Dinesh D’Souza Doubles Down When Confronted for ‘Ghetto’ Tweet: ‘No Apologies’

Dinesh D’Souza tweeted about President Obama this week with the phrase “you can take the boy out of the ghetto.” This struck some as race-baiting trolling, and during a lively debate today, TheRoot.com editor David Swerdlick challenged D’Souza on the racial implications and attempted putdowns of the tweet.

D’Souza dismissed the “height of idiocy” from liberals, saying it’s just a well-known phrase that he applied to the president because, in his view, Obama is narcissistic and putting him in the White House won’t change his ways. He completely stood by the tweet and said rather definitively, “No apologies.”

Swerdlick shot back: “On its face the tweet makes two references that could clearly be seen as trying to underscore President Obama’s race.” He didn’t exactly say it was racist, but he did tell D’Souza that “referring to a grown black man as ‘boy’ is certainly seen as a putdown” and he should know that.

And, Swerdlick added, if the whole point was to highlight Obama’s narcissism, then why not just call him a narcissist and leave the “boy” part out of it?

Watch the full segment below, via NewsmaxTV:

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