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In today’s episode of The GOP’s Master Class In Racism And Gaslighting, Rep, Lauren Boebert is unsurprisingly doubling down on her racist remark about Democratic Rep. Al Green’s “pimp cane.”
For those who missed it, last week, Boebert had the unmitigated caucasity to criticize Green for interrupting President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, as if she and fellow white nationalist handmaid Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene weren’t famously caught on video loudly jeering President Joe Biden during his address.
“For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent,” Boebert told whatever right-wing podcaster who would listen to her whitesplain her hypocrisy away and treat it like it’s anything other than deflective, Simple Simon-a** Caucasian nonsense.
On Tuesday, Boebert went back to the same platform to declare, “I stand by it,” after her remark was panned as racist across social media, and after House Democrats moved to censure her for her remarks.
From HuffPost:
She first questioned Green’s use of the cane. “I have never seen Al Green actually use his cane as a support to walk. I have seen him shake it for years all throughout the Capitol during any meeting that I’ve ever been present with him in.”
“If that gold-plated cane isn’t a pimp cane, I don’t know what is,” she continued.
Boebert then hit back at Rep. Chrissy Houlahan’s (D-Pa.) attempt to censure her over the remarks, which Houlahan described as “disparaging, derogatory, and racist toward another colleague.”
Boebert suggested: “Maybe Houla-who is really the racist here. Are only Blacks pimps? Is that what I’m hearing? Are there no cisgender, white pimps in America?”
Come on now, Boebert — if you’re going to be racist, at the very least, don’t also be a coward. If you “stand by it,” then stand by it.
First, even if we set aside the fact that there are plenty of images and video footage online that shows Green using his cane to walk and that Boebert is likely lying when she says she’s never seen this 77-year-old man use his cane with its intended purpose, we’re not going to ignore that it’s just a regular-degular cane. Plenty of normal, everyday canes have “gold-plated” handles. It’s not like Green is out here with a gold and diamond-encrusted Bishop Don “Magic” Juan cane.
Just admit you called it a “pimp cane” because he’s Black.
“‘Are there only Black pimps?’”
Well, no, but unless you missed the entire Blacksploitation era and virtually every film or TV show pimps have been depicted in since then you understand the “pimp” aesthetic has been largely associated with Black men.
Boebert understood this when she said it. She knew what she was saying and why, and she knows that if Green was a nearly 80-year-old white man carrying a regular-degular cane with a little gold plating on it, she would not have made the remark. We’re not going to sit up here and pretend the same congresswoman who repeatedly referred to Black and brown congresswomen as the “Jihad squad” — and fabricated a fake story about Rep. Ilhan Omar getting into an elevator with her prompting terrorism concerns from a security guard — didn’t know exactly which stereotypes she was leaning into when she said what she said about Green.
Again, if you’re going to be a bigot, don’t shy away from it after the fact. Don’t gaslight. Don’t start playing mental gymnastics to turn the “race card” around on your accuser. Stand on business.
Otherwise, you don’t really “stand by it.” You’re just throwing stones and hiding your Klans — sorry — I mean, hands.
SEE ALSO:
Why Rep. Al Green Needs To Be Protected At All Costs
US Rep. Al Green Kicked Out Of Trump’s Joint Address To Congress
‘I Stand By It’: Rep. Lauren Boebert Pretends Remark About Rep. Al Green’s ‘Pimp Cane’ Wasn’t Racist
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