For some at the annual far-left Netroots conference, Barack Obama isn’t leftist enough — or apparently black enough, either.
One “African-American” speaker dismissed the president as “basically a house n*gger” during a Friday panel on “climate change,” according to the Huffington Post’s Eliot Nelson.
https://twitter.com/eliotnelson/status/754118142788444160
(We’re working to find video.)
While that’s going on, Netroots organizers are priding themselves in running up the score in its war on white male privilege.
According to a chart posted on its website, Netroots speakers are overwhelmingly female and a plurality are black:
Organizers claim 65% of speakers are female, just 27% are male, 5% are trans and 3% are something else (?).
Thirty-five percent of speakers are black, 35% are white, and Hispanics make up 11% of them. They’re getting the short end of the Netroots diversity stick as Hispanics make up 17% of the U.S. population, according to the Census.
Today’s lesson: to the people who block highways, accuse police officers or racism and break stuff go the Netroots speaking slots.
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