More outrageous past comments have come back to haunt embattled North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson.
The Republican lieutenant governor was busted last week for posting X-rated anecdotes and calling himself a "black NAZI" on a lewd online forum years ago, but The Bulwark has learned that around that same time, Robinson also posted eye-popping comments on smaller political websites.
“If the cops wanted to shoot an elderly black man they should have shot Al Sharpton,” Robinson commented in April 2009 on a NewsOne article about the civil rights activist and MSNBC commentator taking part in a police-brutality protest. “Closing his mouth would do this Nation good.”
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“Obama IS a blackface step-in fectch-it [sic] for liberal white America,” Robinson posted that same month on the same site.
“It’s Oprah the wicked witch, leading the way to sexing up the children!” he commented on NewsOne a few days later.
The Bulwark accessed those comments by plugging Robinson's email address, as reported by multiple news outlets, into an archive of old comments posted on sites built using the content management system WordPress, and that review found the GOP candidate used the same “minisoldr” alias he used on smut forums and elsewhere.
“This is a long line in despicable, self-hating, antisemitic rhetoric from a man who enjoys the support of Donald Trump and the Republican party,” Sharpton said in a statement to The Bulwark. “Now, his candidate in that state has suggested cops shoot me instead of some other victim. It’s clear that someone’s life is expendable to them, especially if you disagree on the issues.”
The Trump-endorsed Robinson's campaign declined to comment on the newly revealed online comments, but the candidate has announced that he has hired a law firm to investigate reports about his lewd comments by CNN after most of his staff resigned afterward and Republicans distanced themselves from him.
