Last week, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panelists argued that Abigail Spanberger wasn’t dominating the Virginia gubernatorial race because of sexism. The gaffe prompted her opponent Winsome Earle-Sears to post on X, “Who wants to tell them?”
Had the shoe been on the other foot, if these political commentators overlooked a Democrat black woman running against a Republican white woman, mainstream media outlets would be conjuring up Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech for weeks.
Given the incessant lip service liberals have paid to “racial justice” and “equity,” such an oversight seems like blasphemy for Democrats. In truth, though, they only care about race when it’s politically expedient.
Case and point—four years ago, another liberal commentator on MSNBC who makes his living off racial commentary, Michael Eric Dyson, called?Earle-Sears a “black mouth” for “white supremacist practices.”
Like other black conservatives, Earle-Sears is targeted with verbal abuse from the sanctimonious “Hate has no home here” political party. Last month, Democrat Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas went on a racist rant about Earle-Sears. She said, “All skin folks ain’t kinfolk! We don’t need somebody who looks like me in the Governor’s mansion … Don’t be fooled!”
If Earle-Sears were the Democratic party’s gubernatorial candidate, Lucas very likely would be running all over Virginia telling everyone if they didn’t vote for her, it’s because they’re racist.
And it’s not just the political elites who are racially targeting Earle-Sears. In Arlington, a Spanberger campaign volunteer proudly held up a sign that said, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then blacks can’t share my water fountain.”
Earle-Sears reacted to the sign on X. She wrote, “I’m disgusted, but not surprised. This is the “tolerant” left Abigail Spanberger defends. I’m the sitting Lieutenant Governor, second in command in the former Capitol of the confederate states. I’m an immigrant, a Marine, and above all, a human being. There is no place for this disgusting hatred in our Commonwealth. Anyone who doesn’t condemn this sign is complicit in approving it.”
Shockingly, other liberals standing near the sign holder didn’t challenge the message. Ben Tribbett, a Democrat political consultant highlighted the problem. He wrote, “The cancer in the party is not a crazy lady with a sign—it’s no one willing to confront her about it until the press picked up on it.”
Following the incident, Robert Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, donated $500,000 to Sears campaign. He told her, “Madame Lieutenant Governor, I was so appalled by the racist diatribe displayed by a useful idiot at a recent press event that I choose to show all the voters of Virginia how Black Brothers stand up to defend and support Black Sisters when confronted with unadulterated racism.”
In another show of race-based hostility earlier this month, at a James Madison University football game, a Democrat donor aggressively yelled at Earle-Sears. The Fairfax County man called her a “traitor” and told her to “go back to Haiti.”
The candidate responded, “I thought Democrats were supposed to love everyone— and just to be clear, I’m Jamaican. But I have nowhere to go back to because America is my home.”
Another immigrant whom I deeply admire told me a couple of presidential elections ago that he voted for Democrats because they supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which paved the way for him and his family to come to the United States. While he only considered a snapshot in time, in reality, political parties realign and change. The obvious racism in the Democratic Party certainly does not support a pro-civil rights narrative. And, by the way, the Republican Party ended slavery and for decades led the fight for a civil rights act.
A friend of mine argues that the important and necessary political battle cry for civil rights and racial equality has been somewhat of a Trojan horse, in which the beneficiaries are mostly liberal white women. Abigail Spanberger is enjoying that privilege today, but such consideration, sadly, isn’t afforded Winsome Earle-Sears.
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