North Carolina Republican precinct chairman Don Yelton, who resigned yesterday after his interview with The Daily Show, spoke to The Wrap today and refused to apologize or back down from anything he said.
Yelton says, without a hint of irony, that “niggers” are the real racists.
“When a n—– can use the word n—– and it not be considered racist, that’s the utmost racism in the world, and it’s hypocrisy,” he told me, a reporter calling to see if he’d been unfairly branded a racist.
Yelton said Republicans had lost an opportunity to use his statements as proof that they are open to all views.
“They can turn it into a positive if they want to,” said Yelton, 66. “The party does not try to control the speech of individuals. That’s the point they could have made. You have to let people have an opinion.”
Republicans missed an opportunity to demonstrate that they’re open to all views by asking him to resign? What?
