Alabama lawmaker's racist email rant

[Lucille]

Alabama lawmaker's email: 'Slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, snaggle-toothed kin folk'
http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/post_44.html


State Rep. Joe Mitchell, D-Mobile, had an outlandish exchange via email with a Jefferson County man who asked him and other lawmakers not to pass any laws that would restrict gun ownership.

Eddie Maxwell sent a mass email to state legislators late on Jan. 27, warning them that even attempting to introduce a gun control bill was, in his opinion, a violation of state law.

Mitchell responded from his public, ALHouse.gov email account an hour later, telling Maxwell: "Your folk never used all this sheit (sic) to protect my folk from your slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed (sic), imported criminal-minded kin folk."

Lovely.

Emails and more at the link. Also here:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/27/alabama-state-representative-launches-into-race-fueled-second-amendment-rant/

If anyone here lives in Alabama, maybe send something below to the historically challenged "Rep." Mitchell:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLiZygsVrag


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA4mJW-kjSc

The Racist Roots of Gun Control
http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/cramer.racism.html

Civil Rights and Armed Self-Defense
Understanding Clarence Thomas' extraordinary concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago
http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/09/civil-rights-and-armed-self-de

[compromise]

What an idiot. If he were white, he'd probably have been expelled from his party.

[talkingpointes]

Ouch, they are going to be pissed about the card they always use -- being used against them. I truly admire those in the face of mountains of adversity and still pull through knowing it will be life long.

[Lucille]

The AL leg has no code of conduct or ethics rules? Even our city council has those.

Alabama House Speaker: No punishment for Rep. Joe Mitchell
http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/alabama_house_speaker_no_punis.html


State Rep. Joe Mitchell, D-Mobile, will not face disciplinary action over a series of incendiary emails he sent to a Jefferson County man, according to the leader of the Alabama House.

House Speaker Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said today that he did not agree with the comments expressed by Mitchell in his emails to retired coal miner Eddie Maxwell, in which Mitchell described Maxwell's ancestors as "slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed (sic), imported criminal-minded kin folk."

Mitchell has refused to apologize for the comments (http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/rep_joe_mitchell_i_dont_have_a.html#incart_special-report).

“Rep. Mitchell’s comments do not reflect my personal views nor the views of the House of Representatives," Hubbard said in a statement to AL.com. "In my opinion, this offensive and inappropriate language does not and should not have a place in public or private discourse.”

But Hubbard said Mitchell has the right to free speech and did not break any House rules in making his statements.

[dannno]

What an idiot. If he were white, he'd probably have been expelled from his party.

Or it would have made a really funny Dave Chappelle skit.

[angelatc]

Wow. I clicked through and read the original article. That guy has some serious problems. He literally hates white people.

The Speaker is probably afraid of him.

[phill4paul]

I wonder if this will get as much traction as the other representatives "Wetback" comment?

[BAllen]

I wonder if this will get as much traction as the other representatives "Wetback" comment?

I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

[Anti Federalist]

I wonder if this will get as much traction as the other representatives "Wetback" comment?


I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

LOL - I wouldn't wager a fiver, with odds.

[acptulsa]

Mitchell responded from his public, ALHouse.gov email account an hour later, telling Maxwell: "Your folk never used all this sheit (sic) to protect my folk...

No, but if your folk had found a way to use it they would have better been able to protect themselves. And they are now better able to protect themselves than they will be if you have your way.