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.

  • Flying Squid
    150•6 months ago

    Get it right, motherfucker. He was a socialist. And he was right.

    • Alto
      106•6 months ago

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

      • @Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
        21•6 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.

      • JessicaEnglish
        12•6 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?

          • JessicaEnglish
            6•6 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.

              • JessicaEnglish
                1•6 months ago

                Fuck, I forgot all about it. It’s easy to forget these things, as I haven’t been spoon fed the bad info by President Powdered Orange Drink. Can ya really blame me? Death Panels!

            • Flag
              2•6 months ago

              Thats a neatly condenced rant, for sure.

              In my defense, the internet is filled with absolute lunatics.

              • JessicaEnglish
                1•6 months ago

                I appreciate your compliments! Idk why I do what I do. I screw around too much.

          • Kata1yst
            1•6 months ago

            I think there was an implied /s. Or at least that’s how I’m reading it.

      • nifty
        2•6 months ago

        giving kids lunch for free is communism

        People think absurd things like that because of racism.