Larry Elder: The Los Angeles Times Uses the Headline: Larry Elder is the Black face . . .

Los Angeles Times (Aug 20) has a column about Larry Elder and his run for Governor. The column does have some legitimate criticism of his beliefs. You may agree or disagree with those criticisms, but one has the right to their own beliefs on policies.

“We have been having a series of real uncomfortable discussions about systemic racism in institutions across this state,” said state Sen. Sydney Kamlager (D-Los Angeles). “About how to really peel back the layers of ignorance or ineptitude so that we can deal with them in very real ways. And Larry Elder is someone who just fundamentally doesn’t believe that [systemic racism] exists.”

Elder scoffs at the many efforts to reform the criminal justice system and to root out racial bias in policing by requiring more transparency and accountability from officers. Instead, he keeps trotting out statistics that purport to show that Black people are particularly prone to murdering one another.

But then it also goes into personal attacks such as the below.  

[Melinda] Abdullah of Black Lives Matter: “Anytime you put a Black face on white supremacy, which is what Larry Elder is, there are people who will utilize that as an opportunity to deny white supremacy. They say, ‘How could this be white supremacy? This is a Black man.’ But everything that he’s pushing, everything that he stands for, he is advancing white supremacy.”

Look, I'm not an expert on racism, but it seems to me that Melinda Abdullah is using the fact that she is Black as cover for using racist imagery. Who doesn't see Black face and not think of blackface used in old movies and sometimes not so old movies? You know she purposely used that combination of words. It wasn't by accident.