Sen. Raphael Warnock says embattled N.C. GOP candidate Mark Robinson is ‘white supremacy in blackface’
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., on Sunday said GOP gubernatorial candidate and North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is "the antithesis of everything that Dr. [Martin Luther] King represented" and "white supremacy in blackface."
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., on Sunday said GOP gubernatorial candidate and North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is “the antithesis of everything that Dr. [Martin Luther] King represented,” describing him as “white supremacy in blackface.”
In an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Warnock blasted Robinson, who was the subject of a CNN report last week that said he once made multiple lewd comments on a pornographic website in which he expressed support for slavery, referred to himself as a “black NAZI,” described Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than a maggot” and said that if “he was in the KKK” he would’ve called the late civil rights leader “Martin Luther Koon.” Robinson has denied the report.
“[Robinson] talks about his desire to bring slavery back. I mean, this talk is way beyond the pale. Calling himself a black Nazi. These are his words,” Warnock told Psaki.
Warnock reflected on Robinson’s words, highlighting that he is the current pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Georgia, where King served as co-pastor from 1960 until he was assassinated in 1968.
The senator also tied Robinson to former President Donald Trump, saying, “The people of North Carolina need to take note of the fact that this is Donald Trump’s candidate.”
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