Conservative Black and cheery influencer Rob Smith is calling retired GQ Magazine aft the outlet published an nonfiction connected cheery Trump supporters, but failed to notation his race.
Smith told Fox News Digital that erstwhile helium archetypal work the piece, helium thought it was "surprisingly fair," but aboriginal helium noticed an "angle" that caught him by surprise. The writer of the portion failed to notation Smith’s contention and, portion different societal media influencers’ handles were successful the article, Smith’s were near out. Smith says helium believes this was the writer and editors’ mode of pushing a "narrative that each Trump supporters, whether cheery oregon straight, are White, and therefore, i.e. racist."
"The omission of mentioning that I was Black and the omission of my societal media handles oregon the omission of immoderate photos of me, led maine to judge that this idiosyncratic wanted radical that were speechmaking this nonfiction and had possibly ne'er experienced maine to deliberation that I was White," Smith told Fox News Digital.
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Rob Smith appears connected Fox News connected Aug. 30, 2020
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The GQ Magazine article entitled "My Afternoon With the ‘Normal Gay Guys’ Who Voted for Trump," profiles respective cheery Republican influencers and discusses the "budding faction of the LGBTQ+ community."
The rubric of the portion references thing that now-Vice President JD Vance said during an quality connected the Joe Rogan Experience conscionable earlier Election Day 2024.
"Frankly, I wouldn’t beryllium amazed if maine and Trump won conscionable the mean cheery feline ballot because, again, they conscionable wanted to beryllium near the hellhole alone," Vance told Rogan successful October 2024.
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A rainbow Pride emblem blowing successful the wind. (iStock)
Smith touched connected this thought successful some his interviews with GQ Magazine and Fox News Digital, pointing retired the disconnect betwixt immoderate cheery men and sex ideology.
Additionally, Smith accused GQ and different "liberal outlets" of trying to "erase" Black Republicans’ identities. He slammed the mainstream media’s portrayal of Republicans arsenic being retired of date, saying that they aren’t seeing the look of the enactment successful the "Trump era."
"Any gathering of conservatives, peculiarly young conservatives these days, is going to beryllium conscionable diverse. It's conscionable benignant of wherever we are close present arsenic a party. And I deliberation that a batch of the wide outlets, adjacent erstwhile they privation to propulsion america a bony by acknowledging that we exist, they inactive cannot rather wrapper their heads astir the information that determination are radical of colour who are conservatives, Republicans and Trump supporters," Smith told Fox News Digital.
The incidental with GQ comes conscionable a fewer weeks aft New York Magazine was slammed for cutting Black party-goers retired of a photograph taken astatine an inauguration event. Its piece, entitled "The Cruel Kids’ Table," features a photograph from a enactment hosted by blimpish influencer CJ Pearson, who is Black.
Pearson is taking ineligible enactment against the mag implicit the image, saying it paints Republicans arsenic racists.
"They don't get to slander america arsenic racist. They don't get to libel america successful print. We request to combat backmost and clasp their feet to the fire," Pearson told Fox News Digital.
In summation to the cropped image, New York Magazine’s portion contained a punctuation from an attendee who reportedly complained that "the full country is White."
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Smith called connected "liberal outlets" to commencement recognizing the changing look of the enactment and its supporters who "own the civilization close now."
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"Conservatives and Republicans and Trump supporters are gay, they're straight, they're Black, they're White, they're Asian, they're Latino, they are everything successful between," Smith said. "They're gonna person to articulation the remainder of america successful 2025."
Rachel Wolf is simply a breaking quality writer for Fox News Digital and FOX Business.