Last week at the Republican National Convention, there were 18 black delegates. That’s less than 1 percent—the lowest number in at least a century. This week at the Democratic National Convention, there are 1,182 black, 747 Latino, and 292 Asian-Americans, and 25 147 American Indians among the delegates. In addition, the speakers on the stage at the DNC have demonstrated the same level of diversity, showcasing the breadth and inclusivity of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party looks like America.
Unless, of course, you 'work' for a conservative think-tank:
The lawless anti-white identity politics of the Democratic Party is on full display in Philly. If George Wallace had stood in the schoolhouse door and received the rapturous applause of thousands, slobbery encomiums from the mainstream media, and the blessings of one of the two major party nominees for president of the United States, you would have had something approximating what occurred in Philadelphia over the first two days of the Democratic convention.
On Tuesday night, the DNC showcased a group of extraordinary women, the Mothers of the Movement, who despite horrendous personal losses in their own lives have demonstrated the courage and strength to deliver messages that are both heartfelt and heartbreaking. If you were watching Fox you probably didn't see them, as Fox was too busy talking to Karl Rove. But anyone who could hear their words couldn’t help but be touched as they mourned their children and called for peace.
Anyone, that is, who is not an unbelievable asshole.
On the next night, we heard from “Mothers of the Movement” a sort of Black Lives Matter placeholder group that offers a fundamentally false racial narrative, which may do for racial tensions in 2016 what Wallace’s did in 1963.
Those who watched the RNC saw Republicans put someone on stage to lead the audience in cackling celebration that the killers of Freddie Gray will go free. Apparently that’s not divisive. Instead we’re to believe it’s a group of mothers mourning their children who need to be kept under close observation.
… their polite rhetoric yesterday doesn’t dissolve their records of incitement. And the frequent chants of “Black Lives Matter” by the audience, left no doubt where the audience’s sympathies lay. …
If the Democrats had any real interest in racial reconciliation, they would have had Darren Wilson speak at their convention.
The RNC dedicated an evening to the idea that immigrants are killers, and are part of a program demanding a 3,000-mile long wall that will permanently deface the country and defame our founding ideals while consuming a couple of billion cubic feet in building material. But it’s a young woman who came to this country at age four who is divisive.
One candidate for president has been the first-ever candidate for president endorsed by the union of Border Patrol agents. The other candidate proudly features, on the first night of her convention, illegal aliens up on the main stage, while Democrats nationwide cheer.
This screed is the product of Jeremy Carl, who the Hoover Institute usually keeps in a back room for when they want a half-assed assault on environmental regulations or mangled statistics about energy. But in this case they’ve tipped him out of the box to deliver an astounding and laughable “diversity = racism” tirade laced with thoroughly debunked numbers on crime and word salad that would have Sarah Palin rolling her eyes.
Tonight you can expect that the Democratic National Convention will continue to hear from black Americans, from Latino Americans, from Asian Americans, from Native Americans, from LGBTQ Americans, from disabled Americans, and even from white Americans. Like, say, the nominee, and the vice presidential nominee, and the current vice president, and others who make up about half of both the speakers and the delegates. Just as they do in the nation.
But for guys like Jeremy Carl, a diversity that matches that of the United States … that’s just way too diverse. When they hear Trump’s “Make America Great Again” motto, there’s a very specific definition of “great” in mind.