In Alabama, we have Chief Justice Roy Moore. In Mississippi, we have Republican State Representative Gene Alday. He is against putting any more of the state's money into the public school system (for education). And, now he is under attack for making racist comments in an interview with a local newspaper. He told the Clarion-Ledger (in an interview) that "blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks.' They don't work."
From The New Civil Rights Movement:
"I don't see any schools hurting," Rep. Alday, 57, told the Clarion-Ledger. He acknowledged that his state "has a lot of bad school districts," but blamed their poor performance on voters who "are electing superintendents that don't know anything about education."
In an apparent attempt to defend his stance, Alday, who sits on the Youth and Family Affairs committee, said, "I come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks.' They don't work."
The former mayor of a town of just 1248 people then relayed an experience he had at a local hospital's emergency room. "I liked to died. I laid in there for hours because they [black people] were in there being treated for gunshots."
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Clarion-Ledger is now demanding that Alday apologize and not seek reelection this year and retire. If he doesn't, the paper says that the voters should "retire him at the ballot box."