Posted on 03/03/2016 11:34:38 AM PST by Kaslin
On Wednesday's CNN Tonight, W. Kamau Bell claimed that white supremacy is the new ideology of the Republican Party: "If the Republican Party is a gumbo...the roux of that gumbo is white supremacy, and the core of that is the Ku Klux Klan." Bell later asserted that the Obama birther issue was when white supremacy supposedly became dominant in the GOP: "It came from the first four years of Barack Obama's presidency...where they allowed Donald Trump to demand the President show his birth certificate — and they just stood by and went, maybe he's not born here." [video below]
Host Don Lemon brought on the comedian to preview his upcoming CNN series, United Shades of America. Lemon first asked, "It's 2016. We're arguing about the KKK's role in the presidential election. Would you have ever thought — imagined that?" Bell bluntly replied, "With the direction the Republican Party's been going for the last few years, absolutely." The guest gave his "gumbo" answer when the anchor prompted him to explain why.
Comedian/CNN Host: The KKK is 'The Core' of the Republican Party
Lemon followed up by pointing out that "the leaders of the Republican Party...are disavowing anything to do with the Ku Klux Klan." He then wondered, "Are they saying that because they have to, or do you think that they believe that...and shouldn't you given some credit for that at least?" Bell replied, in part, by underlining that "they're also thinking about starting a new party, from what I understand — like, they are, in some way, acknowledging that the party has gotten out of their control."
The United Shades of America host raised the Obama birther issue later in the segment, and added, "They allowed that to happen, and this is the result of that. This is like the pimple coming home to roost."
Back in August 2015, Bell and Lemon made fun of the Iowa State Fair as "one of the whitest places in America." The comedian cracked that attendees of the fair were "taking pictures of me. I don't think it's because I'm famous. It's because I'm a black dude."
The transcript of the relevant portion of the W. Kamau Bell segment from CNN Tonight on March 2, 2016:
DON LEMON: Kamau, it's 2016. We're arguing about the KKK's role in the presidential election. Would you have ever thought — imagined that?
BELL: With the direction the Republican Party's been going for the last few years, absolutely.
LEMON: Why do you say that?
[CNN Graphic: "America In Black & White: Inside Look At The KKK"]
W. KAMAU BELL, UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA: The Republican Party — if the Republican Party is a gumbo — the modern Republican Party — the roux of that gumbo is white supremacy, and the core of that is the Ku Klux Klan.
LEMON: Do you — now, the members of the Republican Party would say — and if you listen to the — the leaders of the Republican Party, they are disavowing anything to do with the Ku Klux Klan. Is — are they saying that because they have to, or — or do you think that they believe that? Is that — and shouldn't you given some credit for that at least?
[CNN Graphic: "KKK And The Presidential Election"]
BELL: But they're also thinking about starting a new party, from what I understand — like, they are, in some way, acknowledging that the party has gotten out of their control; and they're thinking about running a candidate — they're thinking about waking Mitt Romney up. You know what I mean? Like, they are aware that the party has gotten out of control, and there's not — I feel like they're saying there's nothing we can do about it, other than reconvene somewhere else.
LEMON: Well, to Frank Bruni and Gloria Borger — I had them just on — and I was like, is this a surprise to them? Was this an epiphany to them — that they've realized that, somehow, their party is out of control, especially when it comes to these issues — you know, addressing racism and the Ku Klux Klan? And to you — it sounds like, to you, that you believe that, all of a sudden, they're like, wow! Where did this come from?
BELL: Yeah, and it came from — it came from the first four years of Barack Obama's presidency — President Barack Obama — where they allowed Donald Trump to demand the President show his birth certificate — and they just stood by and went, maybe he's not born here. We don't — how would we ever know? Hawaii, we don't know that's a state. They allowed that to happen, and this is the result of that. This is like — this is like the pimple coming home to roost.
Racism is funny? Who would have guessed prior to 2008?
Yeah, that’s what I want to know too.
Exactly
Nice Teef
Well he failed History in school ,if he ever went to school
Mr. Bell,
Read some history young man. The KKK was, and is, a true component of the modern Democrat Party. In the dead locked Democrat convention of 1924, which contemporaneously and historically was referred to as the Klan-bake, the convention went to a long involved vote to keep the Klan influence out of their party. The vote lost.
Democrats then proceeded to have 104 ballots and then loose the election to Coolidge.
Democrats have grand wizards in their Senatorial history: Robert Byrd.
Democrats have never freed you young man. Look at yourself today, paid for color commentary and yes the pun is intended.
That’s why Trump hesitated on the way the the question was asked. It was like “Do you disavow all white supremacist groups?” To a guy like this every conservative is a white supremacist. The tea party is the same as the KKK. To this guy we’re all white supremacists. I’m sure he was thinking what’s that setup for.
The “progressives” are masters in psychological projection, and I doubt very much that he knows the root of the Republican party, or the actual roots of the KKK.
I consider that sort of tapout a compliment....Your accusations of racism are now falling on deaf-ears, the game is over.....
The KKK is about as “un-Republican” as anyone can get. They were the CHILD of the Democrat party, most particularly the old hard-core Southern Democrat “good old boys”.
ALL THOSE OLD SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS HAVE DIED!!! The new modern South, where there is a peculiar inversion of the majority of white people being Republican, and the majority of black people now being Liberal Democrats, has totally changed the dynamic. Any KKK that still exists is without a home in any political party, as they would not be welcome at any convention or rally, unless they tried to form up their own completely independent organization.
They don’t care.
just full of hate
Why a barf alert? This is not pro for that clown article, just the opposite
I see Dems and Republican kind of like moderate muzzies and radical muzzies.
Moderate muzzies don’t want to kill you. They want radical muzzies to kill you.
They one of the same stripe.
If you tell a lie enough times...
I thought the race card would be maxxed out by now.
They must have called to get an increase in their credit limits.
But here’s a novel idea. Instead of the left and the DNC telling people over and over again how bad conservatives or the GOP is, why don’t they start telling the public why the public should vote for them?
Has anyone heard anyone from the left tell us why 4 more years of BHO would be a positive?
..party of segregation
party of KKK
party of slavery
Democrat party...
From the early days of slavery, southern legislatures and state houses were controlled entirely by Democrats until the Mid 1970’s
Republicans shut down the Democrats filibuster of the 1964 civil rights act and got it passed.
This clown is a typical liberal history revisionist.
Based on the picture included in the article, it's probably because he looks like a stereotype.
LOL!! How about Bozo Funny Boy research the Democratic party?
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