LaJuana Gillette, right, poses for a photo at a Republican event in Laughlin, Nevada, in 2018. Also pictured is Kelli Ward, the current chair of the Arizona Republican Party.
By Parker Shea | Arizona Mirror
A Republican on Mohave County’s Planning and Zoning Commission will continue to serve on the government board, despite calls for her removal after posting racist comments on Facebook last month.
On July 29, Gillette wrote on her Facebook page that America’s white and Christian identity was being threatened by immigrants.
“We must stop the minorities from coming here and trying to change us… If you drive thru (sic) Arvin (California) you would think you are in Mexico. All the signs in Mexican… We had better wake up before we lose America for our children and grand children (sic),” she wrote.
In another post, Gillette blamed racism in America on former President Barack Obama and black Americans, who she said “want to have things all black people no white people.”
“We have a country that is turning brown, which means that in no time at all white people will be in the minority,” she wrote.
In a follow-up comment on that Facebook post, Gillette wrote that most immigrants “are brown” and they are having more children than white Americans. She also blamed interracial marriages for the country
A group of activists called on the Mohave County Board of Supervisors to remove LaJuana Gillette at the Aug. 5 board meeting.
