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

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

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) He continued:

"We need to provide ways that are more incentive, other than just sports avenues, for the men for the minorities to want to go to college and get an education and better themselves before the women have to support them all."


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

[efhmc]

1. He is their PERFECT candidate.

Fits all of the repuke's basic needs, hypocritical, bigoted white male.

[somone]

2. Keep talking

Express what you really believe.
And get it on tape.

[krispos42]

3. Wait wait wait wait...

...I thought all single minority women were welfare queens, complete with Cadillacs and big-screen TVs?

[midnight]

4. If Al Reynold's really cared, about something besides alarmingly unfair disadvanted groups

of people choosing drugs over education, he would start by addressing the ecomomic tools used in this country to keep large segments of our communities in unfair ecomomic situations....

[defendandprotect]

5. This is the racist underbelly of the right wing coming into open ....

It reminds me that when the right wing gets a look at themselves -- they often puke!!

Can only trust that this will wake up some people on the sidelines -- and maybe even

some T-baggers!



A great help to the AA community would be to stop portraying them as our criminals --

rather, white elites are our criminals it seems -- but they aren't the ones in our jails!!

Let's also do America a favor and legalize marijuana!!

Looking up pot smokers is huge insanity!

[jaysunb]

6. I resent that insinuation !

I paid my way through college selling weed. :evilgrin: just kidding.

:rofl: