Labor Union: GOP GA Rep. Had ‘Racist Book Open And On Display’ In DC Office

UNITED STATES - MAY 3: Drew Ferguson, Republican candidate for Georgia's 3rd Congressional District, is interviewed by CQ Roll Call, May 2 , 2016. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - MAY 3: Drew Ferguson, Republican candidate for Georgia's 3rd Congressional District, is interviewed by CQ Roll Call, May 3, 2016. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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ATLANTA (AP) — A federal labor union says some of its members found what it called a “racist book open and on display” in a Republican Georgia congressman’s Washington office.

The American Federation of Government Employees said in a news release that its members were visiting the offices of U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson on Monday when a political coordinator for the union says he saw the book “Gen. Robert Edward Lee: Soldier, Citizen, and Christian Patriot” in the lobby of the office.

The union said the 1897 book that glorifies Confederate history was open to a page that read: “The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, societally, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race.”

Ferguson said in a statement that his staff had decorated the office and he did not know the book was there.

“When my staff learned about it, they removed it and apologized to the individual who was upset by it,” Ferguson said.

But the AFGE pushed back on that description saying in the news release that, when asked about the book, Ferguson’s staff “ignored the question and instead pointed (union members) to look at General George Washington’s hair that was also on display.”

AFGE National President J. David Cox called the display “utterly despicable.”

Democratic state Sen. Elena Parent took to the floor of the Georgia Senate on Wednesday to condemn Ferguson.

Parent called on Ferguson to publically apologize to “all of his constituents and the state of Georgia.”

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  1. Just another day at Rep. Ferguson’s office.

  2. Avatar for spin spin says:

    Check the closet, probably find his KKK robe hanging there… Just another day in the Grifter party.

  3. “This is a goddamn white Christian people country and ain’t no fucking n-bombs or other inferior darkies gonna take it from us!!!”

    “Sir, you can’t say that and it’s now creating massive public backlash.”

    “Golly gee gosh I’m sorry if anyone was offended and I didn’t mean nothin’ by it WINK WINK WINK WINK WINK WINK WINK. Hey Deborah, did that check from Daily Stormer clear at the bank yet?”

  4. “The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, societally, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race.”

    Isn’t that from the 2016 GOP platform?

  5. Unfortunately, for alot of them, the GOP helped them trade in their white robes for black robes, so it can get pretty confusing when you look in their closets. Especially someone like Alito…pretty sure you might find anything from human skin lampshades to his favorite Footloose-inspired leotard-and-sweatbands outfit in his closet…nothing off limits there…

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