Rather than satisfying his opponents’ sweet tooth, West was rubbing sugar in an open wound.
Earlier this month, controversy erupted over a since-deleted Facebook post made by the chair of the Democratic Party in Lamar County, located around 116 miles northeast of Dallas. In it, Chair Gary O’Connor used the word “Oreo” in reference to Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black.
The disparaging term is meant to describe a Black person who has adopted the attitudes and behaviors characteristic of white, middle-class society, according to Dictionary.com.
After President Joe Biden delivered a congressional address, Scott gave the official Republican response and said “America is not a racist country,” according to
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A Texas county’s Democratic Party is refusing to accept the resignation of Lamar County Democratic Party Chairman Gary O’Connor, who announced he would step down after calling Sen. Tim Scott an “oreo with no real principles.”
O’Connor, who is white, made the comment in a Facebook post after the GOP senator’s rebuttal to President Biden’s address to Congress last week.
He later apologized for using the “racist term” against the black South Carolina Republican.
“It was insensitive and I have embarrassed myself and my party by its use,” O’Connor’s statement read.
5 May 2021
Texas Republican Chairman Allen West will mail a “package of Oreos” to the Texas Democrat Party after the Lamar County Democrat Party’s refusal to accept Gary O’Connor’s resignation for his use of a racist slur.
“Well, some Texas Democrat County chairman from Lamar County Gary O’Connor referred to Sen. Tim Scott as an Oreo,” West stated in a tweeted video.
West explained that, until O’Connor resigns, “I’m going to stand up and speak out against the party of systemic racism” by “mailing” the Democrat Party “a nice little package of Oreos.”
West continued by labeling the Democrat Party as “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
Senate Television via AP
A Texas Democrat official was “compelled” to offer his resignation from his post on Tuesday after he referred to Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) as a racial slur following Scott’s rebuttal to the President’s recent congressional address.
Lamar County Democratic Party Chairman Gary O’Connor attacked Senator Scott with a degrading term meant to insult Black Americans whom some perceive as “acting White” just because they don’t toe the liberal line. In a now deleted Facebook post, the official referred to Scott – one of just three sitting Black Senators and the nation’s only Black Republican Senator – as an “oreo.” Following the rebuttal speech, O’Connor posted this denigrating statement:
As I thought over Lamar County Democrat Party chair Gary OâConnorâs recent misstep (âRepublican congressman calls for Lamar County Democrat Party chairâs resignation after FB post,â May 2, 2021), I wondered if these words from history might also apply today.
On May 7, 1940, the British Conservative MP, Leo Amery, flung these words at Neville Chamberlain during a House of Commons debate on the British-French expedition in Norway that had ended in failure. Amery repeated Oliver Cromwellâs (paraphrased) words on April 20, 1653, to a Parliament attempting to remain after it had voted to dissolve itself: âYou have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!â