Today’s topic: “How to be a Black man.”
It’s a subject on which white conservatives in the United States are often quick to offer instruction to actual Black men, their utter lack of relevant experience notwithstanding.
In split screens on Fox “News,” online and in emails to Black male columnists, they give unsought counsel.
Black men, they say, should educate themselves.
Speak the King’s English.
Be honest.
Abstain from violence.
And for goodness sake, stop having babies out of wedlock.
Then, white conservatives turn around and offer as a candidate in last week’s Georgia senatorial run-off a Black college dropout whose mother tongue is gibberish, who is estranged from fact if not reality itself, who has a reported history of abusing women, including threatening at least one with a handgun, and who has fathered multiple children by women to whom he was not married.
Hypocrisy votes Republican. Again.
Yes, Herschel Walker was defeated.
For that, all patriots should be glad — yet also sobered, given that he lost by less than 100,000 votes out of 3.5 million cast.