4 May 2021
Lamar County Democratic Party Chairman Gary O’Connor resigned Tuesday after calling Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) an “Oreo.”
“I had hoped that Scott might show some common sense, but it seems clear he is little more than an Oreo with no real principles,” he wrote on Facebook after Scott’s rebuttal speech to President Joe Biden’s Wednesday.
“I am deeply and sincerely sorry for my inappropriate and hurtful use of racist term I used to describe Sen. Tim Scott on my personal Facebook page. It was insensitive, and I have embarrassed myself and my party by its use,” O’Connor claimed Tuesday.
Texas Dems refuse resignation of official who called Scott an ‘oreo’: report Edmund DeMarche
The Lamar County Democratic Party said Tuesday that after days of reflection, it will not accept the resignation of its leader who has faced swift backlash for calling Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, an oreo, according to a report.
The Texas Tribune reported that the group met on Tuesday to discuss the issue and later announced its decision.
The group and its chair, Gary O’Connor, did not respond to after-hours emails from Fox News.
O’Connor was criticized over a since-deleted Facebook post in which he called the South Carolina senator an oreo. He apologized for the slur, which refers to a Black person perceived as acting White.
The Democrat apologised following a now removed post where he used the racial slur, made in connection with the Republican s response to Joe Biden s congressional.
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Democrats have been making very bigoted comments against Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) since he delivered the response to Joe Biden’s address to Congress. He was called an “Uncle Tom” and the left even trended “Uncle Tim” on Twitter.
Liberals like Joy Behar tried to lecture Scott, a black man, on what racism really is and the WaPo fact checker questioned Scott’s story about his ancestors.
What set them off so? Scott dared to challenge the narrative, saying that America was not a racist country. That simple fact, said with truth and conviction by a black senator, upset their apple cart.
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