In the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, CNN host Fredricka Whitfield has so far twice given air to racially tinged trash talk against pro-lifers.
After John Jay College professor Gloria Browne-Marshall on Friday accused pro-lifers of only caring about white babies, Whitfield was so impressed with her guest's analysis that she had the liberal legal expert on again Sunday when she claimed white pro-lifers plan to rule over nonwhites in an "apartheid system" of minority rule by white people.
On Friday afternoon, as Whitfield was fill-in host for Ana Cabrera, Browne-Marshall tried to tie the pro-life movement to racism:
We're in a period of nationalism in which every white baby counts because they're not thinking about the people of color. They're thinking about the population growth knowing that by the year 2045, this country is going to be majority people of color.
Appearing again on Sunday, after Browne-Marshall accused pro-lifers of violence and claimed they were motivated by "nationalism," Whitfield brought up race:
...you and I spoke Friday, and you said this movement to overturn Roe v. Wade is fueled by a number of things like you just spelled out, including a fear of the black and browning of America. And listen to what an Illinois representative said just last night at a Trump rally spelling out why she believes overturning Roe v. Wade is a victory.
The CNN host then played a clip of Illinois Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller flubbing a line in a recent speech praising former President Donald Trump for helping overturn Roe: "President Trump -- on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white -- life in the Supreme Court yesterday."
After noting that Congresswoman Miller's office clarified that she meant to say, "right to life," Whitfield used the flub to invite her guest to accuse Republicans of racism. The liberal professor began:
I mean, this is something that I've been saying for many years -- the nationalist movement is a movement that comes and goes in this country, and we have statutes from the 1800s to early 1900s again and again -- when the white population begins to drop, the fear is they will not be in majority and therefore will not be in power. By the year 2045 -- the U.S. Census has said this -- that this country is going to be majority people of color -- that is something that has fueled a lot of what drove white voters to the polls.
After arguing pro-lifers are just concerned about white babies, she declared that conservatives expect to rule over nonwhites even if they are outnumbered:
...they don't care about the fact that this would mean brown and black babies will be born because we have under-education of brown and black children. We have under-employment of brown and black adults. ... health care. All of those things then continue to undermine the population growth of those brown and black babies into adulthood, and therefore given rise to more of these white adults who will stay in power even if it's in an apartheid system in which they are a minority, but they have the power of the majority.
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Transcripts follow:
CNN Newsroom
June 24, 2022
1:14 p.m. Eastern
GLORIA BROWNE-MARSHALL, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: When we look at the history and they put forward these statutes from the 1800s of women who are denied abortion rights -- these statutes came at a time of nationalism. And that's what we're in right now.
We're in a period of nationalism in which every white baby counts because they're not thinking about the people of color. They're thinking about the population growth knowing that by the year 2045, this country is going to be majority people of color. So they're underlining conservative issues here that are not being discussed when it comes to this decision
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CNN NewsRoom
June 26, 2022
3:12 p.m. Eastern
GLORIA BROWNE-MARSHALL, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: This was a generationally long strategy that started the day after Roe and has continued up to this point. and it's used violence as well as biased laws in order to get what they wanted, starting with the state gubernatorial races up to the Senate. This has been a long road for them. and I have to add this as well. They use these strategies in civil rights as a strategy to undermine Roe versus Wade.
So my concern is that we have a rogue court, and Chief Justice Roberts has a rogue court on his hands, and they're not going to stop with abortion rights. they're going to plow into affirmative action, same-sex marriage, and create a United States based on the 1940s because this is a nationalist agenda -- a nationalist agenda that Donald Trump was -- i guess he was the most visible leader of. but that mindset of nationalism is percolating over the surface in this country.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: Well, that brings me to this because you and I spoke Friday, and you said this movement to overturn Roe v. Wade is fueled by a number of things like you just spelled out, including a fear of the black and browning of America. And listen to what an Illinois representative said just last night at a Trump rally spelling out why she believes overturning Roe v. Wade is a victory. Listen.
CONGRESSWOMAN MARY MILLER (R-IL): President Trump -- on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white -- life in the Supreme Court yesterday.
WHITFIELD: So that comment has gotten a lot of traction and criticism on social media. Her spokesperson told various news outlets that Miller meant to say, "right to life," not "white life." I mean, slip of the tongue or not, explain why you say this is a real catalyst against abortion rights?
BROWNE-MARSHALL: I mean, this is something that I've been saying for many years -- the nationalist movement is a movement that comes and goes in this country, and we have statutes from the 1800s to early 1900s again and again -- when the white population begins to drop, the fear is they will not be in majority and therefore will not be in power. By the year 2045 -- the U.S. Census has said this -- that this country is going to be majority people of color -- that is something that has fueled a lot of what drove white voters to the polls.
They might not say it outright -- and she was clear in what she was saying. when you saw these white domestic terrorists, you know, marching through the campus in Charlottesville and other places. this replacement theory that they have -- that are you talking about replacing white people, especially white men, with people of color or Jews. This is what it's about at its core, the idea that the white population is dipping, not having as many babies. And I'm going to say something else, Fredricka -- and I said before, what I said before -- they don't care about the fact that this would mean brown and black babies will be born because we have under-education of brown and black children.
We have under-employment of brown and black adults. We have ... (audio gap) ... health care. all of those things then continue to undermine the population growth of those brown and black babies into adulthood, and therefore given rise to more of these white adults who will stay in power even if it's in an apartheid system in which they are a minority, but they have the power of the majority.
