Posted on 11/01/2024 12:54:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Shelley Wynter claims he was referencing a famous Malcolm X quote.
A Black conservative radio host is facing backlash for referring to Black supporters of Donald Trump as “field African Americans.”
Shelley Wynter made an appearance on CNN on Oct. 16 where he made “a bazooka blast” statement when he broke down the Black male electorate in the U.S. into “house African Americans and field African Americans.”
“Let me boil this election down in the African American community to a very simple — I’ll reference the great Malcolm X,” he said. “This race is between house African Americans and field African Americans, and field African Americans are voting for [Donald] Trump.” The remarks referenced the “house slaves” who worked inside the slave house during enslavement in the U.S. and the “field slaves” who worked outdoors. While Wynter claims he was referencing a Malcolm X quote, his comments drew criticism from CNN News Central co-host Sarah Sidner, guest Michael Blake, and many who watched the clip back.
According to Rashawn Ray, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, Wynter’s comments “speak to a growing social class divide between the have and have-nots among Black Americans.”
“These are the types of comments that oftentimes occur behind closed doors within the Black community.”
Wynter claims that he was referencing part of Malcolm X’s famous 1963 speech, “The Race Problem in America,” where the revolutionary leader compared modern Black individuals who resisted separating from white societal power to house slaves. The “The Shelley Wynter Show” host is standing by his comments, saying anyone who has a problem with him invoking Malcolm X and slavery was “overanalyzing it.”
“There’s an argument to be made that we’re all technically slaves to this system, whether you’re Democrat or Republican,” he said. “No one’s being called a slave. It’s using an analogy in the context of what it was used, the same as when Malcolm was explaining something, and he wasn’t calling Black people slaves when he gave that speech.”
“He was saying that this was an attitudinal thing. There are people in the Black community who, when they’re close to power — i.e., master — they will take on the attributes and defend that power. And that’s what we’re seeing now with this race.”
The truth hurts.
The first time I ever heard “ house and field” about blacks was in NC....by blacks.
Of course, I don’t think it’s something whites would talk about.
I think the speech “Message to the Grass Roots” by Malcolm X was public, and not ‘behind closed doors’.
Why the outrage? As I recall, blacks were very comfortable calling Condoleeza and Colin “house n-——s”.
In real time, the terminology was NEVER “house slave” or “field slave”. The “slave” part was always a different word.
As an aside….look at the bastardizarion of speech in this piece.
Of course, capitalizing black, and using “AA” you know darn well that isn’t what Malcolm X Said.
But we can’t even say “slavery in the US” now.
Now apparently it must be “ENSLAVEMENT” in the US. Good God.
I think Winters, a la Malcolm X, was calling the “house slaves” sycophants.
You are right (as usual).
His Message to the Grass Roots speech was delivered on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, which was held at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan.
I got a political science degree at Wayne State University and often used to park on the street where he gave that speech. At that time it was the university with the highest percentage of black students outside of “Historically Black Colleges and Universities” which is a term used a lot.
I know exactly what he meant. A caste system existed among the enslaved along with the envy and friction that were the natural consequences.
Well just remember what dementia Joe told the black community you ain’t black if you don’t vote for me! See how easy it is to dispel this bullshit!
“ No one’s being called a slave. It’s using an analogy…”
It’s insane that that has to be explained.
He got shot behind closed doors though.
The counterrevolution will not be televised.
Has the Mother Ship come for old Farrakhan yet?
So what. Guilty conscience, ass-kissing crackers are voting for Walz and Harriz.
The Mother Wheel.
I’m a field Italian :)
Malcolm X had a lot of quotes that would be banned today.
He was the one black leader I respected—called them as he saw them and refused to obey white leftist commands.
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