How predictable it was that America’s most notoriously untreated mental patient decided to fete the Martin Luther King holiday weekend by opening his sewer hole and showering his rally saps with a cascade of racist lies.
Dr. King had a laudable dream. But the demagogue’s dream is to weaponize white supremacist grievance. On Saturday night, he puked this:
The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating, just denigrating white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics. It’s unbelievable to think this…You get it based on race. In fact, in New York state, if you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line if you want help. Think of it. If you’re white, you go to the back of the line.
Granted, his twisted thesis probably confused a lot of his white worshippers – the ones who have proudly refused to get vaccinated in the first place – because now he was suggesting that getting vaccinated would actually be a good thing…if only the Blacks weren’t hogging all the jabs. Which was a weird argument to make, because (as anyone with a passably cognitive intellect well knows) there is zero evidence that whites are being sent to “the back of the line” for a vaccine that’s abundantly available to any American who wants it.
As for his race-baiting riff about “New York state,” it bears no resemblance to the actual policy in New York state. In truth, the state says that race “should be considered a risk factor” when medical authorities weigh approval of oral antiviral treatments, which are not so abundantly available. Race is cited as a risk factor because long-established health and social inequities make it more likely that people of color (compared to whites) will get seriously ill from the virus.
But enough of his racist stench. Let’s yield the floor to Dr. King. After all, today is his day:
Let us hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communications, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty...Let us maintain faith in the future. At times we confront difficult and frustrating moments in the struggle to make justice a reality, but we must believe somehow that these problems can be solved.
Ah yes. That’s much better.