Black Illinois conservatives join national call for de-racializing political speech – Wirepoints

By: Matt Rosenberg

After widespread racialized condemnations of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for support of a controversial majority ruling that turned abortion back to the states, black conservatives and moderates have issued a national Open Letter urging restraint and sobriety. They are calling out those who made “racist, vicious, and ugly personal attacks” on Thomas after his supplemental majority opinion was issued.

The letter writers and signers make an important point: Public dialog has been coarsened and racialized, and this has to end. We’d add this: To fail to do so means losing focus on the issues which in fact affect black Americans the most. Those include failing urban schools and criminal court systems, and growing crime which threatens black communities. In the end, the tone of public dialog must move away from cheap cries of “racism” or “sell out” every time a white or black participant veers away from elite-sanctioned analyses and remedies.

You already know that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot earned broad national coverage by publicly and crudely insulting Thomas after the abortion ruling. Our issue was with Lightfoot disgracing her office and publicly losing control of her temper for at least the fifth time – a type of failure which the University of Chicago has noted lies behind too much of the city’s deadly violence. Implicit in this is the bargain we all must strike for public discourse on tough issues. We need to be civil so we can figure out how to be smart. 

The letter organizers and signatories are saying that the liberal values of diversity and tolerance cannot be selectively applied, but must be extended to all. The letter is backed by signers including no less than ten black Illinoisans, including Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate Stephanie Trussell. One of the letter’s organizers is Chicago South Side native Glenn Loury, also a Brown University economist, and prominent author and talk show host.

Let’s get deeper into what actually happened to provoke the issuance of the open letter. Then we’ll hear from one of the Illinois signatories. She is a young black stockbroker and financial advisor named Patricia Easley from Chicago’s Austin neighborhood on the city’s West Side.

With co-organizer Robert Woodson of Washington, D.C.-based Woodson Center, Loury and the letter’s signers are pointedly critiquing a barrage of demeaning racial insults from celebrities, the Twitter-verse, and others to Thomas. Many implied that by joining a court majority whose ruling angered many abortion rights advocates, he was not actually black. 

For days after the court ruling, the Twitter hashtag #UncleClarence was trending and is still being used. The hashtag was meant to evoke the phrase “Uncle Tom,” a long-standing epithet used mainly by blacks against other blacks whom they want to portray as subservient to whites. Black actor Samuel L. Jackson joined in the #UncleClarence chorus. Other unconscionable Twitter posts rounded up by justthenews.org suggested Thomas should be assassinated, or that the Supreme Court be burned down. One of the Twitter arsonists – note that many of the posts have now been removed – was a reporter for the respected tech publication Engadget, according to justthenews.org. That’s how permissible such rhetoric has become.

Last year a Twitter hashtag of #UncleTim was used in an ad hoc Twitter campaign against U.S. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina. The black Republican in a reply to President Joe Biden’s 2021 State of The Union speech had said, “America is not a racist country. “It’s wrong to try to use our painful past to try to dishonestly shut down debates in the present.” 

It is telling and discouraging that for stating this view, Sen. Scott was condemned as a traitor to his race. The reaction to Scott’s words reveals just how essential the victim narrative is to those who position themselves as racial justice advocates. The ugly flipside is that in trying to censor counter-arguments to the black victimization narrative, they practice an insidious form of racism themselves by promulgating that blacks – in the 2020s – remain largely incapacitated. 

As a society, city, and state, we need full-throated acknowledgment of black power and black self-agency to shape better outcomes. 

This is where the political and race-based censorship targeted in the Open Letter retards social progress. Still worse, the defining down of blackness, the constricting of what it can mean, has been propagated on the campaign trail by no less a political figure than our nation’s putative leader.

President Joe Biden erred in the same essential manner as critics of Scott and Thomas. As CNN has reported, during the 2020 Presidential campaign Biden said to the black national radio host Charlamagne tha God, …“if you have trouble figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t really black.”

In contrast to this now-common manner of enforcing the boundaries of political speech for blacks, the letter’s signatories write, “We, the undersigned, condemn the barrage of racist, vicious, and ugly personal attacks that we are witnessing on Clarence Thomas – a sitting Supreme Court justice. Whether it is calling him an ‘Uncle Tom’ or questioning his ‘blackness’ over his jurisprudence, the disparagement of this man, of his faith and of his character, is abominable.”

