'Blatantly racist' post from Michigan's Rep. Josh Schriver spawns calls for action

Those condemning a state lawmaker’s public display of racist ideology now includes a GOP colleague, while Gov. It is a failure of leadership for this kind of action to take place unchecked by the leaders of Rep. Schriver’s caucus, and the longer there is no action taken, the more responsibility leadership bears.” The theory being promoted by Schriver states that a conspiracy is targeting white Americans and Europeans to be “replaced” by non-white populations, often through immigration or interracial relationships. Rep. Schriver’s peddling of the racist ‘replacement theory’ is a deplorable demonstration of his fear of a dynamic and diverse Michigan future where all of our people in every community can succeed,” he said. Hateful rhetoric goes against everything I believe and distracts from the positive work we’re trying to accomplish for the people of Michigan.” Friday’s statements by Whitmer, Gilchrist and Steele followed criticism leveled earlier this week by several elected Democrats, most notably House Speaker Joe Tate, Michigan’s first African-American speaker. Tate 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.” As for Schriver, he made several posts to X on Friday variously claiming that he is the victim of “racist attacks” and that the media is trying to “start a race war.” Michigan Advance is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c public charity.