Let me be clear. Assuming the quote is correct, the word “Negro” isn’t racist in of itself. But the phrase “black people are in jail and abort their babies ‘because they never learned to pick cotton’”, that IS racist.
Sorry, it just is.
Al Sharpton says things way more outrageous.
What exactly is racist about it? And you can't isolate the sentence without placing it in context of his alleged remarks. There is no doubt that the number of blacks in jail far exceeds their percentage of the total population. Nor can you dispute that blacks use abortion to a much higher degree than other groups in our society.
I read the "learn to pick cotton" remark as the failure of blacks to obtain the requisite skills and education to get a job and earn a decent living. Instead, they are dependent upon big government, which is just another form of slavery.