Mark Robinson Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight

Of all the politicians in recent memory who have been caught saying horrible things in their past, few rival Mark Robinson in terms of sheer depravity. On Thursday, CNN reported that Robinson, North Carolina’s lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee for governor, was once a frequent commenter on a porn site called Nude Africa where, between 2008 and 2012, he labeled himself a “Black Nazi,” praised Adolf Hitler, yearned for the return of slavery, confessed to spying on showering women at a gym, referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as “Martin Lucifer Koon” and a “f*cking commie” who is “worse than a maggot,” and, though he has publicly characterized transgender people as satanic “filth,” described trans-themed porn as “f*cking hot.”

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