Goolsby penned an op-ed published Friday on the Chatham Journal's webpage titled, "Moron Monday shows radical Left just doesn't get it."

In his piece he refers to those participating in the Moral Monday protests as "hippies" and "Loony Liberals." He also says the protestors are "mostly white" and "angry." It is worth noting these protests have been organized, at least in part, by the NAACP.

Goolsby is right about one thing, people are "angry." The current legislature has been extremely polarizing, introducing and/or passing bills that are wildly unpopular among the citizens of the state, including trying to establish a state religion, repealing the Racial Justice Act, and making it harder and harder for college students to vote. This is just a very short list of many issues people have with the legislature, and a recent poll done by Public Policy Polling shows that the NC legislature has an approval rating of just 41 percent with the Republicans faring even worse at 37 percent approval.

As one can imagine, many people did not take too kindly to Goolsby's column and took to his public Facebook page to take issue with his words. It should be noted that while all of these interactions were left up for a good 12 hours, as of midnight last night he had deleted most of them.

Thankfully with the power of technology I was able to screenshot most of the offensive interactions and a sampling of them follow below. I have also reached out to Goolsby's office by email, with Sen. Harry Brown, the Senate Majority Leader, and Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest's offices copied. In the email I included the screenshots of the interactions included in this piece. As of this writing I have yet to hear from any of the offices, but will update if/when I do.