![]() ![]() in blackface”), as well as gay pride (even though, as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, “Walker has said he is not gay but is attracted to ‘big, strong, muscular men’”). He is an election denier who opposes Black Lives Matter (he has called it a “terrorist organization” and “the K.K.K. More accurately, he’s come across as a nasty piece of work. Of course, Christian is a complicated character, and that’s being charitable. You have no idea what me and my mom have survived. You have no idea what I’ve been through in my life. “And so, for the right to say I’m being suspicious for saying, ‘Hey, I’m done with the lies,’ when you all have been calling me saying, ‘Is this true about your dad? Ah, we’re not going to win Georgia.’ That’s been you. In his video, Christian spoke directly to the right: Of course, Trump issued a statement defending Herschel from the abortion claims, saying Herschel had “properly denied the charges” and that he had “no doubt” Herschel was “correct.”īut Christian adds an interesting wrinkle in this narrative. Herschel helped give cover for Trump’s racism in the heat of his re-election bid, so Trump rewarded him by supporting him for Senate. He shows how much he cares about social justice in the Black community through his actions, and his actions speaks louder than stickers or slogans on a jersey.” Just because someone loves and respect the flag, our national anthem, and our country doesn’t mean they don’t care about social justice. I know what it is and it isn’t Donald Trump. “Growing up in the Deep South, I’ve seen racism up close. Herschel spoke at the Republican National Convention during the summer of 2020, as Trump continued a more than three-year war against kneeling players “disrespecting” the flag and the national anthem. Trump handpicked him to run because he was the anti-Colin Kaepernick: a Black football player who wouldn’t resist but acquiesce, one who wouldn’t campaign for Black lives but against them, one who wasn’t articulate and principled but unintelligible and fraudulent. Even before The Daily Beast’s report, Herschel Walker’s entire candidacy was a back-patting product of Donald Trump’s binary, friends-or-enemies approach to Blackness. ![]() ![]() It’s literally his handwriting in the card, they say they have receipts, whatever. In a message posted on social media after The Daily Beast’s story was published, Christian said: I have no way to independently verify The Daily Beast’s reporting, but Christian appears to believe it. The verb you may be looking for is not “targeted,” it’s “exposed.” ![]()
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