A Michigan Republican lawmaker has doubled down on tweets he made echoing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory, and has lost a committee seat in the state’s House in doing so.
State Representative Josh Schriver insists he has been falsely branded a racist despite sharing the bigoted conspiracy theory .
“I’m a White rapper and most conservative voting Representative in Michigan,” he wrote on X/Twitter . “I guess it was only a matter of time before I was falsely labeled a ‘raaacist!’”
He later insisted he was a “Christian” and “not a racist”, according to The Daily Beast .
“I’ve worked in inner city schools with autistic children,” he said. “Some politicians refuse to go near these communities. I go anywhere God leads me!”
On Wednesday, Mr Schriver used official Michigan House of Representatives letterhead to issue a statement addressing the “racist plan to replace Whites with non-Whites through illegal immigration to irreversibly warp America’s demographics, voting citizens, and national identity to keep power in the hands of a godless regime”.