Bigotry equals
sweet campaign cash if you're a Republican presidential candidate:
On Wednesday morning, the campaign sent out an email from Carson, who pledged "I will not back down," according to campaign communications director Doug Watts.
In two hours, Watts said, $300,000 had flowed in from donors.
The Super PAC supporting Carson also raised $31,000 off of Carson's insistence that he
wouldn't support a Muslim candidate for president, at least unless the candidate
basically rejected Islam and lived what Carson considered a truly American lifestyle.
Carson went looking for his next fundraising hook on Wednesday, insisting that the Republican Party has been better on race and racism and the Democratic Party. He invoked the Republican Party of the 1850s, of course, then went for the controversial claim:
“I think the Republicans have done a far superior job of getting over racism.”
I mean, if by "getting over" you mean "not being concerned that it's a problem."
“I find black Republicans are treated extremely well in the Republican Party. In fact, I don’t hear much about being a black Republican,” Carson concluded. The one-time Democrat argued his former party is not welcoming to African-Americans like himself.
“If you’re black and you don’t think a certain way as far as they are concerned, you’re an Uncle Tom, you’re a sellout, you’re a traitor, you hate yourself, you hate your race” he said.
So ... the Democratic Party is not welcoming to black Republicans, therefore it's racist? I mean, no, you can't reliably oppose racial justice policies and either be a Democrat in good standing or don the mantle of anti-racism. But Carson sure does know what today's Republicans will eat up with a spoon—and keep throwing money at.