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(CNN) — Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a sequence of inflammatory feedback on a pornography web site’s message board greater than a decade in the past, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed assist for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation discovered.
Despite a latest historical past of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson mentioned he loved watching transgender pornography, a evaluation of archived messages discovered in which he additionally referred to himself as a “perv.”
The feedback, which Robinson denies making, predate his entry into politics and present stint as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. They had been made underneath a username that CNN was ready to establish as Robinson by matching a litany of biographical particulars and a shared e mail tackle between the 2.
Many of Robinson’s feedback had been gratuitously sexual and lewd in nature. They had been made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic web site that features a message board. The feedback had been made underneath the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used steadily on-line.
Robinson listed his full identify on his profile for Nude Africa, as effectively as an e mail tackle he used on quite a few web sites throughout the web for many years.
CNN is reporting solely a small portion of Robinson’s feedback on the web site given their graphic nature.
Many of Robinson’s feedback on Nude Africa stand in distinction to his public stances on points such as abortion and transgender rights.
Publicly, Robinson has fiercely argued that individuals ought to use bogs solely that correspond to the gender they had been assigned at delivery. He’s additionally mentioned transgender ladies needs to be arrested for utilizing ladies’s restrooms.
“If you’re a man on Friday night, and all the sudden Saturday, you feel like a woman, and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested, or whatever we gotta do to you,” Robinson said at a marketing campaign rally in February 2024. “We’re going to protect our women.”
Yet privately underneath the username minisoldr on Nude Africa, Robinson graphically described his personal sexual arousal as an grownup from the reminiscence of secretly “peeping” on ladies in public fitness center showers as a 14-year-old. Robinson recounted the story as a reminiscence he mentioned he nonetheless fantasized about.
“I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered,” Robinson wrote on Nude Africa.
CNN isn't publishing the graphic sexual particulars of Robinson’s story.
“I went peeping again the next morning,” Robinson wrote. “but after that I went back the ladder was locked! So those two times where [sic] the only times I got to do it! Ahhhhh memories!!!!”
In different feedback on Nude Africa, Robinson mentioned his affinity for transgender pornography.
“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f*cking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Robinson repeatedly denied that he made the feedback on Nude Africa.
“This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me,” Robinson mentioned. Presented with the litany of proof connecting him with the minisoldr consumer identify on Nude Africa, Robinson mentioned, “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”
CNN first reached out to Robinson Tuesday morning with proof connecting him to the feedback on Nude Africa. It took his marketing campaign two days to reply and situation a denial.
During his interview with CNN, Robinson repeatedly mentioned the problems that confronted North Carolinians had been extra necessary than what he known as “tabloid trash,” and he steered the dialog towards attacking his opponent in the race, Democrat Josh Stein, the state’s legal professional common.
“We are not getting out of this race. There are people who are counting on us to win this race,” Robinson mentioned.
Campaigning for lieutenant governor in 2020, Robinson advocated for a full abortion ban with out exceptions. He later expressed remorse in 2022 for paying for his now-wife to have an abortion in the Nineteen Eighties.
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Now campaigning for governor, he says he helps a so-called “heartbeat” invoice that might ban abortion when a heartbeat is detected – roughly six weeks – with exceptions for rape, incest and well being of the mom.
But writing as minisoldr on Nude Africa in December 2010, Robinson mentioned he didn't care about a superstar having an abortion.
“I don’t care. I just wanna see the sex tape!” Robinson wrote.
In one other thread, commenters thought of whether or not to imagine the story of a girl who mentioned she was raped by her taxi driver whereas intoxicated. In response, Robinson wrote, “and the moral of this story….. Don’t f**k a white b*tch!”
Robinson, who would grow to be North Carolina’s first Black governor if elected, additionally repeatedly maligned civil rights chief Martin Luther King Jr., attacking him in such intense phrases that a consumer accused him of being a white supremacist.
“Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote concerning the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.
“I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!” Robinson responded.
CNN’s reporting on Robinson’s feedback comes a few weeks after The Assembly, a North Carolina digital publication, reported that Robinson frequented native video pornography retailers in the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s. The story cited six individuals who interacted and noticed him frequent the shops in Greensboro, North Carolina. A spokesperson for Robinson known as the story false and a “complete fiction.”
Despite incomes the total endorsement of former President Donald Trump and the North Carolina Republican Party, Robinson faces an uphill battle in the race for governor towards Stein.
Robinson’s historical past of controversial remarks, together with mocking faculty taking pictures survivors, his previous assist for whole abortion bans with out exceptions for rape or incest and disparaging the civil rights motion have been a constant theme in the race. Recent public polling shows Robinson is shedding to Stein.
