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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 uploadedon 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.”
London Lamar, incoming Tennessee state House rep, calls residents ‘racist’, GOP voters ‘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 uploadedon 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.”
London Lamar, incoming Tennessee state House rep, calls residents ‘racist’, GOP voters ‘uneducated’