The Guardian reports:
Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate, suggested that people who can’t take care of their children should be sterilized, according to one of a series of incendiary and racist social media posts from 2014 through 2019.
The commentary made in reference to Black families, which used terms a white supremacist would find appropriate, predates his time as the state’s lieutenant governor, but much of it came after his rise as a public figure on the right. Most of the social media posts have not previously been reported.
“If you need a court order to tell you to take care of your children, then you probably need an operation to make sure you don’t have any more,” Robinson posted on Facebook in 2016. In 2016, Robinson wrote on Facebook: “I said this once and I’m saying it again; A weak minded, muddle headed negro, ALWAYS thinks he and “his people” are victims.”
Read the full article. There’s more such posts at the link.
Republican Mark Robinson suggested ‘deadbeat’ parents should be sterilized in racist social media posts https://t.co/t5al09ZpY1
— The Guardian (@guardian) October 23, 2024