GOP candidate posted video featuring ex-KKK leader David Duke and tweets in support of Confederate f
People responded with shock and outrage when a white supremacist murdered nine Black individuals in a Charleston, South Carolina, church in June 2015.
Some called for the Confederate flag to be taken down in public places while others brought up reparations for African Americans.
David Armstrong would have none of it.
Armstrong, a Republican running for the state Assembly, posted a series of highly questionable tweets in the weeks after the church shooting.
On July 10, 2015, Armstrong tweeted out a video on "slavery's dirtiest secrets exposed" featuring former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. In it, Duke makes the dubious claim that Blacks are more likely than whites to have ancestors who owned slaves in antebellum America. This, Duke claimed, undercuts arguments used to justify "discrimination against whites" today.
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