Herschel Walker is an insult
Some things can only be said by a person inside the group.
A Black man talks about Herschel Walker.
He says that Herschel Walker is a walking, talking, caricature. He embodies every racial stereotype White racists have about Black men.
The commentary is by Thomas Bishop, an actor and poet. He goes by "Thomas, the Villain, Bishop," on TikTok, where he does "social commentary from a villain's perspective." Here it is on video--three minutes.
The text of his commentary:
"So USA Today put out an opinion piece and it's basically something I've been saying all along about Herschel Walker. You see, in the annals of the Republican brain Herschel Walker is the perfect representation of Black people--without question.
He is every stereotype we have been called for 40, 50, 60 fucking years. Every single one.
Absentee father-- check.
Abusive--check.
Illiterate--check.
Athletic--check.
Will listen to what his masters say--check.
He's a perfect representation, and sadly he might just win. He might just win, you see because Black men like Fred Hampton, Huey P. Newton, Malcom X, and Martin Luther King at no point would they do the step-and-fetch-it for American society. They weren't going to do it. Too much pride, too much dignity, too much manliness for that to happen. But the racist tropes never went away. They never did. We never confronted them unless we confronted them in the Black community, but we never confronted them nationwide, society-wide. So they persisted. And to look at someone like Raphael Warnock who embodies the spirit of the Fred Hamptons, the Malcolm Xs, the Martin Luther Kings--well how do you beat that? You beat it by putting someone so polar opposite but so acceptable because he's under your banner that he might just win. And they found it.
Lusting after White women--check.
He is everything we have ever been called in society. I keep saying all along, if they find a picture of Herschel Walker eating chicken and watermelon you will have inward bingo. And sadly he might win. So when people start talking to me about how much we have progressed as a society the only thing I'm going to say from this point forward is 'look at Herschel Walker and tell me that you still believe that.’