In unearthed Facebook posts, Mark Robinson also called the civil rights movement “crap” and vowed to work on MLK Day because he’s “not a leach."

In unearthed Facebook posts, Mark Robinson also called the civil rights movement “crap” and vowed to work on MLK Day because he’s “not a leach."

Martin Luther King Jr. was just an “ersatz pastor” and a “communist,” and the 1960s civil rights movement was “crap,” according to a series of Facebook posts by Mark Robinson, the leading Republican candidate to be North Carolina’s next governor.

Robinson, who is currently the state’s lieutenant governor, regularly criticized King and the civil rights movement for years on Facebook ― specifically on MLK Day ― HuffPost found amid a review of his posts. The Black politician also downplayed slavery, rejected the idea that he’s part of the African American community, and attacked the late congressman and civil rights icon, John Lewis.

These posts are surfacing at a time when Robinson, who is on track to be the GOP nominee for governor in November, has been trying to soften his rhetoric, and celebrate King and the civil rights movement.

  • stoly@lemmy.world
    26·
    6 months ago

    rejected the idea that he’s part of the African American community

    Whatever is going on here is definitely a “him” thing.

  • DrPop@lemmy.world
    211·
    6 months ago

    It’s the term" Uncle Tom," offensive. Because he’s definitely fitting that description. I remember learning it from social studies in reference to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    White, black, woman, man, gay, straight: It’s like upon joining the Republican Party, people are compelled to be grossly wrong on every single issue…

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    131·
    6 months ago

    We’re still going with the red scare? I’m from Central America, and the same Americans who glassed my homeland to keep Russians out of the western hemisphere, now suck Putin’s dick.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
      014·
      6 months ago

      This is what concerns you? Not the thousands of other much more relevant issues? Some wanna-be blowhard class and race traitor?

      • AnonTwo@kbin.social
        3·
        6 months ago

        …Yes, cause that means the base he is working with to get elected is one he thinks wants to hear this.

  • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
    5·
    6 months ago

    He is allowed to have his opinion, of course.

    Not a very smart thing to say, given people’s take on MLK. Guess he peaked the day before he said this. Specially near MLK Day. Just… Wow.

    • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      Ahh, the George Lucas

      I think he chose a goatee to highlight the pursed lower lip indicating simmering hatred that all reactionaries tend to nurture

      • xor@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        6 months ago

        i feel like the term “reactionary” has been so misused that it no longer has any meaning other than “someone a particular leftist doesn’t like”

        • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
          11·
          6 months ago

          reactionary adjective (of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform

          Checks both boxes. What does your malformed anterior insular cortex think it means?

          • xor@sh.itjust.works
            0·
            6 months ago

            reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes was better in some ways that are absent from contemporary society.

            mouth breather

            • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
              11·
              6 months ago

              On a scale from 14 to 88, how scared are you of having brown grandkids?

              What is this great age you want to return to? Owning people? McCarthyism? Jim Crow? Satanic Panic?

              • xor@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                6 months ago

                i replied to your question about the definition of reactionary, with the definition of reactionary…

                are you dense or trolling or…

                ah, took me a second, “scale from 14 to 88”…
                so you’re a neo-nazi…
                got it

                • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  6 months ago

                  Yes. Lots of racist talking points in my post history. A+ sleuthing

                  What is this great bygone age you wish to return to? This shift reactionary utopia? You’re not answering my question

  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    Yah know I had a black american cop poison my dog in my yard exactly one year ago today.

    leaves me conflicted on this day.