Tea Party Rep: “Black Men Prefer Drug Dealing To Education”

Republican Party leaders in central Illinois are calling on their own candidate for state senate to step down following racist remarks he made at a candidate’s forum last week. Al Reynolds, who is considered the Tea Party candidate in Illinois’ 52nd District, has been unavailable to the media since saying that African American men preferred dealing drugs to going to college, because it is “easier.”

Tea Party Rep: “Black Men Prefer Drug Dealing To Education”

From Newsone.com in politics

“I’ve been in the city and the dichotomy of the women and the men in the minorities, there is a difference in the fact that most minority women, either the single parent or coming from a poor neighborhood, are motivated more so than the minority men,” Reynolds said, when asked what he would do to increase diversity at state colleges. “And it’s a pretty good reason. Most of the women who are single parents have to find work to support their family. The minority men find it more lucrative to be able to do drugs or other avenues rather than do education. It’s easier.”

What do you think about Al Reynolds statements? Does it hold any validity?

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Comment by Margo on November 12, 2010 at 10:18pm: so sad! Tea Bag

Comment by KeepEndingNew! on November 8, 2010 at 11:27am: REALLY!? WHAT THE FUCK this is why i stay in school to show people who think like this they are wrong and to tell them to shut the fuck up!

Comment by Valjeanne Jeffers on October 29, 2010 at 11:41pm: These people are insane and ignorant. Having a black man, President Obama, elected as leader of the free world has driven them over the edge.

Comment by oilkanlarry on October 29, 2010 at 8:38pm: I'm sorry for the last statement but I can't find words to express my anger with this guy and what the tea party stands for. My apologies.

Comment by oilkanlarry on October 29, 2010 at 8:36pm: Fuck Al Renolds... point blank. Fuck him.

Comment by Miss A on October 28, 2010 at 10:42pm: What's sad about this situation: there are probably a whole lot of people who don't understand why his comments are ignorant and illogical.

Comment by Mamadoc on October 28, 2010 at 9:43am: these folks are just ignorant mixed with crazy and it's just been coming out more and more since the last Presidential campaign. I do have to say that the positive is that it's now out there in the open and I know that it's definitely a "choice" when folks pretend it isn't happening in 2010.