Saturday, April 27, 2024

KASSAM: Fani is The Furious Face of American Corruption.

As Larry David’s in-kind donation to Georgia Democrats aired its second episode, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was limbering up to take the witness stand. In a comedy of errors surpassing anything the Curb Your Enthusiasm writers could dream up, Willis and her erstwhile paramour Nathan Wade presented an entitled, offended “defense” of their sordid relationship and cash (or CashApp) dealings.

It was a Tyler Perry script gone wrong. An indictment of Georgia politics. And honestly? An embarrassment to Black American women, whose self-declared leftist political torchbearers – Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Kamala Harris, and now Fani Willis – have brought naught but humiliation.

Short of snapping her fingers and patting down her weave, Willis has adopted all manner of tropes against herself and her own community, in an attempt to shield herself from criticism.

“I don’t know why this old Black man feels like that, but he does,” Willis declared of her father’s apparent insistence that she keep wads of cash in her home.

“I am not going to emasculate a black man. Did you understand that?” she yelled while also ratting on her ex-lover, Wade, who apparently believes the “[o]nly thing a woman can do for him is make him a sandwich.”

But the race hustling was a sideshow to the main act in Fulton County yesterday: the audacity.

Fani Willis was furious she was being held accountable for her actions on Thursday. How dare they? How dare we? How dare you?

Like Antony Fauci screaming, “I am the science!” Willis declared: “You think I’m on trial. These people are on trial for trying to steal an election in 2020. I’m not on trial, no matter how hard you try to put me on trial.”

Actually, Fani, in most Americans’ eyes, you were on trial yesterday. And I guarantee you that almost everyone who doesn’t have a vested interest in your success thought you came across as precisely what you represent: the furious face of American corruption. So, thank you for taking the stand. Feel free, any time.