Black Elizabeth Warren volunteer says walked out of speech because she ignored success of minorities

Washington Examiner ^ | February 15, 2019 | Alana Goodman

[SJackson]

A man who abruptly walked out of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential announcement speech on live TV said he left because he “couldn’t relate or identify with the things that she was saying” and thinks Warren is focused too much on raising taxes and not enough on increasing opportunities for minorities.

Johnhaynes Honeycutt, 23, a small business owner from western Massachusetts, told the Washington Examiner that he went to Warren’s launch speech on Saturday expecting to agree with the senator, but instead, he was frustrated over her comments about taxes and equality for minorities.

“I was an Elizabeth Warren supporter,” said Honeycutt. “But I found at the event there wasn’t any way for me to identify with the things she was saying. That was why I walked out.”

Honeycutt, who is African-American, said he was a volunteer at the event and was placed directly behind the senator during her announcement speech. About 40 minutes into the event, Honeycutt, who was wearing a lime-green shirt and waving an American flag, can be seen whispering to a female friend standing next to him. The two then abruptly turn and walk out of the speech.

Honeycutt said he believed Warren focused too much on tax hikes for the wealthy and injustices in the prison system but not enough on expanding opportunities for minorities and for people who are struggling financially.

“She’s a small-town girl, and her family were blue-collar, and now she’s in this position [as a presidential candidate]. Rather than taxing and fighting the rich and using that as her only focus, she should be focusing on opening up opportunities for the people that are in the same position she was once in,” said Honeycutt.

“There are so many minorities that are doing well in this country, and I feel like Elizabeth Warren should be using her platform to illustrate that end of it,” he added.

Warren was nearly an hour late to her scheduled outdoor rally, which took place outside a former textile mill in Lawrence, Mass. Her supporters waited for her to appear as temperatures hovered around 32 degrees.

The speech focused on her theory that Washington politics are "rigged" by millionaires and lobbyists and designed to take advantage of low-income people and on the notion that wealthy people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

"We need to take power in Washington away from the wealthy and well-connected and put it back in the hands of the people where it belongs," said Warren.

She said the federal government needed to "start asking the people who gained the most from our country to pay their fair share" and called for "an ultra-millionaires tax to make sure millionaires start doing their part for the country that made them rich."

[MayflowerMadam]

Someone needs to contact this imbecile and eduicate him. Everything he wants is being done now by PDJT.

[Verginius Rufus]

If enough black voters react like this to the white candidates, the Democratic Party elites may decide their only way to win is to have a black candidate for President (in which case Kamala probably wins over Booker). They would then need a suitable honky for the VP slot and not a female if Kamala is the nominee--so one of the white males running would get it.

Unless, of course, Hillary elbows her way to the top of the ticket in which case a non-white male would probably get the lower slot--Booker or Castro. That would leave the ticket lacking in appeal to traditional Democrats who happen to be white males, but the party elite doesn't care much about them.