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Republican Precinct Chair Resigns After ‘Lazy Blacks’ Comment to ‘Daily Show’ (Video)


The Wrap

(Update: In an interview with TheWrap, Yelton says he’s been scapegoated, but stands by his comments.)

A North Carolina Republican precinct chairman has stepped down after members of his party called for his resignation following a “Daily Show” interview in which he derided “lazy blacks.”

Don Yelton, formerly of the Buncombe County Republican Party in North Carolina, made the comments while defending his state’s voter-fraud law, which critics say amounts to voter suppression to keep African-American voters from the polls.

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Yelton insisted during the interview that the law had nothing to do with race. But the show edited together a series of comments in which he volunteered that he once posted an image of President Obama as a witch doctor and used the N-word while complaining that it’s OK for black people but not white people to use it.

At one point correspondent Aasif Mandvi asked him, “You know that we can hear you, right?”

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Yelton said the fraud law might hurt college students too lazy to wake up to get photo IDs, some white people or “a bunch of lazy blacks that wants the government to give them everything.”

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