Unpopular President Donald Trump’s former anti-Semitic deputy of racism, Sebastian Gorka, continues to walk around peddling his special alt-reichian brand of bigotry. Using his faux-educated in England but slightly intercontinental and entirely pretentious accent, Gorka has joined the “Pizzagate” brigade. Luckily, Sinclair media—which is buying up media outlets in order to make “fake news” real news—was willing to stick Gorka on a discussion panel to talk about guns. And as the Washington Post explains, Gorka did what he does: went racist fast and furiously.
“Our big issue is black African gun crime against black Africans,” he said. “It is a tragedy. Go to Chicago. Go to the cities run by Democrats for 40 years. Black young men are murdering each other by the bushel. This is a social issue. Allow the police to do their jobs and rebuild those societies. Legislation will not save lives.”
Panelist and former Maryland state delegate Jolene Ivey challenged him on that point, noting that a key reason that most black people who are murdered are murdered by black people is that, as with white murder victims who are murdered by whites, they’re more likely to spend time with people who share their racial identity.
“You think it’s a geographic function?” Gorka asked. When Ivey said she did, Gorka replied: “If they move out of their neighborhood, it will be fine, right? If they move to another neighborhood?”
As the article’s writer Philip Bump correctly points out, Gorka is essentially arguing that there is an inherent problem with “black Africans.” Moving them around “geographically” will clearly not result in a better outcome. Law enforcement must deal with them. Legislation to deal with gun control, high unemployment, poverty, dwindling social services: those aren’t the issue here. Forget about the fact that Sebastian Gorka had to have a gun charge against him dismissed when he “accidentally” tried to bring a gun through airport security. The problem isn’t people that look like Ming the Merciless. The problem is clearly “black Africans.”
See, Sebastian Gorka can say “black Africans” because he has that accent y’all, and he’s only been a naturalized citizen since 2012—so he doesn't yet speak American, wellely. But it’s all white, right?