'The View' Co-Host Behar: Racism Won't End 'Until Black People Are Running Everything'
Joy to the world: “It’s a system of racism.”
That was “The View” co-host Joy Behar’s opinion of American culture on Tuesday, according to the Washington Examiner.
Joyless is more like it.
Listen, if so inclined, and simultaneously shake your head while taking in Behar’s latest pearls of cultural wisdom, which include: “If you are a minority in this country, you are more a victim of racism, so it’s hard to be a racist when you are a victim of racism.”
Behar’s latest pretzel logic is hard to swallow: If you’ve been a victim of racism, you can’t possibly be a racist.
Perhaps realizing the obtuseness of that whopper, she swiftly made a distinction between bigotry and racism:
“Black people can be bigoted like anybody else, but when you’re talking about racism in this country, until black people are running everything…,” she said.
She was following up her contentious comments Monday on the same program that included this gem: “It’s outrageous and stupid to call a black person a racist.”
What, pray tell, triggered Behar in the first place? President Donald Trump’s series of tweets about Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings and the 7th Congressional District he represents.
Never mind that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, as well as Housing and Urban Development Secretary Benjamin Carson and former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, share Trump’s opinion of the city’s dilapidated neighborhoods.
Cummings, meanwhile, didn’t need Trump’s description of his district to brand the president as a “racist.”
In an interview a week before Trump’s Twitter blast, Cummings had no problem stating exactly what he thought of the man in the Oval Office.
Q: “Do you believe President Trump is a racist?”
Rep. Elijah Cummings: “Yes. No doubt about it. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt.”
Via ABC pic.twitter.com/W1zkvx4W7v— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 21, 2019
In Behar’s view, in every sense of the word, the commander in chief’s tweets are racist.
We’ll never know whether the 76-year-old TV personality is trying to remain relevant (was she ever?) or simply has a natural instinct for shooting unfiltered from the hip and thus shoots herself in the foot.
I have little doubt that everyone from Behar to Cummings to the Rev. Al Sharpton know in their hearts that Trump isn’t a racist.
Just consider what the president has done for blacks when it comes to record-low unemployment and, as Reuters reported, the First Step Act. Let’s not forget — as Trump’s critics conveniently do — about his hand in granting clemency for ex-prisoner Alice Marie Johnson.
Celebrities and politicians never called Trump that now-ubiquitous R-word until he was elected president in 2016. The smallest of coincidences.
Whatever the case, “The View” die-hards evidently can’t get enough. To paraphrase the erstwhile rock band The Kinks, Behar is giving leftists and Democratic presidential hopefuls what they want.
Is Behar being serious and honest with herself? How can anyone tell?
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