The black South Carolina U.S. Senate candidate who proposed election fraud and using drug money to fund her campaign has been caught on tape yet again. This time, she claimed that whites must be brutalized to make them behave the way she wants.
What Krystle Matthews wants is not entirely clear. But the Democratic member of South Carolina’s House of Representatives, who’s running against GOP Senator Tim Scott, was emphatic.
Whites are out of line and must be put in their place.
Recorded by an undercover reporter for Project Veritas, the audio is the second major scandal for Matthews and the Palmetto State’s Democrat Party. In June, on the phone with a prison inmate, she suggested running fake GOP candidates for office.
The Tape
“My district is slightly Republican,” the angry candidate said, and “it’s heavily white.” For that reason, apparently, Matthews believes it’s time to put the hammer down on whites.
“I’m no stranger to whites. I’m from a mostly white town,” she continued. “And let me tell you one thing. You ought to know who you’re dealing with.”
And who might that be? Bad whites:
You gotta treat them [white people] like sh*t. I mean, that’s the only way they’ll respect you. I keep them right here — like under my thumbs. That’s where I keep — like, you have to. Otherwise, they get out of control — like kids.
And Matthews has no intention of pussyfooting around. When whites need a tongue-lashing, she’ll deliver.
“I know other people are tiptoeing around them,” she said:
And I’m like, “Yo, that’s some white sh*t. I ain’t doing that.” They be like, “Well, I’m just gonna say some white sh*t.” That was my problem with Bernie [Sanders], because he was talking to an all-black crowd, and he was afraid to say black sh*t. I said, “If I’m talking to an all-black crowd, I’m gonna say black sh*t. Now if you don’t like it, you get your a** up and leave.”
Matthews’ Democratic colleagues weren’t happy, The State reported.
“There is absolutely no place in our political discourse for the kind of rhetoric I heard from Rep. Matthews in the video in question,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joe Cunningham said:
The Democratic Party cannot and should not tolerate such behavior from our elected officials and candidates and we must be consistent in calling out prejudice and hateful comments wherever it exists.
Other Democrats agreed, but the party chief said they can’t boot her off the ballot.
For her part, Matthews claimed that “regardless of race, I love everyone.”
Election Fraud Proposed
As The New American reported in June, Project Veritas caught Matthews on tape when she was speaking with a prison inmate from whom she sought campaign advice.
Few in South Carolina likely knew that some prisoners have a keen interest in political campaigns. But, alas, Matthews found her man in David Solomon Ballard, a jailhouse Karl Rove whose talents in electoral politics are as yet untapped.
Explaining that she is “much a n***** in a lot of ways, but I know how to turn it off and turn it on,” Matthews told Ballard that the party must find leftists to pose as Republican candidates.
“You gotta find some folks that are a little bit polished,” she said:
Maybe are not, you know, nobody really knows them that well, maybe they haven’t really been politically active. But we need some secret sleepers.
Like you need, we need them to run as the other side, even though they for our side.… We need people to run as Republicans in these local elections.
Running a straw candidate is against the law.
Matthews also wanted “dope-boy” money to run her campaign, she told Ballard, who landed a 14-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to threatening the sheriff of Aiken County, South Carolina, and assaulting a cop during an arrest in 2017.
“I still got to struggle to raise money for my campaign? Where the f*** is my black people with money?” she said. “I don’t care about no dope money! Give me that dope boy money!”
The latest recording also includes Matthews’ bizarre proposal to use street gangs in her campaign, although it’s unclear what the gangs would do.
“We need somebody who understands street gangs that we can clean up and put in a f**king suit,” she said:
[Somebody] that knows like, again, we [are] all working towards the same goal, and we all know what the play is.… Almost like a secret society — exclusive membership.
Where’s the gangstas? Where the street n**gas at? Like, where they at? I’m telling you them n**gas were foolish, but you can’t out-swindle them. They might not know all the college words, but you can’t hustle them — can’t f**k with their money. They see the game a mile away. Where they at? We need to put some of them in a suit and tie.
Veteran political tactician Ballard agreed.
