Throughout the second hour of Thursday’s CNN Tonight, host Don Lemon and his race-baiting buddy, The New York Occasions columnist, Charles Blow fervently ripped on the USA for being a nation imbued with “white supremacy.” In response to Lemon and Blow, the ideology of white superiority isn’t truly a fleeting concept that fewer and fewer individuals imagine as the USA ages—as study after study has recommended. As a substitute, these two leftist purport that America was based on racism and, due to this fact, it has pervaded society.
When requested about San Francisco Unified Faculty District Board of Schooling’s current (and near-unanimous) vote in favor of renaming over three dozen colleges at the moment named after former presidents and different distinguished figures together with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Blow unreservedly expressed his acquiescence and flat out decried any one that as soon as owned a slave—regardless of the truth that slavery was commonplace throughout the globe throughout America’s founding.
“I’m sorry if I don’t commiserate with individuals who owned slaves,” sneered Blow, “and I don’t excuse it as being an artifact of the time.”
Slavery, unequivocally, was an artifact of the time. Lots of our founders conceded that slavery was morally mistaken and at odds with American ideas and beliefs.
Slavery was horrible however, luckily, was dropped at an finish through Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation and the—later—ratification of the thirteenth Modification. Nonetheless, that doesn’t matter to Blow—Lincoln doesn’t deserve a faculty named after him.
In fact, neither Blow nor Lemon talked about the truth that the board of training’s vote was extraordinarily unpopular and even drew criticism from San Francisco’s very personal Democratic mayor, London Breed.
Blow then went on to fantasize about how a lot energy blacks would wield and the way various a future authorities can be, had blacks not “migrated.” What Blow did not acknowledge was the truth that a part of the explanations blacks migrated have been for higher paying industrial jobs within the North.
“Effectively, it is quite simple. On the finish of the Civil Conflict, three southern states have been majority black: Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina. One other three have been inside 4 proportion factors of being majority black. If individuals had not migrated, and I perceive why they did, but when that they had not migrated and you continue to had the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, black individuals would management as much as 14 Senate seats. They’d management extra Electoral School votes than California and New York state mixed. In the event that they voted over that very same interval the way in which they vote now, you wouldn’t have had a Republican president within the final 50 years. That might imply that all the Supreme Courtroom would look totally different than it does right now. That might imply that if Hillary Clinton had misplaced each single mid-western state in 2006, she nonetheless would have gained the presidency.”
Lemon didn’t query Blows deduction; as a substitute, he fawned over how he “can’t wait to learn” Blow’s new guide which contained the phrases “Black Energy” in its subtitle.
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Click on “Develop,” to learn the total January 28 transcript:
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
01/28/21
11:49 PM
DON LEMON: So a month in the past, white supremacists, individuals carrying American flags, invaded the seat of our democracy and tried to overturn our election. And my subsequent visitor has some concepts about the best way to combat this. I wish to herald, now, Charles Blow, the op-ed columnist for The New York Occasions. He’s the creator of the guide “The Satan You Know: A Black Energy Manifesto.” Charles, good to see you. We’re going to speak all about that. However I’ve to speak present information with you as properly, as we at all times do. While you look— good night, by the way in which. While you have a look at the rebel on the Capitol, white supremacist symbols, accomplice battle flag, nooses erected exterior the Capitol, what position did white supremacy play within the Massive Lie and in what occurred that day?
CHARLES BLOW: I believe white supremacy woven all through that episode, and is, the truth is, linked to the way in which white supremacy at all times behaves when it feels threatened. How is that totally different from the nooses that have been erected exterior of courthouses all throughout the South once they would let mobs go into feder—into official buildings, drag out black individuals accused of issues and lynch them? How is that not a parallel? White supremacy at all times behaves violently. It at all times responds violently when it feels threatened. Donald Trump was a white nationalist president. He was the embodiment of white supremacy. And he was threatened. He instructed his supporters that he was being unfairly faraway from workplace and that risk to their energy, symbolized by him, activated them.
