumpster fire continues to burn in Richmond, as Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and state Attorney General Mark Herring have all become embroiled in scandal. In less than a week, the entire Virginia Democratic Party has been burnt to ash. Northam and Herring admitted to wearing blackface. Fairfax has been slapped with a sexual assault allegation. With all three now engulfed in controversy, there’s no way any one of them is resigning and handing the keys to the governor’s mansion back to the Republicans.
To make matters worse, Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) admitted to knowing about Fairfax’s allegation for months. Do Democrats really ‘Believe all Women?’ Nope, they just decided to weaponize sexual assault, and now it’s come back to bite them.
In the meantime, President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, where he received big numbers rom voters; 76 percent approved of the speech. As for Trump’s immigration policy, 72 percent liked what they heard. As for Democrats and the liberal media, they thought it was an incoherent mess. It wasn’t. It was a speech where a lot of agreement could be found. We’ll see what happens though. February 15 is the deadline for a new spending bill. Without one, the government will be shut down again. While Democrats rarely clapped during the address, instead choosing to act like a bunch of sour patch kids, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) decided to stand and clap, which prompted her colleague Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) to seemingly say, “watch your ass.”
Video version: Democrat @SenJackyRosen angrily warns @kyrstensinema “watch your ass” as she applauds Trump.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been exposed for claiming Native American status on her Texas bar application, despite being whiter than Wonder Bread. It shows that she indeed used her fake racial status for personal gain and committed the cardinal sin of culturally appropriating the Cherokee Nation. Again, these are their rules, folks.
The Democrats unveiled their New Green Deal, which was nothing but an agenda that would lead to total economic death. Its goal is to get off of fossil fuels within the decade, along with nuclear power, and replace and upgrade every building in America. This doesn’t have 30 votes in the House. It’s economically illiterate. And cooked up by person, or persons, who have hit the crack pipe…hard.
In the world of media, former ESPN writer Jemele Hill has apologized for her now-deleted tweet that some took as an assassination joke. Over to The View, Joy Behar admitted to wearing blackface for a Halloween party when she was 29 years old.
In the span of a week, liberal America has violated all of their commandments with regards to racism, sexual assault, and cultural appropriation. To make things more delicious, in Virginia, Northam pretty much ran as the anti-racist candidate, which was a cheap shot against his opponent Ed Gillespie, and the liberal media and the Democratic Party’s silence over Fairfax’s allegation speaks volumes on how they react to when one of their own is accused of such crimes. These reservations were not afforded to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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