The Great Replacement theory is a conspiracy that white Americans and Europeans are being “replaced” by non-white populations, often through immigration or interracial relationships. The theory calls back to similar ideologies from Nazi Germany and has been used in white nationalist demonstrations such as the infamous torch-bearing gathering in Charlottesville in August 2017, where members chanted, “You will not replace us.”
“Representative Schriver has deeply and personally offended the Michigan House of Representatives,” Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) said in a statement Thursday.
Tate, the House’s first African-American speaker, blasted the post in a lengthy statement for being “blatantly racist” and expressed confusion as to why Schriver would, “espouse a deplorable and false theory” spreading “obvious hate.”
first African-American speaker, you say?
They call it “diversity”