A newly-elected Tennessee state lawmaker is apologizing after a video surfaced of the Democrat calling her state “racist” and claiming that most of its residents who “voted Republican are uneducated.”
The eyebrow-raising comments from London Lamar, a Democrat who is set to take office in January after running uncontested in the state’s House District 91 in the Memphis area, were made last week in a Facebook Live video posted the morning after the midterm elections.
“Let’s just call a spade a spade. Tennessee is racist. Period,” Lamar says in the video, which has been uploaded on several news websites after being taken off Facebook.
“Most of the Tennesseans who voted Republican are uneducated. So, they don’t even know that they showed up to the polls to vote against their own interest,” Lamar says at another point in the video. “They literally voted on color lines.”
On Monday, Lamar, in a Facebook post addressing the footage, described it as a “statistical analysis of the midterm elections based on my numerous years of political experience.”
Her campaign website says she has served the President of the Tennessee Young Democrats and has been a vice-chairwoman of the Black Caucus of the Young Democrats of America, among other positions and recognitions.
“After a review of the numbers after the midterm election, I felt the need to record a Facebook live video to discuss the numbers from both Tennessee and nationwide,” Lamar wrote in the apology post. “My comments did not intend to make a generalization about every white person who voted Republican. The truth about a large number of those who responded with their vote for Republican candidates this election cycle is, they voted in response to the racially charged rhetoric that has come from our President.”
Lamar, however, provided no proof in her Facebook post to back up that claim, nor did she explain how she determined things such as the interests or motives of each of the voters who had cast their ballots in Tennessee last week.
She went on to say that Tennesseans “live in a state that is very racially polarized.
“In my video I made one mistake and that was an overgeneralization of white people and for that I sincerely apologize,” she said. “However, we must not discount the election day data. We live in a state that is very racially polarized. When you look at the needs of rural west, middle and east, the democratic values speaks to their needs. I sincerely desire for the great state of Tennessee to give the democratic values a chance to work for all people.”
Lamar’s comments have been blasted by critics on social media.
“Calling #Tennessee voters uneducated racists while holding that seat is unconscionable,” one Twitter user wrote Tuesday. “It saddens me to know that somebody who feels that way about her constituents has such a trusted position.”
“A person with that attitude should not be in the House of Representatives in the state that she trashed on Facebook,” another added.
Others, on Lamar’s Facebook page, came to her defense.
“Stand tall, little sister. Never surrender and always defend. We got your back,” one person wrote.
so, as a politician, that was pretty dumb of her to say.
morally....Pit, is she right, wrong, or somewhere in the middle?
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
She called a spade, a spade. Clearly she must be a racist.
As such, she should be hounded out of a job, accosted in public, her privacy at home threatened, her children insulted, and even violence done to her person, because all of these things are totally acceptable when you are dealing with a racist.
When many here strongly objected to the usage of that exact phrase, there was no specific person referred to, the usage of the phrase all by itself was deemed to be sufficient to classify the user as a racist, with all the privileges and benefits thereby accrued.
When many here strongly objected to the usage of that exact phrase, there was no specific person referred to, the usage of the phrase all by itself was deemed to be sufficient to classify the user as a racist, with all the privileges and benefits thereby accrued.
It is called a pitard.
It was me. I strongly objected. And I don't like her use of it here either, the only difference is 'it fits the situation' and it's not racist to call out racism.
When many here strongly objected to the usage of that exact phrase, there was no specific person referred to, the usage of the phrase all by itself was deemed to be sufficient to classify the user as a racist, with all the privileges and benefits thereby accrued.
It is called a pitard.
It was me. I strongly objected. And I don't like her use of it here either, the only difference is 'it fits the situation' and it's not racist to call out racism.
Left uses it so much it has lost it's meaning...everything is racist.Pffft.
Can you tell me exactly which spade she was referring to when she called a spade a spade, in order to call out racism, cause, you know, she is talking about white people, so the excuse that she was talking about black people, like using the N word, does not apply, it was the phrase itself which was said to be racist.
The difference is that this woman is black and you probably agree with Clem's statement that black people cannot possibly be racist, which is a load of horse crap so deep I have to ask if you are wearing hip waders?
Understanding the concept takes a degree of intellectualism that you simply do not possess. I'm sorry this baffles you but I'm not sure how to help you as we obviously do not process information the same way...