The letter continues, “he is entirely undeserving of the vitriol directed at him. Character assassination has become too convenient a tool for eviscerating those who dare dissent from the prevailing agenda, especially when it is a black man who is dissenting.” The letter adds that some of the signatories support Thomas’ votes and opinions on the court and some do not; but these are not at issue. It is a matter of conduct, decency, intellectual diversity, and tolerance, they assert. The letter concludes, “…to remain silent would be to implicitly endorse these poisonous schemes…”

Illinois signatories other than Trussell include:

Patricia Rae Easley of Black Excellence Media; Helen Tyner, Parents For A Better Englewood;  Latasha Fields, a South Side lay minister and home-schooling advocate; Brian Mullins, of the Black Community Collaborative; Dr. Felicity Joy Solomon; Jimmy Lee Tillman II, Founder and President of the Martin Luther King Republicans; and Dr. Eric M. Wallace, Freedom Journal’s Institute.

We reached out to Easley to learn more about why she joined the signers of the Open Letter. She is a registered stockbroker and financial advisor and lives in Chicago’s Austin community on the West side. She is in her 30s, and the mother of a 10-year-old. She is also the host of “Black Excellence Hour,” a weekly conservative radio show Sundays at 5 p.m. on Chicago’s WVON-AM.

She told Wirepoints, “I think the prevailing notion is that people can just disrespect black conservatives, and we’re sick of it….people just believe that they can…say whatever they want whenever they want, without any accountability. That was what caught my attention. It’s too much.”

Easley added that unfortunately, social media can serve as a key driver of online vitriol like that directed at Thomas over his racial bona fides after his ruling in the abortion case.

She said, “We’re in a social media environment where everyone believes that they have to be ‘liked.’ Everyone is craving ‘likes.’ And so people believe that if they attack your character or your network then you will care more about your social capital than your political capital. And so this is why people are attacking people personally, but I don’t care at all. I led Black Chicago For Trump. I had a Trump sign in my yard. On the West Side of Chicago. Yeah. So? I pay taxes. My people picked a lot of cotton. My people picked a lot of cotton in this country. For me to organize my front yard however I see fit.”

Easley said she is a long-standing member of the Chicago Westside NAACP. She represents her views there forthlightly and rejects pigeonholing based on race or politics. One reason why: some National NAACP leaders in the last two decades have fallen prey to the same racialized instincts from which some of Justice Thomas’ recent attackers have also suffered. In the early and mid-2000s, NAACP heads Julian Bond and then Kwesi Mfume both referred to black conservatives as “ventriloquist’s dummies.” A new NAACP boss pledged that sort of rhetoric would end, but it didn’t.

The national NAACP greenlighting of repeated racialized attacks on black conservatives has been followed in more recent years by similar attacks on President Trump’s Surgeon General Jerome Adams and HUD Secretary Ben Carson, among others. All this has made the landscape safe for trying to stifle black conservatives with race-based attacks.

If the Open Letter from Loury and Woodson, with signatories including black Illinoisans against political intolerance, can help underscore that pigment does not prescribe or proscribe politics, it will be to the greater good of all. 

Isn’t it time we moved past this?

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James Dwyer
1 year ago

I once worked at Chicago State University, which at the time was predominantly black. It was located just west of where I grew up, and the staff and students at the school always treated me with dignity and respect. However, when a vice-president at the University to me and a white woman out to dinner in the neighborhood, we could hear muttering from the blacks in the restaurant about why did he bring those people here. In driving us back to our cars that wonderful black vice-president apologized to me for the behavior of the other blacks at the restaurant.… Read more »

James Watkins
1 year ago

I appreciate this fine article and the needful, courageous letter. Psychological projection is what comes naturally to Leftists. They unceasingly attribute their own hateful feelings and ideas to those they despise. For instance, no one is truly more intolerant than those who make ‘Tolerance’ their byword. No group projects more sheer hatred every day in social media than those who make ‘Hate’ their shibboleth. No one decries ‘people forcing their ideas down my throat’ more than Leftists who do exactly that and are proud of it. No one lies more than leftists but they constantly claim those they despise are… Read more »

Stephanie Trussell
1 year ago

It’s great that blacks on the left and right after that Justice Clarence Thomas deserves respect. Why did the progressives target Justice Thomas? They want to keep blacks in their place.

