The left's contempt for successful conservative blacks
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As Bernard Goldberg says, “if there’s anything that liberal elites, especially Black liberal elites, hate more than white rednecks, it’s Black conservatives.” They especially hate black conservatives who enjoy major success. These conservatives are walking rebuke to the race-mongering left’s slanderous narrative of America.
The thing I like most about Sears is that she pushes back. Of Joy Reid, Sears says:
I wish Joy Reid would invite me on her show — let’s see if she’s woman enough to do that. I’d go in a heartbeat and we’d have a real discussion without Joy speaking about me behind my back, if you will.
I am a heartbeat away from the governorship, in case anything happens to the governor. How are you going to tell me I am a victim? And I didn’t do anything special to get here, except stay in school and study. I took advantage of the opportunities available here in America.
We can do better — it’s not 1963.”
(Emphasis added)
I bolded the part about not doing “anything special” because I suspect this is what the race hustlers hate most — the truth that the success (or failure) of African-Americans in this country is largely in their hands. They succeed based on what they do — e.g. stay in school and study — and don’t do — e.g. take drugs, have kids out of wedlock in their teens, and commit crimes.
This formula isn’t enough to elevate a Black (or a White) to lieutenant governor. Sears is being modest. But it is enough to live a good life in America.
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The left's contempt is rooted in their desire to make sure blacks are beholding to Democrats and not to their own efforts. That they can have success without the Democrat party is a real threat to Democrats' political viability.
See, also:
Joe Rogan Blasts off on 'Woke' Critics of Lt. Gov.-Elect Winsome Sears as Only He Can
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