WATCH: Nassau Pol Calls Challenger's Bid 'Plantation' Politics

At a meeting of the New Hempstead Democratic Club last week, State Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper, the No. 2-ranked Democrat in the Assembly, cited "plantation" politics in the Democratic challenge against her for her seat.

Speaking to club members on July 26, Hooper said her primary challenger for the 18th Assembly District, Taylor Raynor, is a "blank" put up by Nassau County Democratic Committee Chairman Jay Jacobs. She said that Jacobs couldn't find a Democrat to challenger, so he found a person without a party to put up against the longtime incumbent.

"I go to Albany and I fight for my people, and then I come back and I have to fight with my people," Hooper said to the crowd. "It reminds me of what happened before the Civil war, when we were on plantations and someone decided to run away. And the person who happened to be in master's good graces would tell on Big Jim who planned to run away when it was dark with the new moon. So that's what's happened now: we have a plantation.

"I'll leave you with this: the white man fooled us out of Africa," she later added. "Don't let him fool you out of a seat where you have power."

Hooper's racially charged rant received loud applause from the audience. You can watch Hooper's comments here, which start at the beginning of the video.

According to the New York Post, Jacobs said that Hooper's comments were "unhinged" and that her speech cost her the party's official endorsement for the September primary. "I’ve supported Earlene in the past," Jacobs told the Post. "This time I’m not. I can’t support someone who says those things. It’s likely I will be endorsing Taylor.”

Hooper has represented the 18th Assembly District for decades, since she was first elected in a special election in 1988. She is the first female deputy speaker, and is the highest-ranked woman in the Assembly.

Her district includes Freeport, Hempstead, Roosevelt, Uniondale and Lakeview.

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