Mark Robinson, Lt. Governor of North Carolina, Goes on a Rant and Says, Some People Need to Be Killed
Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina who is backed by MAGA, seemed to call for political violence during a strange rant at a small church.
Robinson is said to have gone off on a ramble during a 30-minute speech at Lake Church in White Lake, NC, for “God and Country Sunday.” He talked about a time when America met “evil on the battlefield” by killing people. “Right now we’re having trouble with people who want to do us harm.” There was a time when we fought evil on the battlefield. Do you know what we did to it? He yelled, “We killed it!”
“Some people need to be killed! Someone needs to say it now. It’s not about getting even. It’s not about being mean or nasty. There’s no other choice! When bad people do bad things like torture, killing, and raping, and so on. Now is the time to call out those guys in green and deal with them. Or those blue-clad boys; tell them to take care of it.
Robinson then made fun of left voters by saying, “They’re going to say that sounds awful.” “Shame.” “You can be mad at me if you want to,” he said.
After what was said to be awkward clapping, the lieutenant governor went over some of the things he had said at the beginning of his speech about freedom and privacy, saying that they were “slipping away.” He said, “The farther away we get from the idea of 1776 and why and how we declared our independence, the further we start to make 1776 a distant memory.”
Social media users learned about the comments as the video spread around the world. Someone tagged the FBI and told them to “check this.”
“Get that sh*t out.” Someone else said Robinson’s speech was dishonest because, as a black man in 1776, he wouldn’t be free. “It’s funny that he talks about 1776 as if he were a free Black man back then and not someone who would be counted as 3/5 of a person,” @franklinisbored wrote.
Someone even said that the church should put up the Ten Commandments since a new rule in Louisiana says that they have to be up in every public school classroom.
Being a self-described “MAGA Republican” means that the person might go on dangerous rants. Robinson is said to have called public school teachers “wicked people” in the video on X, and the NC Democratic Party reacted. It was Mark Robinson who said that public school teachers were “wicked people.” The group said that he is now saying that bad people “need to be killed” as a “matter of necessity.”
“He shouldn’t be North Carolina’s next governor because he talks about teachers the same way he talks about terrorists.”
Robinson preached at a church in rural North Carolina the day after a gunman killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in 2022. He was proud of the fact that he owned AR-15 weapons and what he planned to do with them. He told WRAL, “I got them AR-15s in case the government gets too big for its britches.”
“Because I’m going to put lead in the back of those britches.” I’ll tell you straight out: “Your boy ain’t going down without swinging.”
God’s minister at Lake Church, Rev. Cameron McGill, knew Robinson would talk about killing in his speech. He told the New Republic that he and
The candidate knew that his position would be criticized, but he stood by it by saying that he wasn’t talking about killing harmless people. “There was no doubt that the people he thought should be killed were the ones who wanted to kill us,” McGill said.
He spoke out for the lieutenant governor and said that he “certainly did not imply the taking of any innocent lives.” He also said that the rest of his speech was “not controversial.”