Michigan GOP Statehouse candidate recalls bizarre anti-mask rant at Black family in a Cracker Barrell

During an appearance on “The Gray Area Podcast” in June, Michigan House of Representatives candidate Jason Woolford (R) shared an uncomfortable story about an anti-mask, race-centered encounter he initiated inside a Cracker Barrel.

Woolford describes on the Michigan politics and mixed martial arts podcast how he saw a family wearing masks while they were eating breakfast and felt the need to approach them.

“So, we’re sitting in a Cracker Barrel, and I see this family walk in,” Woolford said. “And for the sake of description, I’ll say they’re Black, African American, whatever. As we’d say in the Marines, dark green.”

Woolford then apparently went up to the family and presented them with an extremely uncomfortable question in order to dissuade them from wearing their masks.

“I said, ‘I want to remind you that first, anybody at this table, you’re not Black and I’m not white. You’re dark brown, and I’m piggy pink. Okay?’”

He continued: “I said, ‘Listen, do you find it ironic that the very people that are telling you to wear this mask are the same people who go into your inner cities and slaughter the babies of Black and Hispanics? Those are the same people telling you that they care about you and to wear that mask  And so, I don’t mean to be political, but at the same time right is right and wrong is wrong.’”

It is unclear what Woolford was trying to accomplish by saying this to a random family he encountered, but in his mind this was an attempt to point out people’s freedoms being diminished because of masks. Before telling the story, Woolford felt the need to preface his words with the fact that his wife is Mexican and that his daughter is married to a Black man.

“And so, I just want those that are listening, you know, brown, piggy pink, whatever they want to say color-wise across social races, financial means. We need to pay attention to our freedoms and what’s being taken from us, what we’re allowing to be taken, and then also the agenda that’s being pushed on us, because it’s just so many times not the fact.”

Woolford is running for election in District 48 of Michigan’s House of Representatives against Democrat Jennifer Conlon. According to his campaign website, he previously worked as a reverend and credits God with miraculously healing his children.