NC lawmaker's words to a Black colleague make clear what the GOP has become
North Carolina Rep. Jeff McNeely had a Freudian slip on the N.C. House floor this past week because what he said was perfectly emblematic of a GOP mindset that is dragging the Tar Heel state back to the 1950s.
McNeely, a white Republican who has served in the House since 2019, directed a revealing question to Rep. Abe Jones, a Black Democrat, during a debate about private school vouchers.
Before he was cut off McNeely said: “I understand that you went into public schools and you went to Harvard and Harvard Law. And the question I guess, is, would you have been able to maybe achieve this if you were not an athlete or a minority or any of these things, but you were a student trapped in a school that the slowest — you know, in the wild we’ll say the slowest gazelle does not survive, but yet the herd moves at that pace. So the brightest child sometimes is held back in order —”
The man McNeely questioned is the son of a Saint Augustine’s University professor, the first Black member of the student council at Enloe High School, and a man who served for nearly two decades as a N.C. Superior Court Judge and has a Harvard Law degree. But to McNeely, Jones was little more than his skin color and athletic ability. Jones also ran track at Harvard.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nc-lawmaker-words-black-colleague-100000098.html
The GOP has been taken over by the old Dixiecrats.
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his Wikipedia page photo. If he keeps blowing up maybe he'll spontaneously explode...
https://jeffmcneely.com/about/
