Posted on 09/21/2023 11:30:51 AM PDT by thegagline
Vivek Ramaswamy has sparked a firestorm of criticism since launching his 2024 presidential campaign for comments that some have called racially charged.
Recently, the 38-year-old entrepreneur faced backlash for comparing Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Black Democrat representing Massachusetts, to “modern grand wizards” of the Ku Klux Klan. He has said that the U.S. education system is a “modern ghetto system,” that the government pays women in inner cities to be single, and has argued with former CNN anchor Don Lemon on what it was like to live as a Black person in America.
*** McLaughlin, the Ramaswamy spokesperson, said that the candidate will not “bow to identity politics a lot of folks want to play these days.” Though Ramaswamy says that racism exists — including racism against white people — he has also said that it’s a dying issue.
“Is there existing racism in the United States? Of course, there is. But those [are the] last burning embers of racism — the last thing I want to do is throw kerosene on it,” Ramaswamy said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
He has pushed for a “colorblind equality, colorblind meritocracy” and promised to repeal former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s executive order 11246, which prohibits federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
And, despite the fact that reports have found white supremacy to be on the rise, Ramaswamy has expressed that he doesn’t believe in the existence of white supremacists. “I’m sure the boogeyman white supremacist exists somewhere in America. I’ve just never met him. Never seen one, never met one in my life, right?” Ramaswamy said at a town hall in Iowa. “Maybe I’ll meet a unicorn sooner. And maybe those exist, too.”***
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...sounds like he’s over the target!
He is hitting a lot of the right notes.
Racism against White people is a growing issue. Consider the racist remarks from our new Air Force chief of staff.
Black racists cant handle the TRUTH because it hurts
Doesn’t sound like he is wrong.
It’s not racist if it is true.
How soon before they start alleging he’s a white supremacist??
The truth hurts.
Too Freakin' bad!
Why is it Left-Liberal “jourmalists” always say some Conservative remark “sparks controversy” but you will never hear them “reporting” that idea over some Leftist comment??
Why? because so many in journalism are not “reporters” just political activists pretending to be “journalists”.
That and the phrase,”sparks furor.” That all means somebody transgressed against the regime and its racial religion, as represented by the pigs at The Hill.
I have been told that non whites can’t be racists?
Somethiong abount intersectional patriachical systemic power?
Yeah, when I read his actual quotes I thought, “The guy sounds pretty smart and, frankly, courageous.
More likely than that and especially if he continues to rise in the polls, is a gaggle of women coming forward saying he sexually assaulted them at some point.
“the government pays women in inner cities to be single”
Not just in the inner cities.
Democrat Party LOVES bastardy all across the board.
The KKK could only wish to have done the harm and damage to black people in the same manner BLM and modern day Democrats have done.
I’m having trouble finding anything I disagree with.
Still waiting for him to comment on The Steal, subsequent stolen elections.
The cat's got his tongue on that subject.
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