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=Herman Cain KIA covid after trump rally? montana?=<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism" title="Tokenism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tokenism</a>, a quick ticket to wingnut welfare
Tokenism is the practice of using a member of a minority group in order to "prove" how "<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Progressive" title="Progressive" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">progressive</a> and forward-thinking" your organization is.For instance, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes" title="Alan Keyes" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alan Keyes</a> was the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Party</a>'s "token black" and would still be if Alan Keyes weren't insufficiently crazy in the era of <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ben_Carson" title="Ben Carson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ben Carson</a>.<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[note 1]</a> Some companies[<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Help:References" title="Help:References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Which?</a>] will hire one representative of a given group — for instance, one <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">black person</a>, one <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gay" title="Gay" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">gay</a> person, or one <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woman" title="Woman" class="mw-redirect" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">woman</a><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[note 2]</a> — to give the entire company the appearance of being <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tolerance" title="Tolerance" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">inclusive</a>.Similarly, traditionally exclusionary organizations such as private schools will go out of their way to put (stock) photos of minorities in their literature,<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a> creating a parallel Bizarro World of <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Multiculturalism" title="Multiculturalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">multiculturalism</a> that <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance" title="Cognitive dissonance" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">does not exist in said organization's objective reality</a>. It's why <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bob_Jones_University" title="Bob Jones University" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Bob Jones University</a> has photos of black guys and <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Asia" title="Asia" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Asians</a> on the front page of its web site.<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[note 3]</a>Tokenism is also used to give organizations the appearance of <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fair_and_Balanced" title="Fair and Balanced" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political balance</a>. For instance, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alan_Colmes" title="Alan Colmes" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alan Colmes</a> was one of <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fox News</a>' "Token Liberals."<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[note 4]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#.23NotYourShield" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">#NotYourShield</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#Example_tokens" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Example tokens</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4External links</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#Notes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Notes</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6References</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">#NotYourShield[</h2><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;"> #NotYourShield pyramid of ultimately <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">blaming the Jews</a> (<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism" title="Cultural Marxism" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Cultural Marxism</a>)</h2><div role="note" class="hatnote" style="padding-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See the main article on this topic: <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate#.23NotYourShield" title="Gamergate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gamergate NotYourShield</a></div><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate" title="Gamergate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Gamergate</a> found a way to weaponize the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Friend_argument" title="Friend argument" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">friend argument</a> with the #NotYourShield hashtag. It is ostensibly a group of women, non-white people, and people of varying sexualities who claim they are not a shield from criticism for the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">journalists</a> who decried Gamergate as a hate movement focused on evicting women, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Feminist" title="Feminist" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">feminist</a> ideas, and <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">liberalism</a> from the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">video game</a> industry and that they care about "ethics in video game journalism".<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>The primary victim of Gamergate, Zoe Quinn, later revealed they had evidence disproving everything about Gamergate up to that point, including evidence that the progenitors of #NotYourShield were <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sockpuppet" title="Sockpuppet" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">sockpuppet</a> accounts of straight white guys having stolen avatars from across the Internet of women and non-white people to use for making new <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Twitter</a> accounts.<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>However, this did not stop Gamergate from actually recruiting the kinds of people they initially pretended were supporting them, setting up a culture-jamming campaign and <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ironically" title="Ironically" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">ironically</a> a shield from criticism for Gamergate itself. When anyone criticizes Gamergate for being a hate movement against women and ethnic and sexual minorities, Gamergate adherents cite #NotYourShield, believing that the presence of women, anyone who isn't white, and anyone who isn't straight who agree with them discredits the experiences of those who disagree.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Example tokens[</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Greg_Abbott" title="Greg Abbott" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Greg Abbott</a> — Received somewhere in the range $9 million from a tort against a homeowner whose tree branch fell and permanently paralyzed him while was jogging.<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a> As <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Texas</a> attorney general he has supported tort reform that would substantially cap the amount of tort payments.<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">'Chef', The token Black, in <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/South_Park" title="South Park" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">South Park</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn" title="Roy Cohn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roy Cohn</a> — <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" title="Joseph McCarthy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ruined the careers</a> of <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Democrats" title="Democrats" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democrats</a>, gays, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jews</a>… and he himself was all of those things. "Not all Jews are <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Communists" title="Communists" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Communists</a>," he said, "but most Communists are Jews."<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">David Cole — A <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jewish" title="Jewish" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jewish</a> <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Holocaust_denier" title="Holocaust denier" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Holocaust denier</a>.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/S.E.Cupp" title="S. E. Cupp" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">S. E. Cupp</a> — Token <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Atheist" title="Atheist" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">atheist</a>. Uses the same basic techniques (academia and the media hates <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Christians" title="Christians" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christians</a>!) to deliver the <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservative" title="Conservative" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">conservative</a> votes.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Candace_Owens" title="Candace Owens" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Candace Owens</a> — A token Black Hitler apologist<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson" title="Jordan Peterson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jordan Peterson</a> — Token academic who is the "favourite figure of the alt-right"<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a> believes that academia has been polluted by "<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Postmodern" title="Postmodern" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">postmodern</a> neo-<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Marxists" title="Marxists" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Marxists</a>", and who is handsomely rewarded for it via his GoFundMe page, bringing in $50,000 a month.<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas Sowell</a> — You mean the segregation-supporting Sowell?