Michigan City Council Candidate Wants To Keep Community White ‘As Possible’

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Jean Cramer, a candidate for the Marysville City Council in Michigan, sent shockwaves through a Thursday forum when she answered a question about diversity by saying that she wants to “keep Marysville a white community as much as possible.”

According to the Port Huron Times-Herald, the other candidates reacted viscerally, one citing her Syrian immigrant father.

“I don’t even know that I can talk yet, I’m so upset and shocked. My father was a hundred percent Syrian, and they owned the Lynwood Bar. It was a grocery store at that time. So basically, what you’ve said is that my father and his family had no business to be in this community,” said Mayor Pro Tem Kathy Hayman.

When given a chance to clean up her statements at the end of the forum, Cramer expanded on her racist remarks.

“As long as, how can I put this? What Kathy Hayman doesn’t know is that her family is in the wrong,” she told the Times-Herald. “(A) husband and wife need to be the same race. Same thing with kids. That’s how it’s been from the beginning of, how can I say, when God created the heaven and the earth. He created Adam and Eve at the same time. But as far as me being against blacks, no I’m not.”

Cramer was not able to be reached for comment.

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  1. saying that she wants to “keep Marysville a white community as much as possible.”

    Translation: Our restaurants will only be allowed to serve Tater Tot Hotdish.

  2. Here ya go, Ms. Cramer …

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  3. She is clearly stupid enough to state publicly what the MAGA types have always believed. Also, if humans came from Adam and Eve 6000 years ago, how could there be different races? I believe we need a new species, Homo stupidus, to make a place for the religious fundamentalists

  4. Michigan ditz Jean Cramer is angling for a job in the Trump regime.

  5. It is so much easier to spot the un-American nationalists now that they’ve been emboldened to crawl out from under their rocks.

    But there was something simpler and quainter about the pre-2015 years when our national consensus about polite society and proper discourse meant that they kept their vile traps shut and feigned allegiance to the values espoused in the Declaration of Independence.

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