A Florida mayoral candidate, at a forum to talk to voters, goes on a rant about reparations and tells black audience members to go back to Africa:
Here’s more from Fox 13:
Intensity surrounding the St. Petersburg race for mayor intensifies by the day, and Tuesday was no different.
After the assertion was made he was a “non-factor” in the race, Mayoral Candidate Paul Congemi snapped back at members of the Uhuru movement and their candidate, Jesse Nevel during a mayoral debate July 18 in St. Pete.
Congemi’s response was one many may not have expected.
“Mr. Nevel you and your people talk about reparations. The reparations that you talk about, Mr. Nevel, your people already got your reparations. Your reparations came in the form of a man named Barack Obama,” Congemi said, pointing a finger at the audience as he spoke.
He continued, “My advice to you, if you don’t like it here in America, planes leave every hour from Tampa airport. Go back to Africa. Go back to Africa. Go back!
Get out of here” a woman in the audience could be heard saying several times.
According to Fox News:
Congemi wrote in an email to the Tampa Bay Times, “My remark was meant for the group Mr. Nevel represents. Not all African Americans. Just those that Nevel represents.”
Once a lifelong Democrat, Congemi became a Republican after Barack Obama came out in favor of same-sex marriage, he told The Washington Post.
“I’m not politically correct,” Congemi said.
It’s one thing to not be politically correct. It’s another thing to be racist and this guy sounds far more of the latter than the former.
It’s amazing to me that people like this still exist. Now you know why Congemi was labeled a ‘non-factor’ by other candidates. If he wasn’t before, this sealed it for him.