*A conservative radio station owner in Tennessee has come under fire after referring to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as “Buckwheat,” then claiming amid backlash that it was a compliment, according to Advocate.com.
During a Monday, July 10th segment on WKOM’s “3 Dudes with a View,” where host and station owner Delk Kennedy discusses local information and politics with Jim York, who is Black, and Clayton Harris, the topic was concerning recent developments in Tennessee regarding access to gender-affirming care by minors.
Kennedy said: “President Biden has come — both he and Buckwheat Jean-Pierre have come out and in favor of a national law, allowing minors without the consent of their parents to have gender changing procedures, . And in some cases, states have enacted laws —California, places like that — where if a child wants gender-changing surgery and the parents won’t consent, the child can be removed from the home as abused and neglected, placed in foster care, and be given the gender changing procedures.”
Later in the conversation, Kennedy again referred to Jean-Pierre as “Buckwheat” while discussing Biden’s decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.
“What’s interesting to me is that Jen Psaki, the former White House [Press Secretary], she had Jean-Pierre Buckwheat’s job before she came out just a year or two ago, saying that cluster bombs were a war crime. And guess what Joe Biden did last week? He sent cluster bombs to Ukraine. And yet that’s how stupid they think the American people are. They think they can get away with this.”
Buckwheat, a Black character in the “Little Rascals” and “Our Gang” series through the 1930s, was widely regarded as a racial stereotype.
By Tuesday, the station had seemingly been flooded with messages against the owner’s racist comments.
“Apparently, you calling her Buckwheat just really set these white folks off,” one of the hosts told Kennedy.
“There we go, Buckwheat, Buckwheat, Buckwheat,” Kennedy replied.
After York pushed back on Delk’s use of “Buckwheat,” the host argued, “Actually, that’s a compliment to Karine Jean-Pierre.”
“It is a compliment because the character Buckwheat if you go back and look at the old Little Rascals movies, is an intelligent, admirable character,” he said before several times calling the White House Press Secretary “Claude Jean-Pierre.” He continued, “Buckwheat in Little Rascals is not some stereotypical old song of the South Darkie. He is a very admirable, smart, capable person.”
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@thetnhollerMAURY COUNTY UPDATE: After his racist comment calling White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre “BUCKWHEAT”, WKOM station owner Delk Kennedy now defends it and calls it a “COMPLIMENT”????????, closing his racist, out-of-touch ears to Jim York’s friendly on-air advice.
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