Belcher, speaking to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on Thursday, stated he agreed with all of the criticism that’s been leveled at Sanders after which leaned “into one other dimension” of the remark which he argued was a racist canine whistle.
“Look, as a baby of the south, somebody who was born and raised within the south, and listening to a deeply southern governor say that phrase ‘humble,’ it stinks of a racial trope that I believe I’m very conversant in, and the important thing phrase being ‘humble,’” stated Belcher, who labored on each of former President Barack Obama’s campaigns.
“As a result of it’s at all times been about ‘you uppity Blacks’ and ‘you bought to know your roots,’” he continued. It’s “a dimension that I believe they’re leaning into, they usually lean into continuously and Vice President Harris is an ‘uppity Black who doesn’t know her place, and he or she must be humble.’ That’s how I join the dots on this.”
“I’ve put it inside the context of them leaning into racial aversion and aggrievement politics, and that is completely a canine whistle, historic canine whistle once you’re speaking about Blacks not being humble and never understanding their place,” Belcher added.
Wallace agreed it was “the by way of line” of what Sanders was speaking about.