Yes, really.

Via Red Alert:

MSNBC host Ed Schultz pounced at the opportunity to call Republicans racist following the Senate’s failure to pass the minimum wage bill, as he said not raising the minimum wage is “every bit as racist as comments made by Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling.”

Schultz used the recent controversies surrounding the Los Angeles Clippers owner and Bundy, a Nevada rancher, as cause to slam Republicans for failing to pass the Senate bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour during his MSNBC show Wednesday afternoon.

“Not raising the wage, the minimum wage, is every bit as racist as comments made by Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling,” Schultz charged. “It’s just displayed in a different way.”