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Black activists’ past rhetoric may spell trouble for Harris campaign: ‘F**k the white women’

August 3, 2024 | | Print Article

The sincerity of Democratic Party “unity” hit a snag as visitor logs revealed how often their nominee met with activists known for insisting, “F*ck the white women.”

While former President Donald Trump made inroads in urban areas, the left recognized how critical currying favor with suburban white women was going to be ahead of the Nov. 5 election. However, their ploy of petitioning “Karens for Kamala” smacked of hypocrisy after records revealed two activists known for controversial views had made over 50 visits to the White House during the current administration combined.

According to a review of logs conducted by Fox News Digital, both civil rights activist Cora Masters Barry and President of National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Melanie Campbell were routinely guests at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and their trips included almost a dozen to meet with Harris and her staff.

The outlet reminded, “Weeks before President Biden and Harris were sworn into office in 2021, Barry and Campbell participated in a public Zoom call in which they made controversial statements about Trump supporters and used an expletive against White voters, specifically White women, which could cause some internal clashes as different coalitions mobilize to try to get Harris into the White House.”

As had previously been reported, Barry, the widow of former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, had asserted during a 2020 election video call, “We have to change our strategy. We got to get our people. We have to get our — they got their people. They got all the trailer parks all covered. All them people up in West Virginia and the hills, they’re covered. They got them all the way there to Wall Street.”

“[Trump] did that, and we’re sitting here talking about the white women. F*ck the white women — excuse me — forget the white women. They’re going to do what the white men tell them to do,” she went on as Campbell laughed and added, “What they tell themselves.”

“They be smiling in their faces, they want to stay in charge. I don’t care nothing about them, we got to do what we got to do,” furthered Barry who also went on record stating, “If they have another Women’s March — I’ll go over there and blow it up.”

In her own remarks, Campbell decried “white privilege” and said of Trump being elected in 2016, “Am I surprised? No. Am I frustrated? Yeah — determined that we have to still find a way to get up and deal with it.”

“What I’m not interested in doing is what I did, Cora, in 2016 is have these fruitless conversations with my white girlfriends who want to tell me we need to sit down and have a conversation. No we don’t. You need to go talk to your sister. You need to go talk to your cousin,” she continued. “I have no interest in understanding why white folks do what they do. They do what they do because they doing what they do if I was them. They’re fighting to stay in charge and in control. That’s what they’re doing. I ain’t mad at them. What I am is mad at us.”

The activists’ disinterest in understanding “white folks” hadn’t stopped the Harris campaign from making it a priority out of the starting gate as they organized race-focused calls that put white women and “White Dudes for Harris” together to lament their own supposed “privilege” as the probed ways to show and build support for the Democratic Party ticket.

As Barry herself had said, there is “a lot of white guilt money out there.”

“I’m gonna take it — put it in my community and radicalize my people so they can come for your job. I”m saying it’s time to act,” the activist known for praising antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan had gone on record to say.

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