Ep. 659 - It gets worse. Conservatives love the Vice Chair of the Democratic Party so much that they are throwing fundraisers for him.
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday I told you how a conservative white woman named Katie Bernhardt has become the chair of the Democratic Party of Louisiana - and blocked the endorsement of Gary Chambers.
Now, it turns out that the Black man that she hand-picked as her Vice Chair is so conservative that the most conservative Republicans in Texas are throwing fundraisers FOR HIM. And not as a practical joke. This man, C. Travis Johnson, is also another wolf in sheep's clothing. He's SO BAD that he recently side with Republicans and voted FOR their racist gerrymandering and redistricting plan. Black folk in the legislature could not believe it.
But it's not just that. The man is skipping important votes for Black voters and voting against the priorities of Black people REGULARLY. In other words, both the chair and vice chair of the Democratic Party in Louisiana, a party dominated by Black voters, are actively working against the interests of Black voters. They both need to be removed immediately.
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| 0:00.0 | What if the world listened more? Maybe it could become a better place. |
| 0:05.5 | Because when we really listen, we smarten out as things, things that don't sound quite bright. |
| 0:11.6 | They might not seem obvious at first, but listen closely and they stand out like a soul plum, |
| 0:17.9 | and the more we glisten the door we learn, our ears help us find belter solutions. |
| 0:22.8 | And things can change from this to something a little more like this. |
| 0:33.9 | The Honda Jazz is a hybrid, Honda, the power of dreams. |
| 0:40.7 | Yesterday, I told you about Katie Bernhardt, who is a deep conservative that has donated to |
| 0:48.6 | conservative Republican candidates throughout her life, being made the chair of the Democratic |
| 0:54.8 | Party of Louisiana. But now I want to tell you about who she hand picked and appointed as her |
| 1:02.0 | vice chair. A black man named Travis Johnson, that is voting so much with Republicans, |
| 1:12.0 | that Republicans are throwing fun razors for him. Let me tell you how Katie Bernhardt and Travis |
| 1:20.8 | Johnson are single-handedly working to destroy the Democratic Party of Louisiana and blocking the |
| 1:29.5 | nomination of our dear friend and brother Gary Chambers. Let me unpack and explain it. This is Sean |
| 1:34.9 | King and you're listening to The Breakdown. I am deeply vexed, troubled, frustrated, angry, |
| 1:56.4 | angry, and angry. That being one of the blackest states in America where Democrats could have power. |
| 2:07.8 | Never mind the reality that the Democratic governor of Louisiana is a white man. That the head of |
| 2:15.2 | the Democratic Party in Louisiana is a white woman. The majority of voters for Democrats are black |
| 2:21.6 | But the majority of major representation is white, which is crazy in and of itself. |
| 2:28.2 | Now, it may not be crazy in the deep south because white folk have been doing it that way |
| 2:32.4 | for a very long time. |
| 2:33.6 | But we're seeing people wake up to that ignorance in Georgia where you are seeing Rafael |
| 2:39.8 | Warnock be the United States senator where you are seeing a black woman like Stacey Abrams |
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