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.
Fat Kanye said what?
“vowed to work on MLK Day because he’s “not a leach.”"
I just can’t stop laughing at this.
rejected the idea that he’s part of the African American community
Whatever is going on here is definitely a “him” thing.
Real classy. Still, on par with the current state of the Republican Party.
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.
Yes, it’s offensive.
Also definitely fitting and deserved in this case.
I like Uncle Ruckus as the more contemporary version. “Martin, I’da shot you myself, but white folk got better aim.”
God he’s such an amazingly written character. “I got revitilago, each year I get blacker dahker,”. Also everyone knows who he is.
The polite term we of the melanated tonage have for him is “house slave”, the accurate one using language we shall not mention in polite company
Where does the brown paper bag fit in to all this?
On your head
Jesus was a communist then I guess.
Shhhh… Don’t let the evangelicals hear you say that
The guy giving away loaves and fishes? I’m shocked
[Insert “Yes” meme here]
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…
The Governor then added “And his shoes were wack too!”
Hehe are you referencing the Boondocks episode? I happened to watch that just a few days ago, and it was brilliant.
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.
Damn, why you gotta be angry, uncle?
If this is what you have to say in N.C. to get elected, I’m really worried about N.C.
This is what concerns you? Not the thousands of other much more relevant issues? Some wanna-be blowhard class and race traitor?
…Yes, cause that means the base he is working with to get elected is one he thinks wants to hear this.
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.
i like how his goatee shows where his chin would be, if he had one…
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
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”
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?
popular at school, were you?
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
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?
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 itYes. 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
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.
What’s the conflict? KRS-One - Black Cop
“ACAB” doesn’t see skin color.
Get it right, motherfucker. He was a socialist. And he was right.
We’re talking about people who think giving kids school lunch for free is communism.
“Is there Communism in the room with us right now?” is my go-to reply.
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