Michigan's notorious Republican National Committee member is making rough waves again, and commentator Jack Lessenberry restates that the party should toss him overboard.
The latest provocation by Agema is a Dec. 31 Facebook recommendation of this article at a site called American Renaissance. Allen West, a Fox News commentator and senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, says the 2014 article by Michael Smith is "quite possibly the most racist article you will ever read" and "a profound and deeply disturbing piece."
Jack Lessenberry and Dave Agema
Above a link to it on his limited-access Facebook page last week, as shown below in a screenshot from MLive, Agema repeats an endorsement calling it "a very interesting article. . . . We are in a cultural battle. Very enlightening for anyone who is concerned about crime in America."
Here's part of Lessenberry's forceful call-out in an essay aired and posted Thursday:
Racism is being openly tolerated by the Michigan Republican Party. On New Year's Eve, Michigan’s Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema, well-known for nasty attacks on gays and Muslims, posted a shockingly racist article on Facebook.
It said that most blacks can’t reason, control their emotions or speak English well or without swearing.
Top Michigan Republican officials said that there’s no way to remove Agema from that job. Well, find one.
I’m not sure why Republicans think they can ask for people’s votes when they have as their national representative an openly racist, hate-filled bigot.
-- Alan Stamm
