Obviously this character running for the Lt. Governor seat in Virginia, is a publicity seeker.  The problem with Stevens is that he actually believes what he is saying…

Think Progress

Virginia Republicans’ controversial nominee for Lieutenant Governor argued on Wednesday that the Great Society programs enacted in the 1960s did more harm to African American families that the institution of slavery.

E.W. Jackson, who thinks LGBT Americans “poison culture” and says President Obama has “Muslim sensibilities,” told a crowd in Newport News that government programs like Medicare and Medicaid are to blame for current problems among black families.

Citing the decline in black children being raised by two (opposite sex) parents, Jackson declared, “it wasn’t slavery that did that, it was government that did that”:

JACKSON: My grandfather was born there, to a father and a mother who had been slaves. And by the way, their…