Politics Insider: Larry Elder says slave owners deserve reparations too

NEW YORK – Larry Elder, the California recall candidate and current front runner, in a report published by Politics Insider.com made the stunning claim that slave owners were also entitled to reparations after the end of the American Civil War in addition to Black people.

“When people talk about reparations, do they really want to have that conversation? Like it or not, slavery was legal,” Elder said. “Their legal property was taken away from them after the Civil War, so you could make an argument that the people that are owed reparations are not only just Black people but also the people whose ‘property’ was taken away after the end of the Civil War.”

Elder, a Black conservative right-wing radio commentator was appearing on a July 18 episode of Prager University’s “The Candace Owens Show,” in a video reported on by Politics Insider.com political correspondent Morgan Keith.

In a recent poll released by the Public Policy Institute of California earlier this week, Elder leads the pool of potential replacements to California Governor Gavin Newsom should voters oust Newsom from office.

Elder’s has staked out positions that include his position on women’s reproductive right maintaining if elected governor that he would take several hard-right steps to curb abortion rights in California.

This won him the endorsement of L.A.-based anti-abortion activist Lila Rose who tweeted that Elder’s promised her that he would pledge to use line-item veto power to cut all abortion funding, to veto any legislation that expands rights or access to abortion, to appoint anti-abortion judges and regulators, and to drop the charges against the two individuals who created a fake company so they could secretly record Planned Parenthood employees.

Elder embraced former President Trump’s theory that the coronavirus was manufactured by the government of the People’s Republic of China. He has been an ardent supporter of Trump; “What keeps Democrats up at night? Islamofascism? Climate change? Thermonuclear war? Hardly. Donald Trump: Once and Future President #WeveGotACountryToSave,” Elder tweeted in May.

Elder once called Trump’s election divine intervention but his tone is more guarded now now in the weeks leading to the Sept. 14 recall election, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. In a recent TV interview, Elder said he was “indifferent” to whether Trump endorses him. So far, Trump has not weighed in.

He has publicly attacked on his radio show the Black Lives Matter movement, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and took a position denying that there is systemic racism in American society especially when pertaining to law enforcement.

He has expressed his disdain for the LGBTQ community in a series of statements and tweets going back several years as reported by the Sacramento Bee newspaper.

Examples included: “Any roles for men not gay/transsexual/transgender/transvestite/cross dressers/bi-sexual or unsure? #GoldenGlobes,” he tweeted in 2016. Then in the same year, after the PULSE Nightclub massacre, Elder tweeted, “If the #Orlando terrorist was gay, does that disqualify the massacre from being a hate crime?”

On the subject of systemic racism, Elder who calls himself ‘the Sage of South-Central’ is a Black man but continues to deny that systemic racism is a reality. In a letter to Congresswoman Maxine Waters, (D-CA) he wrote; “Black leaders refuse to acknowledge the good news: Racism no longer remains a potent threat in American life. Most blacks remain solidly middle class, with blacks forming businesses at a faster rate than whites. The black domestic product, were it a separate country, makes it one of the fifteen wealthiest nations in the world.”

He ended the letter with; “In America, we see two black Americas. The majority black world reflects increased prosperity, growing homeownership, and steady asset accumulation. The other, the so-called black underclass, remains disturbing. Quite simply, we see too many children having children. It stands, far and away, as America’s No. 1 problem. Whatever role racism played, the complete abolition of white racism would leave these problems unresolved.”

According to Elder, the Congresswoman never responded.

He also once tweeted at the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey saying; ““Dear @jack, There’s no evidence, let alone ‘widespread’ evidence, of police ‘systemic racism.’ Decades of research find cops MORE HESITANT to use deadly force against blacks than whites. Yet @Blklivesmatter routinely posts the ‘systemic racism’ lie. When will you ban BLM?”

Elder is opposed to the minimum wage. California’s minimum wage for large employers will rise to $15 an hour. That’s $15 too much for Elder, a vocal critic of state and federal minimum wage laws the Sacramento Bee noted; “Why two people who are adults can’t determine what the price of labor ought to be, is beyond me,” Elder said in an interview with the McClatchy California editorial boards.

A week ago, a spokesperson for Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón said that his office will not pursue charges sought by the former fiancé of Republican recall candidate Larry Elder.

Alexandra Datig, the right-wing conservative talk show’s former fiancée and longtime radio producer for his show had met with investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division.

Datig alleged she broke off an 18-month engagement with Elder in 2015 after he waved a gun at her while high on marijuana. With a one-year statute of limitations for misdemeanor cases, a spokesman for the district attorney said that prosecutors declined to pursue a criminal complaint against the radio-personality for allegations of brandishing a gun and domestic abuse.