<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers" title="Christina Hoff Sommers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christina Hoff Sommers</a> — Insufferably smug,<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a> "factual feminist" and <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gamergate" title="Gamergate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Gamergate</a> shill</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Blaire_White" title="Blaire White" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Blaire White</a> — That <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">trans woman</a> who tells the right-wing that it's OK to be <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Transphobic" title="Transphobic" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">transphobic</a>. She holds views that are antithetical to those of the overwhelming majority of trans people, but <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Projection" title="Projection" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">still manages to claim</a> the left is "fighting a fight transgender people don't want." Known for making extremely sensationalist claims like "trans children are <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child abuse" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">child abuse</a>"; welcome to <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Clickbait" title="Clickbait" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">clickbait</a> culture.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos" title="Milo Yiannopoulos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milo Yiannopoulos</a> — <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alt-right</a> figurehead (although he doesn't identify himself with the alt right<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a>[<a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_dead_links" title="Category:Articles with dead links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">dead link</a>]). He has <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vague" title="Vague" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">vaguely</a> advocated <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pedophilia" title="Pedophilia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fucking children</a>. Well, he was <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse" title="Child sexual abuse" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">molested as a kid</a>, so he's pretty hard to top in the "token" category.</li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">See also[</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Friend_argument" title="Friend argument" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Friend argument</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Race_card" title="Race card" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Race card</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom" title="Uncle Tom" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Uncle Tom</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">External links[</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reddit.com/r/asablackman" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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background: none;">Colin Powell</a><img alt="Wikipedia" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /> and <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Michael_Steele" title="Michael Steele" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Steele</a>, have also been purged for excessive sanity. But they also have <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza" title="Dinesh D'Souza" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dinesh D'Souza</a> and <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michelle Malkin</a> if one needs non-black minority <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wingnuts" title="Wingnuts" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">wingnuts</a>.</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Or one black lesbian to include all three groups with one person.</li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> There are many, many more photos of white people, however.</li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tokenism#cite_ref-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Similarly, <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pat Buchanan</a> was one of <a href="https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">MSNBC</a>'s "Token Racists."</li></ol></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">References</h2>=aha renta is ideological entre (pol ops?)<div>=</div><div>API: Explore Offshore [vs steyer CA mobilization on prop 23?]</div>The American Petroleum Institute launched its Explore Offshore project in June 2018 “seeking to convince Hispanic and black communities to support the Trump administration’s proposed expansion of offshore drilling,” Reuters reported. [72]“We want to build support in minority communities because the message that increasing the supply of affordable energy and good paying jobs will resonate,” said Erik Milito, API’s director of Upstream and Industry Operations. [72]Explore Offshore describes itself as a “national coalition that supports offshore energy exploration and production to help supply affordable energy for American consumers, small businesses, and manufacturers.”“Explore Offshore’s mission is to unite supporters of offshore energy development and promote its benefits and its importance to our nation’s economy and energy security,” its website claims.Coalition members include representatives from Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a range of local affiliates are listed on its coalition page. [68], [70]According to Reuters, Explore Offshore has partnered with a number of black and Hispanic business groups including the Virginia, Florida and North Carolina Hispanic Chambers of Commerce and the Florida Black Chamber of Commerce and South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce. [72]Only one African-American man, South Carolina African American Chamber of Commerce chairman Stephen Gilchrist, was involved in the group. Gilchrist reportedly “counts [Steve] Bannon as a friend.” While the group identifies itself as a “bipartisan coalition,” its sole Democrat is Jim Webb, who has praised “gallantry” of Confederate soldiers and defended “the venerable Robert E. Lee” according to a Politico story on Webb’s roots. [75], [73], [74]July 24, 2018Representatives from API and API‘s “Explore Offshore South Carolina” attended a luncheon hosted by the SC African American Chamber of Commerce to discuss “the Economic impacts and safety of Offshore Energy.” [71]May 16, 2018Explore Offshore, a “project of the American Petroleum Institute” ran an ad campaign on Facebook promoting offshore drilling in Florida. According to Facebook’s political ad archive, the ads were removed because they lacked a “Paid for by” label while including political content. [68], [69]The ad text read as follows:“Contrary to what the opposition wants you to believe, offshore energy exploration has occurred safely alongside marine life, commercial fishing, military activities, and tourism for decades in the Gulf.‘Not only have these industries co-existed with energy production, but in many cases energy development has stimulated and bolstered investments, increased higher-paying jobs, and supported retail and tourism in coastal towns along the Gulf,’ Cornelia Horner, a spokeswoman with the American Petroleum Institute.The choice is simple when you have the facts. Say yes to exploring our offshore resources in Florida.”<div>
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</div><div>k<span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">imberly Klacik, who is running for Congress as a Black conservative from Baltimore, has <span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">ridden a<span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight"> recent<span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight"> wave of right-wing media coverage of her Democrat-bashing rhetoric right into a speaking slot <span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">at <span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">the Republican National Convention<span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">. She announced <span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">the RNC’s invitation on right-wing Trump advis<span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">er Sebastian Gorka’s <a href="https://www.sebgorka.com/video/theyre-rightly-afraid-of-me-kim-klacik-with-sebastian-gorka-on-america-first/" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" rgb="rgb" outline-offset="outline-offset" em="em" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none">radio show</a> Wednesday. Gorka <a href="https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1296198755163746304" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" rgb="rgb" outline-offset="outline-offset" em="em" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">hailed</a><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight"> the news, calling <span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">Klacik<span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight"> <span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight">a<span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-weight="font-weight"> “Warrior Princess.”</div><div>
