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TheGrio: Mark Robinson, who said Black people owe reparations, described as a ‘minstrel’ that could backfire for Trump campaign

Mark Robinson, Republican candidate for NC Governor

People For National Political Director Markus Batchelor describes the harm that comes from the platforming of MAGA Republicans. 

Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate campaigning to become North Carolina’s first Black governor and the man Donald Trump called “Martin Luther King on steroids,” could threaten the former president’s 2024 campaign performance in the state. 

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“The MAGA movement has made it a practice to platform their most dangerous views and harmful stereotypes through figures like Robinson, [Herschel] Walker, Diamond and Silk and other borderline minstrels,” Markus Batchelor, national political director with People For the American Way, told theGrio. “It’s given room for conspiracy theorists and attention-seekers to be masqueraded as legitimate representatives of Black America.”

Read the full article in TheGrio