Missouri GOP Rep. Wants Confederate Monument Vandal to be 'Hung From a Tall Tree'
Source: Mediaite
Weeks after a state senator got into hot water for openly wishing on Facebook for President Donald Trumps assassination, State Rep. Warren Love (R-Osceola) seemed to call for a vandal of a Confederate monument to be lynched.
Sharing an article about a Confederate statue being vandalized in Springfield National Cemetery, Love posted the following to Facebook:
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As shown above, Love wrote: This is totally against the law. I hope they are found & hung from a tall tree with a long rope.
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When asked for a comment on the post by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Love denied he was calling for the vandal to be lynched, instead claiming he was using an exaggerated statement that was nothing more than just a western term. He added that he uses terms like that because hes the cowboy of the Capitol.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/missouri-gop-rep-wants-confederate-monument-vandal-to-be-hung-from-a-tall-tree/
More from the Post-Dispatch:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-representative-appears-to-call-for-lynching-in-social-media/article_ce20f2a9-41e1-547c-a3ba-7fe380923905.html
Love told the Post-Dispatch on Wednesday he is not a racist.
Listen, Ive got good friends in the Capitol, Love said. Me and Tommie Pierson (a black St. Louis County Democrat) was co-captains of a softball team. And you can ask anybody in that Capitol. I probably have a better relationship with the minorities than anybody up there at the Legislature.
I play softball with them, Im good friends with them. I, you know, I sit on the same side of the aisle with them and theyre on my softball team, Love said.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)I'm sorry but anyone who's using the term "black Negro" and talking about "hanging folks from a tall tree" in the 21st C is a racist fuck, no matter who his friends are!
DBoon
(22,369 posts)Should be hanged as war criminals , as they were at Nuremburg.
The confederacy was based on the idea that human beings from the continent of Africa were meant to be farm animals.
Their followers in the 20th century were executed as war criminals.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)So what type of slavery do you support?
Slavery has always been mostly because of race. Some is religious, some is tradition (warriors placing their captives in slavery).
Please expand on what type of slavery do you approve of?
DBoon
(22,369 posts)What type of troll are you?
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)Just asking questions. You object to race based slavery, but apparently are ok with other types of slavery.
I am against ALL forms of slavery, not just race based. As you stated.
Crowman2009
(2,497 posts)yardwork
(61,650 posts)Every time somebody says that these symbols represent their heritage, remember what that heritage is.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)He seems to think it is OK--like Trump saying his sexist comments are 'locker-room talk'
.......................When asked for a comment on the post by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Love denied he was calling for the vandal to be lynched, instead claiming he was using an exaggerated statement that was nothing more than just a western term. He added that he uses terms like that because hes the cowboy of the Capitol.
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Link to tweet
raccoon
(31,111 posts)Could he be a love child of Trump?
raven mad
(4,940 posts)(multiple choice with bigots like him)
(a) Black
(b) Mexican
(c) Asian
(d) Hispanic (not Mexican)
(e) Native American
(f) Alaska Native
(g) LGBT
"I've got good friends........................"
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