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Title: Texas GOP platform committee member: ‘Damn right, I’m a white nationalist’
Post by: Elderberry on December 05, 2018, 02:20:45 pm

The Hill By Morgan Gstalter - 12/04/18

A member of the Texas Republican Party’s 2018 platform committee and former delegate for Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) presidential run proudly declared himself a “white nationalist.”

The Texas Observer reported Tuesday that Ray Myers took to social media last week and wrote, “Damn right, I’m a white nationalist and very proud of it."

“I am Anglo and I’m very proud of it, just like black people and brown people are proud of their race. I am a patriot. I am very proud of my country,” Myers explained in an interview with the outlet. “And white nationalist, all that means is America first. That’s exactly what that means.

"That’s where the president’s at," he continued. "That’s where I’m at and that’s where every solid patriotic American is. It doesn’t have anything to do with race or anything else.”

Myers compared using the term “white nationalist” to the Black Lives Matter movement.

“I mean, just like Black Lives Matter, white lives matter, too,” Myers said. “We’re all in the same melting pot. Now why can’t we say, as Anglos, that we’re proud?”

More: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/419659-texas-gop-platform-committee-member-damn-right-im-a-white (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/419659-texas-gop-platform-committee-member-damn-right-im-a-white)

Title: Re: Texas GOP platform committee member: ‘Damn right, I’m a white nationalist’
Post by: Wingnut on December 05, 2018, 02:24:07 pm

“I mean, just like Black Lives Matter, white lives matter, too,” Myers said. “We’re all in the same melting pot. Now why can’t we say, as Anglos, that we’re proud?”

Well that is just crazy talk! /s