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North Carolina Republican's inner bigotry exploded for all the world to
see this week when he sat down with “The Daily Show's” Aasif Mandvi, notes The Hollywood Reporter.
Don Yelton,
a Republican precinct chairman in North Carolina, resigned Thursday
after making racially charged remarks on the Comedy Central show while
defending his state's voter ID law.
In
his “Daily Show” interview, which aired Wednesday, Yelton slammed "lazy
black people that want the government to give them everything." He went
on to admit he'd been accused of being a bigot before, but awkwardly
added that one of his best friends was black.
Yelton
also said the voter ID law was not meant to hurt African Americans, but
rather would wreak havoc on the Democratic party because it would
disproportionately affect Democratic voters. Yelton also noted that
while Mandvi, who is Indian-American, looks different than he does, he
treated the “Daily Show” correspondent just like anyone else.
"You realize we can hear you?" Mandvi said at one point during the interview.