Right-wing pastor, radio host, and Tea Party activist C.L. Bryant was a guest on Bryan Fischer’s radio program yesterday, promoting his film “Runaway Slave,” which seeks to woo black voters away from the Democratic Party:
Using leading black conservatives as “conductors,” Rev. Bryant believes it is time for a new Underground Railroad to help liberate all Americans from the Government plantation that has left the black community dealing with a new form of slavery: entitlements.
During the interview, Fischer and Bryant asserted that President Obama is not an authentically black American and so his election was actually a “slap in the face” to all those who are.
After Fischer wondered how things would have been different if someone with an authentically black American experience had been elected president, Bryant asserted that “Al Sharpton would have been a more legitimate first black president than Barack Hussein Obama” because Sharpton “has a slave history.”
“When you look at Barack Hussein Obama, whose father was Kenyan, his mother is white,” Bryant said, “he does not have that history to tell about how he overcame. … See, black people are so emotionally attached to the color of skin that sometimes we will accept the fact that well, he’s black. Not in the sense that you’re talking about.”
Fischer then went on to assert that Obama “experienced privilege all along the line” and never experienced any sort of mistreatment and therefore cannot serve as “a living testimony to the promise and the possibility that the United States offers, that these things are no longer things that need to hold you back or restrain you or restrict you [because] in Obama’s case, they never did.”
“His election,” Bryant responded, “over anybody like a Herman Cain or an Alan Keyes or someone of that nature is actually a slap in the face”:
