Still another demonstration of the fact that liberals think it’s perfectly okay to be racist towards black conservatives
They’re Uncle Toms, or minstrels, or whatever the epithet du jour is.
And this somehow proves that it’s those on the right who are the racists.
The logic is impeccable.
Bree Newsome, an artist and activist, described [Diamond and Silk, two black female Trump supporters and social media celebrities] in an interview as “a modern-day minstrel show” aimed at “white conservatives who want to believe Trump can’t be racist or they themselves can’t be racist because there are these two black women named Diamond and Silk who are constantly rooting for Trump.”
Ms. Newsome said their performances relied on “stereotypical images of black women” that would not be celebrated on conservative media if they were not Trump supporters.
Keith Boykin, an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, offered a similar critique.
“If these two women, the way they speak, the way they talk and act and behave, were saying anything that was contradictory to Trump, the Trump supporters who defend them would be the first to attack them,” Mr. Boykin said.
Mr. Boykin said their conservative fans, who are often quick to note their race and gender, “only want to listen to the people who reaffirm their narrow, limited vision of what blackness is all about and how black people should perceive white people and specifically how they should perceive Donald Trump.”
As a commenter on this Althouse thread pointed out, that last phrase—“only want to listen to the people who reaffirm their narrow, limited vision of what blackness is all about and how black people should perceive white people and specifically how they should perceive Donald Trump”—is a spot-on description of the left, not the right
Or as the commenter wrote: No mirrors in that house, nosirree.
Minstrel shows, of course, were white people pretending to be black in order to make fun of black people for supposed stupidity, so the accusation doesn’t make sense in terms of Diamond and Silk, who are black. However, minstrel shows were sometimes (rarely, but sometimes) performed by black people under the direction of whites, once the genre got going.
But Diamond and Silk don’t lampoon black people at all, and of course they are black, and there’s no white person pulling their strings. They’re smart, they’re funny, and they happen to support Trump, although I’m sure the people criticizing them think those things cannot coexist—smart, funny, support Trump—whether in black people or in white people, but especially in black people.
But Diamond and Silk are unquestionably black people, who are acting of their own free will, because we still are a nation that values liberty. For now.
So savvy of these 2 ladies to implement this gig for themselves. Wow no assistance or approval needed from virtue signaling Lefties. OMG they have left the plantation, what will all the other peasants do? Think for themselves, OMG can’t let that happen. Help everybody there is a leak in the dam!
BTW. never being
ex posed to people of color where I grew up or being *exposed* to their style, I am throughly enjoying and appreciating how they conduct themselves & how they come across. So there Lefties kiss off.
Truth be told these ladies are geniuses, why isn’t the Left celebrating that? In the same class as the genius who collected 20 Bucks a pop from those guys with overactive sex drives in hopes of an anonymous hookup known as *ashley Madison. Shhhh* damn that guy was smart !
“No mirrors in that house, nosirree.”
SJWs always lie – always project – always double down. I’m certainly not the first to notice.
Bree Newsome is a black artist (film) and activist. Also, is on standby to blackwash racism at the New York Times. When lefties need to kick some enterprising black people down the stairs, out into the street, and under a bus, Bree Newsome is there is a belittling quote that you can’t call racism because a black person said it.
AMartel:
You certainly CAN call it racism.
I don’t read Althouse unless linked by my usual sources 🙂 but since Neo mentioned a comment from there, I thought I would scroll through.
Here are a good sample of the points made in support of Diamond & Silk, and Trump, and conservatives in general. [these responses are mine]
[of course, I rather liked this one, which has applicability often noted about the left as a whole]
Quayle said…
Its Sunday so why not a Grandpa Brigham Young quote:
“I would put you on your guard against those who wear a long face, and pretend to be so holy, and so much better than every body else–they cannot look pleasant because they are full of the devil. Those who have got the forgiveness of their sins have countenances that look bright, and they will shine with the intelligence of heaven.” (Times and Seasons, 6:956.)
[This commenter, among others, notes the dilemma faced by ROC (Republicans of Color) or COC if you prefer]
Susan said…
They are black, acting black, which makes them a minstrel show. But if they act white that is cultural appropriation so what are they supposed to do?
[How about everybody just act the way they want to, and the rest of us mind our own business?]
Hagar said…
Everybody is “racist” – being wary of strangers has survival value – but most of us try to keep it under control. Fanning racism for temporary political advantage like The NYT does is despicable.
William said……. In effect, the only black person in public life that you can dump on without reservation is Clarence Thomas. That man is a national treasure.
