A Long Island assemblywoman angrily invoked “plantation” politics in a stunning attack on a fellow black woman who is challenging her in the Democratic primary, video obtained by The Post shows.
The astounding, racial rant took place during a candidates forum on Thursday, at which Deputy Assembly Speaker Earlene Hooper (D-Hempstead) branded opponent Taylor Raynor as a tool of white power brokers.
“I have been able to survive, and I fight for my people. Then I have to come here and fight with my people,” Hooper said.
“It reminds me of what happened before the Civil War, when we were on plantations and someone decided to run, and the person who happened to be in massa’s good graces would tell on Big Jim, who’s planning to run away when it’s dark, when there’s a…
