This is how a legitimate news source, PBS News Hour, reported on the incredibly racist statement of Karoline Leavitt the new White House Press Secretary. Someone should ask her why the Titanic sank. I'm pretty sure everyone in charge of that disaster was a straight white man. pic.twitter.com/SbBheGj2aY
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) February 4, 2025
It is neither "incredibly racist" nor slightly racist to say
When you are flying on an airplane with your loved ones, which everyone of us in this room has, do you pray that your plane lands safely snf you get to your destination or that your pilot has a certain skin color? I think that we all know the answer to that question and as President Trump said yesterday, it's common sense.
Nonetheless, it is hypocritical for someone representing Donald Trump to pretend that the Administration doesn't care about an individual's skin color. According to Semafor
Secretary of State Marco rubio will appoint Darren Beattie, a speechwriter in President Donald Trump's first term, acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, two people briefed on the plans said.
Rolling Stone explains
Beattie is notorious for his affiliations with some of the most noxious corners of Trumpworld, and his appointment to the influential State Department role has revived scrutiny on his past writings and statements.
In October, for example, Beattie wrote on X: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”
His fixation on denigrating racial minorities and women is longstanding. On Jan. 6, 2021, while rioters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the Electoral College certification of President Joe Biden, Beattie spent the day tweeting at prominent Black political figures and organizations, telling them they needed to “learn their place,” and “bend the knee to MAGA.”
Ibram Kendi needs to learn his place and take a knee to MAGA. Learn his proper role in our society,” he wrote of the famed Black author.
In May 2023, Beattie wrote: “Middle class and working class white men are treated far worse in America than Uiguhrs are in China,” a reference to the Turkish-descendent ethnic group targeted by Chinese government’s ethnic cleansing campaigns….
This appointment was not made by Donald Trump or President Musk. It appears to have been made by Marco Rubio, who was supposed to be the President's "good" Cabinet appointee. As The New York Times reported, with the support of all forty-seven democrats
The Senate confirmed Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of
Florida, on Monday as America’s 72nd secretary of state, putting a former
political rival of President Trump at the helm of American diplomacy.
Mr. Rubio, 53, was unanimously confirmed in a 99-to-0 vote, becoming the first Latino to occupy the job and Mr. Trump’s first cabinet secretary to be confirmed.
In his last act as a sitting senator, Mr. Rubio voted for himself, giving the Senate clerks a thumbs up as colleagues from both parties applauded.
No doubt many of those Democrats and Republicans were thrilled to be able to vote for "the first Latino to occupy the job." Evidently, he also will become the first Secretary of State to nominate for a high-ranking position an individual insisting "competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work."
This is in an Administration whose chief spokesperson asks "When you are flying on an airplane with your loved ones, which everyone of us in this room has, do you pray that your plane lands safely snf you get to your destination or that your pilot has a certain skin color?"" Maybe she should be asked how Donald Trump, the boss of our new Secretary of State, would answer that question.