Larry Elder, the white supremacist
A Friday column in the Los Angeles Times ran the headline, “Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned,” calling the conservative Los Angeles radio host’s candidacy “an insult to Blackness.”
That’s actually rather interesting, in addition to its obviously risible quality. The piece posits an entity, Blackness, that stands apart from actually being black and which an actual living breathing black person can fail to sufficiently demonstrate or to which he or she can even be in opposition.
This reminds me a bit of a conversation I had several months ago with a liberal friend of mine. When I mentioned that there are a lot of really intelligent conservative black pundits, this person responded by saying that those people must be “self-hating blacks.” And this was said confidently even though this person was unfamiliar with them and had never read their works or heard them speak. It was a sort of tautology that, if a black person is conservative, he or she has rejected Blackness, because Blackness automatically includes being a liberal or a leftist.
This was Larry Elder’s response to the LA Times piece:
You’ve got to be real scared and desperate to play the race card against the brother from South Central.
Boy, do I hope Elder wins. It would send shock waves through the left.
If you want to read how a racist writes & “thinks,” that LA Times op-ed is exhibit A.
Any time any non-white uses the “skinfolk but not kinfolk” trope…you got yourself a racist right there.
In fact, Elder has a large and enthusiastic black viewer and listener base.
That’s not the case with McWhorter and Loury. The MSM doesn’t pick on them because they don’t pose a threat to the left.
When I mentioned that there are a lot of really intelligent conservative black pundits, this person responded by saying that those people must be “self-hating blacks.”
They’d never call a progressive Jew that calls Israel an “apartheid state” a self-hating Jew.
There is no “Whiteness” or “Blackness.” There are only people.
I had to look to see if the author of this stupidity, Erika D. Smith, is the same Erika D. Smith who’s running for Senate in North Carolina. Nope.
Nothing new here, but the word “friend” struck me.
I am not saying you should forget them or “cancel” them as the Left do, I just wonder whether the term itself is accurate given that those people are so easily manipulated that they would turn on anyone, you included, without noticing that.
I usually say “neighbor” or “colleague”, sometimes ironically.
They are scared and they are desperate. In this day and age, it is always the left which resorts to race baiting. Always. As election day draws closer, expect some brainless progressive commentator (probably more than one) to call Elder a ‘house n—-r’ and an Uncle Tom. Which, dressed up in ‘woke’ jargon, is essentially the thesis of this article
I really hope he wins too. Really, really, really.
“The Black face of white supremacy”
At this point in these deranged times, they’d say the same about MLK.
I have heard the recall mail-ins are designed to show who the voter picked without the envelope being opened. Obvious opportunity for fraud.
LXR:
The people I describe that way are sometimes just acquaintances who might not stand by me. Others are very very close and I strongly believe that they would. This particular person is one of the latter.
neo,
Do you privately think less of these people?
I had a relative that said some of most awful things about Trump voters in 2016 that really stunned me. I’ve never thought of her the same even though she has never been anything but nice to me ever.
Various suspicious things have come to light with our California mail-in balloting. I saw the article Richard Aubrey mentioned.
Our ballots, my wife & I, do have envelope holes that might have exposed the vote bubbles, except that the large envelope flap covers them when sealed. Ha. I just double checked. If you flex the sealed envelope, you can still see the marked vote bubble. But, only one of 4 possible ballot orientations within the envelope allows this. Still, that’s roughly 25% in theory. Last time and this time, I intend to bypass the USPS entirely.
2) A friend got a his mail-in ballot but there were two ballots inside. I chuckled because he is actually a conservative, but then it occurred to me. He is also a long time government employee. Hmmm.
3) A local newspaper article describes a citizen who got two ballots via two separate mailings. The article claims that this person should not have checked the voter registration box on his last visit to the DMV. But bizarrely, when the voter returned one ballot with a note to destroy, the registrar receiving it says that they will cancel both ballots. What? I believe that the only way for him to vote now is provisionally, but maybe I’m wrong.
My friend, the gov. employee, just tore up one of the two ballots. Probably the right course of action.
My friend, the gov. employee, just tore up one of the two ballots. Probably the right course of action.
About 10% of the population has an abiding problem which would impede them from voting in person.. These people should have a renewable standing order for a postal ballot. Everyone else should vote in person. Have people vote on Friday evening, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon to avoid having queues of people at 7:30 in the morning and 6:00 in the evening. Just about every adjustment to voting procedures in recent decades has promoted fraud. Adjustments which would remove impediments to voting which do not promote fraud are not enacted.
I had a relative that said some of most awful things about Trump voters in 2016 that really stunned me. I’ve never thought of her the same even though she has never been anything but nice to me ever.
Lots of women are fakey-nicey.
this person responded by saying that those people must be “self-hating blacks.”
Self-hatred is much more common in idle conversations and witless magazine articles than it is in everyday life. Did you ever ask this woman just why she fancies ‘self-hatred’ would be manifest in favoring common-and-garden Republican policy measures rather, than, say, heavy drinking?
Art Deco:
Interesting that you jumped to an assumption that is not correct.
This person is a man.
Knowing this person, I think he would assume that both indicated self-hatred, just self-hatred taking different forms.
This person is a man.
Did you ever ask this man just why he fancies ‘self-hatred’ would be manifest in favoring common-and-garden Republican policy measures rather, than, say, heavy drinking?
