https://twitter.com/KevinNR/status/794618024695316480
The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart had something important to say to black Americans today:
Black people, if you really love the Obamas, you'll vote for Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/nI10hlgky5
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) November 4, 2016
Capehart begins:
Okay, black people. Look, I get it. Hillary Clinton isn’t Barack Obama, and the history she could make as the first woman president of the United States does not move you in the way making Obama the first African American president did. But if you love Barack and Michelle as much as you say you do, you better get over it. A “President Trump” will erase everything they have accomplished.
And concludes with this:
Stunning things happen when African Americans defy the odds. Obama knows this. Clinton knows this. But they also know that far too many black voters might sit on the sidelines because Obama is not on the ballot. And that’s true. The president isn’t on the ballot. But the Obamas — everything they stood for, everything they achieved, everything they and their family symbolize about this nation and black people — are on the ballot. All of that will be erased if Trump wins the election.
Believe me.
If you’re rolling your eyes at that, just wait: It gets even better. Because Donna Brazile pimped Capehart’s post on her own Twitter feed:
Black people, if you really love the Obamas, you'll vote for Hillary Clinton https://t.co/ezw7h7GJ9v
— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) November 4, 2016
Looks like somebody’s a glutton for punishment! It’s almost as if she has no shame whatsoever. But that can’t possibly be true, can it?
https://twitter.com/OckyJ83/status/794615291577712641
#JillNotHill pic.twitter.com/6bsKN7gd7p
— LAC (@lac_80) November 4, 2016
— JT (@GooseCretian) November 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/baaklini2/status/794577690258878464
https://twitter.com/MissJules5x/status/794617621434040320
@CapehartJ Have you no shame, Donna?
— LaRayne (@LaRayneG) November 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/marklopresti/status/794587711730491392
You sound very desperate.
— Thomas Dithart (@ThomasDithart) November 4, 2016
@KatiePavlich @washingtonpost sounds like someone is getting desperate!! ?
— JimBrinkman (@brinkmnj) November 4, 2016
so this is what desperation looks like
— Paperfishies (@PaperFishies) November 4, 2016
Seems Donna didn’t think this through very well.
https://twitter.com/DeePort28/status/794599401356279808
emotional blackmail is not nice.
— Hillary = Female Trump (@WinningPretty_) November 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/794627030759378945
What happens to those who don’t love them? We shudder to think.
https://twitter.com/marlenbodden/status/794615984963325952
Thanks but no thanks, I despise u and them. #LeaveThePlantation
— #BustTheDuopoly (@Areejsiddig) November 4, 2016
Could Brazile — and Capehart — be any more condescending?
Donna, unshackled by the restraints of faux objectivity, reveals her true race-hustling self for the world to see. https://t.co/gznZIxMqEc
— Sarah (@mamaswati) November 4, 2016
Wow. Racist much? https://t.co/nCyB5a88z4
— BonkPolitics (@BonkPolitics) November 4, 2016
We're not children & we're not a monolith….you're a fine one to give advice. Ass kisser-in-chief.https://t.co/7IA9dIlR43
— Lorna Wilson (@LornaWilson1) November 4, 2016
So Black people are a monolithic group? I'll pass on you, Obama, and Hillary!
— Arnold Jackson (@htwoaaowth) November 4, 2016
That is a racist statement. You don't vote for people because of skin color.
— Chieftain Ole the Red (@mjolnir59) November 4, 2016
it shows your racism that you think all black people are the same. @washingtonpost
— (((Val Washington)))??❤ (@ValeriaPugliesi) November 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/ElisabethSpour/status/794585794979635200
@CapehartJ That is so racist . Black people can come to their own conclusion and have a mind to think for their self.
— JGR (@jgrssor) November 4, 2016
this is such an embarrassment and insult to the collective intelligence of AAs. Doesn't surprise me
— Medium Rare (@SheREDred) November 4, 2016
https://twitter.com/TheShadowfresh/status/794619147791507456
May we offer you some free advice, Donna? Shoot for a little less racism — and a lot more integrity.
that is truly disgusting
— Just Gordon (@gordon_fink) November 4, 2016
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