North Carolina Governor Candidate's Incendiary Comments

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"Silly memes": Mark Robinson claimed history of settlers killing Natives was "exaggerated"

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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson , a Republican running for governor, often claims mixed-race Native American descent.

In social media posts from 2015 onwards, Robinson complained about posts he saw from other people that described a settler-colonial genocide in which huge numbers of indigenous peoples were displaced, forcefully assimilated and killed from the Hudson Bay to the Straits of Magellan .

Robinson is known for making incendiary remarks that have embarrassed some fellow party members.

He also found a way to bring "murder" into the debate, though he was talking about abortion, not genocide. "How Can A Bunch Of People Who Don’t Bat An Eye Over The Murder Of Infants Get So Upset About The Name Of A Sports Team ?” he wrote in 2021 , referring to the Cleveland Indians changing their name to the Cleveland Guardians . The Robinson campaign was not available for comment..

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