Jarvis DeBerry: Justin J. Pearson wears his Blackness without apology, and secured his spot in a space meant for white people — and Tucker Carlson, like any bigot, despises it.
) of having made a “transition” from a Bowdoin College student who “did a fantastic impression” of sounding like a white person to “the modern incarnation of Martin Luther King Jr. himself.”
All Democrats, to hear Carlson tell it, aspire to sound like King. They don’t aspire to sound like Malcolm X, he said, “because Malcolm X didn’t talk like a sharecropper. He spoke dignified, standard English.”One of the best speeches in 20th century America was given by a sharecropper: Fannie Lou Hamer, a co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
On top of Carlson’s flawed argument that a sharecropper can’t be profound is a criticism of Pearson that’s unsurprisingly incoherent. “Black men in particular, and Black people in general,,” Toni Morrison once argued. “And we don’t have to make sense.” Thus, Carlson can claim, without his argument having to hold together, that Pearson was doing an impression of a white person at Bowdoin in Maine and is doing an impression of a Black person in Nashville.
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