U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks onstage during the Congressional Black Caucus 53rd Annual Legislative Conference at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on September 12, 2024, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty
Spending years being a publicly hateful bigot is continuing to catch up with North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who has been linked to two adult websites, including one where he allegedly declared his enjoyment of transgender porn, referred to himself as a “Black NAZI,” and stated he wanted to bring slavery back because “slavery is not bad” and “some people need to be slaves.”
Robinson, of course, had denied all of these allegations amid calls by his own staff and the Trump campaign for him to drop out of the gubernatorial race in N.C.
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Well, now, several senior members of Robinson’s campaign have up and quit on him, and amid all of the political turmoil, Sen. Raphael Warnock has spoken out about what his KKKarma has wrought, describing the lieutenant governor as “white supremacy in blackface.”
From NBC News:
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, a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where MLK was a pastor until he was assassinated, described Robinson as “the antithesis of everything that Dr. King represented,” before referring to him as “white supremacy in blackface,” which one can imagine white conservatives across the MAGA world fuming over the same way they did when Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison compared Clarence Thomas to Stephen from Django Unchained.
But where’s the lie?
After all, no one should be surprised that the same man who said Black descendants of enslaved people “owe” reparations to the white people who died to free them — as if Black people should ever have been anyone’s owned property in the first place — also allegedly wrote on the website Nude Africa: “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would certainly buy a few.”
It might be shocking to some that Robinson called himself a “Black NAZI,” but only if they were unaware he once suggested the Holocaust was a hoax in a Facebook post where he wrote, “This foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash.”
Robinson even joined white racists across America in suggesting that Michelle Obama is really a man, posting on Facebook that he’ll be glad when Barack Obama “takes his boyfriend and leaves the White House.”
“This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me,” Robinson told CNN Thursday, adding that he won’t “get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.” (The information was “manufactured” through a multitude of evidence including email accounts that belonged to Robinson and what CNN called a “litany of biographical details,” but, sure, it’s all “lies.”)
The truth is nothing Robinson has been accused of posting on Nude Africa’s message board would be out of his character. Robinson’s own words make him out to be an anti-Black, antisemitic, and a seething anti-LGBTQ+ bigot — all things he has in common with white supremacists, as Warnock suggested. The real question is: After all the hate he has spewed publicly, why did it take his online activity being exposed for his staff to decide it was time to jump ship?
From CNN:
Robinson’s campaign announced Sunday evening that general consultant and senior adviser Conrad Pogorzelski III, campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, finance director Heather Whillier and deputy campaign manager Jason Rizk have stepped down from the campaign. Pogorzelski confirmed the news when reached by CNN.
“The reports are true that I, along with others from the campaign have left of our own accord,” he told CNN in a statement.
Pogorzelski also named additional officials who left the campaign: deputy finance director Caroline Winchester, political director John Kontoulas, political director Jackson Lohrer and director of operations Patrick Riley.
Despite calls for him to step down, Robinson has declared he will not end his gubernatorial campaign. Perhaps looking around his office and seeing that everyone has left him will change his mind.
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