Video surfaced today of ethically-challenged Senate candidate John Hickenlooper comparing his time as governor to being a slave on a slave ship.
Political activist and Denver School Board Director, Tay Anderson, tweeted out the video this morning, saying it was from a Make A Wish event Hickenlooper attended on June 3, 2014.
.@Hickenlooper you have some explaining to do. — referencing my ancestors pain of being brought over here in chains to a political scheduler is utterly disgusting. #copolitics #cosen pic.twitter.com/MKKT68LMeu
— Tay Anderson (@TayAndersonCO) June 15, 2020
This video comes after a report surfaced last week that Hickenlooper championed, “the widely rebuked ‘broken windows’ theory of policing, which argues that cracking down on small petty crimes and nuisances like trash-strewn lawns is an effective way to stop crime overall. As mayor, Hickenlooper hired one of the original architects of the broken windows theory, criminologist George Kelling, as a consultant to advise the Denver Police Department.”
Hickenlooper released a statement apologizing for his insensitive remarks, but that only made matters worse.
just to be clear, what @Hickenlooper is apologizing here for is comparing serving as governor to being a slave whipped on a slave ship #Cosen #copolitics https://t.co/4TBk2ZU7EJ
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) June 15, 2020
Anderson wanted more than apology and called on Hickenlooper to undergo “equity and implicit bias training.”
Will @Hickenlooper commit to going through an equity and implicit bias training? — an apology isn’t good enough for me, because it should’ve been common sense not say things like that. https://t.co/LJHKkbFRVl
— Tay Anderson (@TayAndersonCO) June 15, 2020
Now, we wait and see if the liberal media gives Hickenlooper a pass for these atrocious remarks or will they ask him about it at tomorrow’s primary debate?