A former NBA player now running for Senate in Minnesota has a recent history of making controversial statements against women and LGBTQ+ people.
Royce White, who played mostly overseas but played three games with the Sacramento Kings in 2014, has entered politics in recent years.
White already made headlines this week, allegedly for wasting more than $100,000 in campaign dollars on strip club nights, clothing and mysterious bank transfers.
Despite leading the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, he has become more identified with the far right in recent years, appearing with the likes of Alex Jones and Steve Bannon.
In an interview with Bannon, she proclaimed: ‘Women have become too talkative. As the black man in the room, I’ll say it.
A former NBA player now running for Senate in Minnesota has a recent history of making controversial statements against women and LGBTQ+ people. Royce White, who played mostly overseas but played three games with the Sacramento Kings in 2014, has entered politics in recent years.
He added that women’s work is a scam on the working class to double taxes on Americans.
White has a history of referring to women as ‘whores’ and ‘bitches’ on social media and has a history of allegedly abusing his wife, who filed for a protective order and announced plans to divorce him before returning. with him and his secondary girlfriend.
He has had two children with his wife Angelic Aguilar Suggs and another two with different women.
White has also spouted conspiracy theories about “the Jewish lobby” and “the Jewish elite,” while calling LGBTQ+ people “Luciferian.”
“The LGBTQ movement is a creation of radical feminists and their deluded men… At least from a political standpoint,” White once wrote in X.
“The sad thing is that they are actually taking advantage of people with mental health issues and subjecting women to a sacrificial role… Sadistic to say the least.”
Ironically, white Once a liberal darling to find out some of his opinions on mental health, making it known that he is battling generalized anxiety disorder during his playing career.
He even said that Trump was exercising ‘tyranny’ against the protests he led in 2020. cnn.
Despite leading the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, he has become more identified with the far right in recent years, appearing with the likes of Alex Jones and Steve Bannon.
White was once a favorite of liberals for some of his views on mental health, and he went public that he is battling generalized anxiety disorder during his playing career.
White wrote on Tulsi Gabbard in the 2020 presidential election, but is now a strong supporter of Donald Trump.
In an interview with the New York Times, he told opinion writer Michelle Goldberg that he wasn’t interested in being asked about his support for people like Alex Jones.
‘Why are liberal white women in this country so intent on telling black men in America what we should and shouldn’t think?’
He believes himself to be a revolutionary who could be putting his life in danger for his opinions.
“You may not know it as a writer, but I guarantee your superiors know exactly how intellectually dangerous I am,” he said. “They know exactly how politically dangerous I am.”
He once even wrote with a marker on his head “Alex Jones was right” and “Deep State” during a BIG3 basketball game in 2022.
“Every time a black man appears who is competent in philosophical, political, spiritual, social and economic issues, they start planning how they are going to kill him,” he added.
White says he’s not that different from the man who led the BLM marches in 2020, adding that the “nationalist populist movement that has emerged around and with Donald Trump and other individuals like Steve Bannon rejects how corporate America and the corporate elite and “The permanent political class has functioned for several decades.”
Once, White had even written with marker on his head ‘Alex Jones was right’ and ‘Deep State’ during a BIG3 basketball game in 2022.
The 2024 race is White’s second foray into partisan politics, after unsuccessfully trying to beat the Republican congressional candidate in Ilhan Omar’s district in 2022.
After losing the 2022 House primary, White had a 5 a.m. outing at the Gold Rush Cabaret, about 1,800 miles from the House race he was running in.
He paid the Miami-based totally naked strip club $1,232 into the campaign account that night, according to 2022 FEC filings. The filings were first noted by the Daily Beast.
White told DailyMail.com he did not remember the night at the strip club, but believed his team had “used the wrong card” and was in the process of refunding the campaign.
White has often criticized the political system as “corrupt,” but thousands of dollars went to limousine services and fancy hotels in Florida, far from his race in Minnesota.
White had brief stints in Canada’s National Basketball League and Ice Cube’s Big3 basketball league.
White lost the Republican primary to Cicely Davis and faces competition from banker and retired naval veteran Joe Fraser in the Senate primary.
White’s campaign is a long shot: He has $10,000 on hand compared to Klobuchar’s $6 million, and DailyMail.com has learned that national Republicans are staying away from him. But he has the backing of the state Republican Party.
Royce White participates in the Fourth Black Downtown Protest on July 4, 2020 in Minneapolis
A close-up of the writing on the head of the Power’s Royce White #30 that reads “Alex Jones was right” during the game against the Bivouac in Week 5 of the BIG3 at Comerica Center on July 17, 2022 in Frisco, Texas.
In fact, White thanked Jones and his Infowars outlet for the resounding victory by obtaining the endorsement of the Minnesota Republican Party, in which he obtained two-thirds of the delegates.
“Many Infowars fans in the GOP delegation were present at the convention Saturday,” he said.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has no plans to endorse White and prefers Fraser.
NRSC Chairman, Senator Steve Daines saying White “would have a hard time winning a general election.”
If she wins the August 13 primary, she would face off one-on-one with current presidential candidate and three-term incumbent Amy Klobuchar.
Klobuchar won her last election in 2018 with 60 percent of the vote and has a 54 percent approval rating in the state.