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Here’s a question: Is there a reason why prominent Black MAGA supporters almost always feel the need to be so cartoonishly absurd? Why is it that all of the Jason Whitlocks and Candace Owenses and Mark Robinsons of the world feel the need to be so over the top and ridiculous while spouting wannabe-white nonsense, particularly about Black people?

Meet Trump supporter Shelley Wynter, a self-described traditionalist who hosts a talk show on Atlanta’s WSBB-FM.

Recently, Wynter made an appearance on CNN where he proved that he might just be the most confused occupant of the bowels of the sunken place when he referenced a famous Malcolm X quote while denigrating Black supporters of Kamala Harris as “House African Americans.”

During the segment, CNN host Sara Sidner played a clip of Donald Trump saying at a recent rally in Atlanta that “any African American or Hispanic…that votes for Kamala, you gotta have your head examined.”

Sidner correctly noted that Trump “is denigrating voters for making a choice that he does not like.”

“Shelley, to you, what does he achieve with this?” she asked Wynter, to which he responded by asking, “First of all, how is he denigrating voters?”

Wynter’s question alone let you know he was about to be on some absurd shucking and jiving BS. What self-respecting Black man needs to have it explained to him what’s wrong with a demonstrably racist white man whitesplaining to Black and Latino people what’s good for them, and then telling them they must be crazy if they don’t agree?

Anyway, Wynter went back and forth with Sidner about what he thinks Trump meant when he, indeed, denigrated Black and Latino voters, and he claimed Barack Obama did the same thing when he called out Black men for not being enthusiastic about Harris. (It wasn’t nearly the same thing whether one agreed with what Obama had to say or not, but one shouldn’t expect Wynter to see the difference.)  Eventually, Wynter found the intersection of Sambo Street and Hotep Hollow when he quoted Malcolm X in explaining the difference between Black Harris supporters and Black Trump supporters.

Be prepared to cringe HARD.

“If you’re an African-American man. Look, let me boil this election down in the African-American community to a very simple, I’ll reference the great Malcolm X,” he said. “This race is between House African-Americans and field African-Americans and the field African-Americans are going for Donald Trump.

“I’m talking about your men. I’m talking about your men who build, your men, who put things together, your men who work with their hands, your men who do things, not the men who push paper on, the men who are connected to power and want to continue to be connected to power.”

Bro — what?

First, let’s start with the irony of a Black Trump supporter wilfully self-identifying as a field negro because even when he’s trying to promote his presidential candidate, he can’t help but think of himself and all Black men as slaves and while identifying Trump as his MAGA massa. I don’t know about y’all, but, regardless of who I plan to vote for in November, I would never liken myself to a house slave or a field slave. I do know a little about house slaves, though.

A house negro might gleefully support a white man who advocated for the military to shoot Black Lives Matter protesters in the streets during demonstrations for George Floyd. A house slave would tap dance in support of a white overseer who  spearheaded the propaganda-reliant attack on critical race theory, issued an executive order banning diversity training in the workplace during his presidency, and has promised to end all DEI programs across America if he’s elected again. A Stephen from Django Unchained-ass Black man might support the candidate who aimed his 2020 election fraud lie exclusively at predominately Black and Latino voting districts, threatening to disenfranchise more Black and brown voters than any other racial group by a large margin.

Do you know who certainly would not have supported a white nationalist who called for the execution of the Central Park Five, was sued by the DOJ over anti-Black housing discrimination in the ’70s, declared that “Laziness is a trait in Blacks,” and was once promoted by former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke?

Malcolm X.

Seriously, where does Wynter even get off bringing X into his support for Trump? The MAGA world hates everything about the iconic civil rights leader’s ideology. Malcolm X fought against the very systemic racism MAGAts deny the existence of. X spoke against systemic racism in policing; Trump wants to give cops complete “immunity from prosecution” and “one real rough, nasty day” where they can freely commit acts of police brutality. Hell, MAGA Republicans across red-state America are trying to ban non-whitewashed Black History from the classroom, and they’re sure as hell not looking to include the teachings of Malcolm X in their whitey-approved curricula.

Anyway, Wytner’s remarks sent the CNN panel discussion to complete chaos as host Michael Blake, who is Black, tried to make sense out of complete nonsense.

“Is Shelley the house one or the field one?” Blake asked. “I’m just trying to understand that part of it. I’m just trying to understand. I’m just trying to understand.

“We have someone who’s spinning. I’m just trying to stay in the one that’s spinning talking points right now,” he continued. “Are you – are you the house Negro or the field negro that you’re referring to?”

I suppose the simplest answer is he’s both.

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