Twitter Rips Gorka’s ‘Black African’ Crime Comment: ‘White Nationalism on Display’
On a Sinclair station, Gorka refers to “black African crime on black African crime” & says black men are killing each other “by the bushel” pic.twitter.com/Cbtqm39tTd
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) October 24, 2017
Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka is drawing quite a bit of attentions over his recent remarks about “black African crime.”
Gorka appeared on a Sinclair town hall on guns, and he called for expanded police action in order to deal with “black African gun crime against black Africans.” He made this point by pointing to Chicago and other Democrat-run cities where black people are killing each other “by the bushel.”
The panel prompted Gorka to clarify that he was referring to “African Americans,” though he’s still turning a few heads for how he originally described “black Africans” with respect to an epidemic of violence. As such, plenty of blue-checked Twitter users, including “Black Africans,” have some thoughts about the racial connotations of Gorka’s words.
“Black African crime.” It’s like being transported to Apartheid South Africa sometime around 1980… https://t.co/uyupIQ6ycG
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 24, 2017
white nationalism on display https://t.co/VIorR9KB4t
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) October 24, 2017
This is what happens when you get a Doctorate from Trump University. https://t.co/3O7qFhpXnI
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) October 24, 2017
Reminder: this guy is currently employed by a group run by Pizzagate and Seth Rich truthers https://t.co/UIYSYuOtDH https://t.co/YrP9NraatX
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) October 24, 2017
Vital perspective from a weird asshole whose opinion literally no one but the current President has ever respected. https://t.co/qBRv4GznRg
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) October 24, 2017
wait is this what gorka actually sounds like? https://t.co/nWNMrxH5wu
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) October 24, 2017
It is not a coincidence that this man worked for Trump. https://t.co/z9V99IVKXO
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) October 24, 2017
“Black African” is definitely a normal phrase that normal people use https://t.co/ucI2JD5yjo
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) October 24, 2017
Why does Gorka sound like he should be playing the villain in a James Bond porn parody? https://t.co/B3Z27PjbUG
— Kyle Foley (@KFoleyFL) October 24, 2017
Notice how Gorka deliberately referred to Black Americans as “Black Africans”. This was NOT a slip of the tongue. This is to foreign-ize us https://t.co/QWM3T97aXw
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) October 24, 2017
“And, Mr Bond, if you fail to stop the nerve toxin, the black Africans will kill you in their bushel as well” https://t.co/bXGjzpJK2O
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 24, 2017
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