Anti-Vaxxer Jason Robo’s Racist Outburst at San Diego County Meeting Turns Into Epic Self-Own

A dialogue about coronavirus vaccines grew to become so heated throughout a San Diego board of supervisors assembly on Tuesday night time that one public attendee unleashed a vile, racist assault earlier than being booted by safety and ditched by a radio station he labored for.

San Diego County lawmakers used the assembly to supply routine updates about new circumstances of COVID-19, hospitalizations, transmission charges, and the way vaccination charges can stall coronavirus from spreading within the county. Officers additionally spoke about kids between the ages of 5 and 11 getting inoculated.

However, in the course of the session, residents have been in a position to make open feedback, and greater than a dozen stood at a podium to vocalize their disdain and concern in regards to the pandemic. San Diego doesn’t have an indoor vaccine mandate however many attendees used the assembly to forged doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine and query why there have been even COVID-19 restrictions. One speaker then turned his pandemic rant right into a wave of non-public digs.

“Girls, gents,” Jason Robo mentioned to the general public standing behind him, in keeping with a recording of the meeting. “Traitors,” he addressed the board members.

After expressing skepticism in regards to the pandemic and vaccine, Robo informed members of the board to resign.

“Vargas,” Robo mentioned to board supervisor Nora Vargas, who’s Latina, “I can’t wait on your arteries to clog. They’re not doing it quick sufficient.”

Via laughter from the general public within the again, he informed board supervisor Nathan Fletcher to kill himself and supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer to hold from a tree like a monkey.

Then, Robo moved on to the county’s public well being officer Dr. Wilma Wooten, who’s Black.

“Wooten,” he mentioned, “you’re a f—ing Aunt Jemima. Syrup on candy will trigger your diabetic—”

Vargas interrupted the hate-filled rant and informed Robo to apologize to Wooten, which he declined. The 2 yelled forwards and backwards till safety made Robo depart the rostrum.

The San Diego chapter president of the NAACP informed CBS 8 that the “department and its membership have been appalled” on the outburst.

“[Dr. Wooten] is employed. She isn’t elected and she or he is the highest official,” President Francine Maxwell informed the information outlet on Wednesday. “It was disgusting. Perhaps that man would really like individuals to come back to his place of employment and do what he did final night time. Somebody yelling expletives; speaking about somebody’s weight; and somebody being known as a monkey, have we actually sunken that low?

“He was race-baiting,” she continued. “Calling a Black lady of [Wooten’s] stature along with her credentials, along with her levels an Aunt Jemima—it was fully disrespectful. She has persistently been attacked for over 18 months. We have to go forward and have the chairman set a coverage and create a secure work setting as a result of that man ought to’ve been stopped effectively earlier than [Vargas] had mentioned one thing.”

Robo, a wannabe humorist well-known in some parts of California for his weird and infrequently racist efforts at activism, obtained some swift backlash for his outburst.

He reportedly misplaced his unpaid job at Redwood neighborhood radio station KMUD Garberville and was blacklisted from performing on the Mad House Comedy Club in San Diego.

In accordance with the Times of San Diego, the information director of the radio station mentioned in a press release: “The volunteer programmer in query has little to no direct relationship to the station, as their pre-recorded present is submitted. We wish to be clear that their opinions don’t replicate our values. Whereas these statements have been made on an out of doors platform, now we have begun the dialogue into their future as a volunteer… Whereas we perceive the significance of free speech, we acknowledge the distinction between that and hate speech.”

The Occasions additionally reported that the founding father of Mad Home mentioned in a press release, “We’re an uncensored comedy membership. We’re politically impartial as a enterprise. Nevertheless, ‘uncensored’ isn’t a inexperienced mild to be racist. We have now a various group of workers we love. We have now a various group of performers we love. We have now a various group of consumers we love. We stand with all of them and won’t permit Mr. Robo to carry out on any present on the Mad Home together with the open mic.”

Nevertheless, not everybody felt that Robo ought to have been interrupted. Almost two hours after he spoke, one other public attendee took to the rostrum to justify the disgusting outburst as free speech.

“Ms. Vargas,” he started, “[the] First Modification is a really powerful factor. It’s ugly. Nevertheless it’s very valuable additionally. You could possibly’ve spoken afterwards and given [Robo] his two minutes—as ugly because it was.”

In an unaired interview with NBC 7, Robo claimed he attacked Vargas as a result of he felt she was “not a very good consultant” of her ethnicity. He additionally claimed that his standing as a comic someway justified his try to convey up race. He in contrast the idea of speaking about race with individuals being compelled into getting vaccinated. Then, he claimed that he couldn’t be racist as a result of he beforehand dated a girl who was Black and Cherokee.

Earlier than his racism and hateful tantrum, Robo informed the council assembly that the pandemic was deliberate and a “premeditated rip-off.” He in contrast discovering the reality on-line to discovering “a child at John Wayne Gacy’s home.” Robo blamed the board for being “minions of the pharmaceutical trade” and for closing seashores in the course of the pandemic, which he mentioned killed individuals, and for being “vax murderers.”

“Then, you mandate the vax. You’re a vax assassin mainly,” he charged. “We’re your opposed response. It’s best to resign.”