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.

  • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    184·
    10 months ago

    This man has declared bankruptcy FOUR TIMES. He has been under investigation for the past two years because he used campaign donations to pay off personal debt, among other things.

    He shouldn’t be anywhere near running a state or in charge of any budget, near a budget, or even be allowed to see a budget.

    He has also praised Hitler on social media.

    Oh, and he misspelled the word ‘leach’ (leech) in his post because WHY WOULD WE NEED PEOPLE RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT WHO CAN ACTUALLY SPELL SIMPLE FUCKING WORDS like a third grader could.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
      57·
      10 months ago

      What always blows my mind the most is how these people see no issue with filing for bankruptcy (sometimes multiple times), but are against “handouts” like social security and unemployment that people pay into and are earned benefits. The same people that grumbled about “nobody wants to work”, but then stole thousands of dollars in COVID relief money they had no right to.

      • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        Or at least someone he’d pretend to like as much as he’s ever pretended to like someone who is not white.

      • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        30·
        10 months ago

        Yes, one of his GOP opponents is running ads right now in North Carolina pointing this out.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          Huh, I could see a Democrat opponent successfully pointing that shit out in the general election, but in the GOP primary that would probably make more people vote for Robinson.

    • fidodo@lemmy.world
      101·
      10 months ago

      I can forgive minor spelling mistakes. It’s easy enough to misplace a finger while typing. That doesn’t mean they think it’s spelled that way. But everything else you pointed out is more than bad enough.

      • silverbax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        10 months ago

        I would forgive it, if he didn’t misspell words in everything he posts and wasn’t running for Governor of a U.S. state. None of the other candidates misspell words in their posts, ever.

    • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      10 months ago

      FYI, the leach is the trailing edge of a sail. Not that I think he knows that, but maybe his spellcheck does. Doesn’t excuse the rest….

    • Alto@kbin.social
      107·
      10 months ago

      We’re talking about people who think giving kids school lunch for free is communism.

      • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
        20·
        10 months ago

        “But it’s going to quickly destroy the fabric of the family and the willingness of people to work if we provide assistance to those rightfully placed at the bottom of society!”

        -Rich people who opposed the introduction of the Poor Law in Elizabethan England in 1601.

      • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        Listen, it is pretty difficult to be able to define all of the words they regurgitate. Do any of us really understand the words that are coming out of our mouths?

          • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            Ok, well, that’s probably fake news. Pretty sure you are a Marxist Leninist Post-Communism antisemite. I’m trying to think of all of the other words TFG told me to say, but I don’t have time to listen and “read” things.

            Wait a second, why doesn’t anyone talk about how Trump did 9/11? Donald Jessy Rafael financed the whole thing. Well, he said he did, repeatedly.

      • nifty@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        giving kids lunch for free is communism

        People think absurd things like that because of racism.

  • the_q@lemmy.world
    103·
    10 months ago

    Hmm… I wonder if Mark Robinson would be able to run for governor if not for MLK. Guess will never know…

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    64·
    10 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…

  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
    33·
    10 months ago

    He knows its gonna be hard as fuck to get elected republican while black so he has to go out of his way to make it clear he hates black people.

    • Zorque@kbin.social
      13·
      10 months ago

      Those statements were from before he was campaigning, now that he is he’s doing his best to say the opposite.

      They were an indication of who he is, not who he’s selling himself as.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
    31·
    10 months ago

    Real classy. Still, on par with the current state of the Republican Party.

  • stoly@lemmy.world
    27·
    10 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
    241·
    10 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.