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Post by GronkOne questioner asked whether blacks would feel comfortable in a party
in which David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who made
unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate and governor, has been elected
chairman of the Republican Executive Committee in a Louisiana parish.
"We're a party of inclusion," Gingrich replied.
"Fuck the Jews, they didn't vote for us anyway."
GOP Sec of State James Baker (NewYorkPost, 3/6/92)
"Goddamn Jews need to learn that they're Americans first and Jews second."
--Nixon
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/goproud-founder-jimmy-lasalvia-102468.html
GOProud co-founder Jimmy LaSalvia announced last week that he would
renounce his affiliation with the Republican Party and become an
independent nearly five years after he founded the group aimed at gay
conservatives.
I just came to the realization that the Republican Party doesnt represent
my principles and values, LaSalvia told POLITICO. Im a small government
conservative and theyre for big government. Theyre happy to have big
government as long as theyre in charge, More importantly, I dont tolerate
bigotry of any kind, whether its anti-gay bigotry, anti-Muslim bigotry.
And they do and thats just not OK with me.
...
http://dekerivers.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/racism-on-full-display-at-gop-convention-nuts-thrown-at-black-cameraman-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/
Racism On Full Display At GOP Convention
AUGUST 29, 2012
Two people were removed from the Republican National
Convention Tuesday after they threw nuts at an African-
American CNN camera operator and said, "This is how
we feed animals."
"There isn't a more vile, negative word than the N word and for him to
leave it
there as long as he did before, I hear, that they finally painted over it,
is
just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country." - Herman
Cain
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2933-2003Jan2
The only African American Republican in Congress is headed home. Can the
party of Lincoln -- and Trent Lott -- afford the loss of J.C. Watts?
...
From the moment he arrived in Washington, Julius Caesar Watts Jr. has
been a political curiosity. Even his late father, Buddy, had trouble
figuring out how his son had wound up a Republican. "A black man voting
for the Republicans," he was often quoted as saying, "makes about as
much sense as a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders."
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Confederate flags.
Bob Jones University.
The CCC.
http://courtingdisaster.blogspot.com/Chapter3.htm
...
The affinity Bush, and the rest of the Republican Party, have shown over
the past few years for men and groups with an extremist right wing bent
has already started to drive away some of the partys rising minority
stars. Faye Anderson, one of the few black women activists in the
Republican Party, was seen by the GOP as a rising star in the late 90s.
In 1997, the GOP established the New Majority Council with the explicit
goal of incorporating more minorities into the party. Anderson was tapped
to head the Council and the Republican effort to woo blacks and other
minorities. In March, the consistent GOP pandering to extremists finally
overwhelmed her and Anderson left not only the New Majority Council but
the
Republican Party altogether. Citing Bush's visit to Bob Jones University
and his unwillingness to take a stance against the Confederate flag in
South
Carolina, along with the continued ties of Senate Majority Leader Trent
Lott
to the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group;
Anderson
explained, my switch [from the GOP to independent] comes in the wake of a
pattern of racial blunders that I cannot dismiss as mere mistakes. She
continued, The Republican Party should do some serious spring cleaning
because the stench up under the big tent with the likes of the CCC,
[former Klu Klux Klan leader] David Duke, Confederate flag wavers and Bob
Jones has become intolerable.
...
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0700tidbits1.htm
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Powell Says Republicans Not the 'Black Guy's' Party
WASHINGTON -
U.S. retired Gen. Colin Powell said on Sunday the Republican Party
has failed to adequately represent America's blacks, but he would
consider serving as secretary of state under Republican George W.
Bush if the Texas governor wins the presidency.
Powell, a prominent black Republican whose popularity during the
Gulf War led to calls for him to step up as a presidential candidate
in 1996, has previously indicated he was notinterested in running
for vice president under Bush.
Powell said on Fox News Sunday the Republican Party is dangerously
close to being seen a party for whites, especially because of its
stand against affirmative action.
"It is certainly not seen as the black guy's party ... It has not
done well in the African-American community," Powell said in an
interview taped on Friday.
"I think too often the Republican Party has said we know what's best
for you as opposed to listening to the African-American community,
understanding some of the despair that exists in the African-American
inner city communities," he said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ravenel,_Jr.
...
Ravenel is a member of Moultrie Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and
is
a supporter of the Confederate flag being flown at the South Carolina
statehouse. He provoked controversy at a rally for the flag in 2000 when
he
referred to the NAACP as the "National Association for Retarded People".
