GOP Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy makes waves almost daily now with his controversial ideas, such as the concept that there are only two genders and that there are three branches of government, not four. But perhaps the most provocative idea, or ‘truth‘ as he has coined it, is that ‘reverse racism’ is also racism.
Recently, Mr. Ramaswamy compared the left to the KKK when he was asked about their racist attacks against him, insinuating he’s ‘white adjacent’ or a minority traitor pushing white supremacy.
Mr. Ramaswamy has been getting the usual liberal media scolding for being so dangerous as to make what I would argue might be the best SAT question analogy between the KKK and modern-day left-wing racism heard yet. But I’ll let you decide if Vivek Ramaswamy crossed a line or just dropped a hard truth.
Rep Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) “We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice” pic.twitter.com/2NIj5Vvcor
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 15, 2019
Who’s we?!
At a recent Iowa campaign event, Vivek Ramaswamy was asked about those on the left who would argue he shouldn’t be parroting GOP talking points, given the color of his skin. As seen in the tweet above, far-left ‘Squad’ member Ayanna Pressley insinuated that Vivek isn’t ‘really’ a minority because someone of his skin tone shouldn’t have the beliefs he does.
In response, Ramaswamy turned the tables on Pressley:
“Ayanna Pressley, she’s in the Congress today. She’s a member of ‘The Squad’. Her words, not mine: ‘We don’t want any more black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t want any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice.'”
He went on to quote Critical Race Theorist extraordinaire Ibram Kendi’s book titled ‘How To Be Anti-Racist’:
“Opening lines: ‘The remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.'”
The job of Republican candidates of color is to go out to White Republicans and say they are "not racist" and the real racists are the antiracist Americans who are challenging them. So Vivek is doing his job. He's feeding their denial, like a servant. pic.twitter.com/pgMiJfAlhm
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) August 29, 2023
After highlighting these obvious racist comments, Mr. Ramaswamy drops this fantastic and on-point comparison:
“These are the words of the modern grand wizards of the modern KKK.”
And if you follow mainstream media, that will be the only line you’ll hear that Vivek spoke. Lucky for you, I have even more accurate quotes from the event.
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You might be a racist if…
Besides the fact that the one line that the media is holding onto as proof that Vivek is a dangerous man is accurate and less violent than most of the rhetoric that comes from the progressive left, the millennial candidate had a lot more to say of interest.
Mr. Ramaswamy explained:
“Pressley’s comments, in particular, deprive non-white people of their agency as individuals, treating them as a monolith based on their identity in a similar way to what the Ku Klux Klan used to do.”
He went on to punctuate his point by stating:
“The fact that we’re taught to see each other on the basis of our genetic attributes is something that would make the old wizards of the KKK proud.”
But my favorite statement Vivek made pins the tail on the racist doctrine donkey that the Democratic Party has been pushing on minorities for decades:
“I think there is no better way to disempower someone in this country, as a kid, than to say that you can’t get ahead because of the genetics that you’re born with.”
Vivek:
"There's no greater way to fuel racism in our country than to take something away from someone on the basis of their skin color. That's exactly what affirmative action does." pic.twitter.com/CFn1MOFe0z
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 1, 2023
That would be the point, Vivek. Make minorities feel as though the only way they can ever be successful is if Big Government gives it to them.
Like any abusive dependent relationship, the Democratic Party believes in breaking your spirit and trapping you into thinking you need them to survive. It’s also, you know, racist.
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Oh, the injustice of it all
Naturally, Congresswoman Pressley took advantage of the buzz around Vivek to attempt to fundraise, blasting out an email to supporters that said:
“We typically don’t engage in these bad-faith attacks, but yesterday, a line was crossed. A GOP candidate referred to Ayanna as ‘a modern grand wizard of the KKK’ because she speaks out against racial injustice.”
Make this make sense to me. How is saying that you don’t want black and brown faces who don’t support your political ideology, thus making them not ‘real’ black or brown voices, speaking out against racial injustice?
It’s not; it’s actually being racially unjust. Mr. Ramaswamy’s campaign spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, countered:
“There is nothing more racist than to assume the color of someone’s skin dictates something about the content of their viewpoints, which is what Ayanna Pressley peddles to Americans.”
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It’s not just what Ayanna peddles; it’s what the Commander-in-Chief peddled back in 2020 when he told Charlamagne Tha God:
“…if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
It seems Ayanna is taking a page out of the book of an old white guy. According to her, if you are black or brown and don’t believe in systemic racism, are against affirmative action and reparations, and are a Republican, you ain’t black or brown.
