Trump surrogate Charles Evers: "No woman should be President of the United States, period."

[ashtonelijah]

Civil rights icon Charles Evers talks about endorsing Trump

Longtime civil rights leader Charles Evers attended the Trump rally in Madison Monday evening. Evers is throwing his support behind the republican candidate.

Evers said Monday, Trump is a businessman and believes he will create jobs in Mississippi.

"I know that all blacks are not against him because they are black," said Evers.

"I'm independent, and I work for a living and I don't need nobody to give me nothing, but a chance, that's all," said Evers when asked what he had in common with Donald Trump. "We are just Americans, we happen to be black or white but we are Americans and that's the way I look at it. I don't have to appease nobody."

Evers sister-in-law and the widow of his younger brother, civil rights icon Medgar Evers, is supporting Democratic contender Hillary Clinton for President. He brushed aside any hard feelings with their separate political choices.

"My sister in law has her rights and I have mine," said Evers. " It doesn't matter what she does. My first thing, what does Hillary to offer other than I'm a woman and a Democrat and second, I'm really going to make you all mad now, I don't think no woman should be President of the United States, period."

Source: http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/31407176/civil-rights-icon-charles-evers-talks-about-endorsing-trump?clienttype=generic&sf22142744=1

[FSogol]

1. FSogol: "No combover should be President of the United States, period."

Sorry Trumpy, get your racist, sexist, fascist ass back in your helicopter and go.

[JRLeft]

2. He just elected Hillary president of the United States with a massive landslide victory.

[Nonhlanhla]

3. He is aware that many have said the same

kind of thing with reference to a black man being president. How ironic.

[democrattotheend]

4. This reminds me of a conversation I had on the morning of the NYC mayoral primaries

It was probably the only time that I woke up undecided on the day of the election. I was working for a union that supported Christine Quinn, but preferred De Blasio's policies because he was more liberal. On the other hand, I felt that Quinn had proven herself to be an effective leader when she did get behind a progressive proposal, like paid sick leave. She opposed it initially, but once she got on board she got it through the city council and helped make it happen.

Weighing these factors, I was torn on election day, and when I ran into my building superintendent I asked him who he was voting for. He told me he planned to vote for Anthony Weiner, and that he did not like Quinn because he did not think it was right to be a lesbian and he "did not think a woman is powerful enough to be mayor." Since I was on the fence to begin with, I decided that Quinn was getting my vote to offset the loss of a vote due to sexism and homophobia.

This doesn't change my support for Sanders in the primary, but it reminds me that if Hillary does get the nomination, even if I found no other reason to vote for her (which I do), I would probably vote for her just to offset sexist jerks like this. Of course, I don't understand how supporters of either candidate could even consider not supporting the other in the general election, given that whoever wins will be running against either an Islamophobe channeling Hitler or an economic terrorist.

[democrattotheend]

5. I don't think this guy deserves the title "civil rights icon"

Whatever good he might have done in the past, someone who espouses sexist crap like that should not be considered a civil rights icon.

[NurseJackie]

6. My thoughts exactly. Thank you.

[auntpurl]

7. I believe this is a post on which both Hillary and Bernie supporters can wholeheartedly agree

This guy is an idiot.

[democrattotheend]

9. Indeed

I have said since the beginning that I plan to support Hillary if she is the nominee, but if I did not already feel that way I might change my mind based on comments like this.

In 2013, I was on the fence about whether to vote for Christine Quinn or Bill De Blasio in the NYC mayoral primary, and a sexist/homophobic comment someone made about Quinn the day of the primary made me so angry that I decided she was getting my vote.

[PeteSelman]

8. What a tortured use of the language.

"I don't think no woman should be President......"

So, you do think a woman should be President.....right?

[Stallion]

10. Ha! And We wondered how He Fit on the Trump Bus

thankfully, he opened his mouth and put his foot right in there

[okasha]

11. Encpre!

Hordes of Republican women just went over the fence