Ravenel upset even more people after he apologized to mentally handicapped
people for comparing them to the NAACP. Many called for the Charleston
bridge to be renamed.
Ravenel once said that his fellow white congressional committee members
operated on "black time", which he characterized as meaning "fashionably
late".
...
http://www.bartcopnation.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=522
"What Bush did to McCain in the 2000 S. C. primary"
...
McCains Sanity. Bush Supporters Spread Racist Rumors About McCains
Daughter. Rove Suggests Former POW McCain Committed Treason and
Fathered Child With Black Prostitute. Sampley Called McCain a Coward
and a Traitor.
...
Original Link no longer active but can be found around the web
http://www.voy.com/5306/9/3551.html
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In early March 1989, after his legislative victory, Duke
addressed a Populist party convention in Chicago, telling
the audience of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and skinheads
that he had run for office under the GOP label "because that's
where so many of our people are," adding, "I am a Republican,
but I am and always will be a Populist Republican!" Unbeknownst
to Duke, an opponent tape-recorded his remarks and later offered
the story to the Picayune.
...
"The more negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the
Negrophobe Whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's
where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the Whites
will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local
Democrats." - Kevin Phillips, Nixon political strategist, on the
republicon "Southern Strategy"
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/texas-republican-on-storm-damage-victims-don-t-try-to-jew-them-down
On Thursday night, a Republican Texas state representative made a
gaffe that would even make George Bush cringe. During a discussion
about payments being made to windstorm damage victims, Chairman of the
Joint Committee on Windstorm Insurance, Larry Taylor, showed us more
of the same from the Republican party with an outrageous statement.
Taylor: "Don't nitpick, don't try to Jew them down."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57374439-503544/immigration-speaker-sparks-controversy-at-cpac/
Controversy over an immigration opponent who spoke at the Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC) blind-sided conference organizers who
say they didn't know who he was before this week.
Al Cardenas, director of the American Conservative Union (ACU), which
organizes CPAC, said he had never heard of Peter Brimelow, editor of
VDARE.com, who has been labeled a white nationalist by the Southern
Poverty Law Center.
...
"It's shocking that the CPAC would provide a platform for someone like
Brimelow," said Michael Keegan, president of People For the American
Way. "Responsible GOP leaders should speak out against the bigotry and
hatred that Brimelow and VDARE push on a regular basis."
...
http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/01/21/condoleeza-rice-says-the-republican-party-needs-to-broaden-appeal-voting-base/
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice believes the Republican
Party has an issue with the way it addresses certain demographics
and the topic of immigration reform.
Rice spoke with Bob Scheiffer on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday
morning, and told him that Republicans need a new game plan in
those areas.
"Well, the Republican Party certainly has to stop turning off large
segments of the population," Rice said, laughing. "I've said, you know,
it's not a strategy to keep hoping that parts of the population don't
turn out. Youve got to simply broaden."
...
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/01/22/phil_mickelson_apologizes_for_speaking_against_the_revolution
...
Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, they've changed sides. Condoleezza
Rice: GOP's gotta stop turning off large segments of the population.
Really? I didn't know we were. But she thinks we're turning off
large segments of the population. I know what that means. Hispanics
and other minorities and gays. And we gotta stop that. And then
Colin Powell, I mean, he's long ago left the Republican Party, but
not in name.
...
King's Nobel lecture, given December 11, 1964, after
being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-lecture.html
...
Another indication that progress is being made was found in the recent
presidential election in the United States. The American people revealed
great maturity by overwhelmingly rejecting a presidential candidate who
had become identified with extremism, racism, and retrogression. The
voters of our nation rendered a telling blow to the radical right. They
defeated those elements in our society which seek to pit white against
Negro and lead the nation down a dangerous Fascist path.
...
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1997/GOP-opens-new-campaign-to-attract-minority-voters/id-cc98ddc92a22ef050a9dac7c4ee9ce77
...
One questioner asked whether blacks would feel comfortable in a party
in which David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader who made
unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate and governor, has been elected
chairman of the Republican Executive Committee in a Louisiana parish.
"We're a party of inclusion," Gingrich replied.
And Nicholson said: "We welcome people to this party as long as they
are willing to adopt our agenda and not their own."
