black man writes letter to star Bryan Cranston about racism

Why do people keep writing letters to Bryan Cranston? Some years back, Cranston told the story of receiving a congratulatory letter from Sir Anthony Hopkins, who had finished watching "Breaking Bad" and had been blown away by Cranston's performance throughout the series. A letter from Sir Anthony would be, to me at least, one of the highest possible honors. But I guess the world decided to keep writing Mr. Cranston letters. The latest letter to Bryan Cranston is from Jason Whitlock, a conservative columnist and critic who happens to be black. Read his letter to Mr. Cranston here. Excerpt:

I’m 55 years old. When I hear former President Donald Trump and his supporters say “make America great again,” I don’t interpret that nostalgia as subtle or overt racism. I hear it as a call for a return to sanity, a return to a time when America at least pretended to judge man by the content of his character.

Bryan, I saw some of your interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace, the exchange where you claimed the slogan “Make America Great Again” is some sort of bigoted dog whistle.

You said, “When I see ‘Make America Great Again,’ my comment is, ‘Do you accept that that could possibly be construed as a racist remark?’”

Chris Wallace should have stopped you right there. Only someone on a 24/7/365 hunt for racism would hear that slogan and think it’s racist in nature. Bill Clinton said the exact same thing in 1991 when he launched his bid to win the White House. Clinton is fondly referred to as the “first black president.”

Clinton was not and is not black. He’s a stereotypical politician, a man unafraid to distort reality for his own benefit. To you, once Trump adopted the slogan, MAGA became a Confederacy code word.

Bryan, you and Bill Clinton are both actors. You feign concern for black people while seducing us with lies. Your statements to Chris Wallace come off as condescending and racist.

You continued: “A lot of people go, ‘How could that be racist, to make America great again?’ I said, ‘So just ask yourself from an African-American experience: When was it ever great in America for the African-American? So if you’re making it great again, it’s not including them.’”

Bryan, as of 2020, roughly one in ten black people living in America migrated from Africa. That’s 10%. In 1980, it was only 3%. So the plight of black people in America is so miserable that real black Africans are choosing to immigrate to this country by choice, not by slave ship.

America is and has been the safest, most prosperous, most opportunity-rich land for black people for the last 60 years. That’s why Africans and other black people from around the globe choose to relocate here. They want what I experienced in the 1970s, '80s, '90s, and 2000s: freedom and opportunity derived from the greatest constitution ever written.

The problem is that the wokies have developed an immune reaction to this sort of thing. Years ago, it might have been possible for black voices on the right to make headway simply by being black since the black community tended to listen more closely to black voices. Now, though, the immune system is in place, and conservative blacks are mislabeled as race traitors, Uncle Toms, etc. The genetic fallacy is up and running, and once again, black voices on the right are shut out. As a tweet-happy president was once fond of saying, "Sad!"