{"id":593657,"date":"2021-07-16T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593657"},"modified":"2021-07-16T13:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T17:36:34","slug":"leftist-reporters-slam-california-governor-candidate-larry-elder-for-downplaying-racism-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-reporters-slam-california-governor-candidate-larry-elder-for-downplaying-racism-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Reporters Slam California Governor Candidate Larry Elder For \u2018Downplaying Racism In America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftist-reporters-slam-california-governor-candidate-larry-elder-for-downplaying-racism-in-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593657&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Larry-Elder.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>After conservative radio host Larry Elder announced his candidacy for California governor, left-leaning journalists began slamming him for \u201cdownplaying racism in America\u201d \u2014 and daring to hold conservative views as an African-American.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The \u201cSage From South Central\u201d told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/larry-elder-explains-decision-to-run-for-governor-this-is-an-intervention-a-mission-of-mercy-damage-control\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span> on Thursday that his decision to run for governor is driven by California\u2019s dysfunction and Gavin Newsom\u2019s incompetence: \u201cThe state is practically ungovernable with Democrats enjoying supermajorities in the Senate and the Assembly, plus a left-wing clueless governor totally beholden to the teachers union that opposes choice in school.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>His candidacy will emphasize \u201crising crime, rising homelessness, declining quality of urban education and the governor\u2019s anti-science coronavirus mandates that were the most severe in the country.\u201d However, journalists and opinion columnists most emphasized Elder\u2019s purported misreading of American race relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dustin Gardiner of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/amp\/Larry-Elder-conservative-Black-rival-in-Newsom-16318275.php\"><span>San Francisco Chronicle<\/span><\/a><span> painted Elder\u2019s views on race as scandalous:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><i><span>His beliefs on race are likely to draw gasps from some voters. Elder contends racism isn\u2019t a major problem in America today and that police are less likely to use violent force against people of color than white suspects. Most fervently, he argues households with single mothers are the cause of higher crime in Black communities.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Elder, 69, grew up in the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, raised by a father who was a janitor and a stay-at-home mother. He said the progress Black households made in that era has been undermined by the decline of the nuclear family. Policy experts and academic researchers point to a host of other factors to explain disproportionate poverty and violence in Black communities: systemic racism in employment and home ownership, less inter-generational wealth and brutality in policing.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Jean Guerrero of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2021-07-14\/larry-elder-candidate-newsom-recall-election\"><span>Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/a><span> sought to link Elder to the most \u201ctoxic\u201d figures of the Trump presidency \u2014 a move that is no doubt an appeal to her Trump-loathing readers:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p><i><span>Larry Elder, the nationally syndicated conservative talk show host who is running to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, played a little-known role in the rise of some of the Trump era\u2019s most toxic figures and ideas.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>White grievance politics were once the purview of neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, as when David Duke claimed \u201cthe white man\u201d was the real \u201csecond class citizen in America today.\u201d Now, thanks in no small part to Elder and his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, the delusion of rampant reverse racism is mainstream in Republican politics and Fox News.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Marlow calls Elder \u201cone of the most important American conservatives.\u201d Elder also inspired media provocateur Candace Owens, who calls him one of her \u201cidols.\u201d He\u2019s also had allies in former Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions and David Horowitz, another Miller mentor, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center categorized as an anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant extremist.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Guerrero likewise blasted Elder for opposing the \u201cboogeyman\u201d of critical race theory:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><i><span>Elder\u2019s campaign builds on the fantasy that it\u2019s not racist to deny the threat of white supremacy. \u201cDo I look like a white nationalist to you?\u201d he asked on his show Monday after announcing his entry in the race.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Elder, while perhaps more palatable than some of his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, has the power to do as much harm precisely because of his ability to seem relatable, even reasonable. His talent for cathartic storytelling obscures the role of history and legal and economic structures on individual lives. His banner of \u201cself-determination\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to apply to people struggling to prevent this country from repeating the crimes of the past.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>When left-wing reporters are not slamming Elder, they are simply pretending that he does not exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-larry-elder-says-u-s-media-is-ignoring-his-film-on-black-conservatives\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span> recently reported, Elder is featured alongside Candace Owens, Allen West, Brandon Tatum, and Herman Cain in \u201cUncle Tom\u201d \u2014 a film about the abuse received by black conservatives who disagree with progressive dogma. Though Elder was interviewed by reporters from Sweden, Australia, and England about the film, no mainstream media in the United States wanted to touch it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUncle Tom\u201d turned a profit thanks to the massive platforms of its subjects. In the face of clear media bias in progressive California, Elder will no doubt lean upon his fan base to bring conservatism back to the Golden State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span> member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After conservative radio host Larry Elder announced his candidacy for California governor, left-leaning journalists began slamming him for \u201cdownplaying racism in America\u201d \u2014 and daring to hold conservative views as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}