Posted on 05/08/2022 10:12:59 AM PDT by rktman
Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine carried an article on black conservative Herschel Walker’s campaign for Senate, and you could tell it would accentuate the negative. It was headlined:
Herschel Walker’s Longest Run
For this Trump-endorsed candidate, does a troubled past even matter?
In paragraph #4, freelancer John Rosengren reveals he’s not stalking the former star running back for a puff piece:
I’m here, in part, because I want to see for myself if Walker’s campaign in Georgia reflects the nation’s new norm in post-Trumpian politics. Can enough celebrity sparkle and Trump rhetoric, coupled with some distortion of facts and often a general indifference to the particular needs of constituents, truly be the reality in GOP politics?
So is Trump exploiting Walker to slake his personal vendetta? “[Walker] has positioned himself into being a useful fool for those who don’t have the best interests of Black people or this democracy at heart,” says Harry Edwards, a sports sociologist, civil rights activist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley....
Walker’s refusal to use his national platform to advocate on their behalf alienated him from some of his Black neighbors, which he resented. “I never really liked the idea that I was to represent my people,” he writes in [his memoir] Breaking Free.
That stance — especially now, coming from a Senate candidate — has drawn sharp criticism from Black leaders. “Herschel Walker won’t advocate for anybody, only for what’s in his best interest,” Harry Edwards says. “He’s irrelevant to the Black community, and we should treat him as such.” A representative from Walker’s campaign declined to address the comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Coming from useless fools.
The racists at wp are especially foul lately.
Let me guess. By “general indifference to the particular needs of constituents” this guy is referring to opposition to socialism.
racist libs.
Libs should pay reparations for their slavery history into Walker’s campaign.
Nonsense. I’ve heard him speak many times and he is anything but a fool.
Who da Fou?
Bezo$....
The irony of a hit piece from useless fools calling a black republican a useless fool is really over the top.
Yo WaPo. Have a nice big cup of shut the frack up. Your bigotry is showing and your emperor has no clothes.
I have no problem with the Russians nuking the WaPost building as a warning. But they wouldn’t. It would improve the USA too much.
I'm glad that I haven't spent a penny with Amazon.
The people of Georgia, regardless of color, will be better served by Herschel. He needs to tell people this is what democrats do to keep black people down.
Harry Edwards writes hate.
The Washington Compost and The New York Times have reached the same inevitable conclusion.
The sale of Twitter to a free-speech proponent, and the Biden administration’s complete implosion, spells imminent doom for the Fake News conglomerate.
Well what Herschel said was ...”Walker believed, he said, not in “Black and white” but in “right and wrong,” according to a biography published in 1983. “I never really liked,” he wrote in his memoir in 2009, “the idea that I was to represent my people. My parents raised me to believe that I represented humanity — people — and not black people, white people, yellow people, or any other color …”
I remember when even harshly critical editorials would be couched in measured and civil terms. Now the media are just more of the slobbering rabid mob, this formulation just being one of a legion of examples
The left are the biggest racists and hypocrites going.
Bezos owns the ComPost.
“...sale of Twitter to a free-speech proponent...” Best wait and see what the final outcome of the transation is. All we’re heard is words and if the deal is concluded actions might be taken to further free speech or at least reduce censoring.
With rare exceptions, the most biased, bigoted, and flat-out racist people I know are leftists.
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