Wesley Hunt Destroys Gavin Newsom and the Democrats ‘Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations’ [WATCH]

Republican Senate candidate Wesley Hunt addressed race, merit, and political identity during two exchanges with commentator Stephen A. Smith, rejecting claims that conservatism is incompatible with Black Americans and pushing back on remarks he described as insulting.

In the first exchange, Smith asked Hunt, “How do you, as a conservative who happens to be black, answer such cynicism coming from the other side when they say things like that?”

Hunt responded by pointing to generational progress in his own family.

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“Well, it’s very simple, brother, we live in an era to where there are no more slaves and are no more slave owners,” Hunt said.

“You see, I live in an era of today.”

He then referenced his great-great-grandfather.

“My great-great-grandfather was born on a plantation. His name was Silas Crawford,” Hunt said.

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“He was born on Rosedown Plantation, about three miles north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”

Hunt detailed the achievements of Crawford’s descendants.

“Three of his great-great-grandchildren went to West Point,” he said.

“Three of his great-great-grandchildren served in the military.”

He described a period when his family members were deployed simultaneously.

“At one point, my brother sister and I were all deployed in Baghdad at the same time for two months,” Hunt said.

“We had a praying mother and a praying community.”

Hunt then turned to his current campaign.

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