An activist who helped found the Women’s March slammed the Kentucky attorney general during a protest in Louisville, Kentucky, comparing him to “sellout Negroes” who participated in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
“You are a coward, you are a sellout,” Tamika Mallory, the founder of United Freedom and one of the organizers of the 2017 Women’s March, said during a rally in Louisville Friday. “We have no respect for you.”
Mallory was railing against Daniel Cameron, the state attorney general who failed to indict the police officers involved the death of Breonna Taylor.
Taylor was sleeping when police burst into her first-floor apartment. She was struck by six bullets — including one that was fatal. Only one of the three cops involved was charged, with three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree for firing his weapon into another apartment. The other two officers were deemed justified in firing because Taylor’s boyfriend had fired his gun when they entered the apartment.
Protests have rocked the city for 122 days, frequently turning violent.
Cameron, who is Black, said during a lengthy press conference announcing the grand jury decision Wednesday the police did not use a “no-knock warrant,” but announced themselves before entering Taylor’s apartment.
The Republican attorney general spoke last month at the Republican National Convention, criticizing Democratic nominee Joe Biden for his comment that Black people who don’t vote for him “ain’t Black.”
“Look at me, I am Black,” Cameron said. “We are not all the same, sir. I am not in chains. My mind is my own.”
Mallory, who is known for her incendiary language, ripped into Cameron during her speech. “Daniel Cameron is no different than the sellout Negroes that sold our people into slavery and helped white men to capture our people and to abuse them and traffic them, while our women were raped, while our men were raped by savages,” Mallory said.
She read a statement that she said Cameron released thanking the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police for their endorsement of his campaign last year. “To the men and women in blue, I pledge to be your advocate and your voice every day,” Mallory read.
“He’s a man of his word as it relates to his relationship to police. He protected the police,” she said. “He is an advocate for police. He is there to be their voice.”
She said just because Cameron is Black doesn’t mean he supports their cause. “All of our skin-folk ain‘t our kinfolk,” Mallory said. “And you do not belong to black people at all.”