Trump Supporters Stage ‘Red Hat’ Protest Over Council President’s KKK Accusations
Outraged community members took the podium
Gov. Whitmer, Harris campaign imply Michigan city is racist
The far-left Democrat governor of Michigan insulted residents of a city she represents seemingly in hopes of branding former President Donald Trump as a racist.
On Tuesday, Trump paid a visit to Howell, Michigan, a charming city of more than 10,000 residents about 65 miles northwest of Detroit.
'Did the media write this same story when Joe Biden visited Howell in 2021, or when Kamala Harris visits cities where racist protests and marches have occurred in the past?'
In anticipation of his visit, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer implied that Howell is irredeemably racist because of a few bad actors in the past and an allegedly astroturf demonstration last month.
"Well, you know, anyone who’s doing a little bit of research might have said, 'That’s really a bad idea, look at the optics. You’re showing up where the KKK was just at the same time you’re in Michigan,'" Whitmer told ABC News anchor Linsey Davis at the DNC on Monday night.
In July, a dozen individuals marched around Howell wearing masks, carrying signs saying that "white lives matter," and chanting in praise of Trump and Adolf Hitler. At the time, Trump was nearly two hours away in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The Harris campaign also smeared Howell — located in the heart of a crucial swing state — over the incident as part of a larger criticism of Trump.
"The racists and white supremacists who marched in Trump’s name last month in Howell have all watched him praise Hitler, defend neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and tell far-right extremists to 'stand back and stand by,'" said a statement from Alyssa Bradley, Michigan spokesperson for the Harris campaign.
"Trump’s actions have encouraged them, and Michiganders can expect more of the same when he comes to town."
However, as Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted, Joe Biden visited Howell just a few years ago, and Democrats — including Harris — regularly stop in cities with an unsavory past.
"Did the media write this same story when Joe Biden visited Howell in 2021, or when Kamala Harris visits cities where racist protests and marches have occurred in the past? No, of course not," Leavitt said.
"You should ask the Harris team why she believes all residents of Howell, Michigan, are racists and if that also applies to the cities she has visited with their own divisive histories," added Victoria LaCivita, Michigan spokesperson for the Trump campaign.
LaCivita pointed to racially charged incidents in Eau Claire, Wis., Pittsfield, Mass., Philadelphia, and Atlanta that did not deter Harris from visiting.
Livingston County Sheriff Mike Murphy likewise dismissed the demonstration in Howell last month as an orchestrated event featuring "a couple of dirtbags" and designed to "stir" up trouble.
"Within the last month, there's been a couple of folks that have come here to cause a little bit of a stir, spew some hate speech, white supremacy crap," Murphy said in a video posted to his agency's official Facebook account. "Those folks are from out of town; those are not Livingston County people."
At least one of the individuals participating in the event drove away in a car with a Pennsylvania license plate, Michigan Advance reported.
Sheriff Murphy also expressed frustration that Howell is so routinely and unfairly tarnished because of its past, calling it "100% bulls***."
"Frankly, I get a little bit fired up when people bring that up," Murphy told the New York Post. "We did have the Grand Dragon that lived here in Livingston County. But we somehow as a result of that got labeled with 'racist, unwelcoming community,' which truly couldn’t be further from the truth."
Robert Miles, who became the Michigan grand dragon of the KKK in the 1970s, did live in Howell, but he died more than 30 years ago.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who is running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan and who appeared with Trump in Howell on Tuesday, likewise slammed the mischaracterization of the city: "Some notion that that’s tied to racism is absolute absurdity. A few racists that gather in any town in America shouldn’t taint that town."
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CNN Flips Out Over GOP Rep. Scott Perry Highlighting Democrats’ KKK History
Republican Rep. Scott Perry said the Ku Klux Klan was 'the military wing of the Democratic Party.' CNN wants you to know that's wrongthink.Video: 'Hamilton' actress maligns Ron DeSantis as Ku Klux Klan grand wizard during Tony Awards to giddy applause
Broadway actress Denée Benton besmirched Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard during Sunday night's 2023 Tony Awards. The insult garnered giddy applause from the audience celebrating their fellow Broadway thespians.