AND it would take all the fun out of trolling you.
You could have just stated that you have no functional reply to offer, would have been a lot easier on you.
The woman is a racist, she should be treated as you yourself have advocated, and I outlined above.
Now, you can confront the reality that your frequent rantings are baseless, unjustified, and of no value, or you can continue to hide behind your regular facade of name calling and insults.
Nelson, telling you that you are most likely right would completely ruin my opportunity to waste your time in a debate that I am baiting you into. It's like I pull a string and you type a response! I twist the string and you react emotionally. I cut the string and you post sarcastically...
Somebody is not in control of the conversation at all, can you manage that math?
when I lived in Texas I drove through Memphis a few times a year when doing my twice yearly pilgrimage to visit family. Great BBQ, which imho is high praise considering I lived in the belly of the BBQ beast so to speak.
when I lived in Texas I drove through Memphis a few times a year when doing my twice yearly pilgrimage to visit family. Great BBQ, which imho is high praise considering I lived in the belly of the BBQ beast so to speak.
The Rendezvous (dry rub) Blue City Cafe (wet rub) The Commissary (if you happen to be in the 'burbs, well, a 'burb....Germantown)
At DT, context and meaning are a scarecrow kicking at moving goalposts.
when I lived in Texas I drove through Memphis a few times a year when doing my twice yearly pilgrimage to visit family. Great BBQ, which imho is high praise considering I lived in the belly of the BBQ beast so to speak.
The Rendezvous (dry rub) Blue City Cafe (wet rub) The Commissary (if you happen to be in the 'burbs, well, a 'burb....Germantown)
I like One and Only (if only for the twice baked potato salad) and Commissary. Wasn't a big fan of Rendezvous when I went.
Soul fish café (althought not BBQ) maybe my favority place to grab a bite in the entire city. Best Catfish PoBoy I ever had, and the sweet tea will make your knees buckle.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
This marks the third time Nelson has expressed a desire to rape me.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
why do you want to deliver ice cream to a grown man? what a creep.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
why do you want to deliver ice cream to a grown man? what a creep.
It’s a reference to the multiple times he’s said he wants to shove an ice cream cone up my anus.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
I would agree with you but my posts disappear before I can finish typing them.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
I would agree with you but my posts disappear before I can finish typing them.
That’s because you keep saying weird and creepy stuff like “when people mock me for the time I called a pedophile ‘honorable’, it’s because they’re obsessed with pedophilia”.
Also, laughing out loud at “I keep trying to agree with the ice cream cone rape guy, but the mods keep deleting it”.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
I would agree with you but my posts disappear before I can finish typing them.
That’s because you keep saying weird and creepy stuff
If questioning you about the weird and creepy stuff you have been saying lately gets it deleted, then I would have to agree with you.
Just curious, why an ice cream cone? Do you have some traumatic experience with someone stealing your ice cream as a child or something? I mean there are billions of other objects you could have chosen for this statement, but ice cream cone? I reckon there is some weird, twisted meaning personally for you with that.
It’s probably how they got him at a frat party back in the day.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
I would agree with you but my posts disappear before I can finish typing them.
That’s because you keep saying weird and creepy stuff
If questioning you about the weird and creepy stuff you have been saying lately gets it deleted, then I would have to agree with you.
What is weird or creepy about making fun of you for the time you called a pedophile “honorable”?
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
why do you want to deliver ice cream to a grown man? what a creep.
He can't help himself. Narcissistic characteristics abound. He uses a solid yet limited intelligence to inflate his ego, while completely overlooking everything else that make a person socially accepted. Beck wrote a song about him, something about termites in the brain I think.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever considered adding something useful to a discussion, or do you just prefer to whine pitifully over and over and over again? Maybe I should deliver some ice cream to you, so that you can continue to fantasize about your desire to be raped?
Seriously twisted and broken this one is, folks.
I would agree with you but my posts disappear before I can finish typing them.
That’s because you keep saying weird and creepy stuff
If questioning you about the weird and creepy stuff you have been saying lately gets it deleted, then I would have to agree with you.
What is weird or creepy about making fun of you for the time you called a pedophile “honorable”?
Hard to live with the truth of the past, wait until he realizes Trump is Fake News! lmfao
Pretty much every post you make. But I still love you lil buddy. I really like it when you tell everybody about all your money and stock moves. Because we all enjoy good fiction.
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