GA State Senator Fran Millar (R) calls black voters uneducated.

[Capt. Obvious]

GOPer Doubles Down On Excessive Black Voting Complaint: I Prefer 'Educated Voters'

The Georgia state senator who ranted about excessive black voting and vowed to fight a move to expand early voting in DeKalb County defended his remarks on Facebook, saying that he would rather have more educated voters than an increase in the total number of voters.

The Republican state senator, Fran Millar (pictured), wrote that in a comment responding to others on his post where he vowed to end Sunday balloting in DeKalb County because that area is "dominated by African American shippers" and has "large African American mega churches."

"I do agree with Galloway and I never claimed to be nonpartisan," Millar wrote. "I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters. If you don't believe this is an efort [sic] to maximize Democratic votes pure and simple, then you are not a realist. This is a partisan stunt and I hope it can be stopped. Furthermore I don't control where people are allowed to vote but am glad Brookhaven has been added for the last week."

That comment came a few hours after Millar published his longwinded email about an appointee of Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) who "has disappointed those of us that hoped he could bring the county together." Millar, in that same email, said that he talked with another lawmaker about ending early voting there.

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[Laelth]

1. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[MohRokTah]

2. I wonder what title he holds in the Klan. eom

[Trillo]

3. This is the thanks adults get for having worked for free for 13 compulsory school years,

doing what they're told, and getting that diploma: "uneducated."

[Feral Child]

4. K&R n/t

[Scuba]

5. As opposed to good Republican voters who are mis-educated.

[Gothmog]

6. This racist republican needs to learn the first rule of being in a hole

Stop digging

[City Lights]

7. Many elected republicans are uneducated.

I prefer educated lawmakers.

[cvoogt]

8. honestly

Many of Georgia's white population are uneducated, and probably considerably less educated than Atlanta's black population. DeKalb is a special case. It butts up against Emory University where there's a largely white neighborhood, golf course, etc. But much of DeKalb consists of apartment complexes and there are many African Americans but also many immigrants. Whitney Houston lived there for a good while. I did too.

[Trillo]

9. Interesting

Your example of DeKalb seems to say you're educated if you can live in a white neighborhood with a golf course, but uneducated if you live in an apartment complex.

[cvoogt]

15. Not at all what I meant.

All I said was the golf course 'nice' neighborhoods butt up against Emory University. I didn't say that meant those people are educated, though most are. Still, many of those are ignorant and would vote for this Repub fool. My point was DeKalb has a dichotomy of "white" neighborhoods (mostly ... it was rare to see diversity in that area) with sprawling lawns, and for the rest it's apartments which are much more diverse and which this Repub is afraid of, apparently. I'm white and lived in those apartments myself, but know people in the ritzy area too.

My point is this Repub's afraid of the diversity of DeKalb (and he should be, given his views!), which I see as one of its biggest assets.

[greymattermom]

10. Apartments aren't cheap in DeKalb

Why do you think apartment complexes means uneducated. There are lots of high end luxury apartments in DeKalb. Many times it just means small families or no kids.

[cvoogt]

14. I don't.

I lived in one for two years and had a Bachelor's and Master's at that point. And that was a middle-rung apartment, not luxury by any means and still expensive. Lots of families with kids and lots of people putting themselves or their partner through school.

[LonePirate]

11. Is he aware that highly educated, high information voters don't vote for Republicans?

I will simply appreciate the irony in his desire for more educated voters.

[mopinko]

12. and whose fucking fault would that be, if it were true?

is this an admission that segregating schools so they could be under educated is on purpose? i mean, if you really thought this, wouldnt it be your duty to fix it? by improving education for all?

and btw, yeah, plenty of under educated white people in georgia, last i looked. it is a red state, after all.

[Dawgs]

13. If GA Dem party is smart they would use this in ads right up until the election.

If they're smart.

[kelliekat44]

16. OK, I'll give you "uneducated." But not dumb. No matter the education level, blacks have not been

dumb about where their interests lie. In fact, the more education some have, the more they lose sight of what is actually in their own best interest and that of their children...and this includes all other races. If Obama was able to have his way, he would have brought the country together. His problem was that many in the country did not want to come together, they just talked the game. I mean, look who most "educated" whites vote for in the GOP.