On a local radio show, The Outlaws, [Cleveland] Mayor [Frank] Jackson excoriated the outsiders from the progressive Democrat wing. In a not-so-subtle rebuke, he described them as “tragedy pimps.”
It’s this kind of mentality and it goes back to that naivety that’s grounded in academic exercises and political philosophy. And those people who have certain political philosophy, they use the legitimate issue of the oppressed, an in this case, black people, to promote their politics, not to assist the oppressed. They just use the oppressed for their own benefit. That’s all that’s about. And that’s Issue 24. You should vote “no.”
Host: I’ve referred to exactly what you’re talking about as people manipulating Black trauma.
That’s all it is. Tragedy pimps. That’s what they are. They take our tragedy and they pimp it to their own benefit, as if they care. Get out of my face Get out of my face.
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