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The stench of hypocrisy was thick in the House chamber this week as a group of Republicans, days into a contentious vote for the next speaker, offered their support for a relatively unknown ultra-conservative Black congressman from Florida. Meanwhile, a Democratic superstar congressman from New York, who also happens to be Black, decidedly won the most votes, again and again—embarrassing the establishment and proving just how much of a badass Hakeem Jeffries is.
Haven’t we seen this before? It was just a few months back when, out of nowhere, came a well-known NFL player without an iota of political experience or common sense, thrown into the ring against a seasoned incumbent senator in Georgia. Why? Because he was also Black. Do they think we’re all the same? Just replace one Black person with any other; we’ll never know!
So forgive me for bristling when a bunch of white conservatives throw out the name of Rep. Byron Donalds, the self-described “Trump-supporting, gun-owning, liberty-loving, pro-life, politically incorrect Black man,” and then give themselves a pat on the back for being “diverse.”
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