</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color">Klacik made a splash last summer when she posted videos of “blight and trash” in Baltimore at the same time Trump was insulting Rep. Elijah Cummings, who has since died. At the time, Klacik told the Baltimore Sun that she was <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-klacik-trump-20190730-35ucabkhefcxjkgqkwja5lmz6y-story.html?int=lat_digitaladshouse_bx-modal_acquisition-subscriber_ngux_display-ad-interstitial_bx-bonus-story" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">thinking about running for political office</a>. Even though she does not live in the district, Klacik is running for Cummings’ old seat in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District. It is currently held by Rep. Kweisi Mfume, who beat Klacik in an April 28 special election. The Baltimore Sun recently <a href="https://pjmedia.com/election/megan-fox/2020/08/18/republican-candidate-kim-klacik-sets-internet-on-fire-with-new-ad-democrats-dont-want-you-to-see-n803991" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">noted</a> that the seat has never been held by a Republican.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Klacik <span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">recently became<span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> a<span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxFriendsFirst/status/1296065644056776705?s=20" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">right-wing</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> <a href="https://pjmedia.com/election/megan-fox/2020/08/18/republican-candidate-kim-klacik-sets-internet-on-fire-with-new-ad-democrats-dont-want-you-to-see-n803991" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">media</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1296141726164365313" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">darling</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> after the release of a three-minute campaign <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1295461903268040707" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">video</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> of her striding through run-down parts of Baltimore denouncing Democrats who she says have “betrayed” the city’s residents. “Black lives don’t matter to Democrats,” charges text on the screen. “The worst place for a Black person to live in America is a Democrat-controlled city,” she charges. “Democrats think Black people are stupid.” The video, which has been viewed millions of times, ends with this line: “Black people don’t have to vote Democrat.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, " helvetica="Helvetica" light="Light" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" line-height="line-height" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color">Klacik’s visibility skyrocketed as the video went viral and was <a href="https://twitter.com/kimKBaltimore/status/1295869876222009350?s=20" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">retweeted</a> by President Donald Trump and his campaign adviser Brad Parscale, who <a href="https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1295833845732966400?s=20" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">announced</a> that he donated to her campaign. On Wednesday, Eric Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1296172130372124672?s=20" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">tweeted</a>, “Go get them.”...<div></div><div>720</div><div> Nation's <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c14318179f9d0cfcd4ae863c9da57772d83363b125452c8a8d8cff261a77cc854e4233a9c0b0bc1f852b6ad758a61f708901f610a4569db6" title="newest series">newest series</a> features actor Isaiah Washington in Isaiah Washington: Kitchen Talk. Washington is a QAnon supporter who has pushed conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic, 5G networks, Black Lives Matter, and many other topics -- including Fox News executives.To give you a sense of this show, in one of the episodes, Washington makes a “tasty frittata” with former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos while discussing the 2016 election.Washington has shared an incredible number of conspiracy theories, too many to list in one email. He's shared hashtags associated with QAnon repeatedly on Twitter and again and again and again on Instagram. He's also shared memes attacking White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci with a QAnon hashtag, one of which also alluded to a conspiracy theory involving Microsoft founder Bill Gates. He shared posts and made references to the disinformation video "Plandemic." Another post suggests that “5G energy” can be combatted with “natural stones” that can be purchased on Instagram.On July 8, Washington shared an article on Facebook alleging that George Floyd's death in Minneapolis had been “engineered” by communists and that groups like Black Lives Matter and the Council on American-Islamic Relations were front groups for communists trying to create “tent cities” in order to create “absentee ballot mills to control the vote.”Washington even accused Fox News executives of being “compromised,” saying that's why they haven't supported his show enough.We've told you about the media figures and congressional candidates who have amplified and embraced QAnon. We've told you about how the conspiracy theory is linked to attempted kidnappings and murder. But for a Fox to have a host who openly embraces it is definitely a big step in the wrong direction.</div><div>
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-hired-white-nationalist-sympathizer-michelle-malkin" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-hired-white-nationalist-sympathizer-michelle-malkin</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="">conservative media outlet Newsmax TV <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/michelle-malkin-journalist/2020/05/21/id/968312/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">announced</a> on May 21 that it was hiring far-right blogger and white nationalist sympathizer Michelle Malkin. </div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Malkin has a long history of promoting racist and anti-Semitic claims and conspiracy theories. For instance:</div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Malkin <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/michelle-malkin/michelle-malkin-defended-wwii-internment-racial-profiling-today-said-minetas-view" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">has advocated</a> for racial profiling and defended the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">A former Fox contributor, Malkin said on Fox & Friends that allowing Muslims into Western societies would be “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-regular-michelle-malkin-western-societies-allowing-muslims-suicide" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">suicide</a>.”</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Malkin <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/michelle-malkin-migrant-invasions-are-coordinated-globally-menaces-inside-and-outside" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said on Fox News</a> that migrant caravans traveling toward the U.S. from Central America were “coordinated globally” by “menaces inside and outside of our country.” </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Malkin appeared on Fox & Friends promoting the <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-michelle-malkin-pushes-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-motivated-tree-life-synagogue" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">same anti-Semitic conspiracy theory</a> that motivated the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/27/us/jewish-hate-crimes-fbi/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tree of Life synagogue shooting</a>. The attack resulted in the deaths of 11 people. </li></ul></div></div><div>=</div><div>3/20</div><div>i<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click1.e.alternet.org/mctsdzpmpkwlwdvvltypplpvvtlvmnbjskpwycztydds_tvzzlpjpklvjhcjhppb.html?a=&b=3907&c=21989&d=2" style=""> don’t want to’: Ben Carson sparks panic by refusing to reveal ‘plan’ for cruise ship patients</a>A Sunday interview with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben…</div><div>=</div>=aha nan J 1st good poster child?  he was pioneer in terms of PIC and EJ; SCALP he was the last victim of anti-commie rhet? anticipated GREEN NEW DEALshillenberger? renta-tom  renta-green like patrick moore? crypto?kinda // to franken and eric s metoo did not fight?=freedom farce int'l pending prosperity gospel?<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170719084252/http://www.sherrypeeljackson.org/">https://web.archive.org/web/20170719084252/http://www.sherrypeeljackson.org/</a>=MMAAccording to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=kaowy9aAKiKTtZMTE7lU70K50rfZ9E0b5EWk3IKNoaejVjTh_hGBbeyqr9OSi8U3ubp845GmnZHPNXOv3BQ1Lv5RO3OzPDzBGRmBvxANyHh2FnmRixRrcruOQaEQQ9J2-AF1Ld2RTjzAnixgIALArqBpJzMbSg96TUHNHIN94MMnYChlPP2C5P4PAci0SQuvIksEqD2BHzcQK77bW6KWDUmA90Q63OweQnqiVAqU8OAUfaRqVdfKJQqe49_2f2Hxxpvx3qFQMZ4yQYo31xWxUm73trOoEb-Loh1cfhC7cKfg1I-Mg7mT_VU_b_O1uK-EnOKJdn5DcX2PbTWftXt6xg&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly&n=55&v=1428" style="">a report</a> in The Washington Post, pro-Trump CNN commentator Paris Dennard was removed from his previous position at Arizona State University for making "sexually explicit comments and gestures towards women." CNN suspended Dennard following the report. A review of Dennard's CNN commentary <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=kaowy9aAKiKTtZMTE7lU72LwPYTeRLZqI_YK6uoKwiPj6jIiqP2PD3l7b_DP-Vbc0402V78qwmZKG2ldfe1c7a_Mi6CdQGkkhiQnX9_Gb2jAqz9uQXv9b0julhzOwCqgfzwvzbugi5AVr-Mo9EIvZNxk9h9bSEobjg9eJaT_ysOC10gWLVOlNNj1k3frt3X5&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly&n=56&v=1428" style="">reveals</a>Dennard vehemently defending Trump against reports that the president <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=kaowy9aAKiKTtZMTE7lU72LwPYTeRLZqI_YK6uoKwiPLsCVve9rZDPkUq-8YKZn1eZxo-qfL919XHcYCkO8-W2LVRygcflSaqBEsDiWt62TuhTsL3Tk6eyV7Cdl5EeD4PxjXtMRvBjCkSbuQU8ZoCfr5h8Rh5JppOtt_8rvA68F5USWuTrhMGBQl5mDsE8XOmMljup72UDz2ENGjqP0jZa_1cyYS8Dn8iEwsyMXAfJw&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly&n=57&v=1428" style="">had committed</a> sexual assault.Meanwhile, CNN's new pro-Trump commentator Rob Astorino <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=kaowy9aAKiKTtZMTE7lU72LwPYTeRLZqI_YK6uoKwiPlSdynux_q6ZvJTxVNlCRnpFAjtiGnNhckjxSRBSRw00XcWn_MU8W0gWDsHv8MiM5rG5EejdDL0l3ZMTclJpsslKHUo4vPLVL-c0tj142S8YbA1cY44uQutxiUHUM6Es1Qn_f_8kBorDqsNakre22-bBe1lDF1JpGOgIr482LswQ&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly&n=58&v=1428" style="">confirmed</a> on air that he had signed a non-disclosure agreement with Trump that barred him from making disparaging remarks about the president.CNN has spent years bringing on paid pro-Trump commentators, and it <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=kaowy9aAKiKTtZMTE7lU72LwPYTeRLZqI_YK6uoKwiP-Gb4O3_96_NwHNznN22zTeRoh-xwDICFWOL_H8u59jOeY2Cos1EBrEhAgweV8zgB8HJ12xM0EgieenuMjzIePjOmuAufh8PtFjj3Qd8BJZeZeb_ltha5fy8kuaEZ2SqV6gaHh3LKnZUdlsPPoylhMerFpZn0yEDyCjS_GNYZ9w&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=826weekly&n=59&v=1428" style="">keeps backfiring</a>.<div></div><div> i have not gone to renta-tom before, but at least useful tool cover if not intentional sellout:</div><div><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson attempted to <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fwhite-house%2Fben-carson-moves-roll-back-obama-era-fair-housing-rule-n900366%3Fcid%3Dpublic-rss_20180814&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=819weekly&n=19&v=1427" style="">roll back</a> an Obama-era rule aimed at curbing housing <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Ffair-housing-groups-fight-trump-administration-in-court-over-housing-segregation-rule-2e3cebf30d89%2F&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=819weekly&n=20&v=1427" style="">segregation</a>. This was covered for an absurd 23 seconds in total: 8 seconds on CNN, 15 seconds on MSNBC, and none at all on Fox News.