With California’s 100% mail-in balloting, there still are polling places open on election day, but the only thing they are allowed to do there is collect sealed mail-in ballot envelopes. (Probably they can do provisional ballots too.) That does accomplish an avoidance of the USPS personnel, but that’s all it accomplishes.
I understand Art Deco is writing about what should happen. If only …
Art Deco:
Did you see my answer? I already wrote: “Knowing this person, I think he would assume that both indicated self-hatred, just self-hatred taking different forms.” In other words, I believe I know the answer and the question is of no interest to me. I actually went in a different direction, pointing out that if he hadn’t read their works or heard them speak then he has zero knowledge of why they hold the opinions they do. And I encouraged him to familiarize himself with them before he characterizes them at all.
I will bet that the cretin who wrote that column was a pasty faced white person.
BrooklynBoy, no, a black woman.
Art Deco,
‘Lots of women are fakey-nicey’
But the thing is she had no clue of my political beliefs. I don’t do FB or anything else and I rarely talk politics with other family members, save a couple that I am simpatico with, so she likely thought I was a fellow traveler and felt comfortable to say some pretty vile things.
The Black face of White Supremacy is any video of a Black beating or killing an Asian.
I saw that editorial on the internets this morning and walked over to my Official Ballot and filled it in for Elder and walked down to the mailbox and mailed it.
Self-hating black woman wrote the “essay.”
Today I was pleased to vote to flush the human floater, Newsom.
I was even more pleased to vote for Larry Elder.
Now if we could just get a cruise missile on the capitol building in Sac when the “legislature” is in full session we might start to get somewhere.
“With California’s 100% mail-in balloting, there still are polling places open on election day, but the only thing they are allowed to do there is collect sealed mail-in ballot envelopes”
This is not correct. There will be some Vote Centers open (but not as many as in November). You CAN vote in person.
Personally
1) I will avoid mailing my ballot (loss of chain of custody)
2) I will avoid leaving my ballot at an unattended drop box (also loss of CoC)
3) Voting in person is an option
4) But for this election, I feel safe enough dropping my sealed ballot at a Vote Center to the Registrar of Voters personnel.
Griffin…although you didn’t ask me…I’d say “yes…in a qualified way.”
I may not “think less” of them…I try hard to continue to see imago dei in these folks…that helps, but I weigh their opinions/insights forever against a grain of salt. I especially have started to push back against the lies and narratives knowing that friendships may fracture.
I also have begun to say with clarity, “I’m convinced people of goodwill can disagree on an issue without viewing one another as stupid or evil. Can we at least agree there?” We’ll see.
But my sense is we’re past that point & all that’s left us is a shoot-out & some overdue hangings.
But the thing is she had no clue of my political beliefs. I don’t do FB or anything else and I rarely talk politics with other family members, save a couple that I am simpatico with, so she likely thought I was a fellow traveler and felt comfortable to say some pretty vile things.
I don’t talk with family either. They’ve figured out what I think.
If he’s a White Supremacist, I’ve got some re-thinking to do.
Clayton Bigsby, the World’s Only Black White Supremacist, Courtesy of Dave Chappelle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNDqxrUUwQ
The incoherence of the Leftists in calling a Black Conservative a White Supremacist is astonishing, but only when looked at in isolation. It is consistent with all the rest of the Woke/Leftist assertions regarding gender, freedom, and a host of other issues.
It is the same as the insistence in 1984 that 2+2=5. By forcing people to accept and believe statements that are clearly contrary to observable evidence, they are crippling the will of the people to resist.
During last years riots in Austin , there is video of what appears to be an older , black Texas DPS officer being swarmed by little white and hispanic social justice types. They are trying to grab a backpack he has. Like hyenas swarming a lion. The guy was old enough he probably had faced real discrimination in life. But the white and hispanic left tards were fighting for “justice”.
There is something seriously wrong on the left.
Sorry, off topic.
My online buddy posts the shooting count in Chicago each week.
How is it possible for this to go on week after week without the media making a fuss?
Current Chicago count: 40 shot; 5 fatally. This was written at Noon Sunday Chicago Time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/40-shot-5-killed-in-chicago-in-weekend-gun-violence-through-sunday/ar-AANBrLm?ocid=uxbndlbing
I read (suffered through) the column in question and found that it consisted mostly of personal insults against Mr. Elder: he’s a “clown”, the “Black Trump”, an “O.G. troll”, etc.
Some interesting quotes from the column:
“If he’s elected, the task force studying reparations for Black Californians would be toast”
I would venture a guess that the largest ethnic group in California (Hispanics) would support closing down this task force.
“he keeps trotting out statistics that purport to show that Black people are particularly prone to murdering one another”
I wasn’t aware that these statistics were being disputed (we really are living in different realities).
The trouble with re-defining terms (like “White Supremacist” or “racist”) and then proceeding to use them when speaking with people outside of your own sub-group is that you sound absurd.
Whether it is pre or post-apartheid South Africa, or a redistributive and retributive wave of Hutu vs Tutsi, or any day, everyday in Chicago, there is a clear and progressive risk of social justice to people of white, people of yellow, people of orange, people of color, and people of baby, too.
Diversity [dogma] (i.e. color judgment), advocates, and activists, breed adversity for-profit.
Woke and [morally] broke is a progressive condition that follows from the Pro-Choice religion and diversity [dogma] (i.e. color judgment) that denies women and men’s dignity and agency, and reduces human life to a negotiable, [colorful] property.