Banks: I used to hate being dissed by Larry Elder. Now I consider it a badge of honor
I was in the school carpool line, picking up my daughters in Chatsworth, when another mom called out to me. “Hey Sandy, you’re on the radio!” she said, gesturing excitedly toward her car radio. “It’s Larry Elder; turn it on!”onon the radio — lambasted, no doubt, by Elder, a Black talk show host whose life’s work seemed to focus on tearing down other Black people.
Back then, Elder was already mining the sort of talking points that would land Donald Trump in the White House in 2016. Now that he’s courting votes, Elder seems to have sidelined his most offensive insults and softened his rhetoric a bit. He knows he can’t risk alienating voters by seeming unhinged. His campaign message has two basic two pillars: “personal freedom” and “government overreach” .
We came of age during a tumultuous time for race relations — you had to choose sides on a lot of issues if you were Black: Integrate or separate? Embrace the Afro or submit to the straightening comb? Make peace with an unfair system or try to dismantle it?
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