</li></ul></div><div></div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/homophobia-misogyny-and-islamophobia-rights-new-darling-mark-keith-robinson-has-it-all?">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/homophobia-misogyny-and-islamophobia-rights-new-darling-mark-keith-robinson-has-it-all</a>This  Saturday, pro-gun control MAGA hordes will gather at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Among the speakers will be the newest darling of the right—recently granted fawning coverage by outlets such as Breitbart, Twitchy, Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze—Mark Keith Robinson. The <a href="https://shareblue.com/foxs-favorite-new-pro-gun-pundit-birther-hates-gay-people/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">right’s latest attack dog</a> epitomizes the current Republican brand, as a “birther pundit who says gay people are ‘devil-worshipping child molesters,’ black Democrats are ‘slaves,’ the student survivors of the Parkland shooting are ‘silly little immature media prosti-tots,’ and Michelle Obama is a man.”As <a href="https://shareblue.com/foxs-favorite-new-pro-gun-pundit-birther-hates-gay-people/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Shareblue Media notes</a>, Robinson became a favorite among alt-right and right-wing media back in April after delivering a pro-gun speech at a town council meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. But <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3?hc_ref=ARTVHkt_yrk84X6HBrGUNgHx34xGwTxmuDS2kSg7nRNYNoSrlcZ1E41QE89ScDkkwsw&fref=nf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">he’s also incredibly vocal on social media</a>. In a Facebook post dated February 7, Robinson wrote that homosexuality has been “pushed...over the top” and hysterically concludes “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/10156183685352360" style="text-decoration-line: none;">PEDOPHILLA is next</a>, which will be closely followed by the END of civilization as we know it.”There is nothing more beloved by the GOP than a token visible minority who’s eager to promote the party’s racist views. Robinson, who is African-American, frequently promotes the ahistorical GOP view that the party <a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20161413&&from=f" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">remains that of Abraham Lincoln</a>, and tacitly accuses black people of being too stupid to understand their own political interests. “Half of black Democrats don't realize they are slaves and don't know who their masters are,” Robinson posted on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/10156184718407360" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook in February</a>, employing a <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harriet-tubman-quote/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">corruption of a totally fake Harriet Tubman quote</a>. “The other half don't care.” (“Nor do all of them vote. Yet always the first to complain,” wrote a fan of Robinson’s in the comments.)  In March, Robinson posted a meme that declares President Barack Obama “entered the White House <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156260037712360&set=a.10150214144712360.337483.804552359&type=3&theater" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">with a fake birth certificate</a>.” And in yet another example of his misunderstanding of how slavery worked, Robinson recently compared Senator Maxine Waters, an African-American woman, to 19th-century “PRO SLAVERY Democrat Preston Brooks,” and labeled her an “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156572002487360&set=a.10150214144712360.337483.804552359&type=3&theater" style="text-decoration-line: none;">OVERSEER</a>.” Following his lead, fans of Robinson filled the comments with overtly racist and misogynoir responses, including memes that paint Sen. Waters as a “crack addict” and imagine her speaking in clumsy, misspelled, inarticulate phrases.Just this Friday, Robinson took to Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156633096532360&set=a.10150214144712360.337483.804552359&type=3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">to call Hillary Clinton a “witch</a>,” a word he apparently thinks works for pretty much any woman he doesn’t like, considering he used the same term in 2016 to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mark.k.robinson.3/posts/10154728674077360" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">describe Beyonce</a>. Shareblue points out that Robinson “<a href="https://shareblue.com/foxs-favorite-new-pro-gun-pundit-birther-hates-gay-people/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">uses the male pronoun to refer to Michelle Obama</a>, echoing a conservative theory that she is male.”Robinson has also disparaged Muslims via his social media. In <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HPTAction/photos/pcb.2109061692701568/2109051359369268/?type=3&theater" style="text-decoration-line: none;">one deleted post (saved in this screenshot), he declared</a>, “The question is not ‘When is the last time you saw anyone but a Muslim holding a severed head and smiling’....The question is, when is the last time you saw a Muslim protesting against a Muslim who severed a head, or bombed a shopping mall, or ran down a group of humans with a truck, or shot up a nightclub, or burned someone alive.....”Despite—or rather, because of—Robinson’s remarks, he’s become a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/imthemajorityusa/posts/232757730853325/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">highly sought-after speaker on the right</a>. There are appearances this summer in Broward County, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, among many others. This month, Robinson <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156577134682360&set=a.10150214144712360.337483.804552359&type=3&theater" style="text-decoration-line: none;">shares a bill</a> with Candace Owens, the black conservative provocateur who wrote that Trump “<a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/986066422399774720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E986066422399774720&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.essence.com%2Fnews%2Fcandace-owens-kanye-west-conservative" style="text-decoration-line: none;">isn’t just the leader of the free world</a>, but the savior of it as well.” During his April appearance on Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt gushed, “You’re great; I really think you should run for office.”As previously mentioned, Robinson’s latest stop will be a speaking gig at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina, this Saturday. In a press statement, Hillsborough Progressives Taking Action (HPTA) notes that he’ll be joined by “speakers from Grass Roots NC, whose PAC ‘recommends’ white supremacist and anti-Semitic House candidate Russell Walker.”greenwash splcnew wave of greenwashing attempts, in particular the formation of Progressives for Immigration Reform as a purported group of “liberals,” is only the latest attempt by nativist forces to appear as something they are not. The white-dominated <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/federation-for-american-immigration-reform-fair" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" mercury="Mercury" ssm="SSm" a="A" b="B" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">Federation for American Immigration Reform</a> (FAIR), the most important of the groups founded by Tanton, has been behind the creation of three other front groups that supposedly represented African Americans (Choose Black America), Latino Americans (You Don’t Speak for Me!) and labor (Coalition for the Future American Worker). In fact, FAIR had its own white spokesman double as a press representative for the first two organizations. Another group unrelated to FAIR, Vietnamese for Fair Immigration, turned out to be led by a white man who used a fake Vietnamese surname and whose only connection to that country was that he liked the food.<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/fox-news-guest-seriously-says-three-fifths-compromise-gave-humanhood-black-people">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/fox-news-guest-seriously-says-three-fifths-compromise-gave-humanhood-black-people</a>Fox News Guest Seriously Says Three-Fifths Compromise Gave 'Humanhood to Black People'This came after he told another panelist to "just shut up."By Media Matters Staff / Media Matters May 16, 2018, From the May 15 edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle:LEO TERRELL: Let me just simply say this, Laura, since I love history and government. When this constitution was created, me, because I was black, I was considered three-fifths of a human being.KEVIN JACKSON: That's just nonsense.TERRELL: He's absolutely right about the historical shame of blacks being considered property when this country was created.[...]JACKSON: First of all the Three-Fifths Compromise was essentially what this particular gentleman doesn't understand was it was to give humanhood to black people. Spike Lee learned that and it was an embarrassment to him. So all this nonsense about America, look, where do you want to live?<h1 class="gb-volume-title" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed</h1>By Jason L. Riley<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?440595-1/sellout">https://www.c-span.org/video/?440595-1/sellout</a>
<span class="time" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; display: block; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><time style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">JANUARY 22, 2018</time><div class="more_info" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sellout Author and <a href="https://www.c-span.org/organization/?14506/Liberty-University" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Liberty University</a> professor <a href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?thomasbyronmiller" style="font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.35s ease 0s; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Ron Miller </a>talked about his book, Sellout: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch. In his book, he examines the role minority conservatives play in the discussion about politics and race in America.</div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/clueless-conservative-actress-stacey-dash-considering-california-congressional-run">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/clueless-conservative-actress-stacey-dash-considering-california-congressional-run</a>iwf: thot this was defunct, i assoc with philyis schlafly, but keeps showing up lately in GMO background? ACTAcf renta-tom: ideological entrepreneur can find a niche to spin counter-narrative, often mirroring?priviledged white women would want to reject victim narrative? successful (self-made?) women would want to deny they got special help/resources from RWI??is it training? a hub?pedinghttp://www.nationalreview.com/article/430397/katrina-pierson-donald-trumps-controversial-spokeswomanpierson cruz --> trump

