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New York Governor Kathy Hochul is terrible. No, she isn’t a racist, but what she said about black kids certainly sounds so. It’s not vicious, certainly, nothing you’d hear at a Klan rally. But it’s the racism that leeches out of white liberals, who think they’re helping these communities but are keeping them in the wilderness for another generation. Only they can help these people–it’s that type of dialogue.
Hochul stepped on this landmine on Monday when she said that black kids don’t even know what a computer is at the Milken Institute Global Conference in California:
You'd be correct if you thought she should apologize for these remarks. She provided a statement later that day, providing further clarification on this embarrassing incident (via Associated Press).