Daniel Cameron is ashamed of an event organized by an alleged racist

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Remember Daniel Cameron, the Kentucky Attorney General who proved 100% useless in bringing justice to Breonna Taylor? You know, Cameron, the gobbling-place Trump-humper who in May won the Republican primary in the Kentucky gubernatorial race. Well, what if I told you that Cameron was about to attend an event recently hosted by a bigoted radio host with a history of explicitly racist remarks, and it took a fellow Republican, who is white, to dissuade?

According to the Lexington Herald-Ledger, Cameron said in June that he was looking forward to going to Eric Deters’ annual Freedom Fest event. Now, you might not know Deters, especially if you’re not a fan of racist radio hosts who call themselves provocateurs when they really mean white supremacists. So just to catch up with some of you, here’s Deters in 2011 apologizing for saying, If you want to conquer an African nation, send white women and pot then white people explaining the joke was justified because every black guy on my flag football team, dated, lived with, and was married to a white woman and smoked pot.

And here’s a much newer video of Deters complaining that you can’t watch a TV commercial now that doesn’t have a gay, black, or Asian character, and that’s screwed.

Continuing, Deter added: Black people make up 13% of the population. And it’s not a question of equality that they want to control. The minority does not want equality, it wants to take power!

For the record, according to Forbes, last year white actors made up 72.5% of people who appeared in TV and digital video ads, while white people made up less than 60% of the population. Then, of course, there is the indisputable fact that white people have, for the vast majority of Americas existence, overwhelmingly dominated every pillar of popular culture, from television to film to broadcast, you guessed it, advertising.

But listen: a white conservative Republican being blatantly racist is about as surprising as the cold weather in Antarctica, so back to the part where a black man seemed to need convincing that attending the event of a strong racist and wrong was not the decision.

To be fair, it was a white conservative Republican, Thomas Massie, Congressman from Northern Kentucky, who appeared to publicly shame Cameron into changing his mind.

Extract from the Herald-Ledger:

In videos on social media, where Deters has posted regularly for years, the former lawyer and aspiring politician used the N-word, used a homophobic slur and claimed that black people want to control everything, among other racist and offensive comments.

It plays into a trope about Republicans and I’m disgusted and discouraged that Kentucky Republicans are showing up at this event, Massie told the Herald-Leader in a recent interview. Massie said Cameron made a serious political mistake by planning to attend the event in the first place and personally advised him not to go. Members of Congress’ Fourth Congressional District covers all of Northern Kentucky, a key battleground in Democratic Governor Andy Beshears’ narrow 2019 victory over former Republican Governor Matt Bevin.

I want Daniel Cameron to beat Andy Beshear this fall, and I think he’s jeopardizing all of that by showing up at this event. The national media will have a blast, Massie said.

Here’s the truth: While Massie claims Cameron shares a scene with a fanatic who’s apparently allergic to melanin on TV, he’s playing into a trope about Republicans, the reality isn’t really a trope. It is a demonstrable fact that white supremacists today identify politically with the GOP, and vice versa.

Here’s what I wrote last month when an avid Trump supporter was charged with hate crimes for allegedly harassing his Latino neighbors and a black motorist with racial slurs and violence:

Why were white supremacist protesters waving flags with swastikas alongside flags in support of Governor Ron DeSantis outside Disney World earlier this month? Why do KKK members keep showing up on Republican campaign trails? Why does former KKK magician David Duke, who repeatedly ran for office as a Republican, take credit for the rhetoric spewed by the ex-president and ex-Fox News propagandist , Tucker Carlson? Why does racist Buffalo gunman Payton Gendron apparently believe the same great replacement theory (or white replacement theory) often touted by Carlson and other white conservatives?

I’m not saying all conservative Republicans are white supremacists (I’m not saying that today, anyway), I’m just saying white supremacists tend to be conservative Republicans. There’s just something about MAGA and the GOP that Nazis find very appealing.

And the white nationalist party is, unfortunately, also very inviting to black people like Cameron who would dance barefoot at a Klan rally and through a river of hot coals if it meant sitting at their table.

Either way, Cameron’s campaign was asked about the Deters event in September and Massies’ remarks, and conveniently enough, the campaign suddenly had other plans.

Ultimately, they were going to hold other campaign events that day in another area of ​​the state. We plan to campaign in northern Kentucky often by Nov. 7, the Cameron campaign told the Herald-Ledger.

Cameron continues to be an embarrassment.

And we still want justice for Breonna.

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