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/11/harry-alford-on-obama-priorities-this-is-not-america-video/Committed to successful black entrepreneurship, Harry C. Alford, Jr.

has been president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce since 1993.

During that time, he has spoken out with increasing boldness against

the liberal orthodoxy hurting the black community. In 2009, he took on

Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer at a cap-and-trade hearing, and

that video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_jGD5nZ6U">went viral</a>. 
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_jGD5nZ6U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE_jGD5nZ6U
</a>[boxer invites to come to CA to see new jobs,  condescending, it's racial, i take offense to it, a vet of this country; why don't you quote an Asian? path going to explode in the Post
Pews study, naacp resolution put in record; john grant 100 bl men of atlanta (millions of jobs, support naccp; Just as in my community..." oil co CRA report: exxon mobil 100K$ for CRA he cites; inhofe wants actual resolution CRA represent broad...anyone who wants them to do work they will]
Army: must contend with some other black gp; this has to do with energy; married to vet, nothing to do with this issue; ]
 In this interview with Alford, he continues to boldly confront the

politics of government dependency, which he believes stand opposed to

the founding principles of capitalism, private property and opportunity.

Alford claims President Barack Obama is hurting black entrepreneurship everyday with entitlements and dependency.

“He’s just after votes,” Alford said of Obama. “And people who don’t

know, ‘He gives me a free cell phone, I increase my food stamps.’ That’s

not America. That’s not why we fought the British.”==

rick perlstein;:

what do you call a blk man at gop mtg? the keynote speaker

greenpeace ggl doc:
More Analysis: again, ironic that company that actually plants bombs (induces activists to do it] stokes fear of eco-terrorism; perhaps a spin on Brownie/Abramoff model to create a problem then seemingly sell the solution;

Renta-tom also part of fustercluck: Dreissen to Innis; DDT as murder of poor brown people) yet try to discredit real EJ folks [a perhaps forgotten aspect of the story, even given the 10th anniversary is how many toxins were released in katrina from oil and chemical industries]=
premature on tom?FIRE keynote:Jason Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he worked for more than 20 years writing opinion pieces on politics, economics, education, immigration and race, among other subjects. He’s also a commentator for Fox News, where he’s appeared for more than a decade, and a frequent public speaker.After joining the Journal in 1994, he was named a senior editorial page writer in 2000 and a member of the Editorial Board in 2005. In 2008 he published "Let Them In," which argues for a more free-market oriented U.S. immigration policy. His second book, “Please Stop Helping Us,” which is about the track record of government efforts to help the black underclass, was published in 2014. He joined the Manhattan Institute in 2015.Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Mr. Riley earned a bachelor's degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has also worked for USA Today and the Buffalo News. He lives in suburban New York City with his wife and three children.==