The 76th Annual Tony Awards, also known as the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, were held on Sunday at the United Palace theater in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood.
Benton was presenting the 2023 Excellence in Theater Education award to Jason Zembuch Young of South Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida.
"Hi. I'm Denée Benton, actor, and proud [Carnegie Mellon University] alum. Earlier tonight, CMU and the Tony Awards presented the 2023 Excellence in Theater Education Award, and while I am certain that the current Grand Wizard – I'm sorry, excuse me, governor of my home state of Florida..."
The "Hamilton" actress was interrupted by a resounding applause from the audience, which was jubilantly celebrating that the Republican presidential hopeful was disparagingly labeled as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Benton continued by urging DeSantis to change the name of Plantation, "I am sure that he will be changing the name of this following town immediately, but we were honored to present this award to the truly incredible and life-changing Jason Zembuch Young, [for] enhancing the lives of students at South Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida."
Benton did not specify how DeSantis is like a leader of the white supremacist organization that is notorious for carrying out terrorism and acts of violence against blacks, immigrants, Jews, and other minority groups.
The town of Plantation was incorporated as a city on April 23, 1953, far after the days of the Antebellum South, with slavery and plantations.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel explains the origins of the town of Plantation:
If it hadn’t been for a sick 2-year-old boy who loved grapes and pumpkins, this town — and perhaps all of Broward County west of State Road 7 — might still be swampland. According to his 1972 biography, Plantation’s founder, Frederick C. Peters, came to South Florida from St. Louis because a doctor told him his second son, Lewis, would probably get healthier in a warmer climate. A corpulent, deeply religious family man who was one of the heirs to a vast shoemaking empire, Peters bought 10,000 acres of swampland west of Fort Lauderdale for $25 an acre in 1941.
The outlet provides suggestions on how the town got its name:
There are a few theories about how Plantation got its name. According to one account, in the early 1900s, two Miami farmers made plans to grow small rice plantations. The plan failed miserably, but the label it gave to the area — “the plantation” — stuck. Another premise is that the original developers of the area advertised that every home would sit on a single acre, informally called small plantations.
The town of Plantation has no direct historical link to slavery.
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\u201cOn the Tony Awards on CBS, actress Denee Benton announces award for outstanding HS theatre teacher. She wisecracked "I am certain the current Grand Wizard -- I'm sorry...governor of my home state of Florida" (wild screams, applause) will rename the town Plantation, Florida.\u201d— Tim Graham (@Tim Graham) 1686535158
Whitlock: The DNC and the Black KKK shocked that I would photoshop LeBron James in outfit they designed for him
The DNC, the governing body of the Democratic Party, has been dressing black voters in Ku Klux Klan hoods and robes for 60 years.
Yesterday, I ran a photoshopped image with my column of LeBron James in a hood and robe to hammer a point I made in the column about the NBA player and leftist's bigoted attitude toward black people and indifference to the murder of a white teenager, Ethan Liming.
It’s not the first time – nor will it be the last time – I have made reference to a Black KKK. My first reference was in late 2007 after the murder of NFL star Sean Taylor, who was murdered inside his home. Prosecutors charged five men – Venjah Hunte, Eric Rivera, Jason Mitchell, Charles Wardlow, and Timothy Brown – with burglarizing and murdering Taylor. Before police identified and arrested the assailants, I wrote a piece predicting that Taylor died at the hands of the Black KKK, a term I created to describe the criminal gangs of young people who terrorize black communities.
My column and use of the term “Black KKK” shocked and angered leftists. Fifteen years later, leftists are still feigning shock, anger, and disbelief that I would argue that a KKK-like pathology afflicts black people who swallow leftist ideology.
