Mike Huckabee Makes Racist Comments About North Koreans During Democratic
The former Arkansas governor has spent 35 days in Iowa since January. Fellow GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee tweeted what he seemingly meant to be a joke about Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders – but not everyone thought it was amusing.
But the tweet was widely criticized on social media, with a few calling the joke racist.
“ALL lives matter”, Huckabee tweets while Dems debate whether Black Lives Matter, by Sophia Tesfaye, Salon.
– Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee)Today: Mike Huckabee posts racist tweet about Koreans.
“If you think the country can stand someone learning on the job, then the next time you get on an airplane, look up in the left seat of the cockpit and ask, ‘Has this person ever flown a plane before?'” he said.
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund also slammed the remark. “Leave it to liberals to ignore injustices and atrocities of a totalitarian nation on human beings and put more importance on a nations diet which includes grass clippings and canines”. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-described democratic socialist and one of five candidates on the stage in Las Vegas. What’s so hard to understand?