Please be clear: I disbelieve that Black people are homogenous and should vote as monolith. And while the costs of that support-to Black people and almost every other constituency save affluent white men-was speculative pre-the-first-go-’round, there’s beaucoup proof of the grave dangers of repeating that error. Per a 2017 PEW poll, 8 percent of Black voters identify in some way with the Republican party. Peep: in 2016 Trump captured 6 percent of Black voters. I disbelieve that Black people are homogenous and should vote as monolith. #WHY THE SOUTHERN STRATEGY IS FAKE TV#But I’m not going to ask you that on TV because that’d be putting you in a bad spot.” “And I’m going to ask you what you think of all the other prosecutors who’ve bowed to political pressure. “I hope someday we can have dinner,” said Carlson, toward the interview’s end. In the interview, he defended the Taylor decision and critiqued those who deem it a miscarriage of justice.Įver-aspiring-to-fairminded me kept watching, open to the possibility that he would say something to give me at least the hint of a reason to revise my early averse judgement. (While deliberating on that case, he also found time to keynote at the Republican National Convention.) One night I flipped to Fox News-which I watch near never-curious to see how the day’s nonsense was being reported in an alternate universe, and caught Tucker Carlson announcing Daniel Cameron as his next guest.Ĭameron’s the Kentucky AG infamous for deciding against recommending murder charges for the cops whose bullets killed Breonna Taylor in April. “It’s a mindset, like Hitler youth, based on hatred-religious hatred, racial hatred.”-Gore Vidal, on the Republican Party, 2009
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