Posted on 10/17/2022 9:14:19 PM PDT by bitt
Blow wrote that racist remarks made by the LA city council president worsened his fears
New York Times columnist Charles Blow wrote Sunday that he was worried "white supremacy" would be replaced by "lite supremacy" after leaked audio revealed Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez making racist remarks.
"It is a theory that worries me and that I have written about: that with the browning of America, white supremacy could simply be replaced by — or buffeted by — a form of "lite" supremacy, in which fairer-skin people perpetuate a modified anti-Blackness rather than eliminating it," Blow wrote in his column for the New York Times.
Martinez resigned on Oct. 10 after leaked audio revealed she made racist remarks about Councilmember Mike Bonin's Black son.
"I take responsibility for what I said and there are no excuses for those comments. I am so sorry," she said in a statement.
Blow criticized Martinez' comments and said what was most concerning was "the racial, ethnic tribalism of her political calculations," because the meeting concerned redistricting.
"The problem this recording poses is that the people on the call seem to see power among the city’s constituents as a zero-sum game, and in that game, they openly disparaged other groups because of their identities," Blow wrote.
Blow also said Martinez "perpetuated" racism in private but supported an end to racism in public, citing a motion she filed in 2020 that cut police funding after the murder of George Floyd.
"Today we [introduced] a motion to cut funding to the LAPD, as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & the #BlackLivesMatter call that we all support to end racism," Martinez said in 2020.
"The unfortunate reality is that anti-Black white supremacy is not confined to white people or
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NYT and the Left so caught up in waging war on alleged ‘white supremacy’ that they have failed to realize that it is they themselves that are the racists.
Cutesy wordplay from an NYT “intellectual.” How quaint.
I lose brain cells every time I try to read anything by Chuck Blow
When the whites are gone or have little power -— They (minorities) will fight amongst themselves. Let the squabbling begin! Over getting larger slices of a shrinking pie. Feeding at the (gov’t) trough, at its finest.
If only there a place with only black people, everything would be fine...if only...
The NYT seems to be saying that if all white people disappeared, then light-skinned people would automatically be the next racist group.
Have no fear, Charles. This is already here.
The very idea that blacks and ‘browns’ are somehow natural allies is a foolish myth or delusion. In fact delusional thinking like this is almost a marker for the left. Think of all the absurdities that they cling to.
“a form of “lite” supremacy, in which fairer-skin people perpetuate a modified anti-Blackness rather than eliminating it”
Actually even within the black population, there is prejudice against darker skinned blacks.
Yep, and most people see it that way.
People on Instagram are close too 100.00% thinking that
the media and the Left are the race problem.
Redbones and High Yellows with good hair are highly favored.
All these terrible serious problems in the world and someone is offended by some alleged racism?
We need to stick to the more serious problems like what Greta, AOC and John Kerry have verbalized, climate change is killing brain cells of leftists at a terrifying rate!
White people. Solve this. Make babies.
A man with the right name for certain.
The Times doing what it does best, the vacuous exercise of contemplating the color of one’s skin 24/7. Superficial, much?
Charles, Blow it out your tailpipe!
Woke progressives are THE most racist.
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