New York Republican House candidate Jim Russell has been denounced by his own party, after an ugly racist essay he wrote for a fringe white nationalist journal became public. A quote from Russell’s essay:

It has been demonstrated that finches raised by foster parents of a different species of finch will later exhibit a lifelong sexual attraction toward the alien species. One wonders how a child’s sexual imprinting mechanism is affected by forcible racial integration and near continual exposure to media stimuli promoting interracial contact. The most serious implication of human sexual imprinting for our genetic future is that it would establish the destructiveness of school integration, especially in the middle and high-school years. One can only wonder to what degree the advocates of school integration, such as former NAACP attorney Jack Greenberg, were conscious of this scientific concept. It also compounds the culpability of media moguls who deliberately popularize miscegenation in films directed toward adolescents and pre-adolescents. In the midst of this onslaught against our youth, parents need to be reminded that they have a natural obligation, as essential as providing food and shelter, to instill in their children an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage.

Even though the GOP has withdrawn their endorsement of his candidacy, Russell is (so far) refusing to drop out, and refusing to renounce the views in his essay. Here’s a painfully awkward interview he did with the Regional News Network:

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Apparently Jim Russell is a bridge too far for the New York Republican Party, but you have to wonder why the same standard isn’t being applied to gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino.

(Hat tip: Justin Elliott.)