Far-left political commentator Elie Mystal, a correspondent at The Nation, said in an interview Saturday that Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker (Ga.), who is black, is "what Republicans want from their Negroes."
Mystal, who is also black, said in an MSNBC interview that Walker is "so clearly unintelligent" and "so clearly doesn't have independent thoughts" that, if elected, he will "do what he's told."
"That's what Republicans like," Mystal went on. "That's what Republicans want from their Negroes."
This is not the first time Mystal, who has said the Constitution is "actually trash," has attacked Walker on the basis of race. In an April essay published in The Nation, Mystal called Walker's candidacy "an insult to Black people" and a "political minstrel show" and said the candidate himself is "an animated caricature of a Black person drawn by white conservatives."
Mystal is not the first high-profile liberal to take jabs at minorities for going against the Democratic party line. President Joe Biden said on the 2020 campaign trail any African American undecided between voting for him or Donald Trump "ain't black." Multiple Democrats launched racist attacks against Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas following his concurrence in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade.
More black voters say they "somewhat" or "strongly" disapprove of Biden than say they "approve strongly," a Washington Post-Ipsos poll found in June.