The Huffington Post | By Ed Mazza Email Posted: 02/17/2015 1:59 am EST A Mississippi lawmaker says racist comments recently attributed to him were taken out of context and supposed to be off the record. State Rep. Gene Alday, a Republican says racist comments State Rep. Gene Alday, a Republican, told The Clarion-Ledger he was against increased funding for education, in particular funding to improve literacy. During his explanation, Alday said he comes " from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks .' They don't work." Alday also told the newspaper about a time he visited an emergency room. “I liked to died. I laid in there for hours because they (black people) were in there being treated for gunshots," Alday was quoted as saying. Alday didn't deny the comments attributed to him. However, he said he was not a racist. " I am definitely not a racist, at all ," Alday told Missis
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