If it weren’t for Abraham Lincoln, ‘coloured people’ ‘would not have’ basketball, Indiana Republican tells black C-Span host in racist on-air tirade

A caller identifying himself as Rick, a Republican from Indiana, called C-Span Sunday to remind viewers what people in power looked like 70 years ago.

Or perhaps it was all a joke. Or a challenge. Or the results of one too many moonshines.

Or perhaps it serves as a reminder that Donald Trump’s re-election has empowered racists to say the silent part out loud.

Rick, from Crawfordville, Indiana, was clearly wanting to be noticed, telling the show’s black host, Kimberly Adams, that in keeping with the Bible, “men should rule the home” and girls should “just clean.”

“But anyway, sidebar, you know, ever since Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed, boy, chaos has gone to hell, it’s gone hand in hand with the Democrats.” Rick said. “And what really annoys me, Kimberly, is that these people of color are always saying Trump is so bad.”

Rick’s use of the word “colourful”, a derogatory term utilized by more polite racists as an alternative choice to the N-word, tells you all the pieces it’s good to learn about his standpoint.

But if there was any doubt, Rick didn’t back down from his own Bull Connor-inspired conversation topics (Connor was Birmingham, police commissioner in Alabama for 24 years, famous for using fire hoses and police attack dogs against civil rights demonstrators).

“Can’t they think back to the time of their ancestors when the British came to them and things like that?” he asked. “I don’t understand why the hell people of color, Republicans, were the ones who released them. The Democrats held them there for slavery. I just don’t understand it.”

For those wondering why Adams didn’t chime in, well, that is not how it works for a C-Span host. Company policy requires them to maintain their opinions to themselves.

But Adams needed to quietly have a good time when Rick’s line began to creak.

“Rick, your line is breaking a little,” she said hopefully.

Unfortunately, Rick’s line got here back in time to lecture Black people on why they needs to be more grateful.

“If it weren’t for Abraham Lincoln, these guys wouldn’t have had a basketball game or a football game,” he said, before concluding with a warning from the Bible, issue of Revenge.

“Seriously, weather-wise, it’s going to be bad in the south,” Rick said. “So all you people, Democrats in the South, you better repent now because the storm is coming your way.”

It’s unclear whether Rick is an actual person or an actual parody, but commenters on Raw Story, which published the story on Monday, mostly took him literally.

“He’s just some idiot who probably still lives in his mother’s basement (basements are a thing in rural Indiana),” one viewer said. “Don’t shit yourself here. Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania are full of people who know nothing about anything outside their local inbreeding bubble.”

Another said that Rick is just not only a throwback, but in addition a glance into America’s Trumpian future:

“MAGA rats are getting closer to using the n-word in national media. Good luck with kindness, America, if they can pull it off. Where does the GOP find these simpletons?”

Another commenter, borrowing a page from Trump, questioned Rick’s roots:

“I bet he graduated from a school in Florida.”