Doug
1 year ago

Uncle Tom…acting white…traitor to your race… These are the accusations coming from people with a singular goal: Control. They are the epitome of racist ideology because they use race as a way to separate and define ones values, beliefs, interests and everything else that determines one’s destiny. It’s a tired act and should’ve been retired long ago but it can’t because an independent black mind is the greatest threat to the democrat party. Watch “Uncle Tom” with Larry Elder on Salem.org. “Uncle Tom II” coming out in August.

Patrick Mannelly
1 year ago

Exactly right! Well written and insightful.

Molly
1 year ago

“Isn’t it time we moved past this?” Absolutely past time. Clarence Thomas is still being vilified on Twitter, nearly a month after Dobbs came down.
Thanks, Matt, for an excellent piece.

MF
1 year ago

Good article- you bring up a lot of great points!

Karen
1 year ago

Amen! Long apst time to move past these truly childish, emotional attempts to discredit anyone with differing life views! I say “Life views”, not ” political views”–which is also true–because Life views encompass a person’s lifetime of experience. No respect from the left for that. Keep sharing such great stories, Matt!

debtsor
1 year ago

We are never moving past racial politics. Because it works. And it’s only going to get worse. The left’s ultimate goal is to ultimately set aside the 14th amendment providing for equality, and the civil rights act for ensuring racial equality, to enact laws requiring racial set asides. Worse than affirmative action, which is just a leg up for lower scoring minorities, but actual racial requirements, where the Democrat’s favored groups (BIPOC, LGTQ&+, furries and puppy play enthusiasts) are guaranteed positions in every government and private business. This is not some far fetched idea. South Africa has a system called… Read more »

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vonderhammer
1 year ago

Once again, Matt Rosenberg illuminates and exposes a topic that the chardonnay imbibers would rather keep outside. In my first class of graduate school, the professor used Thomas Sowell’s, “Markets and Minorities”, as a text book. At home, a few months later, he appeared on William F. Buckley’s, “Firing Line.” It was an epiphanic moment. His ensuing appearances on the show exposed his brilliance. WFB would make a statement and Thomas Sowell would rebuff it with an incredible recall of facts and logic. Along with Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell was the only guest that I witnessed who had the capacity… Read more »

Greg Clark
1 year ago

Great column, Matt. For the sake of all of us, the vitriol has to stop.

Jerald L Dyson
1 year ago

I am happy to hear that there are prominent black leaders calling out the Left for politicizing race in order to divide the country by race…but sadly it will not end. Race is a tool Democrats use to main power…and what they feel is their God given right to black votes. Joe Biden said it…if you don’t vote Democrat you are not a real black person. That kind of thinking flies in the face of the fact that Slavery was ended by Republicans. The Klu Klux Klan was mostly Southern Democrats. George Wallace who barred de-segregation in Alabama was a… Read more »

Stepihen
1 year ago

One of my many favorite statements in your article Matt: “As a society, city, and state, we need full-throated acknowledgment of black power and black self-agency to shape better outcomes.” This and your general thesis harkens back to King’s marvelous work “Where do we go from here: Chaos or Commuinity” Your article captures the essence of the tensions King highlighted in his chapter on Black Power, and this history needs to be used to re-educate racial radicals on the ineffectiveness, arrogance, and ignorance of racial dogma and intraracial intolerance. These attacks are used against me to which I respond, “You… Read more »

Rakman
1 year ago

It is absolutely time to move past infinitesimal division of race, gender, culture, and personality measures that have furthered Democrat socialist aims of electoral and social control. We will never achieve harmony and advancement as long as personal differences are promoted, rather than fostering ways to work and talk together.

Donna
1 year ago

It is BEYOND time we moved past this. Well said, Matt.

Terry Looney
1 year ago

There will be a large wave of young conservatives supporting traditional views as a result of the hypocrisy they have witnessed and been subjected to throughout their childhood. That is just part of the natural push and pull built into to the dynamics of society. Hopefully level heads will prevail and they will be fair, have enough sense to let the dust settle when their times comes and resist the temptation to retaliate.

Jonathan
1 year ago

Kudos to the signatories of this letter. Minorities have always been cheapened by stereotyping, expected to act and think a certain way, and notable only in their refusal to do so. Lazy, uncritical minds create and continue stereotypes, courageous and driven people dispel them. Much admiration for those in the latter group.

