I have to admit – I hadn’t heard of the far-left publication called The Nation before last week. Now, I’ll never forget it.
They published an attack piece against me – based on the color of my skin – that is beyond ridiculous and insulting.
While I’m personally very offended, I’m genuinely sad for the author of this political hit piece.
There are a lot of nasty things said about me in this article simply because I’m a Black Republican. Like this:
“Herschel Walker, the football star turned Georgia Senate candidate, is an animated caricature of a Black person drawn by white conservatives.”
Or maybe this line:
“Herschel Walker’s candidacy is a white insult to Black people.”
It’s shameful.
But the writer doesn’t just take aim at me. He questions the support from folks like you, too:
“Most white people in the South vote ‘R’ like their entire white supremacist project depends on it.”
Peter, I never wanted the color of my skin to be a focal point of this Senate campaign. However, can you imagine the reaction from the mainstream media if these things had been said about a Black Democrat? The outrage! There would be calls for the writer to be fired and the publication cancelled.
But I’m not calling for a protest of the author or a boycott of the publication’s advertisers. Nothing like that.
I think the best answer is to prove them wrong at the ballot box.
The media has been against our campaign since we launched last summer, but they have rarely been so brazen to say things as this:
“Georgia Republicans want Walker because he’s Black and Warnock is Black, and they think they can defeat Warnock in November if they can shave just a little of the Black vote…”
I’m not “any old Black person” as the author of the article asserts. I’m Herschel Walker – a proud Georgian and a proud Republican – who has lived the American Dream and wants to secure that dream for the next generation of Americans from all walks of life.
The best way to deal with racist tropes like these are to call them out, reject them, and prove them wrong.
