Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Robinson Said He Was a "Black Nazi"

We live in an era when candidates with strange ideas come to high office, but few candidates have been so controversial and offensive as North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. Robinson, who is currently the state's lieutenant governor, is facing a wave of calls to drop out of the race following the revelation of posts that he made to old internet forums in which he said several offensive things.

Following the general chatter about Robinson and his campaign, many naturally wondered exactly what he said. Here's what we know about the posts and about how Robinson has responded to them since they were released.

According to reporting from CNN, Mark posted dozens of controversial or offensive messages on the message board for a porn website between 2008 and 2012. Among the most offensive things he wrote were that he identified as a "Black Nazi" and that he supported the idea of reinstituting slavery. In spite of a history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson also expressed an interest in watching transgender pornography.

In a campaign rally in February 2024, Robinson said, “If you’re a man on Friday night, and all the sudden Saturday, you feel like a woman, and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested, or whatever we got to do to you. We’re going to protect our women.”

Privately, though, the safety of women seemed to be lower on his priority list. While on the message board, he admitted to "peeping" on women taking showers in a gym when he was 14.

“I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered,” he wrote on the site, which was called Nude Africa.

“I went peeping again the next morning,” he added. “But after that I went back the ladder was locked! So those two times where [sic] the only times I got to do it! Ahhhhh memories!!!!”

In a separate comment, he wrote, “I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f--king hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” He then added, “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”

While some of the specific details from these recent comments may be new, Robinson has been open about many of his more radical beliefs. He has already publicly denied the severity of the Holocaust, said that we need to read more Hitler and Stalin, and that when a woman becomes pregnant, "It's not her body anymore."

It shouldn't necessarily be a shock, then, that Robinson has said other controversial things. This is who the GOP has chosen to nominate in North Carolina, and now, they have to lay in the bed that they've made.