The left-wing website Mediaite acted like the LeBron photoshop was a whodunit, publishing a piece titled “For Some Reason, The Blaze Published a Photoshopped Image of LeBron as a Klansman on a Jason Whitlock Article.” John Whitehouse, a reporter for the alt-left media platform Media Matters, complained over Twitter: “The Blaze – a far-right website of Glenn Beck, Steven Crowder, Mark Levin and more – photoshopped @kingjames into a KKK hood for a column by Jason Whitlock; archived version here:”
This isn’t a whodunit. I did it. I’ve been doing it. I’ve been arguing for years that white political leftists have forced black culture and people to adopt the mindset of the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 and served as the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party. It terrorized black and white people who refused to support the racist policies of the Democratic Party.
That’s not an opinion. It’s a historical fact.
There’s a myth promoted by Democrats that the party abandoned its racist policies and attitudes in the 1960s after losing the civil rights war. They did not shift their attitudes and policies. They seduced black people into adopting their anti-black attitudes and policies.
The Democratic National Committee, the governing body of the Democratic Party, massaged its name without telling black people or the media. In the late 1960s, the DNC switched to standing for Dead Negroes Confederacy. The Dead Negroes Confederacy loves dead negroes. Its policies and attitude promote the deaths of negroes.
LeBron James, most celebrity influencers, John Whitehouse, the writers at Media Matters and Mediaite, Joy Reid, Anderson Cooper, Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, and on and on are rewarded for advocating the policies of the Dead Negroes Confederacy.
Let’s take a quick glance at some of the DNC’s best work:
- The DNC has convinced black voters that the annual slaughter of thousands of black babies through abortion is a fundamental freedom and right.
- The DNC has convinced black voters that George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Eric Garner are more heroic and worthy of celebration than Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, and Thomas Sowell.
- The DNC, through its promotion of Black Lives Matter, has convinced black voters that the disruption of the nuclear family serves our interests.
- The DNC has convinced black voters that a government check can replace a black father and husband.
- The DNC has convinced black voters that all educational and behavioral standards must be lowered or removed because it believes black Americans can’t meet them.
The policies and cultural norms supported by the DNC lead to death, violence, chaos, dysfunction, and hostility toward religious faith and objective truth.
As a means of paying homage to old-school Klansmen, supporters of the Dead Negroes Confederacy fight for the right of black people and black entertainers to commodify, commercialize, and cling to calling each other “n***er.”
Worse, the work of the DNC has caused black people to be totally indifferent to black violence, carnage, and dysfunction.
Three black men allegedly murdered a white teenager and honor roll student, Ethan Liming, in the parking lot of LeBron’s I Promise School. LeBron doesn’t care. The outspoken NBA star who can seemingly never hold his tongue or Twitter fingers when anyone black is harmed by a white perpetrator has failed to say or do anything of substance about the death of Ethan Liming.
James is quiet because he’s a member of the DNC’s Black KKK. The Black KKK expects young black men to act violently and criminally. The Black KKK holds black people to no standard of moral behavior. The Black KKK believes in the superiority of whiteness and white people.
That’s why the DNC and the Black KKK are outraged whenever white people fail. Expectations are a sign of respect. The Dead Negroes Confederacy and the Black KKK have no expectations for black people.
That’s why Media Matters and Mediaite want to credit TheBlaze, Glenn Beck, Steven Crowder, and Mark Levin for my work, creativity, and excellence.
Media Matters, Mediaite, John Whitehouse, and the rest of the DNC don’t believe in black excellence. I do.
Whitlock: Democrats form new confederacy founded on love of dead negroes
Democrats should rename their governing body. The Democratic National Committee, established in 1848, in no way reflects the modern platform, agenda, and strategy of the party.
The Dead Negro Confederacy more accurately characterizes the political party obsessed with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, and 70-year-old racial lynchings.
Dead negroes fuel the DNC.
