Posted on 08/26/2021 8:07:39 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
“I’m what Obama should’ve been in 2008,” Mr. Hawkins told The Washington Times. “He could’ve spoken a message of healing and unity. But, he used some of that same rhetoric that pushed everybody back.”
He’s running in a longtime Democratic district.
Despite the long odds of a Republican flipping the seat, Mr. Hawkins said he can bust apart the messaging the Democratic Party has used to make California a stronghold for the party.
“I think California is a purple state,” Mr. Hawkins said. “I think that just over the years, the Democratic Party has done a really good job of characterizing the Republican Party as White supremacist and racist.”
He said he has already weathered vicious attacks for being a Black conservative.
“I get called a coon, Uncle Tom, I get all that,” he said.
Mr. Hawkins said he knows how to overcome rough treatment. He came up the hard way.
He grew up in a poor family that survived on government assistance. He spent a total of 10 years in prison for crimes when he was younger, including charges involving illegal gun possession and wrecking and then failing to return a rental car.
Being a Black man, Mr. Hawkins said it would have been easy to blame racism for his run-ins with the law, but he wants to dismantle that kind of thinking.
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And unlike democrat Governor “coonman” he has yet to apologize for wearing blackface....
Don’t be racist California.
Don’t be racist California.If you're black walk through a predominately white neighborhood late at night.
If you're white do the same in a black neighborhood late at night.
You'll soon find out which ones are racist.
I have to prove to blacks that I'm not a racist!! 🤓
The same thing will happen to both folks, varying degrees of course with different folks dealing with you.
White in a black neighborhood…..the neighborhood will deal with you in some form or fashion. But they may just leave you alone, believe it or not.
Black in a white neighborhood…. The police will deal with after getting repeated 911 calls that a suspicious looking black person walking down the street, looking in car Windows, pulling on door handles, knocking on doors and ringing doorbells.
Go through Virginia Highlands and Morningside in Atlanta and you’ll see just that. But there, the residents don’t have to call 911. They call a cellphone that an off duty cop has, so there’s no record of them profiling. Smart thinking
So, it’s the same but different.
I worked in central Harlem in New York City in the 1970s. I drove to work and parked on the street. I was one of just two “whites” in the outfit. I often left the office late. I never had my car broken into or stolen, and I never had any trouble from any local folks, at any hour.
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