[don’t forget Thomas Sowell, Ben Carson, Tim Scott, Allen West, Walter Williams, and actually quite a few conservatives that don’t generally make the Big News]
robother said…
Facebook was having trouble explaining the banning of D&S as hateful. Presto! NYT provides “expert” cultural critics to explain how D&S are really just a hateful minstrel show.
Michael K said…
Thomas Sowell says, “I am so old I can remember when most racists were white.”
Tommy Duncan said…
Blogger Chuck said…
“This is going to be such a great comments page. How would the Althouse commentariat treat “Diamond and Silk” if they weren’t Trump supporters?”
Chuck, if they weren’t Trump supporters no one would have heard of them. There would be no one to “treat”.
Fernandistien said…
Mike Sylwester said…
“Why doesn’t The New York Times find out and report how Facebook made its decision to censor Diamond and Silk?”
NYT recites: “She said Facebook was investigating how the note came to be written and sent.”
Sailer points out that it is impossible to discover how that decision was made:
“It’s just one of those mysteries that we’ll never fully understand. It’s not like Facebook is some kind of vastly profitable corporate monopoly that has organization charts and keeps copies of its own internal communications.”
Try to keep this straight in your head: Facebook doesn’t keep copies of its own private messages, Facebook keeps copies of your private messages.”
Lewis Wetzel said…
Keith Boykin, an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, offered a similar critique.
When the Times wants to know what conservatives think about a thing, they ask a liberal to tell them? This isn’t even a circle jerk, its anti-journalism.
Gahrie said…
So if White people like Black people…that makes the Black people inauthentic Blacks?
What does that say about Beyoncé, Kanye, or the popularity of Black Panther?
See the part I don’t get is that mainstream popular culture is dominated by Black people…which is pretty weird for what is supposed to be the most racist country in the world.
Kevin said…(quoting another commenter)
“This is going to be such a great comments page. How would the Althouse commentariat treat “Diamond and Silk” if they weren’t Trump supporters?
By the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
walter said…
Part of it is the delivery where one does 95% of the talking, the other basically finishing/doubling the last word in sentences. Having worked on interviews in Chicago for a music documentary, I can assure the New New York Times folk that that sort of delivery is authentic.
buwaya said…
The most profound impression I have is few really listen to anyone else, nor do they want to. The most open-minded, willing to engage across cultural lines people I have run across are Evangelical Christians.
OldManRick said…
All you need to do is compare Diamond and Silk to GloZell to decide how the NYT would describe a “show” if they were liberal supporting.
richard mcenroe said…
So we only want too see stuff we agree with. You know, totes different from Jimmy Kimmel’s audience, or Stephen Colbert’s audience, or Chelsea Handler’s audience, or CNN’s audience or MSNBC’s audience.
openidname said…
I notice the NYT isn’t allowing comments on the article. Always a dead giveaway.
Martin said…
“When you hear a dog whistle, you’re the dog.” Something the NYT and its professorial idiots might think about, if they know how to think.
I swear, every time I think Trump has gone too far, Hillary Clinton or the NYT or WaPo or Jim Acosta or some one like that reminds me that Hillary and her supporters were far worse.
One of Althouse’s commenters linked this post from TownHall, which I had read previously. It’s pretty good satire.
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2018/04/14/draft-n2470798
Last month I read Thomas Sowell’s Black Rednecks and White Liberals. I am going to make the effort to read a Sowell book a month for at least a year.(So far I have read two.)
The party of slavery gets uppity when slaves leave the plantation.
Democrats have been racist even before the first civil war.
They just made good excuses for it, such as that “Dixiecrat” excuse the SOuth made to explain why voting for Reagan wasn’t a betrayal of Southern/Confederate beliefs.
I referenced how Sanger’s Planned Profit abortions were related to the Confederate white supremacist eugenics of 1830s. Some people thought that I was stupid enough to actually think that Sanger came first and was born before the civil war. No no no, humans, the connection means that the US had white supremacist eugenics BEFORE Sanger, and the reason for Planned Profit’s existence is merely a continuation of the entire racist caste system of Slavery 2.0.
It’s not necessarily a class system or a racist ideology, so much more like a eugenics one.
John Guilfoyle Says:
April 16th, 2018 at 3:22 pm
“No mirrors in that house, nosirree.”
SJWs always lie — always project — always double down. I’m certainly not the first to notice.
VoxDay’s problem is his transformation from moderate Christian into a fanatical believer in Alinsky.
He lives in Italy, far as I know due to his publishing business, so even if the USA goes to hell, it’s no skin off his back.
A very great example of someone with a very high IQ, who is balanced in physical sports like soccer along with his intellect, that decided that the only way to fight the Leftist alliance was to become like them via learning their tactics and strategy.
Me, I don’t think that’s a good idea to fight evil by becoming evil however.