It is almost farcical the lengths the professional managerial class will go to smear people who challenge their dogma. American political discourse is thoroughly racialized. So much so that any non-white who rises up and deviates from the PC regimes’ stricture is automatically lambasted by the chattering classes.
Just look at Larry Elder. Erika D. Smith wrote an unhinged attack piece at The Los Angeles Times titled “Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned”.
In Smith’s piece, she largely criticized Elder for not understanding the “complex problems that come along with being Black in America” especially with regards to policing. Despite evidence showing that there is no systemic racism in American policing, people like Elder, who point out the truth about the dysfunctional state of the contemporary African American community, are always sharply criticized for being “racist.”
Now that Elder is running for California governor, and potentially positioned to pull off a major upset should Governor Gavin Newsom be recalled, the attacks against him are non-stop. Smith declared that “ignoring the self-proclaimed Sage from South-Central is no longer a viable strategy. Particularly for Black people.” Her statement comes in light of the fact that Elder is polling strongly to replace Newsom.
“He is a danger, a clear and present danger,” proclaimed Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. Similarly, Smith is aghast at how “Elder mocks critical race theory, though I’m not sure he understands what it actually is.” She argues that Elder’s anti-critical race theory views don’t “bode well for ethnic studies in California.” For some people, not agreeing with the leftist indoctrination of young people (also on the taxpayer’s dime) constitutes a major offense. Truly weird times we live in.
Smith naturally supports reparations for blacks in California and believes that if Elder is elected, “studying reparations for Black Californians would be toast.”
Abdullah had to drop the atomic bomb of race-baiting by stating the following: “Anytime you put a Black face on white supremacy, which is what Larry Elder is, there are people who will utilize that as an opportunity to deny white supremacy. They say, ‘How could this be white supremacy? This is a Black man.’ But everything that he’s pushing, everything that he stands for, he is advancing white supremacy.”
I don’t agree with Elder on everything. He has expressed foreign policy views that are interventionist in nature — stuff that is not much to my liking. However, such disagreements do not lead me to believe that Elder is some avatar of white supremacy.
Frankly, we do not even need to debate the likes of Smith. The Left can call us whatever they want. What matters is talking to our base and the disillusioned middle (who cares little about the race-baiting hysterics) and getting them riled up to thump the Left at the polls.
Forget these debates, we’ll see how the Left ends up at the polls when we tap into an angry populist base that has no time for constant hysteria about “white supremacy.”