LEMON: Uh-huh. Look, we have been speaking about, you already know, you speak about nooses and these accomplice symbols and so forth and the naming. Individuals are our historical past and the way we have a good time it. This week in San Francisco, the unified faculty district voted to rename 44 colleges named after varied public figures together with the previous presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Is there a distinction between naming buildings after these presidents and having accomplice generals as namesakes of buildings and bases?
BLOW: I believe – I’ve an actual downside – I’m type of an absolutist across the thought of proudly owning slaves. I don’t purchase into the idea that it was a part of the mores of the time. I at all times inform the individuals who inform me that, that, these individuals who have been slaves are simply as human as I’m right now. Cease it by means of the white gaze and have a look at it by means of the black one. These individuals have been enslaved by different human beings. They’d no freedoms of their very own. They — these individuals who enslaved them knew the place they got here from, a lot of them went to the slave markets, which reeked – reeked of human excrement. The ships that got here in, you possibly can odor them earlier than they arrived. The individuals got here out of these hulls fairly often unable to both lie down or sit up, relying on the ship. Their meals was thrown all the way down to them. They have been handled like animals. And so they engaged in that market. They made a marketplace for an urge for food to feed – for a market to be fed. I’m sorry if I don’t commiserate with individuals who owned slaves, and I don’t excuse it as being an artifact of the time.
LEMON: Let’s speak about your guide. “The Satan You Know: A Black Energy Manifesto.” And in it, you write, you mentioned, “The proposition is easy: as many black descendants of the good migration as doable ought to return to the south from which their ancestors fled.” Discuss to me extra about, I discover, this an interesting thought. I do know you have been engaged on this guide. Discuss to me extra about that concept, Charles.
BLOW: Effectively, it is quite simple. On the finish of the civil conflict, three southern states have been majority black: Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina. One other three have been inside 4 proportion factors of being majority black. If individuals had not migrated, and I perceive why they did, but when that they had not migrated and you continue to had the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, black individuals would management as much as 14 Senate seats. They’d management extra Electoral School votes than California and New York state mixed. In the event that they voted over that very same interval the way in which they vote now, you wouldn’t have had a Republican president within the final 50 years. That might imply that all the Supreme Courtroom would look totally different than it does right now. That might imply that if Hillary Clinton had misplaced each single mid-western state in 2006, she nonetheless would have gained the presidency.
LEMON: 2016.
BLOW: Black individuals – black individuals had the entry to that energy and it scared the white supremacists within the South to demise, they usually did all the pieces to strip them of it. Terror, intimidation after which rewriting southern constitutions to, as they are saying of their minutes, which I’ve learn, to jot down white supremacy into the DNA of these states. That victory can’t be allowed to face.
LEMON: Contemplating what simply occurred with the election for president and for senators, is Georgia already consultant of what you are saying in your guide?
BLOW: I known as it a proof-in-concept, and I’d have had no thought it was going to occur once I moved right here or began writing the guide. You understand how books are to jot down, you begin years earlier than you truly publish, so you haven’t any thought what is going on to be taking place on the time you publish. However it’s completely a confirmed idea. There are two issues that occurred that modified Georgia. One was undeniably superb organizing by an entire bunch of teams, together with the superb Stacey Abrams. The opposite, nevertheless, was the results of the reverse migration. The black inhabitants of Georgia doubled from 1990 to 2020. Black individuals, the final time Georgia went Democratic, it was 1992. Black individuals have been solely 25% of the inhabitants in 2002, now – 1992. Now, they’re 33% of the inhabitants of Georgia, they usually grew to become for the very first time the vast majority of the inhabitants—the coalition that elected a senator and never only one, however two.
LEMON: Effectively, Charles, I can not wait to learn the guide. “The Satan You Know: A Black Energy Manifesto” by Charles Blow. Charles, good to see you. Thanks a lot for showing. Good luck with the guide.
BLOW: Thanks a lot; I recognize it.
LEMON: Thanks.
