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Throughout the first night time of the Democratic Nationwide Conference, Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) kicked off her speech by noting that she and Vice President Kamala Harris “share loads in widespread,” particularly, the truth that they “each graduated from traditionally Black schools.”
Butler’s present of HBCU like to Harris was a fairly uncontroversial factor for those who ask Black individuals since we are typically fairly well-accustomed to the pleasure HBCU alumni take of their alma mater. To us, the nod to HBCUs by Butler, who attended Jackson State College, was merely a superb search for the tradition on the nationwide political stage. However to white and fragile America’s favourite Karbon Kopy Karen, Megyn Kelly, what Butler mentioned was a transparent affront to white individuals.
“Laphonza Butler spkg – (she stuffed Feinstein’s seat) – celebrating that she and Harris each graduated from traditionally black schools. Think about the white individual up there: I’m proud to let you know I went to a principally white college!” Kelly tweeted.
Now, nobody ought to have wanted to level out to Kelly that HBCUs solely ever existed as a result of white individuals didn’t need Black individuals studying in the identical school rooms as them, simply as nobody ought to need to level out that “White Historical past Month” isn’t a factor as a result of, in America, white historical past is well known by default the opposite 11 months of the yr. After all, like the remainder of white conservative America, Kelly ignores America’s racist historical past, which is why she as soon as defended blackface and claimed it’s not racist. Kelly additionally ignores her personal hypocrisy, which is why she thinks a shout-out to HBCUs is racist, however she didn’t suppose it was racist when she insisted that Jesus and Santa Claus are white and may solely be depicted as white.
As an alternative of using a smidgeon of widespread sense, Kelly set herself as much as get dragged by the nice people on X, most of whom provided her the historical past lesson she shouldn’t have wanted.
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