(Update: In an interview with TheWrap, Yelton says he’s been scapegoated, but stands by his comments.)
A North Carolina Republican precinct chairman has stepped down after members of his party called for his resignation following a “Daily Show” interview in which he derided “lazy blacks.”
Don Yelton, formerly of the Buncombe County Republican Party in North Carolina, made the comments while defending his state’s voter-fraud law, which critics say amounts to voter suppression to keep African-American voters from the polls.
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Yelton insisted during the interview that the law had nothing to do with race.