Mitch McConnell Suggests Black Americans Aren’t Really ‘Americans’

When people get old, they often lose their filter and start saying the quiet part out loud. For aging white people, this most often means saying racist sh**. For old white politicians, it often means saying racist sh** while standing at a podium on national television. And since the GOP remains the party of old white men, this can be a real problem for Republicans.

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Senate Minority Leader and unintentional Jar Jar Binks cosplayer Mitch McConnel has recently come under fire for saying something racist while denying racism.

According to Newsweek, Yertle the Turtle’s great grandfather made the remark on Wednesday during a news conference where he was asked about the voting rights filibuster he and his fellow GOPerpetrators of voter suppression have engaged in.

McConnell accused Democrats of “fake hysteria,” which is already rich considering all the “fake hysteria” his own party drummed up over imaginary widespread voter fraud based on Donald Trump’s “big lie,” and the fact that they have used said hysteria to justify legislation to secure elections that don’t need securing.

But it was what McConnel said next that raised major eyebrows.

“Well, the concern is misplaced,” McConnell said of the notion that blocking The Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is an attempt at disenfranchising Black voters. “Because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”

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