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  • 2018-07-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Did N.C. Republican Candidate Russell Walker Say 'God Is a Racist and a White Supremacist'? (en)
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  • On 28 June 2018, the Facebook page for the liberal web site Occupy Democrats shared a meme reporting that Russell Walker, a Republican candidate for the North Carolina state House of Representatives, had made statements reflecting racist and anti-Semitic beliefs: Aside the misspelling of Walker's first name, the text of the meme is generally true -- although the effort to paint Walker as a flag-bearer for an increasingly racist Republican party is somewhat exaggerated. It's true that Walker won a 8 May 2018 primary and will therefore be the Republican candidate in the 6 November 2018 general election, during which he'll face Democratic incumbent Garland Pierce in a race to represent District 48 in the North Carolina state House of Representatives. The North Carolina Republican Party, however, has not only pulled their financial support from Walker, but they have also barred him from the party's events and property. Dallas Woodhouse, the state's Republican party executive director, told us that District 48 is solidly Democrat, and the likelihood of Walker's winning it is therefore low. We will be likely passing a formal resolution that asks Republicans not to vote, or vote for someone else, which is extraordinary for our party to do, Woodhouse told us. The state Republican party also put out an official statement declaring that they will be spending our time and resources supporting Republican candidates that better reflect the values of our party. Although it's true Walker won the Republican primary with 65 percent of the vote, Woodhouse pointed out that voter turn-out in the primary was very low. District 48 has a total of 52,828 registered voters, according to state data, but Walker received only 824 votes. Walker himself does not contest that he made racist comments on a web site he runs called ChristDescendedFromJoseph.com, including an undated screed entitled WHITE SUPREMACY in which he wrote: On his campaign web site, which bears the same outdated design as ChristDescendedFromJoseph.com, Walker noted he is the owner of the latter site: Walker has also publicly referred to civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. using a racist term and expressed his opinion that women are the weaker sex because today white Caucasian women are much more willing than men to accept non Israelites — muds, 'blacks', 'nigras' etc. in the voting booth and in bed, than are Israelite men. NBC News reported more white supremacists sought public office in 2018 than at any other time in modern history. For example, James Allsup, who marched in the deadly 2017 Charlottesville white supremacist rally, was elected as committee officer for Precinct 129 in Washington state's Whitman County as a Republican. (en)
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