Gay Black Republican Says MAGA Rally Was Racist, Homophobic

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A homosexual Black man who can be a Republican conservative seems to be very stunned that he was known as racist and homophobic slurs throughout a MAGA occasion, and, properly, let’s simply say he’s not the one one who’s clearly confused.

Meet Rob Smith.

Smith is a conservative commentator and contributor for Turning Level USA, the conservative anti-think tank based by loud and proud anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ bigot Charlie Kirk. In December, Smith posted a video on X as he wined about being known as the N-word and the homophobic f-word at a Turning Level occasion in Phoenix.

Now, the man who appears like he would even be stunned to seek out out the KKK doesn’t supply a DEI program is claiming that one of many right-wingers who racially harassed him was Missouri State Rep. Chris Lonsdale, a Republican conservative who was elected into workplace in 2022.

From Newsweek:

Video despatched by Smith to Newsweek seems to indicate Lonsdale close to a crowd that heckled and chanted a homophobic slur towards Smith. Lonsdale was seen pointing his finger towards Smith. Nevertheless, the video was taken from behind the lawmaker, and it remained unclear whether or not he was among the many people chanting the slur.

“One of many people is a Republican elected official named Chris Lonsdale, a State Rep for MO district 38,” Smith wrote in an X message to Newsweek.

Lonsdale has but to reply publicly to the allegation and Turning Level stated in an announcement to Newsweek that chanting of bigoted slurs didn’t occur on the precise occasion, it occurred after Smith went to a “separate bar/venue that is a long way from the conference middle after this system had concluded for the day.”

OK, we’re sort of placing the sunken place cart earlier than the white nationalist horse right here. It isn’t shocking and even in the least fascinating {that a} Republican official may need joined in on the racist heckling. In spite of everything, this month alone, we’ve reported on a self-described “honorary” KKK member who’s working for governor of Missouri as a Republican, and the Republican chief of a white nationalist group that residents of a small city in Oklahoma are at present making an attempt to recall after electing him into the town council.

The actual query is—WTF did Smith count on?

If an individual who’s allergic to pet hair goes to a canine park and complains about getting the sniffles, you’re in all probability going to have a look at them like they’re silly, proper? Effectively, no matter what your political and ideological leanings occur to be, if there’s a shindig being thrown by the celebration that hates DEI, affirmative motion, important race idea, Black voters, non-whitewashed Black historical past, Black Lives Matter, gender research, LGBTQ+ research and academic materials about totally different sexualities, however loves pushing laws to ban all the above into white nationalist and heteronormative oblivion—perhaps that celebration isn’t a protected place for a homosexual Black man to attend.

Anyway, over the weekend, Smith introduced on his present, Can’t Cancel Rob Smith, that he’s formally leaving the Republican celebration and, for probably the most half, responses on social media have been predictably unkind.

Smith additionally whined about conservative media retailers not giving him a name to speak about how bigots at a bigot occasion surprisingly responded to his homosexual and Black presence by being bigots. (Severely, this man is next-level delusional.)

In the meantime, of us who seem like on the opposite aspect of the MAGA divide are accusing Smith of fabricating what occurred and deliberately frightening the bigoted heckling he obtained, which, to be truthful, could be like frightening a canine into chewing on a big steak bone that also has a bit meat on it.

It’s getting bizarre within the MAGA world.