On Friday’s New Day, CNN co-host Alisyn Camerota and fill-in Jim Sciutto brought on the host of United Shades of America, W. Kamau Bell to spout woke talking points. Bell went on a tear against white people, insisting that “white supremacy is a system that promotes whiteness.” He also claimed that the Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter are “mainstream” groups and praised Democratic politicians such as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for working “against the interests of white folks.”
Per typical CNN, Scuitto and Bell began by bashing President Trump:
SCIUTTO: Kamau, you and I have talked a lot about how racism -- it's not just about the folks in -- in the white suits, right? That -- that you have it just below the surface or not even that far below the surface. I want to play some comments from President Trump yesterday regarding the fair housing act, because this struck me as one of those not dog whistle moments but -- but bullhorn moments. Have a listen to his comments and I want get your thoughts.
[Cuts to video]
DONALD TRUMP: Abolish in the suburbs -- you're going to abolish the suburbs with this. They want low income housing built in the neighborhood. Well I’m ending that rule, I'm taking it out.
[Cuts to live]
SCIUTTO: What exactly is he saying there to suburban residents in your view?
BELL: I mean, as -- as I understand it, that the suburbs were created for white flight. It was created when the cities got too black and brown and white people who had some money were like, we have to go to a place that is not so black and brown. And the suburbs were built for those people. So when he says abolish the suburbs even though lots of black and brown people at this point live in the suburbs, he is dog whistling, or as you say bull horning, to white folks that the blacks and the browns are coming and their coming for your -- they’re coming for your nice manicured lawn and your picket fence your house you probably can't afford because your mortgage is underwater.
Bell lied because the notion of “white flight” is a myth that has no statistical basis. African Americans have actually fled inner cities at higher rates than whites and the five largest suburbs in the U.S. have the fastest growing black populations in the U.S. No doubt to escape issues such as crime and poverty created by failed progressive policies.
Bell then nastily attacked white Americans:
In America, white supremacy is a system that promotes whiteness and white maleness specifically and white Christian maleness specifically over everyone else. And so we really want to talk about, like it's -- it's -- it’s -- it’s blockbusting, it’s red lining. But it's also just people who feel like they have no responsibility for racism in this country because they never personally owned slaves.
All white Americans are responsible for white supremacy! Every single last one of you! But is it not racist to accuse a whole group of doing something based on the color of their skin?
Sciutto and Bell then discussed BLM and the Black Panthers no longer being “fringe” organizations:
SCIUTTO: Black Lives Matter, which -- which for some time was a fringe motto if you want to call it that, of a movement, now -- now has a majority of Americans who -- who believe there is something there. In doing this, did --did you find the conversation -- conversation changing in this country in a positive direction?
BELL: I mean, you know, I live out here in Oakland in the bay area so -- where -- where Alicia Garza, one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter lives and so out here it never felt fringe. I feel like the country is coming to Oakland basically, is that the conversation that we are --have been having out here for years, I mean the Black Panthers are from Oakland, is now being more mainstream.
BLM not “fringe?” Two of BLM’s leaders are self-described Marxists. Furthermore, the group’s New York leader stated: "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.” The group’s website goes well beyond the issue of policing, but instead has discussed destroying the nuclear family. One could even argue that the Black Panthers are even more extreme. Don't take our word for it. Even the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the Black Panthers as a hate group which has advocated for and carried out violence against whites, Jews, and the police. Good to know that CNN has gone so far left that it is endorsing Marxists and hate groups!
Bell then praised far left politicians such as Ocasio-Cortez:
And so I think that it’s -- we have to talk about systems in -- in the same way that the squad came through to change -- change Congress, we need lots more versions of that, of more people running for office who are representing different groups of people against the interests of the white folks in America.
And working against “the interests of the white folks?” Are we not all Americans that benefit from the same “interests?” For a guy that supposedly works against racism, Bell seems to be offering a message to the contrary.
CNN has gone so far left that it's endorsed people who are racist towards white Americans and advocate for hate groups and Marxist organizations.
