Posted on 11/06/2022 2:59:48 PM PST by KingofZion
As he made his final pitch to voters in western Wisconsin last week, Sen. Ron Johnson told a story about a truck driver who got stuck while navigating a tricky road.
The senator said he was driving through Portage when he encountered a traffic snarl caused by the immobile truck. Johnson said he is typically impatient but was not in this case because he witnessed something “heartwarming”: The people of the small community in central Wisconsin sprang into action to help the truck driver get going again.
He ended the story with this reveal: “You know, one little point really — really doesn’t factor in the story at all. But the driver was an African American gentleman. So now why would I add that little detail? I happen to be running against Mandela Barnes,” Johnson said.
Barnes, currently Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor, is Black, and has criticized the impact of systemic racism on society in blunt terms. Johnson has called attention to those remarks in recent days, along with the anecdote about the truck driver, which took place in a town that is nearly 90 percent White. His campaign did not respond to questions about what message Johnson hopes to convey with the story
*** In a wide-ranging July 2021 interview on Black Oxygen, a podcast, Barnes said that national parks “weren’t made for the enjoyment of people who weren’t White” and added that some of them are carved from Indigenous land. In the interview he also says the parks have “many positive benefits.”
In a 2018 radio interview, he said racism in Wisconsin is “a little more scary” because it’s “much more concealed” than in the Deep South and “can be institutionalized.” He quipped that the dynamic could be called “concealed-carry racism.”
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I think the Chief Agitprop Monitor of the WP must be Joe Isuzu.
A garbage paper. Yellow Journalism is now Red Journalism.
He quipped that the dynamic could be called “concealed-carry racism.”
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In other words, people there are “Wisconsin nice” to everyone, but they’re somehow secretly racist and the being nice part is just a cover.
Another dimocrap Karen from the ComPost.
Annie Linskey
Your prototypical unattractive White female with the political chip on her shoulder, posing as a ‘journalist’ NE bred and Wellesley “educated”
To the dying NE “newspapers” another unthinking, brainwashed clone, cheaper by the dozen
So, to tell a story about whites helping a black man is to “play the race card, while to claim that whites and society are inherently racist is not playing the race card. Lewis Carrol would be proud.
‘Your prototypical unattractive White female with the political chip on her shoulder, posing as a ‘journalist’ NE bred and Wellesley “educated”’
I read this post from you just assuming your were being facetious using some stereotypical assumptions ie. “NE bred” and Wellesley “educated”.
Just for the helluvit I googled up her info and lo and behold your were absolutely correct with your assessment. Bravo, made a point and accurately so.
The WP, what a LEFT WING BIASED RAG.
WHO on earth would pay money for this crap.
Washington Post might as well by the Worker’s Daily.
Except for elitist prats.
Lies.
Color me in agreement ;-)
Annie you stupid shut (from the old, funny SNL).
“I did not have sex with that woman, Annie Linskey.”
(Hopefully, no one ever will!)
Thank you, Sir
Yes, they are all pretty much cut from the same cloth
...and then there is Mad City...
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