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Knocking-Hustle-Against-Neoliberal-Politics/dp/0692540792">http://www.amazon.com/Knocking-Hustle-Against-Neoliberal-Politics/dp/0692540792

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Businessmen love Jay-Z. Specifically, they love one line the rapper-turned-business-owner says in Kanye West's 2005 single, "Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix)": "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man." Jay-Z's declaration that he's not merely an earner in the music industry but a brand all to himself became the lead sentence in a Forbes piece titled "10 Startup Tips from Hip-Hop Lyrics," which pointed out that Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ben Horowitz uses rap lyrics to teach business lessons. In a different Forbes piece, entrepreneur, best-selling author, and ViSalus Sciences CEO Ryan Blair used Jay-Z, and that lyric specifically, as a signpost guiding his own evolution from a "suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying businessman" to "creating a brand in business unique to myself." Being a business, man: You're not just making your way—every move you make puts money in the bank.

Lester Spence hears that entrepreneurial swagger in the lyric as well. What the Johns Hopkins associate professor of political science and Africana studies sees that line as representing, though, is more complex than a simple rags-to-riches tale of success in free-market American capitalism. For him, the lyric is a distinct comment on black labor today. Rappers, as hip-hop fans know, regularly boast about how constantly they have to work to make ends meet. Their songs are often tales of street entrepreneurs working in underground economies, sure, but the songs extol getting paid by any means necessary. They produce so everybody else—the kids and loved ones they're supporting, the fans who are listening—can consume.

Spence sees such tales of "hustling," as the day-to-day grind is known in hip-hop, as an echo of African-American work songs, which were sung by men tethered by slavery or prison to hard labor. While the iron chains of the eras that produced those songs are gone, hip-hop's hustler wears a metaphorical chain of his own making. He hustles just to get by, the way so many people do today.

As Spence notes in his recently published book, Knocking the Hustle (Punctum), from the early 1970s to the present, American labor productivity has increased 80 percent while wages have stayed stagnant or declined. That we work more to earn as much as we once did—or even less—is a standard woe of the American economy in 2015. How these hip-hop celebrations of the hustler function in African-American communities, though, is what Spence finds disconcerting. Hustling is embraced as the appropriate adaptation to living in today's economy. The individual's having to learn whatever it takes to get by is a virtue in today's economy. Anybody who isn't constantly looking for ways to improve the return on his personal human capital simply isn't hustling enough. And for those people who are too lazy to maintain a level of at least subsistence hustle? Their failures and their poverty are a cul-de-sac of their own making. The black church will tell them that. Black elected officials and business elites will tell them that. Hell, Jay-Z himself will tell people that. In his song "Can't Knock the Hustle," he sneers at day-job drones who only work 9 to 5, "lunching, punching the clock."

<div class="pullquote">The devastation of poor and working-class black communities was caused by people, be they elected officials or thought leaders, implementing and embracing neoliberal policies and ideas.</div>

The ideas represented in the "I'm a business, man" lyric strike Spence as an instance of popular culture reproducing a political idea and story: Successful people work hard and get ahead by investing in their human capital, and people who aren't successful simply aren't working hard enough to do that. Recall President Barack Obama on the 2014 midterm elections campaign stump, lamenting that "if Uncle Jethro would get off the couch and stop watching SportsCenter and go register some folks and go to the polls, we might have a different kind of politics." In other words: The problem with black people is not that the economic and political infrastructure has anything wrong with it, but that they're not doing enough for themselves.

That there are gaps—in education, in wealth, in political power—between blacks and whites isn't what Spence is zeroing in on. Those gaps have been well-documented and studied. Black unemployment remains twice as high as white unemployment. Economic disparity between whites and blacks widened during the recent recession. Racism is real, and it continues to segregate cities, schools, and the workforce today. It fuels practices such as redlining housing policies, voter suppression, and mass incarceration. But what racism doesn't account for are the political ideas and policies that reproduce similar economic and political power disparities within African-American communities. Racism doesn't account for black elected officials who embrace the same economic policies that adversely impact black populations. Racism doesn't account for the belief among black leaders that the onus for improving the lives of black people falls not on addressing inequities built into economic, educational, and social infrastructures, but on addressing shortcomings in African-Americans' character.

For Spence, the ways in which black politics has been shaped by neoliberalism start to address how these inequalities have been reproduced within the black community over the past 40 years. The core of neoliberalism economic philosophy is the idea that society, and all of its organizations and institutions, works best when allowed to operate on free-market principles, free especially of government intervention. Neoliberalism, in the view of its advocates, produces a system that rewards enterprising people who improve the return on their human capital—the entrepreneurial hustlers. The period from the 1970s to the present witnessed the slow erosion of the domestic programs and policies enacted from the New Deal through the Great Society. When unemployment and inflation spiked during the economic crises of the 1970s, politicians and policymakers began following an economic model that insisted that a free market could fix what government regulation hampered. By the 1980s, neoliberal ideas were becoming entrenched: What was good for the economy was also good public policy.

Political scientists, economists, and pundits wrote about neoliberalism while political scientists wrote about racial politics. But much less was written about how neoliberalism and racial politics overlap. David Harvey's 2005 A Brief History of Neoliberalism explored how neoliberal economic policies evolved into political policy in Western democracies. Cornel West's 1993 best-seller Race Matters argued that conventional liberal/conservative American political discussion ignored the role race played in social and moral public discourse after the civil rights era. Each took the short, overview approach; neither focused specifically on how neoliberal economics had slowly invaded black politics over the past 40 years. With Hustle, subtitled Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, Spence has written that book.

It's a dense but readable hybrid of ambitious scholarship, partly touching on the histories of economics, urban policy, and education since the 1970s, and partly showing how those developments worked to narrow the point of view in black political discussions. Spence has brought together a wide web of research—everything from academic papers in economics, political science, and sociology to pop culture criticism and daily print and television journalism—to shape his argument. Hustle is Spence's attempt to write a book about what one could argue is a guiding force of our era, he says. He's written it for a general reader, hoping to speak directly to the people now living under neoliberalism's fallout, people who haven't seen the policies of the past 40 years, for instance, improve schools or their job prospects or the cities in which they live.

