Possible Trump VP Newt Gingrich: “White people don’t understand what it means to be black in America”

Newt Leroy Gingrich showed that he’s down for the struggle when he told white people that they just don’t understand what it’s like to be a black man in America!

From CNN:

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday that “normal white Americans” don’t understand “being black in America.”

“It took me a long time, and a number of people talking to me through the years, to get a sense of this: If you are a normal white American, the truth is you don’t understand being black in America and you instinctively under-estimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk,” he said Friday on CNN Political Commentator Van Jones’ Facebook Live stream.

Jones and Gingrich discussed this past week’s shootings in Dallas, Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Five Dallas police officers were shot and killed Thursday night as hundreds protested the back-to-back police shooting deaths of two African-American men earlier in the week.

I kinda have a problem with this, because I agree with Gingrich that there are certain racial boundaries that keep us from completely understanding each other, but that doesn’t mean there’s no understanding at all. It also doesn’t excuse minorities from exaggerating the racism in America to such an extent that they believe it’s insurmountable or uniquely overbearing. Maybe Newty didn’t mean to support that particular idea though.

Previously to this, a reporter said that Leroy admitted advising Trump to blacken up his staff:

Affirmative Action?!? I wonder how el Trumpo responded to that!

Though, to be fair, “Newton Leroy” definitely sounds more black than gringo to me.

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