Well, I have to say, it’s about damn time the Michigan Democrats did a little intraparty drama to take the focus away from the Michigan Republicans’ problems last year. Here’s a sampling of what I’ve written about here at RedState about the MI-GOP.
FINALLY: Legitimate Michigan GOP Chairman Pete Hoekstra now has control of social media accounts
OPINION: Michigan GOP does the right thing and drops lawsuit filed by former Chairman Karamo
Although there have been suspected Democratic infiltrators in the Michigan Republican ranks, I am hopeful that this may have come to an end since former Trump ambassador Pete Hoekstra took the reins of the party.
Now the Democrats have a problem that is fully understood and has been brewing for years.
One thing Democrats love to do is point the finger at others and call them racist. That said, I really came across this story HERE:
Tensions are rising in the Democratic primaries Michiganis a vacant Senate seat amid allegations from an opponent of Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) that she is doing politics with black voters.
Hill Harper, a black actress and long-term Democratic candidate against the establishment-backed Slotkin, says she takes that for granted powerful voting bloc in the Great Lakes State, according to campaign footage obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Harper told supporters at an LGBT campaign rally in Grand Rapids this week that Slotkin had pursued “performative” politics by bolstering her team with “a whole bunch of black people from Detroit” while employing no one in her congressional offices.
“How do I know this stuff is so powerful in this race? My opponent is seated congress for three terms, and do you know how many total blacks she had on her staff? Total, total, total, total, total, total, total, total? Zero,” Harper said. “But you look at her campaign, and she hired a whole bunch of black people from Detroit. She brought black people into the campaign and they’re like, “Whoa!” But did you do that when you actually hired people to do your work? Absolutely not.”
I’m surprised that after such allegations, Harper didn’t just come out and directly say that Slotkin was a closeted Republican.
There was a time in the country, right after the tardy Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, when people hoped that one day their children would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their skin her character. As far as I can tell, that dream died sometime immediately after his historic 1963 speech, and Democrats abandoned those dreams entirely after his assassination in 1968.
The state-of-the-art Democratic Party is just a collection of boxes that need to be checked off, and race is usually at the top of that list. Of course, the list now also includes a degree of gender confusion from men posing as women and the question of whether one can shout loudly enough about the occupation of Palestine or similar nonsense.
I would most like to attribute this to Harper, who is still a ways off in this race for the Democratic nomination, because she is trying to gain attention against Slotkin, who is just a monotonous candidate who has no real track record in her term.
Still, Democrats in southeast Michigan are a little grumpy among themselves right now over the Israel-Gaza standoffs, and that could support paint Rep. Slotkin in a horrible, racist lightweight. If this alleged smear attempt works, perhaps it will give Democrats pause in the future before they simply go out and scream racism whenever their ideas fail on a cable news show or in debates during the campaign season.
However, I think you and I both know that this is about as likely as Joe Biden holding a press conference, forming complete sentences and giving thoughtful answers. Biden hasn’t done that since his first term in the Senate in the 1970s, so I won’t hold my breath.
However, now that a racist motive has been expressed among Democrats in Michigan, I need to follow the matter a little more closely and see if this accusation has any merit.
It will be a welcome change from Michigan Republicans bashing each other.