Terry
1 year ago

The inflammatory rhetoric from leaders in various communities contributes to the potential for violence against the judiciary and government in general as witnessed first-had on January 6 when a Trump-incited mob physically attacked the US Capitol and five people are dead – due DIRECTLY – to the WORDS and BLATANT LIES of then President Donald Trump. That never would have happened if Trump didn’t continue his serial lies about vote fraud. I’m not aware yet of any violence against black conservative justices from the left but we’d have to assume it’s only a matter of time if the current inflammatory… Read more »

Ataraxis
1 year ago
Reply to  Terry

Did you read the letter, and understand what caused it to be written?
What are your feelings about the content of the letter?
Oh, and there are protesters at the Supreme Court justices’ houses right this minute.

Pat S.
1 year ago
Reply to  Ataraxis

Apparently Terry has an axe to grind and completely overlooked the message in the letter. Might not have even read it.

Sad, but there are a lot of ‘Terrys’ in the electorate.

My race doesn’t define me and it shouldn’t define any of us. But that ideal runs contrary to the Democrat doctrine.

Chisel
1 year ago
Reply to  Terry

Nice try at deflection Terry.
Did your false claim of five dead include the unarmed female military veteran shot point blank by the unnamed Capital police officer?

Joan
1 year ago
Reply to  Terry

Ms. Thomas has every right to express her own views. Wives are not supposed to be silenced because of the positions their husbands hold. And five people were not killed on 1/6.

Matt Guerreiro
1 year ago

We need to be civil. There are way too many unhinged people running around with hair triggers just waiting to go off. Stop the hate.

Liz
1 year ago

The left proves to us again that they are the true racists!

Ataraxis
1 year ago

There needs to be a reawakening of MLK’s teachings, which have been totally ignored by the woke SJWs, for obvious reasons. The MLK holiday has been turned into just another day off with no meaning attached to it. I would like to see the signers of this letter reclaim the MLK holiday and spread MLK’s teachings. Make the mainstream media repeat what MLK said. Find out what schools are teaching about MLK, and make sure it’s the whole truth. Every race-baiter should be confronted with the fact that all their statements are at odds with MLK. Let them try the… Read more »

Pat S.
1 year ago
Reply to  Ataraxis

It’s almost as if the black community has left MLK in the dust. Sad … he was a guiding light whose flame appears to be barely flickering.

Kathy Barkulis
1 year ago

The fear that the left has for Black conservatives is palpable. They cannot let any Black speak up against failed leftist policies and ideologies. Their fear is warranted because more and more Black conservatives refuse to shut up. They are speaking up and voting their consciences by leaving the Democrat plantation. The #WalkAway movement is real and growing stronger every day, and the left knows it. The vitriol, name calling, and cancelling only makes conservatives stronger. I applaud this open letter signed by Black conservatives who have more courage and intellect than the leftist name callers could ever hope to… Read more »

agatha
1 year ago

Unfortunately, you can’t de-racialize the liberal leftists. They will race bait anyone that does now bow at their feet. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/07/15/rep-burgess-owens-slams-lefts-racist-attacks-says-justice-clarence-thomas-should-be-revered-not-ridiculed/

Tom
1 year ago
Reply to  agatha

Who says you can’t de-radicalize political activists? People keep perpetuating this myth and it’s extremely damaging. The quickest path to de-radicalization is the alteration or removal of the “total environment” that is cultivating radicals. Did your parents ever tell you not to hang around certain groups because they’re a bad influence? They were right. I point my finger at Hollywood and social media for all of the current rotten apples. The influence, coercion, and social pressures perpetuated by Hollywood and big tech are profound. If you can change these institutions, you can change society for the better. Focus and put… Read more »

debtsor
1 year ago
Reply to  Tom

“Focus and put together a plan.” Sure, let’s dismantle every media company, every cultural institution, every corporate boardroom, all of academia, and burn down every urban center. The problem is these people believe this crap because they hate YOU. They hate your beliefs, they hate the way you smell and look, and they’d throw you in a reeducation camp if they could. They only thing stopping them from putting conservatives into internment camps are 300,000,000 guns mostly held by those same conservatives. But congress is doing its best right now to try and ban those guns. Some senator said today… Read more »

