Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., airing on PBS (and CNN International) showcased eponymous host Christiane Amanpour assenting to the radical view of her guest, Yale University professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Also ahead, “White Supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House.” Princeton Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor speaks to Michel Martin about Trump’s war on DEI.
The above shows the host quoting a featured article by her guest. But Amanpour was also comfortable straight-up saying Trump’s White House was a “white supremacist” house.
AMANPOUR: Since the start of his second term, President Trump has signed a number of executive orders targeting DEI policies, uttered rhetoric deemed racist at immigrants and is generally eroding the, quote, “melting pot identity” the U.S. once prided itself on. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Princeton professor of African American studies and she’s the co-founder of the black politics and culture magazine Hammer & Hope. In her recent piece, she describes a white supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House and joins Michel Martin to discuss the rollback of civil rights.
By “rollback of civil rights,” Amanpour seems to mean the right to have a guaranteed government job.
Reporter Michel Martin also took Taylor’s radical thesis as established fact, accusing Trump of racism because “black women were the hardest hit” in federal job cuts, including by Elon Musk’s cost-cutting DOGE initiative.
Perhaps because black women are disproportionately represented in federal government jobs? Unfortunately, no one in the elitist media seems familiar with the concept of “per capita.”
MICHEL MARTIN: ….So, the first question I had for you is, why is that? Black women could not have been specifically targeted. I mean, it’s illegal. You can’t say we’re going to fire all the black women. So, how did that happen?
KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR, PRINCETON: Well, I think that it’s, of course, impermissible in the law, but I think that it’s also not a coincidence….
The one-sided discussion dipped into the Reagan Administration citing “welfare queens” abusing the welfare system.
MARTIN: You make the argument that this is a variation on the “welfare queen” trope, this notion that these undeserving poor people are getting stuff from the government. Tell us what your thesis is.
Give Taylor points for finding a novel way to call Republicans racist. Evidently the GOP is raising their aim and now targeting better-off blacks because the party’s base now includes “poor white people who utilize Medicaid, poor white people who utilize food stamps and other parts of the social welfare state that have really complicated the typical kind of scapegoating of poor people…”
Of course, Martin brought up the video forwarded by Trump’s social media showing the “Obama’s faces superimposed upon images of monkeys.”
TAYLOR: Well, it’s much deeper than that. I mean, the — I think we can say that this administration really has embraced the politics of white supremacy in a very open way, probably in ways that are unheard of in the modern presidency….
Didn’t racist “progressive” politician and Democrat Woodrow Wilson usher in the “modern presidency”?
Martin went on to slur Vice President J.D. Vance, before setting up her one semi-challenging question about some black women having the audacity to vote for Trump despite his racism.
TAYLOR: ….I think if you look at the rhetoric of the administration, J.D. Vance goes to Turning Point USA and says that white Americans no longer have to apologize for being white in the United States. If you look at the rhetoric and the ways that certain groups are being attacked, if you look at the way that some of the federal agencies are promoting the work of their agencies on social media, the Department of Labor, the Department of Homeland Security, constantly invoking the tropes and imagery of white supremacy.
MARTIN: How do you understand the fact, though, that the percentage of black women who voted for Trump has increased in every single election in which he has run? It went from 6 percent or maybe even less in 2016 to 10 percent in 2024, how do you understand that?
Taylor blamed the Democratic Party’s ineffectual policy promotion.
