Media Matters: Andrew Breitbart’s Attack on Critical Race Theory ‘Appears to be Working’

Joel B. Pollak2 Jul 2021

Media Matters for America, a George Soros-funded organization that attempts to censor conservative media, complained Thursday that Andrew Breitbart’s original 2012 attack on Critical Race Theory “appears to be working,” nine years later.

Media Matters’ Spencer Silva notes that today’s backlash against Critical Race Theory in communities all across America began with Breitbart News drawing attention to the doctrine, then a “little known academic study of systemic racism.”

Critical Race Theory is a doctrine that claims all the political, social, and economic institutions of the United States are inherently racist because they were developed during a time when black people could be owned as slaves. According to Critical Race Theory, capitalism itself is racist, because black people could once be held as private property. Events like Emancipation and the Civil Rights movement merely obscure the persistence of white supremacy, the theory holds.

Before his untimely death in 2012, Breitbart News founder Andrew Breitbart had linked then-President Barack Obama with Harvard Law School professor Derrick Bell, one of the founders of Critical Race Theory, whom Obama admired.

Silva recalls: “As Joel Pollak, then-editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, would tell CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, ‘Derrick Bell is the Jeremiah Wright of academia. He passed away last year, but during his lifetime, he developed a theory called critical race theory which holds that the civil rights movement was a sham and that white supremacy is the order and it must be overthrown.'”

Silva then embedded (part of) an infamous, and viral, CNN panel discussion on the topic:

(The full segment is available here.)

Silva claims that the “smear attempt” — i.e. to vet a president whose background had been largely ignored by the media — failed. But now, he says, “[r]ight-wing media and activists, as well as their peers at conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute, seem to know exactly what they are doing because they have dusted off the same playbook from 2012.”

He concludes: “Nearly a decade later, Breitbart News’ failed smear of critical race theory is back — and this time it appears to be working.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/critical-race-theory/2012-breitbart-tried-use-critical-race-theory-take-down-obama-it-failed

Jaime Harrison: SCOTUS Ruling Used the ‘Poison of Jim Crow’ to Weaken the Voting Rights Act

Trent Baker2 Jul 2021

Democrats redefine Jim Crow as a conservative idea…kek

During a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” DNC Chair Jaime Harrison reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Arizona law that bans ballot harvesting and a policy that throws out ballots cast by voters in precincts in which they do not reside.

Harrison described the decision as “a kick to the gut.” He argued the ruling used the “poison of Jim Crow” to prevent minorities from enjoying “the same voting rights that other Americans have.”

“This was a kick to the gut. It really was,” Harrison said of the ruling. “And I think Justice Kagan, in her dissent, put it perfectly. In essence, what the court did when they made their decision, they poured old poison into new bottles. We know the poison of Jim Crow. We know what has happened in the past, in terms of how minorities in this country have not always enjoyed the same voting rights that other Americans have.”

He continued, “And we know that Justice Roberts, this isnt his first bite at the apple. Shelby was his first bite at the apple, and this has been a lifelong dream of his — to chip away at the Voting Rights Act. But you know what … were not going to sit around wringing our hands, crying into some handkerchiefs. We have to mobilize, and we have to fight. We got to get people registered to vote. We got to educate them on why it is important to vote. We got to mobilize them. And then, we are going to protect every damn vote that we can, that we will at the ballot box. And that’s what we have to do.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/02/jaime-harrison-scotus-ruling-used-the-poison-of-jim-crow-to-weaken-the-voting-rights-act/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/01/illegal-alien-out-of-jail-on-bail-accused-of-beheading-man-playing-soccer-with-his-head/