"Can I write a thing for black people that does some of the work that Race Matters did for previous generations?" he asks, adding that the devastation of poor and working-class black communities was caused by people, be they elected officials or thought leaders, implementing and embracing neoliberal policies and ideas. "When I'm thinking about who the reader is, I'm thinking about my dad. I'm thinking about my fraternity brothers. I'm thinking about people who can read this and see that there's this thing hanging over them in all these different ways, but it's the creation of human action. The neoliberal turn was the product of human action, again and again and again."

Hustle's most revelatory chapter focuses on black churches. And it's illuminating precisely for how Spence connects the content of "prosperity gospel," a variant of evangelical Christianity, to the political imaginations of churchgoers. Rarely do academics—or journalists for that matter—look at what is presented in churches as political content, outside of how churchgoers impact elections. (For example, the emergence of the Christian right as a voting block in the 1970s.) Spence argues that what is said in church from the pulpit represents a neoliberalization of the black church.

The chapter opens with a brief discussion of two New York Times articles from the Detroit area following the 2008 economic crash that hit the automotive industry and the region hard. One, "Detroit Churches Pray for 'God's Bailout,'" was a report from the Greater Grace Temple, one of Detroit's many churches that, at the time, held special services to help its congregations through a difficult time. Spence notes that in the photo that ran with the article, three white luxury SUVs shared the stage with the church's leader, Bishop Charles H. Ellis III. The article reported that the vehicles were on loan from local dealerships and that Bishop Ellis, "urged worshipers to combat the region's woes by mixing hope with faith in God." Spence sees the vehicles as having two symbolic values. For those who worked in the automotive industry, it was a symbol of what they depended on to survive. For those who didn't work making automobiles, the SUVs were status symbols, reminders of what they could have if they would only hustle harder.

The following year, another Times reporter visited Pontiac, about 30 miles outside Detroit, to write about the automotive industry's role in creating a black middle class in that area, and how the industry's collapse was decimating those families. Titled "GM, Detroit, and the Fall of the Black Middle Class," the article told its story through a profile of Marvin Powell, a longtime autoworker, one of the 600 who still worked making trucks at General Motors' Pontiac Assembly Center. Powell worked the only shift the plant maintained after getting rid of nearly two-thirds of its workforce through buyouts, early retirement, and layoffs.

<div class="pullquote">Prosperity gospel frames the problem of poor people as a problem of those who do not improve their human capital, not as something wrong with the system in which they must live. </div>

During the reporting of the story, Powell learned that GM was planning on shutting down all of its factories for 10 weeks, which would leave him without his $900-per-week paycheck for that period. Powell said he might use the freed-up time to try and become a chef and start a catering company, adding that he had never intended to be a "GM lifer."

He attributed his positive outlook in trying circumstances to being a Greater Grace congregant, where he led a Sunday school class and was one of the church's armor bearers, an honorary position. His leadership role in Greater Grace had made him an esteemed figure at the auto plant, and his co-workers had encouraged him to run for a union leadership role. He demurred from that, but they sought him out for advice, nevertheless. What was he going to do when the plant closed? Powell told them that he couldn't control the plant's closing, so he didn't worry about it. He also said, "I tell them that God provides for his own, and I am one of his own."

That leapt out at Spence. Born and raised in Detroit as the son of a Ford autoworker, he was struck by Powell's resilience in the face of so much economic upheaval. But he was also taken aback by the way Powell conceptualized the situation. The autoworker didn't consider a union leadership position as providing him with an opportunity to fight for his and his co-workers' jobs. Instead, as Spence writes, "in Powell's opinion those who choose God will be saved from the worst of the economic crisis while those who don't, won't." Spence identifies this idea as part of the message spread by prosperity gospel, a doctrine that started in white churches in the 1950s and sprang to national attention through 1980s televangelism. It has taken strong root in black megachurches over the past two decades. Spence visited a black church in Baltimore County led by a charismatic prosperity gospel preacher who argued that everything associated with the economic crisis—debt, poverty, unemployment—was caused by a "poverty mindset." The minister reasoned that this mindset causes people to spend their money instead of saving it, causes "them to lay around when they should be hustling." And this mindset was the direct result of somebody having a bad relationship with God.

Spence writes: "Note the logic here. People are materially poor because they don't think right. Their inability to think right makes it impossible to receive God's blessings"—which can come in the form of spiritual or material reward. And the only way to right that bad personal relationship with God is for a person to change how he or she thinks—to improve their human capital through spiritual pursuits. These spiritual pursuits, it should be noted, often take the form of sermons and books that congregants can buy and workshops they can pay to attend, in addition to supporting the church by tithing.

For Spence, prosperity gospel, through prolific and celebrated pastors such as Creflo Dollar, founder of the mammoth World Changers Church International in Georgia, transforms "the Christian Bible into an economic self-help guide people can use to develop their human capital." It's a way to make questions about who lives comfortably and who lives in poverty a matter of which one spiritually deserves to do so. This notion, Spence writes, represents a neoliberalization of the black church—not only because the prosperity gospel frames the problem of poor people as a problem of those who do not improve their human capital (not as something wrong with the system in which they must live), but also in how the increasingly multi-millionaire leaders of black megachurches compete for their congregants' tithes and spiritual consumerism. Such a practice not only creates vast economic disparities between ministers and congregants—Spence notes an AtlantaBlackstar.com news website article that named eight black preachers who make more than 200 times what their churchgoers do—but it shapes parishioners' political imagination.

Fighting poverty, debt, and whatever economic adversity a congregant faces thus becomes only a spiritual matter for the individual, not the collective concern of a political organization. And getting people to see the political content in a church service is something Spence hopes readers will take away from the book. "What I want is for people to read it and see their world through new eyes," he says, adding that he hopes that by pointing out how prosperity gospel reproduces neoliberalism's disparities, readers might begin to seek other solutions to dealing with it.

There are possibilities for finding ways out of the neoliberal situation other than simply buying into the hustle, Spence says. Throughout the book, he offsets his charting of how neoliberalism seeped into black politics by citing contemporary instances of grassroots activism and political organizing to combat neoliberal advances. They may be modest, they may be temporary victories, but the examples he cites—the Urban Debate League that cultivates policy debate among city high school students; the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement that organizes communities to develop more equitable public policies; the Baltimore Algebra Project and Leaders of the Beautiful Struggle that in 2008 blocked Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's attempt to spend $108 million in taxpayer money to build a new prison to house juveniles charged as adults—actively oppose the neoliberal turn in public policies.

