Steve King, Diamond, and Silk deflect racism charges by unveiling racist legislation. zakcheneyrice writes
Representative Steve King, Diamond, and Silk. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call,Inc. Iowa Republican and white supremacist U.S. representative Steve King unveiled the “Diamond and Silk Act” on Wednesday.
Diamond and Silk’s appeal to Republicans — the vast majority of whom are white — is that they are black women willing to exonerate the GOP of its racism. They conducted themselves accordingly on Wednesday when they joined King on Capitol Hill to announce their partnership. Reporters asked what they thought of the congressman’s retweeting white supremacists. “I’m tired of you all playing the race card,” Hardaway retorted. “It’s time to start working for Americans.
The last remark prompted members of the GOP to rebuke him, stripping him of his House committee assignments in January and decrying his comments as at odds with their values. This claim is dubious, considering that King’s views have been clear throughout his 16-year tenure in Congress and his Republicans colleagues had said nothing.
But their alliance illustrates a theme in the GOP’s response to allegations of bigotry more generally. Time and again, Republican political figures have called on black conservatives to present themselves as physical proof that a party forged in the “southern strategy,” birtherism, and Trumpian hostility toward denizens of so-called shithole countries in Africa, the black Caribbean, and Central America is not racist.
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