The Worse Badly Racist Remarks at the Daily Show
The episode of The Daily Show featured an instant-classic segment on voter suppression and I.D. laws starring a painfully honest avatar for the darkest (whitest) corner of the Republican Party. The thing about Buncombe County Republican precinct chair Don Yelton, a conservative activist described as "the Rush Limbaugh of Western North Carolina," is that he's not hiding.
- On the subject of the state's new law meant to limit minority voters, Daily Showcorrespondent Aasif Mandvi offers, "The law is not racist and you're not racist," at which point Yelton stops him, perhaps mid-overdose on truth serum. "Well," he says, with a heavy pause, "I've been called a bigot before.”
Yelton then demonstrates why. Here are his Top 5 Racist RemarksDelivered in Front of a Camera, each expressed with generous amounts of sincerity:
5. "Matter of fact, one of my best friends is black."
4. "When I was a young man, you didn't call a black a black, you called him a negro."
3. "I had a picture one time of Obama sittin' on a stump as a witch doctor and I posted that on Facebook. I was making fun of the white half of Obama, not the black half."
2. "If [the law] hurts the whites so be it. If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it."
1. "Now you have a black person using the term n***** this and n***** that and it's okay for them to do it."
Mandvi, rendered nearly speechless, responds, "You know that we can hear you, right?"
Yelton knows. ("The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt," he concludes.) But he's never been shy about making his views public, as his gold mine of a Facebook page demonstrates.
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