Why did House Democrats invite an admitted perjurer to give witness to the character of President Trump? Why did House Democrat Rashida Tlaib call Lynne Patton “a prop” on national television? Why did black female pundits on CNN and MSNBC attack Patton’s qualifications for employment in the executive branch? The answer is simple: their humanity was absent.
Even though Michael Cohen had already been convicted for perjuring himself in earlier congressional hearings, House Democrats knew he would echo the “racist” Trump narrative on live TV. This had nothing to do with Trump-Russia collusion, because it was meant to halt increasing black approval of Trump.
Black Americans should ignore the “racist” allegations because President Trump is sure buttering their bread: more money to urban housing and historically black colleges than awarded under President Obama, plus over $100 billion into Opportunity Zones to help rural and inner-city black Americans. This is true, and Trump delivered prison-reform legislation to undo the racially-biased Clinton crime bill. Above all, he has delivered record low black unemployment, boosting the ranks of gainfully employed black Americans by 976,000.
Obviously, those facts didn’t impress Rashida Tlaib, the Palestinian-American known for indelicate articulation. She claimed to “[speak] truth to power” by suggesting Mark Meadows (R-NC) had committed an act of racism: “the fact that someone would use a prop, a black woman, in this chamber is alone racist in itself.”
Actually, Mark Meadows invited a black representative who supports Trump. The overt “racism” was the inference by Tlaib that Lynne Patton, a black woman, would submit to being “a prop” because that would be (ahem) atypical of a genuine black woman. Think about that the next time you speak in defense of a friend’s character. Were you a prop or acting of your own free will?
What did it say when Sophia Nelson likened Patton’s presence to bringing a “black woman out like she was on the auction block” on MSNBC? What did it say when Tara Setmayer reduced Patton to “tokenism at its worst…laughable…the wedding planner for Eric Trump…no experience whatsoever…a personal assistant to the [Trump] family” on CNN?
Lynne Patton could make the same charge against MSNBC and CNN: i.e. they used black women as props to attack a Republican woman of color? I know two wrongs don’t make a right, but Nelson and Setmayer did not have to smear the the person of Lynne Patton to discredit the position of Lynne Patton.
Were their comments true? Not when Patton rose through the ranks of the Trump organization long before Donald Trump entered politics. Were their words kind? Hardly, the “auction block” reference was a sinful dog-whistle. Was their exact wording necessary? No, they could have disagreed without being so disagreeable. Let’s cut to the chase: Tlaib, Nelson and Setmayer were hatchet women for the Democrat party. And shame on them!
Shame on any “liberal” woman of color who denigrates a “conservative” woman of color – because they have sold their humanity in exchange for a seat at the Democrat table. And why? Because Lynne Patton’s appearance threatened their narrative (i.e. this president is a bad man). In truth, the real un-American sinners are those who sell their humanity for partisan peanuts. Now, isn’t that a pity?