Radical-left activist and former politician Nina Turner marked Presidents’ Day, the holiday officially named “Washington’s Birthday,” by attempting to vilify America’s first president and founding father as well as other early U.S. presidents.
In a post from Monday, Turner, a one-time Ohio state senator and current Senior fellow at Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, wrote: “Reminder: George Washington owned human beings.”
In a follow-up post, she insisted “this President’s Day we must remember that 12 of the first 15 Presidents enslaved other human beings.”
“We must acknowledge how they shaped institutions and systems, and how those systems to this day uphold racism systemically,” she added.
In response, the official X account of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire wrote in a post, “Reminder: Nina Turner and other socialists support owning human beings.”
On Sunday, Turner, who co-chaired Bernie Sanders’ failed 2020 campaign, argued that the U.S. government “OWES the [descendants] of enslaved Black people cash reparations.”
Over the last week, she has also accused Israel of “genocide” and blasted former President Donald Trump’s new line of “Trump Sneakers,”wrote describing them as “ offensive to the American people.”
Last year, the former Democrat state senator was widely mocked online for claiming anyone asserting to be a woman is one and the concept is not a “tough” one to comprehend.
Joshua Klein is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jklein@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.
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