It is amazing the quality of people who enter politics -- and get elected. From Alabama.com:
Alabama lawmaker's email: 'Slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, snaggle-toothed kin folk'
State Rep. Joe Mitchell, D-Mobile, had an outlandish exchange via email with a Jefferson County man who asked him and other lawmakers not to pass any laws that would restrict gun ownership.
Eddie Maxwell sent a mass email to state legislators at 10:54 p.m. on Jan. 27, warning them that even attempting to introduce a gun control bill was, in his opinion, a violation of state law.
Mitchell responded from his public, ALHouse.gov email account at 11:59 p.m., telling Maxwell: "Your folk never used all this sheit (sic) to protect my folk from your slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed (sic), imported criminal-minded kin folk."
"That's not the type of reply I expect to receive from a state legislator," Maxwell replied on Feb. 11. "I'm not a racist and I find your reply to be especially offensive considering the position you hold."
Copies of the email exchange were provided to AL.com by state lawmakers who were included in the correspondence. The emails are printed below, edited only to remove the specific addresses.
So not only did Mitchell reply in that tone, he CC'd ALL when replying. DERP!
The full email tread is at the website -- needless to say, there are over 1,600 comments. Here are a couple:
If a white representative had said with they would have Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP down here SO fast it would make your head spin!!
This is a political arena and this behavior should NOT be tolerated. Signed lock and load on the last line and "Let the next generations resolve this continuing story." Get out of here, NOW! Government is to protect the future of our children and grandchildren, not to burden them more. Shame on you for holding us in the past Rep. Mitchell. If you have no apology, than you do not belong in the state house, period. GET OUT! Were you never taught to not dwell over things from the past. You can at least refer to light skinned people as people and your folk. I hope you never are allowed to propose a law for the entirety of your poor, closed life.
And the wheels on Rep. Mitchell's political career may be falling off:
One other comment about Joe Mitchell...look at his emails and bio...this guy has fabricated his life story, he was a jumpmaster and USMC DI, graduated from Morehouse in 69, but was involved in the Albany movement in 61...which I guess could have happened, but he would have been 12 or 13 but he says he graduated high school from Central High School in Mobile and was born in Mobile but was a 12 yr old activist in Albany, Ga...then, according to his official bio spent 69-83 attaining two masters and a phd...so when exactly was this guy in the military, much less long enough to be a DI? Look at his official bio and the one on ballotpedia, there is no way he is serving as an "engineering consultant"in Africa and Europe (which he has no educational or vocational background in), sitting on hospital and community boards in Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, running some organization called Alabama American Research and Education Associates (of which I could not find any entries on Google) and publishing psychology papers....are you kidding me? This guy is a fraud, he has a degree in education and music, has lived his whole life in Mobile and the only thing he has ever been good at is playing his flute and being an arrogant, ignorant politician.
