CNN guest Angela Rye insisted on Saturday that “white folks” shouldn’t escape “accountability” if Donald Trump wins the presidency next month – stressing she doesn’t “want to see a women’s march with pussy hats come January if something doesn’t go right.”
The liberal commentator went on the rant while talking to anchor Victor Blackwell about former President Barack Obama taking black men to task for not backing Vice President Kamala Harris enough.
When Blackwell asked Rye if Obama was wrong to single out that demographic, the political activist flipped the script.
“What I think is a mistake is to let white folks escape the accountability that they must face for not showing up to save democracy themselves,” Rye said on CNN.
She then claimed white voters want to “get mad” if a candidate doesn’t wear a flag lapel pin or visibly pledge allegiance to the flag instead of focusing on more important issues.
“So the responsibility of saving democracy should be on the largest demographic in this country. That is white men, white women,” she said.
“I don’t want to see a women’s march with pussy hats come January if something doesn’t go right. What I want to see is them march themselves to the polls, including today,” Rye added.
Shortly after Trump was sworn into the Oval Office in 2017, millions of women wearing pink knit hats –known as pussy hats — marched on the nation’s capital and elsewhere to protest the Republican’s presidency.
Rye stood by her fiery comments on Monday.
“The media seems eager to lay a very close election at the feet of Black men,” she wrote on Instagram. “NOT ON OUR WATCH!”
Trump’s campaign has been working to make inroads with black voters with Election Day two weeks away.
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