Yesterday, Charles Booker, a Senate candidate running for Rand Paul’s Kentucky seat, released a 72-second ad featuring a noose tied around his neck. In the ad, Booker claimed mobs lynched his ancestors. Via Twitter, he stated three of his uncles were lynched in Kentucky.
“Lynching is a tool of terror,” Booker wrote. “It was used to kill hopes for freedom. In Kentucky, it was used to kill three of my uncles. In this historic election, the choice is clear. Rand Paul may want to divide us, but hate won’t win this time. It’s time to move forward, together.”
Booker’s commercial criticized Paul for blocking federal anti-lynching legislation. The accusation is disingenuous. After objecting to a proposal that failed to properly define lynching, Paul, alongside Republican Tim Scott and Democrat Cory Booker, co-sponsored the Emmett Till Antilynching Act that is now federal law. The law is purposeless, cosmetic, and totally political. For the last 60 years, death by lightning strike has been far more prevalent than lynching.
What has become prevalent in recent years is leftist public figures and political activists using relics of America’s racist past and dead black criminal suspects to advance their careers.
Charles Booker stole his campaign strategy from Jussie Smollett, the actor who tied a noose around his neck to gain popularity. The ploy backfired on Smollett. It worked for NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace. Wallace rose from obscurity and a lack of sponsorship support on the ridiculous insinuation that a garage-door rope was really a threatening hangman’s noose.
Two years ago, Booker thought he could ride the momentum of Black Lives Matter and his participation in Breonna Taylor protests to challenge Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell for his seat. During his bid for the Democratic nomination, Booker ran a more traditional campaign. He espoused stereotypical, far-left, Bernie Sanders-approved political policies such as universal health care and the Green New Deal. Booker failed to get out of the Democratic primary. He lost to Amy McGrath, who lost a relatively close race to McConnell.
Booker’s supporters blamed the racism of white Democrats for his primary defeat. It’s no surprise that Booker is back campaigning with a racially divisive message. It’s the primary message of the Dead Negro Confederacy. The Grand Wizard of the DNC, Barack Obama, modeled the strategy in the immediate aftermath of the Uvalde massacre.
Obama told the Dead Negro Confederacy, “As we grieve the children of Uvalde, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd.”
The DNC does everything it can to keep dead negroes at the top of mind for the American public. Wednesday, President Joe Biden commemorated the Tulsa race massacre, tweeting:
“Today, we remember the hell unleashed 101 years ago in Tulsa, where Greenwood was raided, firebombed, and destroyed by a violent white supremacist mob. It wasn’t a riot, it was a massacre. We must continue to reckon with the past and work to build a more just future.”
The Dead Negro Confederacy strikes again. Democrats do not offer solutions. They tell black people to lock their eyes on the rearview mirror or risk being caught from behind by racists. It’s the Dead Negro Conspiracy, the conspiracy theory of choice for the left.
In their preferred conspiracy, the only thing standing between black people and a noose is the Dead Negro Confederacy.
Vote Democrat or die!
That’s the same message the KKK sounded when six former Confederate soldiers founded the organization in 1865. The KKK worked on behalf of the DNC. It’s always been the Dead Negro Confederacy.
Dead negroes have long served as the platform to elevate Democrat politicians. It explains why the Dead Negro Confederacy is perfectly comfortable with Planned Parenthood and the astronomical number of black babies killed in abortions. It also explains why cities controlled by the Dead Negro Confederacy have high murder rates among their black citizens and support defunding police.
The Dead Negro Confederacy strives to make black people vulnerable and dependent on the goodwill of government. The DNC is against self-sufficiency and self-defense. It has pitted law-abiding black people against law enforcement by convincing black people that we’re all George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, or Emmett Till.
We’re not.
Tamir Rice is not analogous to Emmett Till, a 14-year-old brutally killed in 1955 after a white woman accused him of untoward behavior. An overaggressive police officer made a tragic decision to shoot Rice while the 12-year-old was holding a toy gun.