Tom
1 year ago
Reply to  debtsor

“The problem is these people believe this crap because they hate YOU. They hate your beliefs, they hate the way you smell and look, and they’d throw you in a reeducation camp if they could.” Come on man.. Internment camps??? They can’t even staff CPD. Don’t fall for this crap. You can put something together in your sphere of influence that will make a difference! People don’t hate each other as portrayed in the media, InfoWars or Twitter. It’s all part of the lie to break morale, convince you that the status quo is more powerful than they are and… Read more »

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George
1 year ago

It’s sad if an African American does not agree with far left political views there labeled uncle Toms
The far left does not tolerate anyone who does not believe the way they do
There is no open conversation just my way or the highway theory
I don’t agree with the far right or left but willing to at least discuss the issues

Tom
1 year ago
Reply to  George

You’re getting things all mixed up. Far left radical minorities don’t have a dominant voice and things shouldn’t be framed in a way that gives them artificial credibility or prestige. Clarence Thomas is a leader and has far more authority than the small minority radical left – who should be ignored for want of numbers, coherence, and credibility.

I can play this game too: Experts and pundits all agree it’s a significant stain on Lightfoot’s credibility and Twitter users are baffled on her refusal to even acknowledge or read commenter Tom’s posts on Wirepoints.

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Pat S.
1 year ago
Reply to  Tom

Explain, if you will, how the minority of the minority rules the day. And I mean ALL the minority of the minorities (race, LQBTQ, trans, gender identity, CRT, etc.).

I know the complicit presstocrisy is a major factor, so why does media promote the radical agendas?

And, how do we bring the media back to center … reporting with integrity and challenging untruths?

Tom
1 year ago
Reply to  Pat S.

Morale is key! You have to have a good and objective attitude to fight back and a solid group working in harmony with you. Size doesn’t really matter if the group is determined, of high morale, and efficient. The radical left minorities are in SOME positions of power because they’ve a convenient tool for the status quo. Their power rest not in number or approval, but in your latent acceptance and submission. This is accomplished by convincing you that fighting back is futile, there’s nobody on your side, and there’s nothing you can do. (This is a well documented and… Read more »

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David C
1 year ago

It takes a lot of guts for Thomas and others like him to go out in public and defy the orthodoxy they are expected to practice because of whatever minority group they are a part of. All my respect and support to him.

Tom
1 year ago
Reply to  David C

The orthodoxy is all in your head. Legacy media has a way of presenting issues that are less than an honest assessment of the facts. Biden has an 18% approval rate. LOL It doesn’t take a lot of guts. It’s called leadership.

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Dan
1 year ago

In a way, I am optimistic that we’re approaching the end of such nonsense. Minorities are openly embracing conservatism as the Left World continues to ostracize low and middle income folks of all races. Most notably this seems to be happening with Hispanics, but African Americans as well. I’d be ashamed to be a part of this “Uncle” rhetoric, as Twitter is forever.

Matt, I know you used “retards” as a verb, but I plead guilty of getting a small twinge of pleasure for imaging it a noun regarding the perps in this charade.

Terry
1 year ago
Reply to  Dan

What world do you live in? This is planet Earth, FYI

Silverfox
1 year ago

Thank you, Mr Rosenberg, for saying this.  Mr. Justice Thomas and Sen. Tim Scott are truly noble men.  They deserve ever accolade given to them.  (Also, big shout out to Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. Walter Williams) Can’t we get past this ?  Not as long as Democrats beat the drum of victimhood. They need African-Americans to believe they are victims.  They need that so African-Americans are beholden to them and continue to vote for them.  Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas represent true black power.  If they are embraced as role models what happens to the pretty solid Black vote for the Democratic Party ?!  As I’ve said… Read more »

1 year ago
Reply to  Silverfox

Thank you, Silverfox. And, so interesting to me to learn about and *meet* black moderates and conservatives in the community. And hear their success stories, and perspectives on politics and policy. Mainstream media ignores these individuals or just occasionally does a “novelty act” story about them. But one the biggest political stories now unfolding – and so much more important than the dialed-in “horse-race”pieces, is the changing consciousness among Latino and Black voters. It’s not merely about which candidates they prefer, but the values they are articulating on current issues in crime, K-12 and college education, and the economic landscape.… Read more »

Silverfox
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Rosenberg

You’re welcome. And yes, I, too, think the times they are a changing’. And that change will benefit not only blacks, but ALL of us. Thanks again for you and the staff at Wirepoints for shining the light of truth on so much here in Chicago and Illinois.

