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| Black conservative social media agitator Diamond passed away. |
The controversial Black duo is no more. It was announced by Washed Up 45 and [Herneitha] Rochelle "Silk" Hardaway-Richardson that [Ineitha] Lynnette "Diamond" Hardaway has passed away. Some claim she died from severe complications of the coronavirus.
The World just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom, Love, and Humanity! Please respect the privacy of Diamond’s family! Memorial Ceremony TBA.
— Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) January 10, 2023
Contributions towards Preserving Diamond’s Legacy are only being accepted at the following link:https://t.co/g6J6NlBXE7
Diamond & Silk shot to fame after they made a viral video slamming Megyn Kelly while praising the former reality television star, business mogul turned politician.
They were the biggest Black supporters besides gay Black agitators Terrence K. Williams and Christian Walker. Christian somewhat denounced MAGA and Terrence has resorted to grifting by selling $20 pancake mix.
These two were fixtures on Fox, then Newsmax and before Diamond's passing, Frank TV, sponsored by My Pillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.
Diamond was 51 years old.
Black Twitter was not kind to Diamond.
Diamond —of the right-wing, Trump- loving duo Diamond and Silk— has died. In late November, she was hospitalized due to COVID-19. The duo was fired by Fox News a couple years ago for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines. You cannot script this stuff.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) January 10, 2023
Two part very special episode of Covid Deniers: Diamond Dies pic.twitter.com/wgcngOHm1J
— President Kamala’s Hand (Again) (@myronjclifton) January 10, 2023
Diamond and Silk were fired from Fox News for pushing COVID conspiracies and tonight, Diamond died from COVID.
— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) January 10, 2023
It just writes itself, doesn't it? https://t.co/9hKH3ajTXz
RIP Cubic Zirconia of Diamond and Silk. At least you got to "own the libs" while dying of COVID while unvaccinated. https://t.co/484U8h2MNf
— April is not an incubator (@April_Sassy) January 10, 2023
Heartbroken.
— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) January 10, 2023
My thoughts and prayers are with @DiamondandSilk as they mourn the loss of Diamond, who passed away today.
It was an honor to know Diamond - a PATRIOT. RIP. pic.twitter.com/3kZXeUDsyS
Diamond, of Diamond and Silk died, and I’m betting one of her wigs finally mauled her to death.
— THEE Aggressively Black Bianca (@TheeKHiveQueenB) January 10, 2023
RIP 🪦 diamond 💎 rest that wig pic.twitter.com/hPY4qwI8Gf
— 2RawTooReal (@2RawTooReal) January 10, 2023
Diamond did not survive. Nor did Herman Cain. Nor did any of these other vocal antivaxxers. pic.twitter.com/1cHG9qZq5t
— Know Justice. Know peace. (@scchumpert) January 10, 2023
That’s two MAGA Blacks that Covid got to…Herman Cain and now 1 of the Diamond and Silk sisters https://t.co/hMkgWZRTJi
— 👁️⃤ Mona (@ReallyRemona) January 10, 2023
Hold up, for real? pic.twitter.com/hFQahkFYZE
— Bashon Mann (@bonsaidream) January 10, 2023
Her last X-ray pic.twitter.com/S8yDfrxjmJ
— PoliteSouthernHelle (@Angelinoo) January 10, 2023
Hardaway and Richardson are sisters. They were born as Ineitha Lynette Hardaway and Herneitha Rochelle Hardaway; they go by their middle names. They have three other siblings.
Their parents are Freeman Hardaway and Betty Willis Hardaway, televangelical pastors based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Freeman and Betty Hardaway sold purported weight loss cures, and wreaths that ward off witchcraft. For a fee of $50, Betty wrote the names of customers in a Bible, telling customers that this would make God answer their prayers.
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| The duo Diamond & Silk were famous from 2015 until 2023. |
Hardaway and Richardson were registered as Democrats in 2012. Their first YouTube videos were a montage about police brutality, titled "Black Lives Matter" (it received 17,000 views), and a video about Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a Texas jail (it received 32,000 views). After the pair began to make pro-Washed Up 45 videos, their YouTube channel started to grow considerably.
Although officially unaffiliated with the Washed Up 45 campaign, they urged support for Washed Up 45 via social media efforts and rallies and traveled to three states for the campaign. The two women first joined Washed Up 45 as the "Stump for Trump Girls" on stage at his Raleigh, North Carolina, rally on December 4, 2015. They later warmed up the crowd at the Washed Up 45 rally on January 2, 2016, in Biloxi, Mississippi. They initiated a "Ditch and Switch" campaign to encourage Democrats to register as Republicans and created a website explaining to voters which states had closed primaries and when the deadlines were for changing party affiliations.
On November 2, 2016, Diamond and Silk appeared with Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of the campaign. They were paid $1,274.94 for field consulting work by the campaign.
They regularly appeared on Fox News shows including "Softball" Hannity, Fox News Sunday, Watters' World, and The Ingraham Angle, and Fox & Friends. In November 2018, Diamond and Silk were given a show on Fox Nation, the online Fox News streaming service. They were covered on ABC's Nightline. Hardaway is notably more talkative, while Richardson often just expresses agreement.
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| Black Republicans embrace Washed Up 45. |
A documentary film by Hardaway and Richardson titled Dummycrats premiered in October 2018 at the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
In May 2019, during a Fox & Friends appearance, Diamond and Silk claimed that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a "non-functioning alcoholic" who "slurs her words." This was in reference to a doctored and slowed down video that appeared to show her slurring her words. Shortly thereafter, Fox & Friends had to clarify for its viewers that the video was manipulated.
In 2019, Diamond and Silk appeared in a 2020 re-election advertisement where they gave a pitch for his re-election. At the same time, Diamond and Silk had a weekly show on Fox News' streaming service.
Beginning in March 2020, Hardaway and Richardson questioned various information about COVID-19 including whether or not the number of deaths from the pandemic was being inflated in order to make Washed Up 45 look incompetent. These questions led to the termination of their work with Fox in April.
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