Alabama State Rep. Joe Mitchell (D-Mobile) needs to find some kind of internal filter because it is not okay to refer to your white constituents’ ancestors as “slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed [sic], imported criminal-minded kin folk.”
State Rep. Mitchell was responded to a white constituent who wrote him in opposition to gun violence control laws. Mitchell suggested that the man’s kin never used guns to protect blacks, and that blacks would be happy to support the 2nd amendment “AFTER we [blacks] finish stocking up on spare parts, munitions and the like. Bring it. As one of my friends in the Alabama Senate suggested – “BRING IT!!!”
Needless to say, this is counterproductive in the extreme. It’s only made worse by the fact that state Rep. Mitchell copied the rest of the legislature on his replies.
It’s wrong on a whole host of levels. I doubt he sought permission to share this private email exchange. He was completely disrespectful. He picked at old scabs. He invited a race-war. And he gave a huge amount of ammunition to opponents of gun violence control. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.
Update [2013-3-28 11:26:43 by BooMan]: The original constituent letter was addressed to the whole legislature, so Rep. Mitchell was at least justified in sharing his response with the whole legislature.