The only people who should worry about dying the way Floyd did are people who regularly use fentanyl and think it’s wise to disobey police officers for 20 straight minutes.
If you’re a woman and believe you could be killed in a similar fashion to Taylor, I strongly urge you to get a new boyfriend. Ditch him for a man strong enough to leave you in the bedroom while he checks on the trouble at the front door and one smart enough not to indiscriminately fire his gun at police or intruders on the other side of a door.
Everyone else should be asking themselves what they find so redeeming about the Dead Negro Confederacy. Perhaps it’s the organization’s position on climate change. Let’s hope it’s not the DNC’s affinity for dead negroes.
'I need to change': Bryan Cranston forced to 'confront' his white privilege and 'white blindness'
In a new interview, Bryan Cranston said he was forced to acknowledge his white privilege and "white blindness" following the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020.
"I’m 65 years old now, and I need to learn, I need to change," Cranston told the Los Angeles Times.
The Hollywood actor revealed that he was tapped to direct a play at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The play would be Larry Shue's 1984 comedy "The Foreigner" about an Englishman who learns of a sinister plot by Ku Klux Klan members to convert a rural Georgia fishing lodge into a KKK meeting place, but "things go uproariously awry for the 'bad guys,' and the 'good guys' emerge triumphant."
However, Cranston felt he couldn't tackle that subject matter after the BLM protests in 2020.
"It is a privileged viewpoint to be able to look at the Ku Klux Klan and laugh at them and belittle them for their broken and hateful ideology," Cranston told the L.A. Times in an interview promoting his latest project. "But the Ku Klux Klan and Charlottesville and white supremacists — that’s still happening and it's not funny. It’s not funny to any group that is marginalized by these groups' hatred, and it really taught me something."
Cranston admits that he had been laughing at the comedy for decades. However, the protests and the pandemic caused him to come "face to face with his own 'white blindness' and privilege."
The "Breaking Bad" star said, "And I realized, 'Oh my God, if there’s one, there’s two, and if there’s two, there are 20 blind spots that I have ... what else am I blind to?' If we’re taking up space with a very palatable play from the 1980s where rich old white people can laugh at white supremacists and say, 'Shame on you,' and have a good night in the theater, things need to change, I need to change."
Cranston declined the offer from the playhouse.
"If you find a play that you need an old white guy to act in, then maybe I can be available for that," Cranston told Matt Shakman, Geffen's artistic director.
Shakman approached Cranston with a different opportunity. Cranston agreed to join the production of "Power of Sail" and play the role of Charles Nichols, a "free-speech absolutist" professor who argues, "The answer to hate speech is more speech."
The synopsis of "Power of Sail" from Geffen Playhouse:
Distinguished Harvard professor Charles Nichols (Emmy & Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston) finds himself in hot water after inviting an incendiary white nationalist to speak at his annual symposium. His colleagues are concerned, his students are in revolt, but Charles is undeterred in his plot to expose and academically thrash his invited guest. This profoundly relevant new play by Paul Grellong (The Boys, Manuscript) examines the insidiousness of hate disguised as free speech and the question of who ultimately pays the price.
The Los Angeles Times wrote, "For Cranston, 'Power of Sail' meets that criterion with its pointed critique of America’s devotion to the primacy of free speech."
The play cites philosopher Karl Popper's "paradox of tolerance" from his 1945 book "The Open Society and Its Enemies."
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.
The Los Angeles Times noted that Cranston is "taken with the theory."
Cranston told the newspaper, "There need to be barriers, there need to be guard rails. If someone wants to say the Holocaust was a hoax, which is against history ... to give a person space to amplify that speech is not tolerance. It’s abusive."
At the end of the interview, Cranston said, "Somewhere in this more hardened world — this less civil world that we find ourselves in — someplace, somewhere, lives forgiveness."
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