A Democratic candidate for a congressional seat in Southern California has decided to leave the race, after tweeting an image of a Ku Klux Klan hoodie to black conservative activist Candace Owens.
"How do we feel about Democrats sending photos of Ku Klux Klan hoods to black conservatives as an insult because I'm pretty sure - as my grandfather is still alive and breathing and suffered the REAL klansmen in his youth - that this is RACIST and you are a PIG for sending this," she tweeted at O'Mara.
The comment set off O'Mara, a longtime progressive professor known for his double braided beard, who goes by the name Liam, who then sent his offensive tweet.
In an interview, Owens, who has urged African-Americans to quit the Democratic Party, said O'Mara has sent "Vitriol" her way before.
"Liam has followed and harassed me for no other reason than my being a black Republican, for approximately two years," Owens told The Press-Enterprise in Riverside.
Owens added: "I am a forgiving person. However, Mr. O'Mara has qualified his apologies with excuses and lies. He has called me far-right and rather bizarrely, a racist black woman. That is unacceptable."
O'Mara, who said he sent the tweet late at night when he wasn't in a good frame of mind, deleted his Twitter account.
https://presscalifornia.com/2021/04/02/cal-dem-tweets-kkk-pic-to-candace-owen/
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