Ohio Republicans: If "colored people" washed their hands, they wouldn't get so much Covid.

[11 Bravo]

And this racist bastard now leads the Ohio state Senate Health Committee!

By God, If Johnny "Apple Cheeks" Roberts hadn't told me that racism was a relic of the past, (just before he voted to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act), I would swear that racism is still an actual thing.

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/gop-legislator-who-questioned-black

[Walleye]

1. Unfuckingbelievable!What country is Ohio in again?

That is the kind of disgusting racism that I really thought we put in the past. At least in polite company

[BComplex]

7. That was the problem: polite company.

They were still racists, and now they're not even polite. Racists need to be unemployable in this country before we're going to have any peace.

[Walleye]

11. Really they don't even pretend anymore. Disgusting

[tanyev]

14. What century is Ohio in?

[Dagstead Bumwood]

2. Yeah, it was a story on the local news here for a hot minute

last summer. Knowing the folks around these parts I knew it wouldn't leave a scratch on him.

[DonaldsRump]

3. What?????

...and this guy is a medical doctor?

[SheltieLover]

4. Unfuckingbelievable!

[malaise]

6. Not really

Racist to the core

[IcyPeas]

5. a republican lawmaker AND DOCTOR actually said this.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican lawmaker and doctor who questioned whether members of “the colored population” were disproportionately contracting the coronavirus because of their hygiene is drawing new criticism from Black lawmakers after his appointment to lead the state Senate Health Committee.

“Could it just be that African Americans – or the colored population — do not wash their hands as well as other groups? Or wear masks? Or do not socially distance themselves?” state Sen. Stephen Huffman asked a Black health expert in June 11 testimony. “Could that just be the explanation of why there’s a higher incidence?”

The comments resulted in calls from Democrats and the ACLU of Ohio for him to resign from the GOP-controlled Senate.

Huffman, of Tipp City, was appointed last week by Senate President Matt Huffman, his cousin, to chair the committee even after he was fired from his job as a Dayton-area emergency room physician for his comments.

[lpbk2713]

8. But they're too busy driving their Cadillacs to the welfare ofc to get food stamps.

Old hateful stereotypes never die.

[Marie Marie]

9. I am gobsmacked. WTF?

[11 Bravo]

13. Ohio has sadly become the third leg of Kentuckioana.

[superpatriotman]

10. I blame his constituents

Not him. He’s an asshole. He was voted in.

Whoever voted him in is an asshole enabler.

[Walleye]

12. Masks!? think, man, who refused to wear the masks?

All you have to do is look around you don’t need any media reports on this. I didn’t see one black person arguing with a store clerk who asked them to wear a mask, not one

[Dirty Socialist]

15. I will call

Huffman replaced a moderate Republican friend of mine. I will give him a call tonight.

[11 Bravo]

16. Goodonya! He won't give a shit what some guy n VA thinks, but ...

a constituent might just get his attention.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. If we didn't have Republicans, we'd be done with the pandemic and deaths by now.

[BannonsLiver]

18. Idiots. That doesn't even make sense, besides being racist.

Years from now when the data autopsies have concluded I think we’ll find that the overwhelming majority of transmissions were airborne and that very few were the result of surface transmissions. Hand hygiene is still important but my focus in virus avoidance has always been heavily tilted toward avoiding airborne transmission risks.

[Hekate]

19. And that usage, dear young people, is why some of us winced at the "new" phrase People of Color/POC

...used by, yes, African Americans, Latinos, Asian & Pacific Islanders, and others of non-European lineage.

What the hell?

Yes, 11 Bravo, racism is still a thing, and the guy who said this is a flat out racist.