Augusta Commissioner-elect John Clarke: Racist or Public Servant?
His voice shaking and tears in his eyes as he read from a prepared statement, Augusta Super District 10 Commissioner-elect John Clarke asked for forgiveness regarding racist posts recently discovered on Facebook, as his supporters stood behind him and listened during a recent press conference.
“Those angry postings are not who I am,” Clarke said on Friday, May 25. “I ask the citizens of Augusta to give me the opportunity to serve through my service on the Augusta-Richmond County Commission over the next four years. Again, I sincerely offer my apology, and I hope and I pray and I am asking for your forgiveness. Let’s please move forward together.”
The posts, which were made in 2014, dealt with the protests in Ferguson, Mo., after the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.
In one particular post by Clarke, which since has been removed from Facebook, the N-word was used several times along with many other obscenities and racially charged statements.
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John Clarke: Repentant Racist, Unrepentant Liar and Fool
Supporters of Augusta City Commissioner-Elect John Clarke held a press conference last week to tell the world they accept his apology for outlandish and racially offensive remarks made some years ago on his Facebook page.
Dilly-dilly for him and them.
What Clarke and his gathered supporters remained silent on are the myriad lies and countless refusals to remove those offensive posts, that have come in the past four months.
We can start with the lying, first. While I do not have a list of everyone who got this one particular whopper laid at their feet, I can tell you one person who did, and that would be me.
“I was hacked… there is no way I typed those words.”
Read more: http://metrospirit.com/john-clarke-repentant-racist-unrepentant-liar-fool/