MI City Council Candidate Withdraws From Campaign After Racist Comments

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Jean Cramer, last week a candidate for the Marysville City Council in Michigan, has since withdrawn from the race following statements about wanting to keep the city “white.”

According to the Port Huron Times Herald, Cramer handed over her withdrawal to Mayor Dan Damman on Monday, though the lateness of the date means that her name will still remain on the ballot.

Damman’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On Thursday during a candidate forum, Cramer shocked the room when she answered a diversity question with the assertion that she wants to “keep Marysville a white community as much as possible.”

After the forum, when given a chance to clean up her comments, she just expanded on the racist sentiment.

“(A) husband and wife need to be the same race. Same thing with kids,” she said. “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.”

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  1. Jean Cramer: “…keep Marysville a white community as much as possible.”

    If you want to live in a white community, you should emigrate to Russia!

  2. Since Adam and Eve were white people how did black people even come to be? Weird.

  3. Avatar for j.dave j.dave says:

    Poor woman … so worried about global warming that she’d like snow all year 'round … and this is what she gets?

  4. From a book review in the FT:

    What drives migration today? The answer is neither war nor politics

    Excerpt:
    In the end, at current fertility rates, Europeans are breeding themselves out of existence, some (Spaniards, Italians, Bulgarians, Estonians, Germans) in the relatively short term, others (Irish, British, French, Scandinavians) with a slightly longer time horizon. The latest UK data suggest a lowest-ever birth rate and a sinking fertility rate. Whether Europeans wish, like the Japanese, to make way for nature as they abandon villages and even suburbs, or instead to make way for other people who do wish to reproduce, is ultimately a decision of policy and practice.

    At the root of all of this is not the population boom in Africa or anywhere else but the ever-smaller family sizes in Europe. Whilst we should have the courage to stand up to those who wish the whole debate would go away and are too quick to throw accusations at those who believe it is healthy and necessary to discuss it, we should be equally determined to stand up to those on the far-right who speak the absurd language of “white genocide” and “replacement”. In response to the white supremacists chanting “they shall not replace us” — and indeed for predominantly white societies across Europe nervous about the ethnic change they are witnessing — we need to ask “are you prepared to reproduce yourselves?” For Europeans wanting neither a radically new ethnic complexion to their countries nor their emptying out altogether, an acceptable and effective pronatalist politics will need to be constructed.

    For liberals who are relaxed about immigration and ethnic change, it is now incumbent upon them to come up with ways in which a coherent society can be formed from people of different backgrounds. Just as a nationalist sentiment was required to form the warfare states of Europe over the past two hundred years, so something new will be needed in its place if the welfare states of today are to survive in anything like their current form.

  5. Proximity to opioids and a Walmart.

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