Bravo, Uncle Joe would be proud of Ayanna.
'The View' Hosts Wear Klan Hoods To Prove Tim Scott Wrong About America's Racial Progress https://t.co/GsFlpkhQTI pic.twitter.com/wWu9sArUtL
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 6, 2023
Breaking the mold
Full disclosure: I’m not sold on Vivek. I like things about him, but I disagree with a few of his policy points.
But what makes him so intriguing to my generation, including myself, is that he is unapologetic about what he says and speaks the truth, even if it’s ugly. At the same Iowa event, he described his experience as a minority:
“The greatest racism I’ve experienced – and I have experienced racism – comes from the modern left at a scale unimaginable. Because I think they feel a sense of betrayal, saying that, ‘you’re not speaking in the tone that you’re supposed to.'”
We live in a time where we allow our thoughts and tongues to be policed by the extremes on both sides of the political aisle. We allow ourselves to be brainwashed by Big Media and Big Education, who are the puppet masters of the left, that reality is what they tell us it is versus the actual truth of reality.
In a time like this, we need more Viveks saying the things we all know to be true. But the rest of us need to do the same for it to matter.
Congresswoman @AyannaPressley says “we don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice.” There’s nothing more racist than to assume the color of someone’s skin predicts something about the content of their viewpoints. Time to end the weaponization of race. pic.twitter.com/2qEwuJV6CZ
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 29, 2023
Vivek is right. The true incendiary and dangerous statements on race predominantly come from the progressive left.
It is racist to assume and expect people to believe certain things based on the color of their skin. And that’s the truth.
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Nice analogy Vivek……spot on……..Candace Owens teaches us valid history and turns heads…Good combo to pay attention to……
It was the democrats who FORM THE KKK . And was the democrats who DESTROY THE BLACK FAMILY! It was the democrats who destory Americans JOBS IN THE 1970, 1980! It was DEMOCRAT WHO GAVE CHINA OUR NUCLEAR POWER BLUEPRINT, WAS DEMOCRAT WHO STARTED CALLING AMERICA A DEMOCRACY COUNTRY! BUT TRUE BE TOLD AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY COUNTRY! BUT A REPUBLIC, ” FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE !” WHICH DEMOCRAT HATE! It was DEMOCRAT WHO UNDER THE ILLEGAL PRESIDENT DIVIDE THE COUNTRY, THEN COMMITTED SO MANY SCANDAL UNDER OBAMA! OR LET NOT FORGET THAT HE BORROWED 775 BILLION FROM CHINA! WHO PAYING IT BACK? HOW ABOUT ” AIDING” THE ENEMIES? PENALTY IS DEATH SENTENCE! DUE IT TREASONOUS AND SEDITION! BIDEN DID THE SAME WITH 85 BILLION MILITARY EQUIPMENT! WHERE THOSE CHARGE ? Three DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT who when against the CONSTITUTION LAWS TO HELP OUR ENEMIES!
If you’re thinking about voting for this cuck, PLEASE stay away from a voting booth. You’re as retarded as those that bought Obama’s bullshit.
Mt Ramasamy has been successful in life and hence exposed less to the ugly side of a dying behaviour by certain individuals. It is less prevalent now and society is all the freer for it.
White supremacy died in the 1940’s. It failed miserably. Today we have other behaviours that gets confused with race. Separate race from behaviour. This is the test of the individual.
How a person is born are the clothes we wear in existence. Jesus Christ during his time on earth wore middle eastern clothes. He was not condemned for his race. His teachings clashed with a totalitarian, brutal regime. The communists of the day.
At the Second Coming he will wear different clothes. Divine Revelation Chapter 1 verses 14, 15 and 16. Soon there will be gold supremacy.
Behaviours will be judged. No hiding behind race to cover up behaviours.
“Controversial Ideas”. Oh really. Vivek is one of the smartest men outside Jordan Peterson I have ever had the pleasure to listen to. He speaks to truth and for you idiots to use words like Controversial” says that you are a left-leaning bunch or morons who have nothing left in their quiver but broken arrows. Get your heads out and wake the hell up.
Vivek would make a perfect selection for Vice President of the Donald Trump’s coming Administration. The two of them will make the DemonRats like you shiver in your boots like children who are being punished and sent to their rooms without supper !!!
