Jeff Gullickson was very upset when Obama joined Twitter. So upset, in fact, that he immediately fired off a few tweets to let the President know exactly what he thought of him and his policies. Now, the Minnesota man is out of a job and being called a racist, which he says is a mistake. According to Gullickson, his threat to lynch Obama shouldn’t have been taken in a racist way.
Raw Story reports that Gullickson sent two tweets to Obama before they were picked up for a piece highlighting the kind of vitriol got on Twitter in The New York Times.
From Raw Story:
The paper singled out Jeff Gullickson for posting an image of Obama with a noose around his neck.
“[H]ope to see you hang soon you treasonous fraud,” he tweeted in one message.
“[W]e need ‘ROPE FOR CHANGE’ we still hang for treason don’t we?” another post said.
The Secret Service has confirmed that it’s investigating Gullickson’s tweets, but while it’s not known whether he’ll suffer any legal repercussions for his words, he’s certainly feeling the effects of his actions via public opinion and the loss of his job. But he claims that he never made any racist remarks. That whole hanging Obama thing? That has nothing to do with him being black, it’s all about his awful political beliefs.