{"id":982739,"date":"2021-11-07T23:58:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T04:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=982739"},"modified":"2021-11-07T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T04:58:40","slug":"capehart-winsome-sears-not-proof-gop-victories-werent-motivated-by-racism-whiteness-is-a-hell-of-a-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capehart-winsome-sears-not-proof-gop-victories-werent-motivated-by-racism-whiteness-is-a-hell-of-a-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Capehart: Winsome Sears Not Proof GOP Victories Weren&#039;t Motivated by Racism &#8212; &#039;Whiteness Is a Hell of a Drug&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fcapehart-winsome-sears-not-proof-gop-victories-werent-motivated-by-racism-whiteness-is-a-hell-of-a-drug%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=982739&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\/11\/capehart.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This week on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Sunday Show,\u201d host Jonathan Capehart responded to a Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/virginia-governor-election-glenn-youngkin-race-11635979212\">editorial<\/a>&nbsp;directed at him for claiming Glenn Youngkin winning Virginia\u2019s gubernatorial win would be a win for white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>The editorial, noting that Virginia elected Winsome Sears, a black woman, as lieutenant governor, mocked Capehart\u2019s analysis ahead of the election as a \u201c\u2018racist\u2019 fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Capehart argued Sears\u2019 election doesn\u2019t make his assertion wrong.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhiteness is a hell of a drug. Fear worked, and Youngkin won in a state President Biden won just last year by 10 points,\u201d Capehart stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNice try, but invoking the name of Winsome Sears doesn\u2019t prove my assertion wrong about the role of race in the Virginia governor\u2019s election \u2014 not in the least,\u201d he continued. \u201cLook, voting for someone black does not grant absolution from racism or being motivated by the racist dog whistles, or nowadays, bull horns, that politicians use to play on racial fears for political gain. And let\u2019s be clear. Having some of your best friends be black or family members be black or dating or being married to someone black or liking black music and culture is no pass either. Also, when you hear us talking about granting folks black cards, always remember it\u2019s a joke. Blackness isn\u2019t transferrable, but I digress. What I\u2019m saying is not meant to take away from Sears\u2019 historic accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capehart pointed out that Sears supported former President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d policy and that \u201cshe was part of a ticket that picked at white grievance and played on racial fears to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the exception of her support for historically black colleges and universities, I don\u2019t agree with Sears on, well, anything,\u201d he stated. \u201cAfter all, she is super conservative and was a national chair of Black Americans Making America First, whose goal, according to its website, is to promote Trump policy initiatives. So, the power of her symbolism only goes so far with me, especially since she was part of a ticket that picked at white grievance and played on racial fears to win. Sears\u2019 election doesn\u2019t make those seeking absolution from charges of racism not racist. And her election should not give Virginians or the Republican Party a pass on being held accountable for what they say and how they say it to get elected \u2014 because it doesn\u2019t. If whiteness is a hell of a drug, elected someone black is no antidote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker&nbsp;on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Sunday Show,\u201d host Jonathan Capehart responded to a Wall Street Journal editorial\u00a0directed at him for claiming Glenn Youngkin winning Virginia\u2019s gubernatorial win would be a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982739","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\/982739","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982739\/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=982739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}