If what CNN talker Don Lemon said the other night is true, then he might be “engaged” to a very bad person.
The black homosexual CNN host bluntly stated that any white person who grew up in the United States is a racist, that those who disagree are “white mansplaining.” And that President Trump, of course, is a very bad man.
The problem for Lemon? His “fiancé” is a white man, Tim Malone, who grew up in the America, Lemon says, that whelps whites who hate blacks.
This isn’t the first time Lemon has spoken ill of his “partner’s” race. In 2018, he said the country needed a “white-guy ban,” which didn’t, apparently, apply to the man he thinks will become his “husband.”
“White Mansplaining”
The latest occasions for Lemon’s denunciation of whites were two appearances on programs with other CNN stars.
First up was Chris “Fredo” Cuomo, who took a shot at White House economic adviser Lawrence Kudlow in the turnover to Lemon’s show. Kudlow says he doesn’t believe “systemic” racism is a problem.
“Two reasons why someone like Larry Kudlow would say they don’t see systemic racism in this country,” Cuomo said. “One, because in his world, he doesn’t see it. But I believe the real reason is he’s following Trump protocol. Lie, deny, and defy.”
Then Cuomo turned it over to Lemon, who segued into his complaint and introduced a neologism.
“I call it white mansplaining,” he began. “You know how you do mansplaining to women?”
This is white mansplaining the injustices that people they have no idea about are facing. That’s all it is…. If you really want to understand racism in America, just think about your … your phone. Right? Or your car or your computer. When the factory reset in America is whiteness. Is two cars, the American dream, which was built on what, on whiteness? And so, once you think about it like that, if you are any other ethnicity, the factory reset is not you…. And he doesn’t know or they don’t know or they don’t want to know because they are, what? They are benefiting from systemic racism.
Lemon finished the segment with Fredo by claiming that “the only people who are denying [systemic racism] are the relics; are the people like Trump and Larry Kudlow.”
I don’t really care what [Trump] says about race because he is the birther-in-chief. He is the sons of b**ches-in-chief. He is the s**thole countries-in-chief…. What he says is irrelevant…. All I can do is call him out on his ignorance.
Lemon the Gardener
The next morning, Lemon, last year accused of sex assault, appeared on New Day to continue his anti-Trump rant.
Trump, he said, is “tone deaf” and “is probably the person who is doing the most harm when it comes to race relations, police relations … because he is simply behind the times. Not only is he not in 2020, he’s not even in 1968.”
Of course, for Lemon, it’s always 1955 in Selma, Alabama, but at any rate, he continued with the ritual bashing of the country and the people, mostly whites, that made him a wealthy man.
“I have hydrangeas in my yard,” he said, “and they come back a different color, or a tulip, or an orchid.”
And it’s not because they’re different. It’s because the soil is different. Right? It depends on the nutrients in the soil. So if you grew up in America, you came out of American soil, how … considering the history of this country … how can you not be racist?
White-guy Ban
Americans likely didn’t know Lemon was a gardener, and wonder whether he also grows pansies, but that aside, the two appearances weren’t Lemon’s first time bashing whites.
Two years ago, Lemon said “the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.”
“There is no travel ban on them,” he continued. “There is no ban on — you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no white guy ban. So what we do about that?”
Whatever the answer, Lemon is, again, “engaged” to a white man.
Question: When the two start squabbling, does that mean Malone’s “factory reset” is “whiteness,” and does Lemon accuse him of “white mansplaining?”
H/T: Newsbusters
Image: screenshot from YouTube video
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
