Teabagger Candidate For Illinois Senate: Black Men Prefer Drug Dealing To Education

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Al Reynolds, Tea Party Candidate For Illinois Senate, Says Black Men Prefer Drug Dealing To Education

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/al-reynolds-tea-party-can_n_774432.html

Republican Party leaders in central Illinois are calling on their own candidate for state senate to step down following racist remarks he made at a candidate's forum last week.

Al Reynolds, who is considered the Tea Party candidate in Illinois' 52nd District, has been out of the spotlight since saying that African American men preferred dealing drugs to going to college, because it is "easier."

"I've been in the city and the dichotomy of the women and the men in the minorities, there is a difference in the fact that most minority women, either the single parent or coming from a poor neighborhood, are motivated more so than the minority men," Reynolds said, when asked what he would do to increase diversity at state colleges. "And it's a pretty good reason. Most of the women who are single parents have to find work to support their family. The minority men find it more lucrative to be able to do drugs or other avenues rather than do education. It's easier."

The room was silent as Reynolds made his remarks. (Video below)

[ixion]

1. he's got teh Stupid in a bad way

geez...

[aquart]

2. He's "been in the city"???

How very polite of them to sit and say nothing.

Where I'm from, silence is consent.

[marmar]

3. He took a train into Chicago once and now he's an expert on Urban Studies

I guess that's the thing about being really stupid - you have no idea how stupid you really are so you keep flapping your stupid lips.

[davsand]

4. That forum was jointly sponsored by the NAACP and the League of Women Voters.

I had not seen the paper that next day, and I ran into one of the local Republicans when I was out for lunch. He told me the local GOP party chair was scheduled for a press conference that day to call for Reynolds to drop out of the race. I asked what had happened and about fell over to hear that Reynolds had melted down in such a spectacular way. My comment at the time was that he couldn't have done a better job of screwing up that race if he'd planned it.

The local GOP had not given Reynolds any money for that race, and the only party support he'd gotten had been a $250 contribution from the Republicans in Vermillion County.

Something that our local paper reported that just blew me away was the fact that Reynolds made the same remarks AFTER the debate when the reporters asked him about it on follow up. This was clearly not a case of a guy who just stumbled--this man actually believes that crap...



Laura

[madrchsod]

5. the republican running for governor is`t quite that stupid....

but he`s close...