Fox News
Hours after Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson was reappointed to his seat in the state legislature following his expulsion by Republicans over his role in a peaceful gun control protest, staunch Second Amendment supporter Tucker Carlson launched a wildly bigoted broadside at the young Black lawmaker, implying that among other things, he speaks like a “sharecropper.”
The Fox News host began by describing Pearson as someone who helped “facilitate an insurrection in the Tennessee State House”—a ridiculous sentiment, yet one that was also echoed by the state’s Republican house speaker, Cameron Sexton.
“Back in 2016, Justin Pearson was an earnest young student at Bowdoin, the whitest college in the whitest state in America—a place that costs $60,000 a year for no obvious reason. A rich kid school,” said Carlson, who then played a seven-year-old video of Pearson explaining his campaign for student government president.