Chris Cuomo, Dr. Phil Need History Refresher

(Todd A. Smith)

No matter how much a person pretends, their true colors come out if people just listen and let them talk.

For years, media personalities Chris Cuomo and Phil “Dr. Phil” McGraw endeared themselves to many, including many in the Black community because of their success television programs.

But their recent comments on the 2024 presidential election have shown that although they have many Black fans, they might not be that big of fans of the Black community.

Like all Americans, Cuomo and McGraw should express their opinions because that is their First Amendment right as United States citizens.

Like all Americans, they can support whatever politician they want, just like I can.

Likewise, they can criticize any politician they want, just like I can.

Criticism comes when one decides to run for public office.

And politicians voluntarily sign up for such scrutiny.

However, no one is entitled to their own “facts.”

And Cuomo and McGraw have shown that they are prone to believing alternative facts, better known as lies.

At a racist MAGA (Make America Great Again) rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, McGraw said that America was built on hard work and not diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Translation.

White people have what they have because of hard work and perseverance.

And people of color do not have as much because they do not work hard.

Translation.

McGraw is racist or at least believes in racist stereotypes or tropes, which is just as bad in today’s volatile climate.

However, the popular talk show host is partly correct because America was built on hard work.

But it was built on the hard work of enslaved Black people, who obviously got no compensation for centuries of work that made America the economic power that it is today.

Additionally, many American corporations were built off the hard work of Black people falsely incarcerated and sold off to companies as a part of the convict leasing system, which allowed Black people to get enslaved after their so-called emancipation in 1865.

The entire American economy in the early days of this country was built off free Black labor.

The slaves made millions for rich White people, while those people reaped the benefits without doing any of the work.

When slavery supposedly ended, slave masters received reparations to help deal with the reality of having to pay their workers, while the slaves got nothing for the decades of work that they had done.

Likewise, when wealthy corporations could no longer use free slave labor legally, they found a loophole to their forced labor conundrum by buying convicts to work for free.

Many of those so-called convicts got incarcerated for “crimes” such as being unemployed without the White man’s approval, jaywalking or other ridiculous alleged infractions.

Therefore, many White families and White-owned companies got wealthy because of the hard work of people that McGraw would consider DEI hires.

When Black people managed to avoid the harsh realities of Jim Crow and build self-sustaining empires like the Black Wall Street community of Tulsa, Okla. in the early 20th century, White people would often destroy those communities.

Therefore, the Black community had to continuously start over despite the success they had previously attained via their hard work.

Even in the 21st century, Black people encounter banking discrimination, housing discrimination and other forms of racism that negates their hard work or forces them to work harder than their White counterparts to achieve the same amount of success.

Throughout American history, White people have always met successful Black movements with backlash.

It happened after Reconstruction when Black people made tremendous political process following their emancipation, with 100 years of Jim Crows.

And it happened via the MAGA movement after the former President Barack Obama ascended to the White House.

The 2008 election of former President Obama led to major backlash from many in the White community, and the need for many of them to have a White political messiah.

Therefore, when Cuomo criticized Black voters for allegedly thinking that Vice President Kamala Harris is the Black, female Jesus he was wrong on so many levels.

First, when he called the Black community “you people,” he told on himself.

And the fact that he cannot understand that the cult following of former President Donald Trump is not based on the economy or social issues, proves that he has his head in the sand and knows nothing about American history.

At least it proves that he is in denial about the racism in this country.

Harris is not the Black, female messiah.

And Obama was not the Black, male messiah.

But to many in the MAGA world, Trump is White (or orange) Jesus.

What does Cuomo think Make America Great Again means in the first place?

What does he think it means when MAGA minions say that they are going to take their country back?

Making America great again means make America White again.

And they want to do that by taking their country back from anyone that does not look like the majority race.

No matter what they say about the political issues of the day, the MAGA movement is all about racism and White supremacy.

And anyone who proudly supports Trump and the MAGA movement is supporting racism, anti-democratic views and a plethora of deadly sins.

Let’s just hope that America is too smart to fall for it.

And let’s hope that America shows that its true colors are colors of unity, democracy and not hatred and division on Nov. 5.

Todd A. Smith
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