Halloween is quick approaching and meaning it’s that point for the unyielding yearly pattern of politicians being outed for sporting racist costumes like Blackface.
Immediately’s contestant is Republican Rep. Mike Lawler who, in keeping with POLITICO, was placed on blast by the New York Instances for rocking a Blackface Michael Jackson costume some 20 years in the past when he was a scholar at Manhattan Faculty. In response, Lawler instructed NYT that the costume was the “furthest factor” from his thoughts and apologized for any offense. He additionally spoke in regards to the situation throughout an look on The Supply with Kaitlan Collins to “clarify” that the costume was not racist because it was an “homage” to the King of Pop.
This outing comes at a really precarious time for Lawler as he’s at present embroiled in a really tightly contested race to maintain his congressional seat towards a Black Democrat Rep. Mondaire Jones. Can’t think about that his conservative constituents care one bit about their consultant performing racist cosplay so maybe the injury will probably be surface-level at greatest.
Nonetheless, Lawler is dealing with different assaults for his refusal to talk out towards racist rhetoric in keeping with the POLITICO report.
Lawler was a part of the Sept. 13 roundtable in Chappaqua the place a participant sought to make the case that antisemitism goes unchecked on faculty campuses. The person stated, “if a bunch of white boys needed to begin a Klan membership at Columbia College, arrange chants and began chanting, ‘Lynch the n—–s’” that such exercise wouldn’t be allowed for longer than 30 seconds.
One other panelist agreed with the slur-laden sentiment however Lawler modified the topic as an alternative of rebuking the racist remark.
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