On Tucker Carlson and Sycophants

“Regardless of whether President Trump succeeds in his bid for re-election to the White House, those who think and speak like Carlson will likely suffer no retribution for throwing red meat to his base.”

Author’s Note: This piece is best read as a reply, side-by-side with Jim Proser’s recent article “The Singular Courage of Tucker Carlson.”

The United States has always been a country where merely existing has been physically dangerous and often socially and professionally suicidal for African-Americans, despite what grandiose proclamations about Constitutionally-enshrined rights may otherwise suggest. Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old black man, was stabbed in the back with a two-foot long Roman-style short sword nine blocks from Times Square on March 20, 2017  “simply because he was black.” According to a Washington Post story about his death, Caughman collected “cans from the trash to pay for trips to Washington, where he enjoyed attending congressional hearings.” The profile continues: “Standing on line waiting to vote,” he wrote under a selfie he tweeted on Election Day, ‘I love America.'”

Caughman was the target of white supremacist Harris Jackson. In high school, “Jackson belonged to a small group of more conservative students who stood out” on the campus of a liberal school. “One year, Harris’s friends proposed creating a White Students Union…There was every other kind of union at [the school], but there was no white union.”

Jackson was correct. There tend not to be White Unions because of the historical preference for white confederacy, a fact ignored by conservative media outlets as they stoke white grievance, misdirecting conservative Caucasians into blaming immigrants and minorities for their woes.