Darryl M. Heller, director of the Civil Rights Heritage Center and assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Indiana University South Bend,
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A racist post on the official Facebook page of the Brown County Republican Party has elicited some bipartisan backlash.
The post, which has been taken down, included an alleged newspaper editorial espousing white supremacist tropes and was littered with dog whistles including that Black people come from “jungles,” have “virtually no intellectual achievements” and continue to show that they’re culturally incompatible despite best efforts to integrate them into white people’s “majestic civilization.”
The piece is “deeply grounded in white supremacy,” totally overlooks historical intellectual and cultural achievements of Africans, and glosses over centuries of enslavement and marginalization of people of African descent, said Darryl M. Heller, director of the Civil Rights Heritage Center and assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Indiana University South Bend.
“Shame on the Republicans who put this out,” Heller said.
Brown County GOP Chair Mark Bowman declined to comment on the post, but some members of the community, including a Republican, are pushing back.
“This one was just beyond the pale for me,” said Brown County resident Alex Miller, a Republican who has worked for the party at the state level.
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