Georgia's 6th Congressional Candidate's Husband Retweets: "Free Black Slaves From Dem Plantation"

[kpete]

Handel's husband, Steve Handel, shared the image in the form of a quote-tweet, in which he shared the tweet of another user who initially posted the image and added his own commentary. In a statement to CNN's KFile on Tuesday, Handel's campaign said her husband hadn't paid attention to what was said in the original tweet.

"Like many of us, he (Steve) made a mistake and retweeted something he didn't pay a lot of attention to, thinking it was just an absentee vote message. It clearly was not appropriate and has been deleted," a campaign spokesperson said.

Handel is running to replace former Rep. Tom Price, who resigned his seat to become Health and Human Services Secretary. She's locked in a tight race in the runoff election with Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff.

The image, shared by user @rose10052, featured a stock image of young black man in a suit with white text.



"Criticizing black kids for obeying the law, studying in school, and being ambitious as 'acting white' is a trick Democrats play on Black people to keep them poor, ignorant, and dependent," text on the image reads. "Free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/kfile-karen-handel-husband-tweet/index.html

[gratuitous]

1. You people don't know who's holding the whip

Here, let Massa Handel explain it to you.

[Hoyt]

2. Many white wingers believe Democrats enslave minorities with helpful programs, affirmative

action, etc. I've heard that junk from white wingers for decades. Of course they don't complain when they get help.

[Warpy]

3. Can these fucking morons be any more tone deaf?

No, don't answer that. I don't think the depths of Republican stupidity have been fully plumbed yet.

Sad.

[exboyfil]

6. Maybe they are thinking they will get more white voters

than black voters that respond to this message and you know why.

[Bleacher Creature]

4. Not buying for a second that this was unintentional.

His wife is in the middle of a high profile race, and he knows full well that every statement and action he takes will be scrutinized.

Short of him being taken over by a demon, or some high tech sabotage, this was an intentional shout-out to the racists, with the pullback a lame attempt to comfort moderates.

[brush]

5. Ahhhh.....repugs, that's not going to go over well.