Jussie Smollett Energy: Target's Blackface Clown Is a DEI Rehire Stunt | Jason Whitlock Harmony

**Jason Whitlock** (0:01)
Target did not find a customer for a menstrual suit. No mother asked for black gloves, a wide painted grin, and a child pose like a staged joke.
Hyde and EEK is not some rogue vendor in a warehouse overseas. Hyde and EEK is Target's own Halloween house brand. Same building, same bullseye, same approval chain. The kids' glows under back like circus clown hit the aisle, the phones detonated, and Minneapolis already had the sermon. Watch this.

**James Dodds** (0:37)
One Minneapolis area business leader claims this new costume controversy is an indirect result of Target's DEI decision last year, saying, You rolled back diversity, so who's in the room now to say, hey, this is wrong?

**Jason Whitlock** (0:51)
ABC never puts her on camera. Her name sits on the chiron. The line is the whole pitch. That is not a product review. That is a job application. This is that fire.
Grab your Bible.
ABC did not lead with merchandising failure. That package hens the apology to last year's DEI retreat in one breath. A company crawling out of a boycott does not casually ship menstrual optics unless someone is really stupid, someone is really reckless, or someone needs a fire.
Target will not name the designer. Target will not name the approver. The press fills the holes with the oldest hire on the list.
Put the racial grievance chaplains back in power. This is not a costume story. This is manufactured racism. The same factory that sold you Jussie Smollett in MAGA country. Two white men, a news, bleach. Two in the morning in January in Chicago. Empire hours. Ask how stupid you have to be to concoct that story. Ask how stupid you have to be to believe it. Ask how stupid a newsroom has to be to sell it as the face of America.
Police found Jussie Smollett paid two acquaintances to stage the beating. A jury convicted him. The Illinois Supreme Court later wiped the conviction on a plea deal technicality. The facts never move. The story was never built to survive daylight. It was built to survive a news cycle. They had been getting away with these racial lies so long the craft got sloppy. The writers stopped respecting the audience. They stopped respecting the cops. They stopped respecting the church. When the lie has worked for a decade, you stop bothering to make it hard to check. Bubba Wallace's Talladega noose was a garage door pull rope. The FBI said that rope had hung in the garage since the prior fall. Not a hate crime, not a midnight visit from the Klan, a pull down strap that had been there for months. The networks wrote the ending before they measured the rope.
Pastor Jamal Bryant stood in a packed church last weekend and called Nolan Wells' drowning a lynching. They served birthday cake in the sanctuary and slipped a racial knife into the batter like a scene out of the movie Sounder. Cameras in the pews to spotlights Spike Lee, no rope, no mob, a water death recast as Mississippi Burning with celebrity eyewitnesses. Watch for yourself.

**Jamal Bryant** (3:51)
Christine does not have 31 years.
His father doesn't have 31 years. His siblings don't have 31 years.
We have a moment to disrupt a cycle because the blood that absorbed in Genesis 4 is the same blood that is now stained in Mississippi. To go from Megah Ebbers to Emmett Till and now to Nolan Wells, the blood stops here. We came tonight to stop a blood cycle. We are tired of all of these innocent black bodies being killed. And since I'm here, I came under all of the authority of Calvary to say all of these lynchings have got to stop now. Black people don't lynch themselves. Y'all better stop that lie. We gotta go back to our original gangsta music. Before I be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave and go home to my Lord and be free.

**Jason Whitlock** (5:07)
Happy birthday, Ben Crump. Empty file, same product, different aisle. There is no lie they will not tell. No scheme they will not hatch. No applause line they will not grant if the product on the table is systemic racism. The College Fixes 2025 and 2026 campus roundup reviews all the other fantasy movies coming out of the Graciel Grievance studio. A student admits lighting a burning cross as a Trump protest. A Virginia Tech professor reads racism into white teens scraping snow off a truck. A Montana State student writes anti-Asian graffiti and tries to pin it on Turning Point USA. Invent the villain, film the tears, demand the office. DEI is that office. After 2020, Target treated George Floyd's death as a corporate sacrament and built a priesthood. The country was ordered to treat a Minneapolis death as martyrdom. George Floyd died with enough fentanyl in his system to kill Secretariat and Seabiscuit. The offices that followed were the spoils, racial hiring cycles, supplier score cards, a program to coach black careers, flatter black shoppers and promote black owned brands, big budget pride celebrations, and the mainstreaming of child-friendly drag queen pole dancing.