Americans saw one of the clearest examples of white supremacy and bigoted views last night on the Laura Ingraham show and, for once, it didn’t come from Laura. No, this came from Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. Ingraham asked about the increasing COVID numbers in Texas. Rather than look at the fact that Texas – which is 100% controlled by Republicans – refuses to allow school districts to impose mask mandates, and has a governor that currently has COVID, Patrick said that the real blame falls upon Texas’s Black Americans.

Transcript from Mediaite, much more below the Tweet/Video:

Most of the numbers are with the unvaccinated. And the Democrats like to blame Republicans on that. Well, the biggest group in most states are African-Americans who have not been vaccinated. The last time I checked, over 90 percent of them vote for Democrats in their major cities and major counties. So it’s up to the Democrats to get, just as it it’s up to Republicans to try to get as many people vaccinated.

But we respect the fact that if people don’t want the vaccination, we’re not going to force it on them. That’s their individual right. But in terms of criticizing the Republicans for this, we’re encouraging people who want to take it to take it. But they’re doing nothing for the African-American community that has a significant high number of unvaccinated.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blames unvaccinated Black people for Covid spread in his state pic.twitter.com/CfwajqECLM

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2021

This is not only sickening racism, it is also just a plain lie. As noted by Mediaite itself, Patrick is 100% factually wrong:

What Patrick said was false, the “biggest group” of unvaccinated people is by far white people, and overwhelmingly white Republicans. And while Black and Hispanc Americans are less likely to be vaccinated than whites, vaccinations among those groups has accelerated beyond their share of the population over the past two weeks.

The above is obvious. For months, we’ve read that the largest group of unvaccinated Americans remain the white anti-science, conspiracy theorist, evangelical MAGAs, people like Dan Patrick and Governor Greg Abbott.

Twitter. Went. Off.

https://twitter.com/KeepItTrue2/status/1428767537442009099

This is wildly racist. Like, Bull Connor level racist. https://t.co/dq3dyCG8yj

— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) August 20, 2021

Damn,wtf? This is a damn shame and grasping at straws where #Covid19 is concerned,how does @FoxNews #FauxNews and those that also spread this type of BS sleep at night? This pandemic isn't something to joke about and has already affected countless lives…https://t.co/fE1qrkGr79

— Lasha (@naturalbeings01) August 20, 2021

GOP: whites who don’t get vaccinated are freedom-loving patriots, but Blacks…. https://t.co/oKL2HEaldi

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 20, 2021

Besides making this about race, the other issue here is framing vaccination as a Republican vs Democrat issue. He says here democrats have to convince their people and republicans have to convince theirs. A ridiculous portrayal of something that even shouldn’t be political. https://t.co/mlqdUACbp2

— Stephen Holder (@HolderStephen) August 20, 2021

The same guy who said Covid only kills seniors, who should be willing to die for the sake of the economy https://t.co/FWNB4unESO

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 20, 2021

Y’aaaaaall……. https://t.co/QjwgJmNHq2

— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) August 20, 2021

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