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TheBlackAdder

(28,182 posts)
Wed May 31, 2017, 04:17 PM May 2017

ABC cast a Trump supporter who compared the NAACP to the KKK to date first black Bachelorette

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Fuck you ABC. Now I know you're just trolling for conflicts and viewership.


http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/abc-cast-a-trump-supporter-who-compared-the-naacp-to-the-kkk-to-date-first-black-bachelorette-report/


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ABC has been lauded for finally casting their first black Bachelorette — but when it comes to who they cast to “date” her, they weren’t so progressive.

According to HuffPost, 30-year-old Nashville singer Lee Garrett, one of the men cast to date Rachel Lindsay, has a number of problematic tweets in his past — including one that compares the NAACP to the KKK.

HuffPost reported that Garrett once tweeted that the only difference between the historical black civil rights group and the notorious hood-wearing white supremacist group is that “one has the sense of shame to cover their racist ass faces.” He’s also reportedly an avowed supporter of President Donald Trump.

He didn’t stop there — Garrett’s also tweeted criticisms of the Black Lives Matter movement, expressed a disbelief in the existence of “pretty feminists,” criticized LGBTQ rights supporters as somehow un-American, and claimed that he doesn’t hate Muslims, but does “hate Islam.”
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