Despite her impressive resume as District Attorney of San Francisco, Attorney General of California and a United States Senator representing California, a lot of unqualified white men are still questioning Vice President Kamala Harris’ credentials.
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Things reached a new level of insanity recently when James, a caller on English talk radio station LBC, wanted the world to know that he thinks the vice president only got the job because she’s a Black woman.
Host Ben Kentish interjected with facts about Harris’ experience, saying, “Could it be that she was made Vice President based on merit despite the fact, in your view, being a woman and being Black?” However, James insisted that being “woke” could be the only possible reason President Joe Biden picked Kamala as his VP.
To make sure everyone knew his comments weren’t influenced by race, he revealed that he had an unexpected tattoo, saying, “I have got a tattoo on me arm of Kunta Kinte, he was an African slave, right? So I’m not racist in any way, shape, or form…He was a hero of mine. I’m not racist.”
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, someone claims they can’t be racist because they have a tattoo of a slave from a famous TV miniseries. By the way James, if you have to announce you’re “not racist” multiple times, you might be saying something offensive.
Kunta Kinte’s portrayer, the legendary LeVar Burton, definitely had thoughts on this crazy situation, reposting the video and writing on X, “Pic or it didn’t happen… #bydhttmwfi (but you don’t have to take my word for it).” He went deeper on the subject, adding, “Racism is not simply a personality flaw, it’s also a spiritual defect.”
Burton’s many followers were equally baffled by this nonsense, letting James know what they thought of his comments.
One person let him know his denials weren’t ringing true, posting, “Black person here. You sound quite racist from where I’m standing.”
Another user wondered about the qualifications of Harris’ Republican opponent, writing on X, “And what merit did Trump have???”
One fan thinks it might actually be an image of one of Burton’s other famous characters, writing on X, “The funniest outcome to this would be if like it was a tat of you as Geordie or from ‘Reading rainbow.’”
Someone else had questions about the details of the tattoo, posting, “He might have a Kunta Kinte tatt but what’s happening to Kunta Kinte in the tatt?”
Look, this could all be talk radio nonsense that’s absolutely not true. However, this world has gotten so crazy we can believe that some guy did the mental gymnastics possible to convince himself that a tattoo of Kunta Kinte from “Roots” is acceptable.
