Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate calls Black mayor a 'bag boy'

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By Oliver Willis -March 12, 2021 3:19 PM

Levar Stoney, the mayor of Richmond, also served as Virginia's first Black secretary of the commonwealth.

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Pete Snyder, a Republican, called Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney "bag boy" during an interview on the right-wing Newsmax TV on Thursday. Stoney is Black.

"Terry McAuliffe's former bag boy, he got elected mayor of Virginia [sic], Mayor Levar Stoney, told the police to stand down," Snyder said.

Use of the term "boy" in reference to adult Black men has often been employed by racists and white supremacists in America's past.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/mayor-levar-stoney-richmond-virginia-republican-pete-snyder-bag-boy-racism/

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Two slurs in one.

Fox Noise says Pete Snyder is leading the charge. In 2017, female employee said he was part of the professional smear brigade there.

Much of her complaint revolves around allegations against former Fox contributor Pete Snyder, an investor and aspiring Republican politician in Virginia, where he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2013. Snyder is also the founder of New Media Strategies, an online marketing firm that counted Fox among its clients before he sold it in 2011.

According to Tantaros’ suit, Snyder has confided in her that he ran smear campaigns at the behest of Fox executives using social media “sock puppet” accounts—accounts that conceal the true identities of their operators—and that he later used similar tactics against her when her relationship with the network soured.

“Andrea Tantaros’ lawsuit against Pete Snyder is a sham and a shakedown,” Snyder’s lawyer, Randy Mastro, said in a statement. “It will be thrown out of court because it is meritless, time-barred, and subject to arbitration in any event. As Ms. Tantaros and her lawyer are well aware, Pete Snyder and his company ceased doing any social media-related work for Fox News in 2012; Snyder sold his social media company long ago, and has had nothing whatsoever to do with what she is now alleging supposedly occurred to her over the past year.”

Source: https://www.politico.eu/blogs/on-media/2017/05/the-widening-blast-radius-of-the-fox-news-scandal/

Pete the Shit Snyder’s lawyers did a number on Ms. Tantaros.

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2. Racism persists. This is just as awful as when Ron DeSantis used the phrase "Let's stop monkeying

around" to his black competitor Andrew Gillum.

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3. Keep nominating racist wingnuts; keep losing.

It’s a grand GQP tradition in VA—remember George “Macaca” Allen?