Republican Byron Donalds won’t get accolades or recognition from leftists for his historic win as Florida’s first Black governor, as Symone Sanders showed right after his victory.

The MS NOW host did her best to belittle Donalds on Tuesday and peppered in a dig that would be deemed racist if anyone on the right had said it.

“I will say, though, you know, as they say in my community, all kinfolk ain’t skinfolk,” she said, apparently mixing up the order of her punchline.

“And what I say and what I mean by that is Byron Donalds is making history, but he is going to continue the political direction that Ron DeSantis is going to continue in Florida.”

Did she mean the direction that has drawn millions from across the nation to live in the free state of Florida? Why, that would be downright SMART.

Symone Sanders essentially just called Byron Donalds an Uncle Tom

“All kinfolk ain’t skinfolk.”

This is real racism https://t.co/37TePv80v7

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) November 4, 2026

Media Research Center Director Tim Graham explained how Sanders’ racist “logic” works.

“Symone Sanders is trying to argue that blackness and conservatism are polar opposites or that being a black conservative is being a traitor to your race,” Graham told Fox News Digital. “She suggests that Gov. Ron DeSantis has been anti-black in his policies, and so Donalds is going to continue this allegedly anti-black agenda.”

Graham said Dems have been using the same tactics to collectively vilify black Americans who embrace conservative policies since the 1991 confirmation hearings of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas.

X users weren’t surprised by Sanders’ awful take, but by how easily she said it with no consequences.

@jennifer_zilla @theMRC Of course not… It’s MSNBC, the epicenter of Leftist media. It THRIVES on racism and being offensive. 😑

— JiminyDCriket (@JiminyDCricket) November 4, 2026

As a former Equal Opportunity Officer this is very disgusting rhetoric. It’s saying if you aren’t in my political “tribe” you can’t be in my racial “tribe”.

— JLRed (@JLRed5) November 4, 2026

That’s why I have strong disdain for black leftist.

Black leftist are way worse than any white liberal any day.

— A-tiong-á 🪷 (@formosanafro) November 4, 2026

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