Why Does Kamala Get Special Protection From Racist Attacks?
The article appears to critique the media’s treatment of Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing that if she were a Republican, her racial background and marriage would be subjected to harsh criticism rather than the leniency she currently receives as a Democrat. The author, Eddie Scarry, claims that the media would label her a “D.E.I. hire” and accuse her of benefiting from “light-skinned privilege” if she were on the opposite political side.
The piece references the way black conservatives like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Rep. Byron Donalds, and Sen. Tim Scott have been disparaged by both the media and other Democrats, suggesting a double standard in the treatment of black individuals in politics based on their political affiliations. Scarry posits that discussions around racism and “white supremacy“ have often included minorities who align with conservative ideologies, implying that Harris should not be exempt from such scrutiny based on her identity and party.
The article ultimately calls for a more honest discourse around race in politics, stating that if similar commentary is acceptable for black and brown Republicans, then Harris’s racial background and political dynamics should also be open to examination by the media.
Vice President Kamala Harris is a light skinned Jamaican-Indian woman married to a white man and if it weren’t for the fact that she’s a Democrat, the news media would be savagely attacking her for both until November.
Rest assured that if Harris were running for president as a Republican, calling her a “D.E.I. hire” would be the kindest thing printed about her in The New York Times. The more relentlessly vicious commentary would focus on her “proximity to whiteness” and her “light-skinned privilege.” There’s no question she’d be called a white supremacist.
We know this because it’s what Democrats and the media do all the time to black conservatives and Republicans.
In 2014, Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “uncle Tom” who “doesn’t like being black.”
In January 2023, MSNBC’s Joy Reid suggested GOP Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida was nominated by his Republican colleagues to be House Speaker as a “diversity statement.”
Under the headline, “White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it,” the left-wing Salon in 2015 published an article by white male author Frank Joyce claiming then-Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson supports “white supremacist ideology.”
Talbert Swan, president of the NAACP, America’s premier race hustling operation, in April 2021 referred to GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina as “Uncle Tim.” Swan further described Scott as a “cunning white supremacy apologist, who demonstrated his buck dancing skills in front of the entire world.”
Earlier that year, the Washington Post ran an op-ed by New York University Professor Cristina Beltran, who explained Trump’s increased share of minority voters in 2020 as a consequence of “multiracial whiteness — the promise that they, too, can lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion and domination.”
NPR subsequently hosted Beltran to discuss her blatant racism, with host Lulu Garcia-Navarro helping Beltran put it another way: “So what you’re saying, essentially, is that people of other races and ethnicities want to benefit from white privilege by supporting it,” said Garcia-Navarro. “Right,” replied a chipper Beltran.
White supremacists who happen not to be white is a concept widely repeated in the media.
The Atlantic, May 2023: “Latinos Can Be White Supremacists.”
Washington Post, May 2023: “Why non-White people might advocate white supremacy.”
The Nation, July 2023: “Asian American Conservatives Have Become Key Allies of White Supremacy.”
If it’s okay to talk like this about black and brown Republicans, there’s no reason Kamala Harris is off limits. The politics and consequences of her own racial makeup and circumstances surrounding her nomination should be of no less interest if the corrupt media were honest about race.
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