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The left is triggered by Vivek Ramaswamy. Liberals just can’t understand how he, especially as a person of color, could possibly refuse to denounce white supremacy – the modern version of white supremacy, that is.
Pat Gray plays a recent clip showing Ramaswamy “being pushed into a corner on race issues again,” but thankfully the candidate handled the ambush with expert articulacy.
“When you were talking to reporters last night, you called white supremacy a myth. When someone asked you about Dylann Roof, you said you didn't know who that is. Have you looked up what happened in 2015?” asked Dasha Burns, citing the mass murderer who shot and killed nine African-Americans on June 17, 2015, in South Carolina.
“Yeah,” Ramaswamy answered, confirming he knew about Roof’s crimes. “Invidious racial discrimination is wrong no matter how it happens.”
However, “it's incumbent for us to define what white supremacy is,” especially “what the popular understanding of these terms [has] come to mean,” he continued. “Do you believe punctuality is a vestige of white supremacy … or the written word … or the nuclear family? These aren't my words; these are the words of intellectual proponents from Ibram Kendi to Ayanna Pressley to BLM that have said these are vestiges of white supremacy.”
That’s all it took for Burns to lose her cool.
“This is what you do, though. You choose straw men,” she fired back, accusing him of cherry-picking his arguments.
But Ramaswamy just hit her with more facts.
“If you really care about actual crime against black Americans, let's get to the root causes of it,” he said, citing “black-on-black crime” as the main source of the problem.
“The Anti-Defamation League tracked a 38% increase in white supremacist propaganda last year,” Burns spat back.
“The ADL isn’t a particularly credible source,” Ramaswamy said, before shooting down Burns’ next set of statistics from the FBI.
“What they classify as a hate crime is itself a political judgment. I think that when you actually care about protecting life, if you want to say black lives matter, let's look at where black lives are actually being lost – it's in the cities at the heart of other black Americans and criminals.”
That only made Burns even more angry, but Ramaswamy carried on with his usual eloquence.
“My whole point is, racism has been a major problem for most of our national history, but we’re getting close to the promised land that Martin Luther King envisioned. We’re as darned close to it as we ever have been,” but now “we’re creating new waves of racism, Dasha, that we otherwise would have avoided right when we're closest to having achieved what even the proponents of the civil rights movement would have dreamed of.”
“Obviously she’s got an agenda,” sighs Pat. “She is all pissed off that she can’t get him to cower before the racial gods that are saying ‘everything is so bad in America, and white supremacy is the biggest issue we face.”’
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Mom fights back after son accused of racism for using term 'illegal alien'
In North Carolina, 16-year-old Christian McGhee found himself suspended and allegedly branded a racist for using the term “illegal alien” in class.
Christian had reportedly asked his teacher if a conversation in class was centered around “spaceship aliens” or “illegal aliens who need green cards.”
“Was he quoting president Bill Clinton who used that same phrase in a State of the Union speech?” Keith Malinak asks.
The boy's mother is thankfully not having it and has come to his defense.
“On April 9, my son received a write-up stating that he violated a board of education policy by using or making a racially motivated comment saying that an alien needs a green card,” the mother said to the school board.
“There is nothing inappropriate about saying aliens need green cards, and there certainly isn’t a case for racism due to the fact that alien is not a race,” she said, continuing, “this board’s policies do not prevent students from using the word alien, illegal alien, green card, nor does it state that these words are racially insensitive or abusive.”
The mother also revealed that while none of the board members have responded to her emails regarding what’s been done to her child, two of the board members have sent messages to county leaders and residents with her personal arrest record from 14 years ago.
They also encouraged them to post the record on social media.
“These posts were sent around my child’s school. Two members of this board too busy to hear a mother’s cry, yet not too busy to assault her character in one more attempt to hurt her child,” she said.
Her arrest was for possession of pain medication, which she was sentenced to six years time served. Since her arrest, she’s “spoken publicly over 30 times in many states regarding addiction.”
“Your weak attempt to assault my character has failed, but your malicious character has been highlighted,” she added.
“That’s great, wow,” Pat Gray says, impressed.
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