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’s candidate in Illinois’ 52nd District, has been out of the spotlight since saying that African-American men preferred dealing drugs than going to college, because it is “easier.”
“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.
“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 sell drugs or other avenues rather than do education. It’s easier.”
“We need to provide ways that are more incentive, other than just sports avenues, for the men, for the minorities to want to go to college and get an education and better themselves before the women have to support them all.”
The crazy part about his statement is, Reynolds was speaking at an event sponsored by the NAACP.
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