Belcher, speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, mentioned he agreed with all of the criticism that’s been leveled at Sanders after which leaned “into another dimension” of the remark, which he argued was a racist canine whistle.
“Look, as a child of the South, someone who was born and raised in the South, and hearing a deeply Southern governor say that word ‘humble,’ it stinks of a racial trope that I think I’m very familiar with, and the key word being ‘humble,’” mentioned Belcher, who labored on each of former President Barack Obama’s campaigns.
“Because it’s always been about ‘you uppity Blacks’ and ‘you got to know your roots,’” he continued. It’s “a dimension that I think they’re leaning into, and they lean into constantly and Vice President Harris is an ‘uppity Black who doesn’t know her place, and she needs to be humble.’ That’s how I connect the dots on this.”
“I have put it within the context of them leaning into racial aversion and aggrievement politics, and this is absolutely a dog whistle, historical dog whistle when you’re talking about Blacks not being humble and not knowing their place,” Belcher added.
Wallace agreed it was “the through line” of what Sanders was speaking about.
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