Today, ThinkProgress reported on an amateur video (posted below) showing Arkansas State Sen. Jason Rapert (R), a far-right activist who has recently gained national attention for his radical assaults on reproductive choice, making the following statement:
"I hear you loud and clear, Barack Obama. You don’t represent the country that I grew up with. And your values is [sic] not going to save us. We’re going to take this country back for the Lord. We’re going to try to take this country back for conservatism. And we’re not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what you people believe in!"
It's shameful. It's shocking. It's vile. And it's not playing the "race card" to hammer him for it.
Usually, this is where a public figure who has brought shame to their office makes some sort of apology.
You know the drill. At the very least, they say something along the lines of, "if anyone was offended, etc.."
Some just disappear and they lie low for a while.
Not Sen. Rapert. He has taken to his twitter account to accuse his critics of lacking "context."
No, Seriously.
Usually, this is where a public figure who has brought shame to their office makes some sort of apology.
You know the drill. At the very least, they say something along the lines of, "if anyone was offended, etc.."
Some just disappear and they lie low for a while.
Not Sen. Rapert. He has taken to his twitter account to accuse his critics of lacking "context."
No, Seriously.
It's exceedingly rare to see this sort of overt White Supremacism so proudly displayed by a public official in this day and age, but it happens.
However, I can't recall ever seeing someone caught in such a display so devolved that they think it's publicly defensible.
However, I can't recall ever seeing someone caught in such a display so devolved that they think it's publicly defensible.
