{"id":30342,"date":"2018-08-29T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30342"},"modified":"2018-08-29T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T15:40:01","slug":"gillum-for-governor-and-racism-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/29\/gillum-for-governor-and-racism-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillum for Governor, and Racism Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum <\/a>just won his party’s endorsement to run in the general election for Florida’s Governor. He is a strong candidate, a progressive, and we all hope he wins.<\/p>\n

He also happens to be African American, which would be a great thing for Florida.<\/p>\n

I have two observations, though, that I want to point out.<\/p>\n

1) If you google around for the names of candidates that are referred to by name as “Sanders-backed [name of candidate]” you will find pretty much none. Except for Gillum. He is the “Sanders-backed gillum.” His name, today in the news, appears most of the time with Sanders’ name attached to him. Its like he is owned by Sanders. He can’t be his own candidate. He has to be the northern white guy’s candidate.<\/p>\n

2) Ron DeSantis, the Russo-Republican Trumpian candidate running against Mayor Gillum, made a horrid racist comment. In case you didn’t know, when an African American speaks in an articulate and intelligent matter, the racist thing to do is to call him articulate. (In the old days, add in “He’s a credit to his race,” but we don’t do that so much any more.) DeSantis did that. You probably know that referring to an African American as an ape, gorilla, or monkey, or making a vaguely indirect reference to such, is also racist. DeSantis did that too. From NBC<\/a> News:<\/p>\n

“You know, he is an articulate spokesman for those far-left views and he’s a charismatic candidate,” DeSantis said. “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. That is not going to work. That’s not going to be good for Florida.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are not surprised. But I thought you should know.<\/p>\n

Send the guy ten bucks. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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