Harris County GOP chair-elect resigns after sharing racist Facebook post/

[RandySF]

Harris County Republican Party chair-elect Keith Nielsen announced on Facebook he will not take office in August, days after defending a racist post related to ongoing protests on racial inequity.

“I have spent my entire adult life supporting conservative candidates and causes and I am grateful for the thousands of supporters who have reached out to me over the last several days,” Nielsen wrote in a Facebook post. “I regret that I must step aside as Chairman-elect of the Harris County Republican Party and will not be taking office on Aug. 3rd.”

The Tribune previously reported that Nielson posted an image on Facebook earlier this week that showed a Martin Luther King Jr. quote — "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" — on a background with a banana. The juxtaposition of the quote and the banana can be read as an allusion to equating black people with monkeys, a well-worn racist trope.

Nielsen appears to have deleted the post and apparently addressed it on his Facebook page Thursday evening. On Friday he said he would not resign, before changing course on Saturday and announcing that he would not be taking office on Aug. 3. Nielsen did not address the reason for his stepping down in his post.



https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/06/harris-county-gop-chair-resigns/

[True Blue American]

1. A local heating and AC

Owner is in big trouble here because he posted on Facebook the Floyd murder was planned.

All of his big customers have cut ties with him, including the Local Children’s Hospital, College and TV Station. His account was deleted.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. All it took was large numbers of ordinary citizens saying "Enough is Enough!" for the tide to turn.

Now racists emboldened by tRump are scrambling for rocks to crawl under.

[True Blue American]

3. We had peaceful protests all over the Miami Valley

Including mine. They marched down Union Blvd. from I 75, ( the Fire Department,) to the National Road. That was it.

[True Blue American]

4. This guy ruined

His company he built over the years. He has always been known as a racist,, or as a friend described him dirty. They tried to scare his MIL into a new AC last year. This year a black technician told her it was fine. Problem? SIL used to work in the AC field, selling them.

[SheltieLover]

5. Indeed!

[Lucinda]

6. KNR