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Read the full July 17th transcript here:
CNN New Day
07/17/20
8:54 AM ET
ALISYN CAMEROTA: So tell us about what -- you’ve been -- I mean, it's a perfect time for your show because you have long been looking at all of these issues of racism and systemic racism and white supremacy so where are you now?
W. KAMAU BELL (HOST OF CNN’S UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA): I mean, I think this in many ways is a sequel to the very first episode of United Shades when I met with the KKK and we sort of thought even before COVID-19 and before the civil unrest, that we should look again at white supremacy but take a much deeper look and really get more instructive about what white supremacy is because a lot of times we get caught up in white supremacists , who are the, you know, neo-Nazis and the KKK, but we want to talk about the structure and system of white supremacy. Which means that like, 44 out of 45 presidents have been white men in a land that was originally 100% Native American.
JIM SCIUTTO: Kamau, you and I have talked a lot about how racism -- it's not just about the folks in -- in the white suits, right? That -- that you have it just below the surface or not even that far below the surface. I want to play some comments from President Trump yesterday regarding the fair housing act, because this struck me as one of those not dog whistle moments but -- but bullhorn moments. Have a listen to his comments and I want get your thoughts.
[Cuts to video]
DONALD TRUMP: Abolish in the suburbs -- you're going to abolish the suburbs with this. They want low income housing built in the neighborhood. Well I’m ending that rule, I'm taking it out.
[Cuts to live]
SCIUTTO: What exactly is he saying there to suburban residents in your view?Bell: I mean, as -- as I understand it, that the suburbs were created for white flight. It was created when the cities got too black and brown and white people who had some money were like, we have to go to a place that is not so black and brown. And the suburbs were built for those people. So when he says abolish the suburbs even though lots of black and brown people at this point live in the suburbs, he is dog whistling, or as you say bull horning, to white folks that the blacks and the browns are coming and their coming for your -- they’re coming for your nice manicured lawn and your picket fence your house you probably can't afford because your mortgage is under water.
CAMEROTA: And so, I mean Kamau, when you say that -- you're beginning to look at what every American needs to know about white supremacy, where do you begin with something like that?
BELL: I mean, I think -- with -- with the show we understand that we have to actually define the terms for the viewer in ways that we’re going to reuse them through the episode. So very early every episode, we define as -- as Jim will affirm to you, what white supremacy and how we see it. I think a lot of people believe white supremacy -- white supremacy is just when a white person doesn’t like a black person, but that’s just prejudice. In America, white supremacy is a system that promotes whiteness and white maleness specifically and white Christian maleness specifically over everyone else. And so we really want to talk about like it's -- it's -- it’s -- it’s block busting, it’s red lining. But it's also just people who feel like they have no responsibility for racism in this country because they never personally owned slaves. So we try to go -- we have a list every episode that goes through the entire -- not the entire thing but multiple levels of white supremacy. So people can understand it’s not just a feeling, it’s actually a measurable force in America.
SCIUTTO: As you look at this, I wonder, Kamau, in -- in your conversations, but also in watching the news, when you see public attitudes towards racism change and a -- a greater public recognition, right? Vast majorities of Americans see it now. Black Lives Matter, which -- which for some time was a fringe motto if you want to call it that, of a movement, now -- now has a majority of Americans who -- who believe there is something there. In doing this, did --did you find the conversation -- conversation changing in this country in a positive direction?
BELL: I mean, you know, I live out here in Oakland in the bay area so -- where -- where Alicia Garza, one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter lives and so out here it never felt fringe. I feel like the country is coming to Oakland basically, is that the conversation that we are --have been having out here for years, I mean the Black Panthers are from Oakland, is now being more mainstream. But none of it matters if we don't actually get to the systems and structures in this country. So, I think if we drop the -- if we stop protesting and we stop the conversation, what we need is systemic and structural change because it's about mass incarceration. It's about right now the President ordering our kids to go back to schools and the -- black and brown kids systematically have the worst educations in schools, so that -- being sent back to schools will affect them more than it affects others. And so I think that it’s -- we have to talk about systems in -- in the same way that the squad came through to change -- change Congress, we need lots more versions of that, of more people running for office who are representing different groups of people against the interests of the white folks in America.
