The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s ‘New Racism’ is Chasing Out Their Minority Base

Starting point is 00:00:00 I'd like to talk about a more sensitive topic today, and that's reverse racism. The elite in politics and celebrities are using this idea of white, white, white, white, in a prejudicial manner. It's very ironic. It's exactly what we were evolving away from in pursuit of Martin Luther King's content of our character, not color of our skin. Lately, the Rasmussen polls, they surveyed the first hundred days of the Trump administration, and they found that 62% of those, that were Hispanic expressed approval. African Americans were about 39%.

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Starting point is 00:01:56 that among some left-wing elite bloc, black leaders, politicians, celebrities. I'll give you a few examples. Not long ago, Susan Rice, the former top official in the Obama administration, was removed from the Defense Policy Board. That's a group of grandees that advise the Defense Department. They're political appointments. And traditionally, when a new president comes in, they get rid of most of the prior defense policy board because they feel they're partisans. And in the case of Susan Rice, she was appointed in a late appointment by Joe Biden,

Starting point is 00:02:36 whom pretty much wiped out all of the Trump appointment. So her dismissal by Secretary of Defense, Pete Hecteth, was not unusual. And yet she fired back at him and said he was dumb as Iraq and ultra-maga. But what was interesting, she said, white male cisgender. In other words, she attacked his race.

Starting point is 00:02:55 And she said any other, her administration would have fired. him for this signal Snapchat scandal. But of course she was the one that came out on Sunday talk shows and lied five times about the disaster in Benghazi, among other things later in her career. But why inject race into it? At almost the same period, we had a number of Afrikaners, I should say a number, a very small number, about 60 people asked for refugee status, felt they had been endangered by black on white violence, which is demonstrable and beyond controversy in South Africa. And Trump allowed them to come in as refugees. And of course,

Starting point is 00:03:42 during the prior administration, thousands of people came in refugees. But because apparently they were white, this caused a storm of criticism. And the Episcopalian Church said they would no longer help with refugees because this is racist. Don Limon went on a profanity-ridden rant about how this is horrible that these white people were coming in. This is disgusting. You shouldn't be able to do that. Not too long ago, Jasmine Crockett talked about the party might have to nominate white boys using that boy. That's sort of a deprecatory term that has racial implications. Remember, Joe Biden, called two of his aides who are African-American boy. That's a very prejudicial term to use, and yet she was using it in the reverse fashion for so-called whites. And at the same time,

Starting point is 00:04:38 she was doing that as another tape surface from Ilan Omar, where she said white men were the most likely terrorist and killers in America. That's demonstrably untrue. So what am I getting at? I'm getting at the elite, the elite in politics, in celebrities are using this idea of white, white, white, white, in a prejudicial manner. It's very ironic because it's exactly what we were evolving away from in pursuit of Martin Luther King's content of our character, not color of our skin. And apparently they believe because they're African Americans or their left wing that it's okay to stigmatize somebody by the race. But of course, it's not. And here's my point about this entire discussion. Lately, the Rasmussen polls, who have been very accurate, they were in the 2024 election and they are now, they surveyed the first hundred days of the Trump administration.

Starting point is 00:05:42 And they found that contrary to most of the what candidly are left-wing polls, that Donald Trump had a positive appraisal by most people. But here's my point. Sixty-two percent of those who were surveyed that were Hispanic expressed approval. African-Americans were about 39 percent. And Hispanics were higher than white. So what am I getting at? You have two centrifugal forces. At a time when African-Americans and Hispanics are considering economics, cost of living, real issues, and they consider them more important than their superficial appearance.

Starting point is 00:06:25 A panicky elite on the left, let's be candid, they have been the primary beneficiaries of diversity, equity, inclusion. Diversity and equity inclusion did not help the inner city. It didn't stop the crime rate. It didn't increase the per capita income. It did help a professional class. But my point is this. And while the professional class is obsessed with race and chasing white racist unicorns,

Starting point is 00:06:59 the majority of the Hispanic community and a near majority of the black community have moved beyond the elite. This is going to have political repercussions in the future. Because the Democratic Party, the more they pound this tired, weary racial mantra, the more their constituents they think they're appealing to are moving on. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hansson for The Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this.

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The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s ‘New Racism’ is Chasing Out Their Minority Base

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