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Newsmax 'Reviewing' Host's Racist Tweets About How White People Being in the Military 'Made a Big Difference With Morale'

Newsmax's Greg Kelly spoke out against diversity in the most racist way possible; then he tried to clean it up by proclaiming his love for 'Ebony & Ivory.'

In todayโ€™s episode of The Fragile Whites Say the Darndest Things, Greg Kelly, a host on Newsmaxโ€”which is basically Fox Newsโ€™ illegitimate love child that it only claims during tax seasonโ€”posted then later deleted a pair of racist tweets about how the existence of white people in the military and government made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside. The network said those tweets are now under โ€œreview,โ€ which I put in quotations because Newsmax investigating the racism of one of its hosts is like Tyler Perry personally conducting an investigation into the wig quality in his movies.

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From HuffPost:

Kelly wrote that knowing the secretary of defense (William Cohen) was white when he was a U.S. Marine pilot โ€œmade a big difference with โ€˜morale.โ€™โ€ In another tweet, he said knowing that then-President Bill Clinton was โ€œa Caucasian maleโ€ made โ€œit all worthwhile.โ€

Kelly followed up by writing that โ€œbeing a MARINE had nothing to do with RACE.โ€ He also noted that former New York Mayor David Dinkins (which he misspelled as Dinkens) officiated at his wedding in 2017. Dinkins, who died in 2020, was New Yorkโ€™s first Black mayor.

In a response posted by The Washington Postโ€™s Jeremy Barr (who also posted the original tweets), the network said Kellyโ€™s messages were sarcastic attempts at anti-racism. โ€œWe at Newsmax never countenance the posting of racist views or views that appeal to racists,โ€ Newsmax said in a statement. โ€œWe are currently reviewing the matter.โ€

https://twitter.com/jeremymbarr/status/1404207287766597633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

So, apparently, Kelly was going for sarcasm in his tweets, which were actually meant to denounce a recent push for diversity and condemnation of racism in the military. Kelly was doing that thing wilfully obtuse white people do where they show off their abject lack of understanding regarding the importance of representation, which comes as a result of white people having always been overwhelmingly represented generally everywhere. Basically, Kelly was being racist while pretending to be racist, and after deleting all of that dumbass shit, he came back in true wypipo form with a โ€œSee, I have a Black friendโ€ post he probably thought put his white nationalist nonsense in perspective.

โ€œNow the TRUTH: being a MARINE had nothing to do with RACE,โ€ Kelly wrote. โ€œIt didnโ€™t matter. It wasnโ€™t โ€˜a thingโ€™โ€”the EXPERIENCE brought us together, no matter what we were. The late Mayor David Dinkens, a WWII Marine, and hence, my brother. Below in 1991, and officiating my wedding in 2017.โ€

https://twitter.com/gregkellyusa/status/1404190435136970753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

A few things:

First, I had to read that tweet three times to understand what he was trying to say. I mean, I understand that the people at Newsmax are probably missing Donald Trumpโ€™s Twitter feed, but mimicking the manโ€™s use of sentence fragments and broken syntax is a bit much.

Secondly, itโ€™s interesting that Kelly considered David Dinkins to be his โ€œbrotherโ€ but he couldnโ€™t bother to spell his name correctly. Itโ€™s also interesting that, while decrying pushes for diversity, heโ€™s name-dropping someone who is largely celebrated for being New York Cityโ€™s first Black mayor.

Of course, the most caucasity-fied part of Kellyโ€™s Twitter rant mirrors white peopleโ€™s general response to discussions of racism: If they didnโ€™t see it, it just didnโ€™t happen.

Itโ€™s easy for Kelly to say race โ€œdidnโ€™t matterโ€ while being white in an environment where white nationalism is embedded in the culture. How the fuck would he know whether or not racism in the military was โ€œa thingโ€ while being of a demographic that wouldnโ€™t be targeted by racism?

Wait, I forgot: Itโ€™s actually white people who are the real victims of racism in America.

More from HuffPost:

In another layer of his I-am-not-racist sandwich, Kelly reminisced about Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonderโ€™s hit โ€œEbony and Ivoryโ€ on Newsmax Friday. He praised the lyrics of โ€œliving in perfect harmony,โ€ but griped: โ€œRight now white people are at the bottom of the heap for all the terrible things theyโ€™ve done over the years.โ€

What the fuck does that even mean? Did Kelly just accidentally admit that white people have a history of doing โ€œterrible thingsโ€ while getting his Klan-drawers all in a bunch about them being held accountable for it? Or was he just being sarcastic?

Who can even tell the difference?

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