‘Bet She Is Wearing a White Hood’: Misinformed C-SPAN Caller Declares, ‘I Don’t Have Time to be Racist,’ But In Next Breath Claims Black People, Not Whites, Established Jim Crow

A white Republican voter in Ohio called C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program on Monday to assert that she is too busy working to “have time to be racist,” then falsely claimed that Black people were responsible for enacting the oppressive systems of Jim Crow and segregation.  The 63-year-old caller, who gave her name as Mary, made the soapbox rant that aimed at Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, as well as New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, suggesting that they were both racist while spreading blatant misinformation on live TV. “I know that Kamala is a sheep in wolf’s clothing,” the caller said in a malapropism of the classic phrase — a wolf in sheep’s clothing — which describes someone who disguises their true intentions. “And I wanted to talk about Hakeem Jeffries,” she added. “Whenever he gets on the television, he calls Trump& supporters MAGA Republicans, white supremacy, um, just anything. And he’ll say it like five times within one minute.” C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Pedro Echevarria (YouTube screenshot/Pedro Echevarria) C-SPAN host Pedro Echevarria chose not to challenge the caller’s racist views, allowing her to ramble on and make herself sound ignorant during the segment. As...