Woke insanity: CNN decides that saying a Black person’s name is racist

CNN Newsroom
08/11/20
12:17 PM ET

JOHN KING: But he’s talking about Joe Biden, trying to win back suburban voters and he’s decided now to name a certain name. Listen.

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DONALD TRUMP: They want to put low income housing in the suburbs. And I ended it. I signed three weeks ago, I signed a regulation, which will end it. And the suburbs will be the suburbs again. Biden wants to re-establish that program, but make it much worse. And they recommended Cory Booker to be in charge. Cory Booker’s going to head it up. He’s going to be the one that tells you what to do and destroys your — your housing and your area.

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KING: Correct me if I’m wrong, but my first campaign was 1988, and I lived through the Willy Horton ad, naming a black man seems pretty clear to me what the President is trying to do there, Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey. Am I wrong?

TOLUSE OLORUNNIPA (WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, THE WASHINGTON POST): It’s pretty clear what the President is trying to do. First of all, there’s no evidence that Cory Booker is going to be in charge of suburban housing — housing. He’s a Senator from New Jersey, he was the mayor of an — an urban city. The — the idea that he would even be sort of put forward — it — it really scratches your head unless you sort of see that the dog whistles that the President is pointing to talking about low income housing, talking through these code words about suburban housewives being — having their housing threatened and having their — their safety threatened by low income people coming in to their communities is very clear that he’s looking at this through a racial lens, he’s trying to scare some moderate white voters who may be on the fence about his campaign and may not like his rhetoric but he’s trying to say, I’m the only thing protecting you from, you know, tons of people coming into your neighborhood and making it look not like it used to look. And he said he’s going to make the suburbs great again and sort of this throwback to you know, the 1960’s and 1970’s, and — and — the –the country just doesn’t look like that anymore, the suburbs are very diverse, a lot of the white voters that the President is trying to appeal to are actually thrown off and — and push back by his very clear and thinly veiled racial rhetoric and it’s not clear that the strategy is going to work outside of some thin margins of winning over some voters who this appeals to. But it’s pretty clear what he’s trying to do and it is a throwback to some of those types of ugly campaigning that we saw back in the 80’s.

KING: Right. It is a throwback and it is, you know, be afraid of them is what the President is trying to say as you note. The country changed, the suburbs have changed. It is clear, Kaitlan, again, a lot of people around the President say, sir, this is dangerous, the President likes the culture debate here. I’m a big fan of the NBA. I’m a big fan of the first amendment. The president clearly not. Listen.

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TRUMP: There was a nastiness about the NBA the way it was done too so I think that they — the NBA is in trouble. I think it is in big trouble. Bigger trouble than they understand. What I haven’t noticed them sending things back at me, but I will say that, you know, I wouldn’t be that surprised, some are very nasty, very, very nasty and frankly very dumb.

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KING: The NBA, of course, the majority of the athletes are black and a lot of them are taking a knee now and wearing things on their jersey in the bubble saying, you know, provocative things like black lives matter.

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