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North Carolina’s first black lieutenant governor said Democrats are trying to ‘control’ African-American people and seek to destroy those who do not agree with their woke ideology.
In an interview with FOX News’ Dan Bongino on Saturday, Republican lawmaker Mark Robinson said Democrats’ ‘ideology of control’ towards black people ‘has not changed’ over the course of American history.
‘If you look back through the history of America, Democrats have notoriously despised black people who just don’t go along,’ and ‘push back against stereotypes and all ideologies that are dangerous to them,’ Robinson said.
‘It has always been an ideology of control,’ he continued. ‘And when they cannot control you, when they cannot control your thought, they will hate you and they will try to destroy you.
‘It’s been done to me in several venues since I started this venture,’ he noted, ‘and it’s nothing new.’
Robinson went on to speak about a controversial speech he gave at a Charlotte-area church in May, in which he was accused of misogyny for saying Christians are ‘called to be led by men’ and said he stood up like a man whenever he faced adversity for being a black man.
Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, said Democrats are trying to ‘control’ African-American people and seek to destroy those who do not agree with their woke ideology
In an interview with FOX News’ Dan Bongino on Saturday, Mark Robinson said Democrats’ ‘ideology of control’ towards black people ‘has not changed’ over the course of American history
‘When I made comments at a white church, they went viral and the news media jumped all over me and questioned me and threatened me and all kinds of stuff,’ Robinson said in his interview on Unfiltered.
‘But those comments I made in that black church — the mass media refuses to air those.’
‘Why? Because I was speaking to black people, and black people agreed overwhelmingly, and that ideology they cannot tolerate.
‘They don’t want to see black people push against their narratives,’ Robinson said of the mainstream media. ‘In that situation, that’s what happened.’
Robinson previously came under fire for a speech he gave back in May in which he said Christians are ‘called to be led by men’
During his speech on May 22 at the Freedom House Church, Robinson said Christians are ‘called to be led by men’ and urged men in the audience to ‘put on the whole armor of God’ and ‘take the head of your enemy in God’s name.’
He also said that as a Christian and as a black man, he is tired of being told how to act, before he slumped his shoulders and caricatured the Civil Rights hymn We Shall Overcome, saying: ‘Not one time in my life when I faced adversity did I say, “You know, I shall overcome.”
‘My God tells me that when I face adversity that number one, I am to stand up like a man! M-A-N’
Robinson then said he was ‘getting ready to get in trouble’ — something he often says before he makes controversial remarks, according to WRAL.
He went on to say, ‘We are called to be led my men,’ which WRAL reports brought applause and some shouts of agreement.
‘God sent women out … when they had to do their thing, but when it was time to face down Goliath, [He] sent David — not Davita, David.’
Robinson added that God sent Moses to lead the Israelites to freedom, ‘Not Momma Moses, Daddy Moses.’
And he said that God ‘knew what He was doing when he made men big and hairy and ugly.
‘It’s because you’re supposed to scare away predators, whether they’re in the woods or standing in front of your kids in elementary school.’
The remarks came as part of a larger condemnation of the social justice movement, in which Robinson said too many people listen to the doctrine of ‘social justice instead of the doctrine of Jesus Christ.’
Those people, he said, ‘will be on their way to Hell.’
He has also previously come under fire for comparing teachers who talk to young children about issues of gender identity and sexual identity to predators who stalk the playgrounds.
In a separate March sermon, Robinson said anyone who reads to a child about transgenderism or homosexuality is ‘doin it to twist that child’s mind’ and is ‘just as much of a groomer as that person was down at that playground.’
Freedom Church Senior Pastor Penny Maxwell, right, later defended Robinson’s remarks, claiming he never said ‘only’ men should lead but instead ‘said that men should step up and take the places that I think they’ve abdicated.’ She runs the church with her husband Troy, left
The Freedom House Church (pictured) has campuses in and around Charlotte, North Carolina
Robinson is now said to be eyeing a run for North Carolina governor, which experts have said may be an uphill battle given his recent remarks.
More than half of the state’s registered voters are women, WRAL reports, and several GOP political consultants have said in the past that Robinson’s comments could threaten his ability to attract support from suburban voters.
But after his remarks at the Freedom House Church were reported on last month, Robinson released a video statement denying that he was suggesting only men should have leadership roles.
‘For someone to insinuate that I don’t believe that women an be leaders in their homes, and in their communities, and in their churches and in their state and in their nation is 100 percent ridiculous,’ Robinson said.
‘The comments that I made at Freedom House Church were directed towards men and encouraging men to stand up and take on the role of leadership as well, to be leaders in their homes and in their communities, in this state, in their nation.’
Freedom House Senior Pastor Penny Maxwell, who runs the church with her husband Troy, also told WRAL in an email she was ‘highly offended,’ adding: ‘I’m so tired of the way culture is treating women.
She said in a follow-up interview she loved what Robinson said, and that she thought he would make a great governor.
She claimed Robinson ‘never said only men should lead,’ but instead ‘said that men should step up and take the places that I think they’ve abdicated.’
Maxwell also said she believes the women’s liberation movement is ‘one of the biggest offenders of tearing down women that I’ve ever seen because it encourages women to compete with men.
‘I am offended at the wussification of America,’ she said, claiming: ‘Women are losing their place in society because of this false notion of toxic masculinity when in fact I think that the masculine heart is something after God.’