Ataraxis
1 year ago
Reply to  Matt Rosenberg

Matt, more stories like this please. I’d also like to see some follow ups about the people featured in your earlier stories. The human element makes these stories special. I also enjoy the “Your Story” feature on the Illinois Policy website.
A Black and Latino shift in voting habits is one of the only things that can change Illinois for the better.

Mil Ovan
1 year ago

Excellent article Matt. Great quote “In the end, the tone of public dialog must move away from cheap cries of “racism” or “sell out” every time a white or black participant veers away from elite-sanctioned analyses and remedies.“

David Zalig
1 year ago

Hi Guys, Indeed, the whole Clarence Thomas fiasco needs to be analysed by someone else, not me. As far as Republican, Tim Scott, I was very impressed by his Republican response to Joe Bidens State of the Union Address. I said to myself, man this guy get it’s. If Mr. Scott ran for President, he might get my vote. Very intelligent and thoughtful. I happen to get in a slight tiff with the WVON Host you mentioned on social media one evening Matt. She accused me of lashing out on one of her comments. We went back and forth for… Read more »

1 year ago
Reply to  David Zalig

Patricia is a strong voice, and very passionate. Accomplished and interesting young woman. I’m glad she’s out there speaking up.

Black Excellence Media
1 year ago
Reply to  David Zalig

Hi! It’s me. I’m sure I checked you about trying to police Black voices in our conversations. Remember we listen more than we speak when we are foreign to the subject matter.

While we are both American, my Freedmen experience is much more flavorful and nuanced than yours.

Kathleen Brose
1 year ago

“Isn’t it time we moved past this?” says it all. This constant attacking of a person’s skin color is racist. What does one’s views have to do with their skin color? Thank you to Loury, Woodson and others for publishing their open letter. Diversity of thought needs to make a come back. It isn’t easy standing up for common sense.

Marie
1 year ago
Reply to  Kathleen Brose

It IS time we move past it. But that won’t happen until certain politicians, political groups, and activists take the first step. Most of us in the private sector do not play these games, but unfortunately some people in the private sector have been influenced and are following the sick patterns of some of these groups. They all have to stop it.

Tom
1 year ago
Reply to  Marie

Why not do something instead blaming politicians?

Ataraxis
1 year ago
Reply to  Tom

Politicians are the primary race-baiters in the culture, so they deserve most of the blame. Instead of diffusing situations and stressing unity, they throw gasoline on the fire.
Politicians need to be called out every single time they race-bait, until it becomes culturally unacceptable to do so.

Lin Cappozzo
1 year ago

Name calling exists when one can not truly argue a point. It’s a cowardly way out. To threaten violence against someone you disagree with is not nor will it ever be acceptable. This needs to change. Now! Lori Lightfoot has become a fowl mouthed race divider. She has failed as mayor, so this is all she has. It’s unacceptable. Stephanie Trussell is an awesome woman. I lived in the area where she resides. Can’t say enough good things about her. I don’t understand the word racist. What does it mean? When one calls another racist what one thing stands out… Read more »

Marie
1 year ago
Reply to  Lin Cappozzo

Name calling is only used by uneducated people who don’t know any better and don’t have any other words to use. When you resort to name calling you’ve lost the argument because you’re showing your ignorance.

David Pearling
1 year ago

Isn’t it time we moved past this? If only we could. I doubt we will. There were no condemnations or even criticisms of LL’s rant against Justice Thomas. She mostly got away with it.
However, it is nice to see that other commenters here call out the presstocricy. At least a few of us see the damage they do.

Tom
1 year ago
Reply to  David Pearling

What do you think this article is? You’re contradicting yourself. Why not show some support instead of doubt and share this story.

Steve H
1 year ago

Senator Tim Scott was spot on when he said that it’s wrong to use our shameful past to try to dishonestly shutdown debates in the present. So called Progressive legislators and journalists sadly do this all the time with the resultant dumming of America.

JackBolly
1 year ago

What would Leftist Democrats like J.B. Pritzker and LL do if they couldn’t scream ‘racist’ at those they disagree with irregardless of the issue or person? Democrats have spent at least a generation cultivating their cancel culture, and so far it has worked thanks to the establishment media.

Marie
1 year ago
Reply to  JackBolly

Pritzker isn’t smart enough to do anything else that’s why he name calls and shows his ignorance.

Brooklyn
1 year ago

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