North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Mark Robinson, a self-proclaimed “black Nazi,” was trying to learn German.
According to a report from the Daily Beast, an email address used by Robinson signed up for German lessons on the language app Duolingo in 2018.
However, Robinson’s time on the app was short-lived as he earned only 329 experience points, or XP. Lessons on the app can take up to about 20 minutes and users are given 10 XP per lesson, which would suggest that Robinson spent a few hours learning German on the app.
The outlet noted that the email address’ prefix was ‘minisoldr’ which is the same handle Robinson used on ‘Nude Africa,’ a pornographic forum, to make disgusting and lewd comments between 2008 and 2012 that were revealed in a bombshell CNN report on Thursday.
In a March 2012 message Robinson, North Carolina’s first Black lieutenant governor, referred to himself as a “black Nazi” and said he preferred Adolf Hitler over President Barack Obama.
“I would take Hitler over any of the sh*t that’s in Washington right now!” he wrote.
Robinson also expressed support for reinstating slavery, writing, “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few.”
Robinson denies that he was the one posting the comments in an interview with CNN.
“This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me,” he said.
“I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies,” he added when presented with evidence linking him to the account.
The same address used on Duolingo also registered on Ashley Madison, a website designed for married people seeking affairs.
A spokesperson confirmed to Politico that the email address belongs to Robinson, but that he had not made an account on Ashley Madison. Robinson’s campaign said the email has “been compromised in multiple data breaches,” suggesting that someone else created the account without his knowledge.