Model Amber Rose delivered an impassioned speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) that appeared to worry CNN host Van Jones.
Speaking with a network panel on the first night of the RNC, Jones weighed in on the “bunker buster” speech by Kanye West’s ex-girlfriend who earned cheers at the event for explaining how she came to endorse former President Donald Trump.
“That was probably the most dangerous speech for the Democratic coalition. That is a young woman of color,” Jones noted.
“She’s describing the experience a lot of people have, feeling that maybe if you’re around too many liberals you might get criticized too much, or you might not be able to speak your mind. And she spoke to it really well,” Jones continued.
“And she’s way more famous than any of us up here. I’m going to tell you that. Way more famous,” he added. “And so to the extent that these guys are trying to bust up our coalition, that was a bunker buster right there.”
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“By the way, and it’s one of the things we’ve been talking about, but there are speakers who speak to the room, and there are speakers who speak through the television screen. She speaks through the camera to the audience at home, not— I mean, she’s effective in the room, but when you’re yelling into the room, that is not communicating directly through the lens,” Jones added.
Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, Joy Reid had no such worries about Amber Rose’s effect on the voters.
“After this terrible incident happened over the weekend, a member of the Congress, who was a Republican, came out immediately and blamed the incident on DEI and said that the fact that there were women and black people in the Secret Service is the reason this happened,” Reid said Monday, referring to the assassination attempt against Trump on Saturday.
“This is where the Republican Party is, so it’s ironic that they were able to recruit this young woman,” she added, calling the 40-year-old TV personality “racially ambiguous.”
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“I don’t wanna say she’s black because she has said she’s not, so I don’t wanna say this black woman. This woman who is of whatever race that she has claimed, she’s said she’s not black, but they’ve brought somebody whose whole career is based in black culture,” MSNBC’s resident racist spewed.
“She used to be on a show on BET. That’s the reason most people know who she is. She dated one of the most prominent African American rappers in the business, in the history of hip hop, so her whole culture came from black culture, even though she said she’s not a black person herself, and the fact that she is now the person they’re using to try to recruit young people of color and to say that this is the person who is the endorser of Donald Trump who you should trust when she won’t even claim the culture that brought her to the table, I’m dubious that this will work,” Reid declared.
“I don’t know anyone who takes their political cues from Amber Rose, but just in case you do, you might want to duplicate doing your own research because she might not have done it thoroughly,” Reid added.
Rose received a standing ovation after her speech in Milwaukee before a crowd she now says she feels at home with. In endorsing Trump, she relayed how she had believed the left-wing lies about the former president.
“I believed the left-wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist,” she said, explaining that she did her own “research” which led her to realize that “Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re black, white, gay, or straight, it’s all love.”
(Video Credit: NBC News)
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