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.
It’s not because he’s white that he did that, it’s because he’s a hypocrit progressive (redundant I know) racist pig and thought he could hurt someone without conequence like all of immaturity.
On the other hand...there was no threat so he shouldn’t lose his job for free speech, just lose any chance on the ticket. Let’s not get madder than we ought. She handled it perfectly and sufficiently.
He surely does have white privilege if he doesn’t get fired right away!
Democrats began the KKK. Democrats had KKK members in the US senate until they died.
What was Candace’s politically incorrect statement about Hitler, noted in article?
translation: “I was drunk at the time”
Exactly.
He messed with the wrong gal, Candace took him out at the knees. That's one less scumbag that won't become a California elected official. Unfortunately there are plenty more crawling out of the same sewer hole as him to take his place.
“What I did was a display of white privilege,” said O’Mara.”
No, it was a display of O’Mara being a racist ***hole and nothing more. He’s not man enough to step up and examine himself seriously. So he takes the cowards way out and blames something else, anything else, for his disgusting behavior.
Because that’s so much easier than correcting his own character flaws. That would require some measure of humility. He obviously has none.
A rational society would despise his kind. He is very fortunate he doesn’t live in one.
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O’Mara needs his ass kicked.
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