Comedian
Larry Wilmore likened the increasing number of black Republicans to
“raisins” in “potato salad” while discussing diversity with GOP Rep. Byron
Donalds of Florida at the Republican National Convention recently.
Donalds, who spoke during the
first day of the RNC convention that officially nominated former President
Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election,
appeared with Wilmore on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, during which Donalds
praised the Republican Party for becoming much more diverse in recent years.
Donalds told Maher, “Look, you had
Amber Rose, you just talked about her. You had the mother of the fallen
soldier, Mrs. [Madeline] Brame out of New York City, myself, Wesley Hunt, John
James, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy. I mean, I can go down the list. I remember
Republican conventions eight years ago, 12 years ago, there might have been one
or two black people on that stage.”
To which Wilmore replied, “Just
because you add more raisins to the potato salad, it doesn’t make
the potato salad any better.”
Raisins? Guess we know who the real racists
are. Adding more dried-up Black people to the otherwise generally white mix
doesn’t make it better? Could Wilmore have been more tone deaf? And he had the
temerity to accuse Republicans of being racist?! Whether they refer to
peoples of color as “raisins” or “breakfast tacos,” Democrats do not
seem capable of simply considering them to be human beings.
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