Elizabeth McKelvy
WMAL.com
WASHINGTON – Tucker Carlson, editor and founder of The Daily Caller, and co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend, told WMAL Monday that President Obama is taking advantage of racial tensions after the decision in Ferguson to benefit politically.
“They know exactly what the lesson [from Ferguson] is, and that is that the country is racially polarized and they can take political advantage of it.”
The President will have three different meetings Monday about the events in Ferguson this past week, one with his Cabinet, one with civil rights leaders, and another with law enforcement officials. His focus will be on civil rights and the strengthening of the relationship between communities of color and law enforcement.
“Obama is pretending that white racism is America’s biggest problem,” Carlson told WMAL. “It’s a fantasy, but it appeals to his constituency. He’s down, he’s unpopular, so he’s going back to his base and using racially divisive language to do it.”
“The frustrations that we’ve seen are not just about a particular incident,” the President said last week in Chicago during a speech about civil unrest across the country. “They have deep roots in many communities of color who have a sense that our laws are not always being enforced uniformly or fairly.”
Carlson strongly criticized the President for such statements: “That is really reckless to reinforce people’s racial fears when you have no evidence, and that’s exactly what the President is doing because it helps him politically” he said.
“Why are we all acting like this is a race crime? We have no evidence of that at all,” he continued. “The President was really clear in every one of his statements that this is a problem with white racism. Really?”
Carlson also told WMAL that he would have voted for Obama if he had genuinely thought it would have created racial harmony in the United States.
“What a bitter irony that the Post-Racial President has overseen a transformation of the country into something much more racially polarized then it’s ever been.”
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