Former North Carolina governor Pat McCrory, a Republican Of Course, decided to go on a full-on radio rant about black politicians in his city after a black Democratic candidate defeated a white Democratic candidate in Tuesday's Democratic primary for sheriff. It wasn't because of differences on the issues, according to McCrory, but a symptom of black political actors oppressing the fine white folks.
“We’ve become a very segregated political system in Charlotte-Mecklenburg,” an agitated McCrory claimed in the opening of his radio show Wednesday. “The Democratic Party controls every political body in Charlotte-Mecklenburg,” and “the Black Political Caucus has total control over the Democratic Party.” [...]
[F]or McCrory, the fact that a black former detective defeated a white incumbent sheriff is proof of some grand conspiracy. “All primaries,” McCrory claimed, are “determined by the Black Political Caucus,” and this group “totally abandoned the white male Democratic sheriff.”
“And not only did the Black Political Caucus bail on him,” the ex-governor continued, “every political leader — the mayor, Lyles, did not peep a word during this election.”
The Democratic candidate who won, Garry McFadden, campaigned on ending a program of coordination between ICE and the sheriff's department, while his opponent supported it. It was in all the papers, for a very long time, and the resulting vote for McFadden was not even a little bit close—but to McCrory, such trivialities are inconsequential when complaining that There Are Too Many Black People In Office These Days.
McCrory's governorship was marked by a Republican effort to suppress North Carolina’s black voters. It was the sort of effort that has become common in Republican-held states, but one so infamous and egregious that it that was struck down by the courts for transparent racial intent—an effort that McCrory and his fellow Republicans insisted up, down, and sideways was not racial because they would never do such a thing, though the courts found considerable evidence to the contrary. Now that he's devolved into a career as a conservative local radio host, he's apparently unconcerned with keeping up those appearances and is willing to just say it directly: Black voters have too much power around here these days, and as a fine upstanding Republican it’s freaking him out.