Republican front-runner for North Carolina governor attacked civil rights movement

[nightwing1240]

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s first Black lieutenant governor and the GOP front-runner for the 2024 gubernatorial race, repeatedly lambasted the “so-called” 1960s civil rights movement, lamenting that “so many freedoms were lost during the civil rights movement.”

In a CNN KFile review of his media appearances over the last five years, Robinson baselessly claimed that the civil rights movement was a communist plot to “subvert capitalism” and used “to subvert free choice and where you go to school and things like that.”

“So many things were lost during the civil rights movement. So many freedoms were lost during the civil rights movement. They shouldn’t have been lost,” Robinson said in a March 2018 podcast episode.

Robinson made many of the comments on the podcast “Politics and Prophecy” with host Chris Levels on Freedomizer Radio, a station whose slogan says “Freedomists Freedomizing Freedom.” Levels is a conspiracy theorist who has shared 9/11 truther posts on Facebook, called the Olympics an illuminati event from Satan and shared posts saying Jews control nearly everything in society.

Link - https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-attacked-civil-rights-movement/index.html
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I despise CNN as most do on DU but felt this was important to post. There is a lot to unpack here least of all the poor people of North Carolina with a man like this running for Governor of the state.

[Hassler]

1. He's clearly driving in the Crimey Clarence lane of black politicians.

[LiberalFighter]

2. He is and looks like a nutbag. A Rush Limbaugh follower.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Christian fascism is not always wrapped in a white package, some others are consumed by the hatred

in defence of their hate filled, apparently, gods and idols.

[zipplewrath]

4. Get him on a stage with Jesse Jackson

I realize that Jesse may be getting to old for this, but I'd love to see Robinson tell Jesse what was wrong with the civil rights movement. To bad John Lewis isn't still alive to tell him while sitting there with the scar on his scull.

[hlthe2b]

5. I may hate the direction Chris Licht is taking CNN, but they still have some excellent journalists..

--talented and dedicated employees who share my (our) concern and anger at the direction that Licht (a long semi-hidden RWer, apparently, per Olbermann) is sending CNN (careening off the cliff, if something doesn't happen soon).

As for that horrible cretin from NC, surely there are sufficient sane NC "R's" to prevent him from getting the nomination? An oxymoron, of course, but???

[Quanto Magnus]

6. So he saw an opportunity for power

Shit on the Civil Rights movement, gain power....

[twodogsbarking]

7. Living proof that the Civil Rights Movement is needed, even more.

[Permanut]

8. Next on the agenda,..

Mark Robinson's totally logical and coherent explanation of how the Civil War was about "states' rights" and had nothing to do with slavery.

[kwolf68]

9. The Republicans are just getting more and more deranged

Sadly, pathetic. I can't believe the Democrats don't have a 70% preference over crazies like this.

[gratuitous]

10. So many lost freedoms Robinson can't name even one

Here's one to start you off, Mark: The freedom of White people not to be forced to use a publicly-funded swimming pool with "those people."

Your turn.