Posted on 11/12/2021 5:55:30 AM PST by MtnClimber
Can white voters who back a Black candidate still hold racist beliefs and views?
Virginia Lt. Governor-elect Winsome Sears during an election night rally.
That question has come to the fore in the wake of Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial victory in the blueish state of Virginia. Conservatives were quick to counter claims that Youngkin’s win represented the effectiveness of stoking racial fears with results from Virginia’s down-ballot election for lieutenant governor — a contest where the Republican candidate, Winsome Sears, made history by becoming the first Black woman elected to statewide office in Virginia. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, for example, emphatically mocked the notion that “voters called white supremacists elected a Black Lt. Gov.” Conservative commentators on Fox News and Twitter, including Sears herself, also used the historic victory as an ostensible shield against accusations of Republican racism.
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Their mental gymnastics are exhausting to watch.
You have “racist” views if you are a sentient human. Do you believe the racial makeup of the NBA is driven solely by affirmative action? If not, you’re “racist.”
Critical Race Theory: believes they know what other people are really thinking
cuz it is not about race
There are very few Dems voting for Rs. So this is fake news.
More human-waste on the interweb.
Their line of thinking is so hypocritical, so devoid of logic, and so biased as to make them a literal laughing stock.
This belongs to the utterly racist idea
that black people can only have the same left wing ideology and blacks who do not follow the Democrat Party Line are nothing more than Uncle Tom idiots. This hatred is only aimed at Black people who are conservative.
What poor writing.
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