“… Controversial” says that you are a left-leaning bunch or morons who have nothing left in their quiver but broken arrows. Get your heads out …”
Do you actually understand English?
If anyone should extract their cranium from their rectum it is you.
Are you so insecure in your thoughts and opinions that you do not want to hear alternatives?
What a sad spectacle when one cannot defend one’s viewpoint except with ad hominem and invective.
There is no such thing as “reverse racism;” there is just racism, and plenty of politicians, black and white, are racists.
There is ABSOLUTELY systemic racism in this country.
Anti white racism, and in college admissions, Asians.
It is baked into the system by leftists and called all kinds
of lies. “Affirmative Action”. being the biggest. All it affirms is
racism against whites and hard working Asians.
Better qualified whites are routinely passed over for lesser
qualified minorities solely because of their race.
The very definition of racism.
All of the widespread racism comes from the left.
It’s wonderful to see a presidential candidate call it out.
This only happens because NAACP AND SOUTHERN POVERTY! Blavks kids did NOT TRY TO GET HELP BY WORKING PART TIME JOBS AS TEENAGER! Did not even got in over in their community! So to help KEEP THEIR VOTE DEMOCRAT PASSED A DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WHITE, ASIAN AND OTHER RACE TO HELP BLACK ATTENTED COLLEGE! You saw it changing from the 1980 WHEN ESPN TOOK OVER COLLEGE FOOTBALL! Every player use to be announced their major just before the game started! But that when out the door with ABC! Even you see most football teams are 75% black player! I bet half can’t read!
“The goal is not to succeed. Succeeding by your own effort makes you a privileged oppressor. Success must be handed to you for belonging to a group that is not expected to achieve. Otherwise, success is a source of guilt and shame.” – from moonbattery.com
Scientific racism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries divided humans into three races based on “common physical characteristics”: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid.
American anthropologist Carleton S. Coon wrote that “India is the easternmost outpost of the Caucasian racial region” and defined the Indid race that occupies the Indian subcontinent as beginning in the Khyber Pass. John Montgomery Cooper, an American ethnologist and Roman Catholic priest, on 26 April 1945 in a hearing before the US Senate “To Permit all people from India residing in the United States to be Naturalised” recorded:
Interesting…but is there a point to your comment?
I was a white kid in college in the late 60s. First day of classes, coming out of the cafeteria line with my tray of food, I looked around and saw all the white kids on the right and all the black kids on the left. I took a seat on a table exclusively of black kids and set my tray down and started eating. The tale fell silent. I looked up to all eyes on me. I said, “I’m sorry, is this table segregated?” After a few seconds of stressful silence, someone laughed – then everyone laughed. I got some fiends out of that venture.
Good response from you and “normal” response from sane, not-racists people, regardless of color. Before Obama, that same cafeteria would be a montage of faces of all colors blended throughout. Today, thanks to him and the left, the segregation re-emerges with vile intent. But if you dare sit down now, you will be labeled as an example of “white privilege presuming upon black’s designated safe space.” The racial healing MLK achieved at the cost of his life, Obama destroyed in 8 years. I’ve never been a racist. But I fear I’m becoming one.
You were well brought up. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for the majority of today’s people.
The left requires racism towards whites. This is one of the primary means to destroy America, race Marxism, which can come from white leftists, black racists, university professors, and especially Biden. Remember, Biden granted loans/aid to black but not white farmers and restaurant owners, until the federal courts struck down this discrimination.
The leftist attack is not logical; it is emotional. It
will appeal to racists, as well as the brainwashed young who believe they are
somehow fighting for a good cause—despite all of the obvious evidence to the
contrary.
Finally, race Marxism is a tool used by any race against any race, because the big picture aim is ideological. Consider that the black conservative candidate for governor, Larry Elder, is called “a black face on white supremacy” by the white, leftist Governor Newsome. No outrage by the left since the intelligent and charismatic Elders does not follow the party commands. Now the Republican presidential candidate Ramaswamy is denounced for being brown and not following the leftist’s dictates.
There is one ultimate goal of the Democrat Party, and that is control of the people. When one ponders the lunacy of the left, just remember that every entity must be compromised, corrupted, and controlled. The war on “white supremacy” (which means any opposition to the position of the left), energy, religion, gun ownership, biology with trans nonsense, and all political opponents has one goal: totalitarianism.
Smart blacks see through it, though.