Allen West to Obama: MLK would be ‘devastated’

Martin Luther King Jr. would be devastated by how President Obama has dealt with racial issues, Florida Republican Rep. Allen West wrote on Facebook Monday.

This is not West’s first foray into racial politics, the Washington Examiner points out. West has previously said the Democratic Party is the modern equivalent of the southern plantation, and that Republicans have failed at “drawing black voters into the conservative movement.”

“This [2012] campaign must be about ideas, policy and the direction of this country, and the President must not hide behind a curtain of so-called racial bias,” West wrote.

“With all of this progress, why is it that we continue to hear charges of racism emanating from the left, and most disturbingly, from the White House itself?” he added.

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