Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden’s nominee for assistant attorney general of the United States, once promoted racist pseudoscientific quackery, arguing that the human brain was structured in a way that makes Black people superior to white people, and that “human mental processes” in the brain have chemicals that imbue one race with “superior physical and mental abilities” and “spiritual abilities.”
Rather than owning up to a youthful relationship with radicalism, Clarke, who made these comments in the Harvard Crimson as a 19 year old, claims that her racist diatribe was merely a parody mocking the controversial book, “The Bell Curve.” “What I was seeking to do was to hold up a mirror,” she says, “Put one racist theory alongside another.”
Purely by chance, Clarke also happened to invite a Holocaust-denying fraud named Anthony Martin — then a professor at Wellesley College whose assigned primary textbook was called “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” which blamed Jews for the slave trade, and who wrote “The Jewish Onslaught,” published by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan — to speak at Harvard. Around the same time Clarke was writing unrecognizable satire about Black supremacy, she was calling Martin an “intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact.” Weird that.
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Clarke’s contention that she was penning Swiftian letters on race is about as plausible as her assertion today in front of the Senate that her Newsweek op-ed, “I Prosecuted Police Killings. Defund the Police — But Be Strategic,” wasn’t about “defunding the police.” Clarke said that “the impetus for writing this op-ed was to make clear that I do not support defunding the police.” In the piece, Clarke literally defines what “defund the police” means, and then offers her ideas about redistributing funds. Maybe that, too, was satire.
Clarke now says, “Let me be clear, I denounce anti-Semitism wherever and whenever it shows up.” Which would mean a lot more if she hadn’t signed a letter — not in 1999 but in 2019 — supporting Farrakhanite Women’s March co-founder Tamika Mallory, who according to Tablet, “asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people — and even, according to a close secondhand source, claimed that Jews were proven to have been leaders of the American slave trade.” Mallory sounds a lot like Martin.
Indeed, there is not a single shred of contemporaneous evidence that her letter was satire. Quite the opposite. Subsequent pieces in the Crimson specifically point out that Clarke refused to concede that she wasn’t serious. The Harvard Crimson staff, in fact, demanded a retraction and noted that it had “searched in vain for a hint of irony in Clarke’s letter.” In another response, a columnist argued that “Clarke refuses to explicitly deny the theories” and accused her of “disseminating racist theories.”
Now, all of us believe stupid things when we’re young — though perhaps not racial-science-level stupid. It needs mentioning, though, that we live in a skewed world where a woman can be hounded out of her job at Teen Vogue for making jokes when she was 17, where The New York Times believes it’s newsworthy to track down the prom date of Josh Hawley for comment, and where Supreme Court nominees are attacked for jokes they made in their high school yearbooks, but somehow pointing out that the person put in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division once spouted racist rhetoric, and now supports an anti-Semite, is beyond the pale.
If Donald Trump, or any Republican, had picked a nominee who had once promoted a Holocaust-denying white identitarian to an assistant AG position there would — rightly — be a media meltdown. Clarke has every right to live free and work where she can, but she has no God-given right to hold a position of power over citizens. With her history, she shouldn’t.
David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and the author of the book “First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History With the Gun.” To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
Never the less, she will be instated, and she will get the support of some republican senators. We are not far from “the final solution.”
I agree. IT MATTERS not, how much info we find out about how UNFIT she is… SHE IS just the kind of traitor that the left WANTS in office.
E = MC Squared Einstein! I have a theory, Kristen Clarke is a radical racist and a follower of the racist radical Louis Farrakhan. How is that for my theory of relativity?
The left does not believe in humor therfore what she wrote could not be satire. Politiical satire has long disappeared from American discourse. Late night hosts were once witty and hunorous in tackling serious subjects. Now we are stuck with cheap venom and viciousness that colors all political discourse up to and inside the hallowed halls of what purports to be Congress!
AND how does she work what she said “about blacks being SUPERIOR” cause of their brains, with MANY OTHERS in the left, flat out Calling all blacks TOO STUPID TO do anything, such as getting ID’s, or passing math tests etc…
IF THEY WERE supposedly really superior, mentally etc, THEY WOULD BE PASSING those tests at a higher rate than whites or asians/latinos etc…
We can’t criticize her. She can say and do whatever she wants in our current society. After all, she is black and beyond reproach.
This is what you get when people are picked for positions based on race and sexual orientation rather than actual qualifications.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY ON HERE! Everything can be interpreted as “Domestic Terrorism”!
Right now, i care the hell not, who thinks what i say is ‘terroristic’ or not….
This She-beast has the only qualifications the Dem Party now requires per:
1. Must hate & want to obliterate Trump & supporters, even the POC ones.
2. Be a pathological liar & a screaming meemie denier of the obvious.
3. Thinks like the billionaire Oprah does re: *whitey” will always have advantage over “blackey” & wishes all white people would hurry up & die off, including all the pandering white skin suck ups in the Dem Party, Tech, Media & Hollywood who are too stupid to know the bell is also tolling for them, ha-ha.
4. Thinks illiteracy, welfare, thuggery, terrorism, looting, burning, robbing & are all great pathways to upward mobility for POC.
Summary: she is a perfect candidate for any position in the Dem Party dictatorship.
We only have on chance to overcome this take over and that is by mass voting at all next elections to make sure the will of the people is heard loud and clear.
This affirmative action attorney General will just Announce she will no longer Prosecute criminals. Just like the woman did in Baltimore. That’s all she will do
There should be legal means, WE THE PEOPLE can take, to oust these cretins who REFUSE to abide by the law, THEY SWEAR OATHS to uphold…
“unfit to be in government”. She has plenty of company, does she not? The entire Biden administration os a g;aromg exa,[;e pf the Peter Principle.