Nashville fire dept captain placed on leave after controversial FB posts on race and BLM

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Here are a few of Turner's Facebook musings, as per WKRN-TV and WZTV-TV:

On slavery: “If all white people can be guilty for slavery because of a few plantation owners… then black people get to share the same guilt. There were Black plantation owners as well. So if all whites are guilty so are blacks.”

On the recent protests: “It’s not that the Anti-Fa and BLM thugs are so strong that they are able to take over part of a city...It’s that the Democrat Mayors are so weak as to let it happen. Shameful.”

On race: “What we done? We have raised a generation of morons that think that police are evil, especially the white ones …that all white people are racist and privileged …what have we done?”

On racism: “If you’ve been mistreated by someone of a different race, most of the time it’s because one of you are a jerk. Not your skin color.”

On wearing masks: “Lady asked me where my mask was today in a store. I told her I roll Commando!”

However uncomplicated and controversial Turner's view of the world may be, calling it "hate speech" would be a stretch. That wasn't the opinion of two prominent Nashville politicians though, who've made Turner's comments a heated public debate.

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