For at least the last 50 years the media have been treating African Americans who reject left-wing “values,” such as they are, as traitors to their race.
On Wednesday, congressional Democrats tried to frame conservative activist Candace Owens as they have framed many other ethnic renegades before her.
Owens would have none of it. The video of her fiery rebuttal has already been seen by millions. It speaks for itself.
With Owens at the hearing was her 75-year-old grandfather of whom she spoke lovingly. On seeing him and hearing of his sharecropping background, I was reminded of boxing great Joe Frazier. Had he lived, Frazier would be 75 years old today as well.
I thought of Frazier because he was framed much as Owens was. Tenacious as he was in the ring, Smokin’ Joe lacked the rhetorical skills to fight back outside the ring the way Owens did. What Frazier shared with Owens was the same adversary…
In much the same way Democrats in Congress tried to portray Owens as a friend of Adolf Hitler, the media transformed the 12th child of a one-armed black South Carolina moonshiner into the chief spokesman for the Ku Klux Klan.
Although Muhammad Ali and his media acolytes would paint Frazier as “the great white hope” and worse, it is hard to imagine a more profoundly African experience in America than Frazier’s.
In almost every meaningful way, Joe Frazier led a “blacker” life than Ali. Most obviously, Frazier was conspicuously darker. He had proud Gullah roots, a black manager and trainer, and an integrated management team.
“I grew up like the black man – he didn’t,” Frazier would tell Sports Illustrated. “I cooked the liquor. I cut the wood. I worked the farm. I lived in the ghetto.” …
“I don’t fit the stereotype of what [the media] like to see in black people,” Candace Owens told congressional Democrats. “I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.”
If only Smokin’ Joe had Owens’s voice and platform.
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Even for a Democrat that was stupid. If he had ever seen Candace in action he couldn’t have thought he’d get away with that. Except the media will play his clip, which I still did not think put her in a bad light, and never show her response.
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Note Mort Klein sitting next to her. His movements may look like he’s uncomfortable with her speech but I’m betting he’s just antsy because he’s about to do to the Rats on Jews what she did for blacks. In any event I don’t expect to see her speech on, or correctly reported on, by ABC, CBS, or NBC news on the dinnertime shows.
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