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.
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