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B.See

(9,128 posts)
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 06:51 PM Yesterday

Conservative Black Republican gets rude awakening when confronted by the kind of venom he enables

Last edited Mon Jul 13, 2026, 12:25 AM - Edit history (1)

Or rather, it SHOULD'VE been an awakening.

Shouting match erupts as 'white supremacist' Jan. 6 rioter clashes with Black Republican - Rawstory

Since Trump freed him, Lang has been on a nationwide hate tour that the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism documented as at least 19 public acts of hate against Muslims, Jews, and LGBTQ+ people.

Lang, described as a "white supremacist" by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D-NY), is a Jan. 6 rioter charged with beating police officers with a baseball bat who was pardoned by ... Donald Trump on his first day back in office.

Broughton is the Black conservative co-host of Jubilee Media's "The Split." The clash aired Thursday on Zee Cohen-Sanchez's Unf--- America Tour, a progressive debate platform.

He has burned Qurans, held up a severed pig's head outside a mosque, and performed a Nazi salute outside the American Israel Public Affairs Committee headquarters while throwing chocolate coins and yelling about "Jewish money."


Among Lang's other greatest hits are, pointing at a group of children of color and saying, "Not one of them is a heritage American,"

saying, "White people in America will be replaced," and their children will be Black Muslims,

and days before the confrontation with Broughton, he protested the BET Awards, carried signs calling "Black culture, disgusting," and "Black parents, failures."

The face of who and WHAT they are.

So again, NOTE: to the Tim Scotts, Byron Donalds, and the Blacks, Latinos, Gays et al, etc. etc. ETC. for Trump...

WAKE. THE. FUCK. UP!
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Conservative Black Republican gets rude awakening when confronted by the kind of venom he enables (Original Post) B.See Yesterday OP
I think the term "cognitive dissonance" was invented for them. erronis Yesterday #1
Black Conservative? czarjak Yesterday #2
Maybe they never got over being born black. BattleRow Yesterday #3
This bastard Lang was born 10 miles from my childhood home in Sullivan County, NY AZLD4Candidate Yesterday #4
Glad he left TommyT139 12 hrs ago #5
Exit 104 AZLD4Candidate 5 hrs ago #6
Thanks for the link. Here B.See 4 hrs ago #8
Ew, I get that! He lives in Florida now. electric_blue68 4 hrs ago #9
They Don't Care! Aepps22 4 hrs ago #7
And, as a Black man, B.See 4 hrs ago #10
Thanks for your insight.... electric_blue68 4 hrs ago #11
Shameless Aepps22 14 min ago #12

erronis

(25,254 posts)
1. I think the term "cognitive dissonance" was invented for them.
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 07:11 PM
Yesterday

But that would imply they understood both of the words.

BattleRow

(2,814 posts)
3. Maybe they never got over being born black.
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 08:49 PM
Yesterday

Is there such as being repulsed by ones own DNA?

AZLD4Candidate

(7,145 posts)
4. This bastard Lang was born 10 miles from my childhood home in Sullivan County, NY
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 09:14 PM
Yesterday

Makes me sicker to know this.

B.See

(9,128 posts)
8. Thanks for the link. Here
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 04:47 PM
4 hrs ago

are some excerpts from the article (in case some run into a paywall):

A January 6 Rioter Is Leading an Armed National Militia From Prison -Wired

As the US election approaches, Edward “Jake” Lang says that the militia will focus on potential “civil unrest” around the vote and will be ready to activate at a moment’s notice.

Years after being accused of swinging a baseball bat at police officers during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, Edward “Jake” Lang is now using encrypted messaging channels to create a nationwide network of armed militias in all 50 states.

Though he has been in prison for over 1,200 days, Lang is working with a network of election deniers and conspiracists to promote the North American Patriot and Liberty Militia, or Napalm for short. The group officially launched last week with 50 state-specific militia groups on Telegram.

Lang claims that the Telegram groups already have 20,000 members, including pastors, farmers, former military personnel, and currently serving sheriffs. However, multiple experts who reviewed the channels tell WIRED that figure was wildly overestimated, and that the real figure was closer to 2,500 members. But a group this size, they warn, is still large enough to cause a serious threat. And while unarmed members are welcome, the group is, at its core, a pro-gun organization. “We are pro open carry, pro always have it on you, rather than waiting for somebody else to be able to defend your life,” says Lang.

As the 2024 US election approaches, Lang says that Napalm will be focusing on potential “civil unrest” around the vote. “We have to make sure that we're prepared for any real-time scenarios, any eventualities,“ says Lang. “Civil unrest at any given moment, especially around an election time, is something that could come along, and so we have to plan for that contingency as well.”


This was written two years ago. So one can only imagine what they've been up to, since.

Aepps22

(432 posts)
7. They Don't Care!
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 04:37 PM
4 hrs ago

As a Black man I feel the need to let the DU community into the mindset of people like that Black Republican. People like him are essentially grifters and scammers that will sell out their own people in an effort to secure “influence” and potentially financial gain. He doesn’t believe a single word he says and he knows he is supporting people that want him enslaved but the pull of fake acceptance by those people and a future financial gain or influence is too much to turn down. Look at Candace Owens, she got on that grift train and only got sensible when the money dried up. Thomas is the same way but because of his position the benefits are still flowing. I secretly wish that he will be able to retire from the SC and see how quickly those people turn on him when he can’t do anything for them anymore.

B.See

(9,128 posts)
10. And, as a Black man,
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 05:09 PM
4 hrs ago

I thank you for your frank assessment. You are absolutely right of course. So perhaps my exhortations to 'wake the fuck up' are more intended for our fellow minorities who stand nothing to gain from lending credence to these self-serving, opportunistic clowns.

electric_blue68

(28,164 posts)
11. Thanks for your insight....
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 05:12 PM
4 hrs ago

I wonder if any/some guilt irks them, and they push it down.
With greed overpowering the care for themselves, and Black people overall.

Aepps22

(432 posts)
12. Shameless
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:01 PM
14 min ago

Sadly, this is one of the tragic results of Slavery and Jim Crow and the feelings of never being good enough. Many Black people will never go the Black Republican route or the self hate route but those that do see themselves as better than every other Black person. These people have convinced themselves that when folks degrade Black people that somehow those people don’t mean them. They are shameless and think that their conservative views and co-signing racism will get them a pass. Look at Daniel Cameron. For as much water as he carried for Brianna Taylor’s murderers what did that get him? Disdain from the Black community and the racist folks he was counting on voted for a democrat before voting for him in Kentucky that time he ran for governor and Trump showed his true colors by endorsing his primary opponent for the senate seat.

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