Posted on 04/02/2021 12:26:45 PM PDT by TedMartin
William O’Mara IV, a liberal white history professor at Chapman University, was preparing for a rematch in 2022 after losing to Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona in November. Days ago, he sent the KKK photo to Owens with the following message: “Yikes. You may’ve dropped this.”
Owens, a book author and commentator with 2.6 million Twitter followers, wasn’t amused.
She tweeted that she contacted the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for what she described as his “little klansmen act.”
Owens, noted for her politically incorrect views on subjects ranging from George Floyd to Adolph Hitler, had recently wondered online why whites were being blamed for violence against blacks and Asians when most violence against blacks and Asians is committed by blacks.
The comment set off O’Mara, a longtime progressive professor known for his double braided beard, who goes by the name Liam, who then sent his offensive tweet.
In an interview, Owens, who has urged African-Americans to quit the Democratic Party, said O’Mara has sent “vitriol” her way before.
“Liam has followed and harassed me for no other reason than my being a black Republican, for approximately two years,” Owens told The Press-Enterprise in Riverside. “I had never responded to him previously, but the Klansmen hood was a step too far.”
Owens added: “I am a forgiving person. However, Mr. O’Mara has qualified his apologies with excuses and lies. He has called me far-right and rather bizarrely, a racist black woman. That is unacceptable.”
“I made a terrible mistake,” he wrote. “I am officially (resigning) from all my responsibilities within the Democratic Party, and am no longer running for Congress.”
“What I did was a display of white privilege,” said O’Mara. “I will never know what pain can be experienced by members of our community when faced with images of the Klan like the one I used. Its use, like all discriminatory rhetoric, has no place in our discourse or our society.”
O’Mara, who said he sent the tweet late at night when he wasn’t in a good frame of mind, deleted his Twitter account.
O'Mara’s “disgusted” campaign staffers posted a web statement expressing their disapproval.
“We all have various histories with him, but we never imagined that he would commit such an act of hate,” read the letter, which was signed by 16 people. “Liam, through his racist actions, has materially harmed the African American community.”
Calvert took issue with O’Mara’s tweet.
“When we disagree with each other, there are plenty of ways to express those thoughts without the use of hateful, racist imagery,” Calvert wrote on his campaign Twitter account.
translation: “I was drunk at the time”
Yeah, I’m sure plenty of lefties are secretly cheering him on, as they simply can’t forgive “Auntie Ruckus” for running away from the plantation like she has...
More power to Candace.
Exactly! Blasted out of his mind drunk.
Does the blatantly racist professor still have his job?
Wasn’t this like last week or so? =.=
Of course he does, all professors are racist communist scum bags, that is how young people of today are being brainwashed to be communist
I thought being a Dem meant never having to say you’re sorry.
This was the damage control to try and save it.
Of all black people to insult, he picks Candace, a boldly outspoken, media savvy, articulate young black woman. That’s like waving raw meat in front of a hungry lioness. Idiot.
His ‘whiteness’ is not the reason for his behavior.
It would be his myopic perspective and intolerant liberalism that is to blame. But he won’t see it that way.
She needs to remind “Liam” that the Klan is a strictly Democrat institution (although half of its few remaining members are government agents and informers). And the good prof’s name is William O’Mara IV. What’s with that “Liam” thing? Affectation?
He could have tried to brazen it out the way the old pros do—like Govs. Northam and Cuomo. I guess he failed his intestinal fortitude check.
translation: “I was drunk at the time”
More like "oh crap, I thought she was WHITE!"
"“What I did was a display of white privilege,” said O’Mara.
“I will never know what pain can be experienced by members
of our community when faced with images of the Klan like the
one I used.
Its use, like all discriminatory rhetoric, has no place in our
discourse or our society.”"
Blaming the white race for his irrational babbling blunder.
LOL
Exactly. Never tweet while drinking. Especially if you’re a public figure.
No, he's a pampered idiot who has gotten away with slinging a lot of crap during his life and finally had it blow back on him. Boo hoo.
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