CNN's Charles Blow: Trump 'Bigotry' Is 'Urinating on' Blacks, 'Telling Them to Dance in the Rain'

Newsbusters ^ | August 24, 2016 2:30 PM | Brad Wilmouth

[drewh]

CNN's Charles Blow: Trump 'Bigotry' Is 'Urinating on' Blacks, 'Telling to Dance in the Rain' By Brad Wilmouth | August 24, 2016 | 2:30 PM EDT

Appearing as a panel member on Wednesday's New Day, liberal CNN political commentator and New York Times columnist Charles Blow ranted about Donald Trump's recent appeals to black voters as being "the most horrible type of bigotry," as he hyperbolically asserted that "It is the kind of bigotry that says, 'I will knock you down while I pretend to pick you up.' It says that 'I am not talking to you, I'm talking to the guy behind you or over your shoulder.' It is the kind of bigotry that says, 'I am urinating on you and telling you to dance in the rain.'"

After beginning the segment by complaining that "you have to stop calling it outreach to black people because it's not ...It's an outreach to white people, right?" a bit later he added that Trump is trying to reach "the moderate ones who say, 'I don't want to be the one -- woman, man -- that votes for the racist guy. And if this guy can change his opinion, I do want to be a conservative, but I don't want to be the conservative who votes for the racist guy, and now he's different.'"

Ad Feedback The liberal commentator bluntly concluded: "And this is an insult to all people of color -- both black, Hispanic and otherwise because he is using us as pawns to get to you. You do not get an out. No, the guy is a bigot yesterday, he's a bigot today, he will be a bigot tomorrow. And, if you vote for him, you are voting for a bigot. That's it."

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Wednesday, August 24, New Day on CNN:

ALISYN CAMEROTA: Charles, has he won you over with that speech?

CHARLES BLOW, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: First of all, you have to stop calling it outreach to black people because it's not.

CAMEROTA: What is it?

BLOW: It's an outreach to white people, right? That's all it is, and every time for the last 10 days people have been on television saying this is an outreach to black people, that is a lie, and we all know that it's just a lie.

CHRIS CUOMO: Why is it a lie?

BLOW: Because it is the most insidious kind of bigotry. It is the kind of bigotry that says, "I will knock you down while I pretend to pick you up." It says that "I am not talking to you, I'm talking to the guy behind you or over your shoulder." Is is the kind of bigotry that says, "I am urinating on you and telling you to dance in the rain."

This is the most horrible type of bigotry, and the fact that people keep asking the same question, particularly to black commentators like me, "Is he reaching out to black people?" He is not reaching out to black people. There's nothing about this appeal that has any resonance with anyone black that I can even find. I even looked at other, the largest black websites that I could find just to see if anybody was taking it seriously. Not a single person I could find was taking it seriously. The only people taking it seriously is white people.

CAMEROTA: The white voters you say he's reaching out to, doesn't he already have them? Why is he reaching out to those voters at all?

BLOW: No, no, no, he does not have the ones you were just talking about in your last segment. It is the moderate ones who say, "I don't want to be the one -- woman, man -- that votes for the racist guy. And if this guy can change his opinion, I do want to be a conservative, but I don't want to be the conservative who votes for the racist guy, and now he's different."

Well, actually he's not different. He's not talking to us. He's pretending to talk to us as he talks to you. And this is an insult to all people of color -- both black, Hispanic and otherwise because he is using us as pawns to get to you. You do not get an out. No, the guy is a bigot yesterday, he's a bigot today, he will be a bigot tomorrow. And, if you vote for him, you are voting for a bigot. That's it.

[bray]

Yeah, because blacks have it so great on the Dem Plantation.

Pray America wakes

[blueyon]

Someone sounds scared - no other reason to use such words.......... love it

[nascarnation]

The Great Society has been a huge success for Democrats.

The black family structure was destroyed and black people have been conditioned to rely on the federal government in exchange for their votes.

[Rebelbase]

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

—Booker T. Washington, 1911.

[DoughtyOne]

Trump has talked to Black leaders and members of the Black community and promised them exactly what he has promised the rest of the nation.

So if we're being accurate here, this nincompoop thinks Trump has been urinating on all of us.

If he was (and he wasn't), at least he wouldn't be deficating on all of us like this writer is.


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[MayflowerMadam]

All these claims of Trump being a racist... does anyone ever ask the person to give an example? Ditto for being a misogynist. It’s like asking people to name ONE of Hillary’s accomplishments. Crickets chirp.

[Albion Wilde]

The self-hatred: it burns.

[Sgt_Schultze]

With his vociferous support for democrats, irrespective of the damage the party of the KKK has inflicted on blacks through its entire existence, one might identify Charles Blow as a collaborator - much as George Soros was to Jews.

[jospehm20]

The aptly named Charles Blow

[a fool in paradise]

EVERY election the Commierats say that po’ voters were duped by the GOP into voting for “their best interests” (Marxist Socialism) by appeals toward bigotry and hate (anti-pederasty) and superstition (religious appeals).

[Freedom56v2]

Blow doesn’t think Trump is reaching out because unlike the pols, Trump is not promising goodies.

[Bringbackthedraft]

So speaketh one of the overseers of the dem party.

[hal ogen]

It is pathetic when one gets an education...and has no moral base. This fool is beyond reason and full of self-loathing. I feel sorry for him.

[Salamander]

Sometime, somehow, in the near future, I’m gonna work “don’t piss on me and then tell me to dance in the rain” into a conversation.

:D

[Leep]

I think Blow has been doing a little to much blow...if you know what i mean.