Booker countered with his own tweet, claiming that the President's "Racism is showing," followed by an email calling Trump's tweet "Blatantly racist." Trump's tweet contained no mention of race, but since it was critical of Booker, and since Booker is African-American, that is the only qualification needed to justify launching an accusation of racism.
Based on complicit media coverage and Booker's own storytelling, most casual political observers assume Booker is from the city of Newark, but that assumption is incorrect.
Senator Booker grew up in the small hamlet of Harrington Park, NJ, before heading to Stanford University on a football scholarship, followed by Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and then to Yale for his law degree.
Booker only moved to Newark with his eye on politics at the age of 28, long after what most would consider his formative years.
No, Harrington Park does not fit with the story that Cory Booker is trying to sell, but that is where his true origins lie.
Upon not qualifying for the candidates' debate in Los Angeles last December, which came on the heels of Kamala Harris dropping out of the race a few days earlier, Booker whined, "It's a problem that we now have an overall campaign for the 2020 presidency that has more billionaires in it than black people." The problem is not that Booker was a lousy candidate, you see, it is not his fault.
Born only four years after the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1965, there is no doubt that Booker encountered racism growing up, even in a town as nice as Harrington Park.
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Straight Outta Harrington Park, NJ -- Here’s Cory Booker
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