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Democrat Vernon Jones slams his own party as 'infected' with 'intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias'

2020-08-25

[Washington Examiner] Democratic Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones denounced his own party Monday evening, saying it is "infected" with "intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias."

"The Democratic Party has become infected with a pandemic of intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias, and a dangerous tolerance for people who attack others, destroy their property, and terrorize our own communities," he said during the first night of the Republican National Convention.

Jones broke with his own party earlier this year in supporting President Trump, saying in April that Democrats have "used and abused folks in my community for far too long."

"The Democratic Party does not want black people to leave their mental plantation. We've been forced to be there for decades and generations," Jones said Monday evening. "But I have news for Joe Biden: We are free, we are free people with free minds. I am part of a large and growing segment of the black community who are independent thinkers. And we believe that Donald Trump is the president that America needs to lead us forward."

Jones then reflected on growing up in the South and attending a historically black college.

"I grew up in the South. ... My parents, Robert and Rufer, built with their own hands a four-room cinder block home with no indoor plumbing. They had very limited education. But they instilled in us a strong work ethic that drove me from those tobacco fields of North Carolina to those hallowed halls of the Georgia General Assembly," Jones said. "My parents taught me if I believed in God, worked hard, and treated every person fairly, there was no limit to what we could achieve."

Posted by:Besoeker

#2 Was that the Smithsonian or the KKK? It's getting hard to tell them apart.

Posted by: Tom 2020-08-25 16:01

#1 "My parents taught me if I believed in God, worked hard, and treated every person fairly, there was no limit to what we could achieve."

He didn't get the message from the Smithsonian, that is intolerably acting 'white'.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-08-25 10:16

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