Ark. Lawmaker Sends White Supremacist e-mail

This is downright amazing in a way that rivals any of the very worst in the Oklahoma legislature. Sickening. The italics and emphasis below are mine.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas legislator apologized Thursday for an e-mail in which he wrote that “we are being outpopulated by the blacks” and “we are being overrun” by illegal immigrants.

But state Sen. Denny Altes insisted the comments in the e-mail he sent earlier this month to former Fort Smith Mayor Bill Vines were not racist.

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Altes, who is white, wrote in the e-mail that he was in favor of returning illegal aliens to their countries, but “we know that is impossible.”

“We are where we were with the black folks after the Revolutionary War,” Altes wrote. “We can’t send them back and the more we (anger them) the worse it will be in the future…. Sure we are being overrun but we are being outpopulated by the blacks also.”