New York Governor Kathy Hochul is terrible. No, she
isn’t a racist, but what she said about black kids certainly sounds so.
It’s not vicious, certainly, nothing you’d hear at a Klan rally. But
it’s the racism that leeches out of white liberals, who think they’re
helping these communities but are keeping them in the wilderness for
another generation. Only they can help these people–it’s that type of dialogue.
Hochul stepped on this landmine on Monday when she said that black
kids don’t even know what a computer is at the Milken Institute Global
Conference in California:
“Young
black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word
‘computer’ is,” - New York Governor Kathy Hochul, saying something that
would get a Republican instantly cancelled, but it’s (D)ifferent. pic.twitter.com/zcntbt8fKg
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) May 7, 2024
.@GovKathyHochul: Black people are so stupid they can only make it in this world if white progressives like me help them out https://t.co/NiohoLHRHA
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 7, 2024
You'd
be correct if you thought she should apologize for these remarks. She
provided a statement later that day, providing further clarification on
this embarrassing incident (via Associated Press):
New
York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that
suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word
“computer” means.
Hochul, a Democrat, made the extemporaneous
comment Monday while being interviewed at a large business conference in
California to discuss expanding economic opportunities in artificial
intelligence for low-income communities.
“Right now, we have
young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the
word computer is. They don’t know, they don’t know these things,” Hochul
said while on stage at the Milken Institute Global Conference.
The
remark was not addressed during the interview and the governor went on
to explain that her goal is to provide avenues for communities of color
to access emerging artificial intelligence technologies as a means to
address social inequality.
[…]
In a statement later Monday, Hochul said “I misspoke and I regret it.”
“Of
course Black children in the Bronx know what computers are — the
problem is that they too often lack access to the technology needed to
get on track to high-paying jobs in emerging industries like AI,” Hochul
said.
It must be nice being a Democrat; that’s all I’m going to say. If
Hochul were a Republican, she would have been roasted for days and then
used as an example of how Trumpism is evil by the liberal media.
***
Last Note: OH. MY. GOD.
This just won the internet for today. Hands down. 😭😂👏👏pic.twitter.com/q5iVa7JHSU
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 8, 2024
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