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On the Nude Africa web site in each feedback and his profile, minisoldr supplied quite a few particulars that align exactly with Robinson’s private historical past.
In his profile, minisoldr listed his full identify as “mark robinson” and disclosed a non-public e mail tackle Robinson used elsewhere on-line. In 2012, a consumer responded to a remark by calling minisoldr “Mark.”
Minisoldr talked about in 2008 being married for 18 years, which corresponds with Robinson’s marriage to Yolanda Hill in 1990. In 2011, minisoldr wrote he had been married 21 years. Minisoldr wrote in a 2011 put up that he lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, the identical city the place Robinson lived on the time and at the moment lives.
In a put up in 2012, minisoldr mentioned he served in the Army in the Nineteen Eighties, throughout the identical time interval as Robinson. In his sexually graphic feedback detailing watching ladies in the showers in 2011, minisoldr wrote that his mom labored at an Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Robinson’s mom labored as a custodian at North Carolina A&T State University, an HBCU situated in Greensboro.
Both minisoldr and Robinson usually posted about the identical matters on-line, together with opinions for remote-controlled helicopters, their attraction to particular celebrities and their favourite “Twilight Zone” episode.
The e mail tackle related to minisoldr on Nude Africa was additionally utilized by Robinson elsewhere on-line and social media. On the commenting platform Disqus, a user who joined in April 2011 options Mark Robinson’s photograph underneath the username minisoldr.
Usernames and e mail addresses from Disqus had been publicly leaked on-line in 2017, according to the corporate. CNN confirmed that Robinson’s username minisoldr on Disqus shared the identical e mail tackle as the one used on Nude Africa.
Robinson’s Disqus web page can also be linked to the Black social networking website Black Planet. The Web Archive shows a consumer named “minisoldr” described themselves as 40 years previous in February 2009 – the identical age as Robinson on the time – and dwelling in Greensboro, North Carolina – Robinson’s hometown.
Robinson has steadily used the username “minisoldr” elsewhere on the web. On X, the platform previously identified as Twitter, Robinson as soon as used the minisoldr username, in accordance to a screenshot he shared on Facebook in 2018 and data in Robinson’s old tweets.
A YouTube playlist for a user named “minisoldr” options completely movies of Robinson. On Pinterest, a consumer “minisoldr” lists his identify as “Mark Robinson.”
The “minisoldr” username has additionally posted opinions of merchandise and locations Robinson has additionally publicly really helpful. On Amazon, a consumer named “minisoldr” reviewed merchandise frequently shared by Robinson on Facebook, together with remote-controlled helicopters. And the identical e mail tackle and username used on Nude Africa additionally left opinions on Google for two native companies Robinson later posted on Facebook that he used.
Robinson’s distinctive alternative of language additional hyperlinks him to the “minisoldr” alias on the pornographic boards. Uncommon phrases such as “gag a maggot,” “dunder head,” “I don’t give a frogs a**,” and “I don’t give two shakes of it” had been used each by minisoldr on Nude Africa and by Robinson on his private Facebook web page.
In the pornographic boards, Robinson revealed his unvarnished ideas on points such as race, gender and abortion.
Writing in a forum discussing Black Republicans in October 2010, Robinson acknowledged unprovoked: “I’m a black NAZI!”
That similar month, Robinson wrote in one other put up that he supported the return of slavery.
“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,” he wrote.
In March 2012, Robinson wrote that he most well-liked the previous chief of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler over the management in Washington in the course of the administration of Barack Obama.
“I’d take Hitler over any of the sh*t that’s in Washington right now!” he wrote.
Robinson’s feedback on Nude Africa usually steadily contained derogatory and racial slurs directed at Black, Jewish and Muslim folks.
In a sequence of seven posts in October 2011, Robinson disparaged Martin Luther King in such intense phrases, calling him a “commie bastard,” “worse than a maggot,” a “ho f**king, phony,” and a “huckster,” that a consumer in the thread accused him of being in the KKK. Robinson responded by directing a slur at King.
In October 2010, Robinson used the antisemitic slur “hebe” when discussing how he appreciated the present “Good Times” developed by Norman Lear, saying “the show itself was a bunch of heb [sic] written liberal bullshit!”
While discussing the Taliban, he referred to Muslims as “little rag-headed bastards” and mentioned that “if Muslims took over liberals would be the 1st ones to be beheaded!”
Robinson additionally used homophobic slurs steadily, calling different customers f*gs.
In a largely constructive forum dialogue that includes a photograph of two males kissing after one returned from a army deployment, Robinson wrote the only damaging remark.
“That’s sum ole sick a** f*ggot bullsh*t!” he wrote.