<div class="pullquote">"When people write about neoliberalism, there's a tendency to make it seem like a fait accompli, that it's going to happen and there's nothing you can do to stop it. I wanted to make an aggressive assertion that political organizing matters."

<div class="cite">Lester Spence</div>

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Spence considers himself a product of such black activism. At 46, he's spent almost his entire life in majority-black cities. He was born and raised in the Detroit area; his father was a pipe fitter who worked for Ford Motor Company, his mom a substitute teacher. The Spence family lived in the predominantly black Inkster neighborhood until moving to the predominantly white suburb Redford in 1985 as economic depression hit the city, and he attended the University of Michigan in nearby Ann Arbor for both college and graduate school. But he didn't get into Michigan at first. It was only through the university's Summer Bridge Program, an introduction to collegiate life for incoming low-income freshmen and students of color, that he was able to enroll. That program was the result of black student activism on the school's campus. Between 1970 and 1987 African-American students repeatedly protested the university's practices and policies in three Black Action Movement protests, the second of which, in February 1975, led to the creation of the program that became Bridge.

"I would argue that the reason diversity is now important at Michigan is because of black student activism," Spence says. "It didn't work perfectly, but that's how politics works. It's not pretty. It's very long term. It's not sexy. It's not going to get you on TV. It's not going to get you any of that stuff. But it matters." And he's hoping Hustle's readers will take that message from the book. "When people write about neoliberalism, there's a tendency to make it seem like a fait accompli, that it's going to happen and there's nothing you can do to stop it," Spence says. "I wanted to make an aggressive assertion that political organizing matters."

To make such alternatives visible is why Spence decided to place Hustle with the open-access publisher Punctum. A print copy can be bought through Punctum's website, but the publisher is also making a digital version available free of charge six months after release. If Spence is going to advocate knocking the hustle, he might as well do it himself. If he's writing a book that argues against being one of the many entrepreneurial hustlers just looking to get paid, then he better not put an economic barrier in front of somebody wanting to access that idea.

"I believe in public action, to the extent that if we're going to problem-solve this world, our ability increases when we're able to see public examples," he says. "I mean, I can't live a perfect life, that's not possible. I, too, get caught up in the hustle. But at the very least I can write against that in ways that will inform not just the ideas and behaviors of people around me but also ways that can inform my own behavior. It can allow me to say, 'There's this other way to be—and you don't need to do this to yourself.'"

Bret McCabe, A&S '94, is the magazine's senior writer.

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<a href="https://punctumbooks.com/titles/knocking-the-hustle/">https://punctumbooks.com/titles/knocking-the-hustle/</a>

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<h5 style=" text-align: center;" align="left">Lester Spence on how he conceptualized this book as a sort of critical response to Cornel West’s Race Matters and David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and why he chose punctum books as his publisher, <a href="http://www.lesterspence.com/2015/04/02/nobodys-coming-faq/" target="_blank" style="">HERE</a>.</h5>

Over the past several years scholars, activists, and analysts have begun to examine the growing divide between the wealthy and the rest of us, suggesting that the divide can be traced to the neoliberal turn. “I’m not a business man; I’m a business, man.” Perhaps no better statement gets at the heart of this turn. Increasingly we’re being forced to think of ourselves in entrepreneurial terms, forced to take more and more responsibility for developing our “human capital.” Furthermore a range of institutions from churches to schools to entire cities have been remade, restructured to in order to perform like businesses. Finally, even political concepts like freedom, and democracy have been significantly altered. As a result we face higher levels of inequality than any other time over the last century. In  Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, Lester K. Spence writes the first book length effort to chart the effects of this transformation on African American communities, in an attempt to revitalize the black political imagination. Rather than asking black men and women to “hustle harder” Spence criticizes the act of hustling itself as a tactic used to demobilize and disempower the communities most in need of empowerment.

<h2>About the Author</h2>

Lester K. Spence is an associate professor of political science and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in the study of black, racial, and urban politics in the wake of the neoliberal turn. An award winning scholar (in 2013, he received the W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award for his book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stare-Darkness-Limits-Hip-hop-Politics/dp/0816669880/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312392415&sr=8-1">Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics</a>) and teacher (in 2009, he received an Excellence in Teaching Award), he can regularly be heard on National Public Radio and the Marc Steiner Show. He also has his own blog <a href="http://www.lesterspence.com/2015/04/02/nobodys-coming-faq/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.

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he U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/01/13020/cmd-submits-testimony-us-senate-koch-self-interest-criminal-justice-reform" target="_hplink">hearing</a> on that part of the Koch agenda just two weeks ago in which some Members expressed deep concerns about the effort to use the need to address the disproportionate mass incarceration of African Americans as a vehicle to let white-collar criminals off the hook.</div>

It also favorably mentioned the Kochs' recent funding of the United Negro College Fund, without noting the <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/11/union-severs-ties-uncf-citing-koch-grant" target="_hplink">strings</a> the Kochs put on the scholarships and the role of Koch Industries in determining who is sufficiently supportive of their ideology to get the money.

It noted that the Kochs' Libre Initiative, which basically markets Koch kool-aid to Latinos, gave out holiday turkeys to some families--without noting how the group has come under wide criticism for <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/libre-initiative-koch-brothers-new-focus-winning-latino-voters" target="_hplink">peddling</a> policies that hurt many Latino families like opposing increasing the minimum wage, opposing access to affordable health care, and undermining workers' rights.

It also portrayed concerns about the Kochs' secretive but enormous role in elections as partisan--saying they "face deep skepticism from Democrats"--even though <a data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/21/majority-americans-want-money-politics/" target="_hplink">polling</a> consistently shows that Americans from both major political parties and independents are deeply concerned about the influence of special interests on our elections and super-majorities oppose the Citizens United decision that has helped unleash the Koch election machine.

It also uncritically quoted Bob Woodson, a black conservative who was an architect of George W. Bush's faith-based initiative, and who is working with the new group. He claimed the Koch brothers and the right-wing CEOs and trust-fund babies they gather are just "grass-roots rich people" and "not the kind of corporate elitists who boast all the time about their vacations in France." And it comes from a guy who claims the Kochs' "philosophy and operating principles [are] ... 100% compatible with the way we help the poor." That's some nice spin.

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