(Nicholson - Republican Party Chairman)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/gop-senate-candidate-spoke-neo-confederate-conference-august
Chris McDaniel is taking the "GOP Civil War" to a new level. Two months
ago, the tea party-backed Mississippi Senate candidate addressed a
neo-Confederate conference and costume ball hosted by a group that promotes
the work of present-day secessionists and contends the wrong side won the
"war of southern independence."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/lazy-blacks-daily-show_n_4159210.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
WASHINGTON -- A Republican precinct official in North Carolina
resigned from his position Thursday, after The Daily Show aired a
segment on the state's voter ID law in which he criticized "lazy black
people that wants the government to give them everything."
Don Yelton stepped down from his position in the Buncombe County
Republican Party, Buncombe GOP Chairman Henry Mitchell told WRAL.
http://tinyurl.com/6rkfg5l
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/05/30/longtime-white-supremacist-to-serve-on-penn-county-gop-committee/
Longtime White Supremacist to Serve on Penn. County GOP Committee
Steve Smith, a longtime racist activist with a history of violence and
top-level ties to numerous white nationalist hate groups, has been elected
to a 4-year term on the Republican Partys county committee for Luzerne
County, Penn., One Peoples Project reports.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's chief of staff : "My
party is full of racists"
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/election-2012/powell-aide-gop-full-racists-article-1.1193673
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/colin-powell-accuses-gop-of-racism-they-still-look-down-on-minorities/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/lawrence-wilkerson-colin-powell-sununu_n_2027721.html
Colin Powell's former chief of staff condemned the Republican Party on
Friday night, telling MSNBC's Ed Schultz, "My party is full of racists."
"My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people -- not all of
them, but most of them -- who are still basing their positions on race.
Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason
a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the
White House has nothing to do with the content of his character,
nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president,
and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that's despicable."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-14-GOP-racial-politics_x.htm
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman apologized to one of the
nation's largest black civil rights groups Thursday, saying Republicans had
not done enough to court blacks in the past and had exploited racial strife
to court white voters, particularly in the South.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/26/lawrence-wilkerson-colin-powell-sununu_n_2027721.html
Colin Powell's former chief of staff condemned the Republican Party on
Friday night, telling MSNBC's Ed Schultz, "My party is full of racists."
"My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people -- not all of
them, but most of them -- who are still basing their positions on race.
Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason
a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the
White House has nothing to do with the content of his character,
nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president,
and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that's despicable."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/powell-blasts-gops-dark-vein-of-intolerance/
...
There is a "dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party," Powell
said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "What do I mean by that? What I mean by
that is they still sort of look down on minorities."
...
http://thegrio.com/2012/08/29/source-rnc-black-delegate-count/
Few black delegates at the 2012 Republican convention
August 29, 2012 at 3:12 PM
...
After peaking at 167 in 2004, when George W. Bush accepted
his party's nomination for a second term as president, the
number of black delegates dropped to just 36 in 2008 - 1.5
percent of the delegates who nominated John McCain. Brositis'
team contacted every state delegation to conduct their count,
yielding a total of about 47 black delegates.
...
http://thegrio.com/2012/08/29/source-rnc-black-delegate-count/2/
...
By contrast there are scheduled to be just under 1,500 African-
Americans at the Democratic National Convention next month,
according to data supplied to the Joint Center by the Democratic
Party. Bositis says the rules of the DNC also mean that at least
half of delegates are women. And he said that typically, well
over half of black Democratic delegates are women.
...
http://www.newswise.com/articles/study-explores-ku-klux-klan-s-impact-on-u-s-political-system
The Ku Klux Klan's failure to defeat the black civil rights moment is well
documented, but the group's lesser-known legacy may be its lasting impact
on the U.S. political system, according to a paper published in the
December issue of the American Sociological Review.
David Cunningham, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at
Brandeis University, Rory McVeigh of the University of Notre Dame, and
Justin Farrell of Yale University report that KKK activity played a
significant role in shifting voters' political party allegiance in the
South in the 1960s from Democratic to Republican - and it continued to
influence voters' activities 40 years later.
The researchers studied county voting records in 10 southern states in
which the KKK actively recruited members in the 1960s. The analysis of five
presidential voting outcomes, between 1960 and 2000, showed that southern
counties with KKK activity in the 1960s had a statistically significant
increase in Republican voting compared to counties with no established KKK
chapter, even after controlling for a range of factors commonly understood
as relating to voting preferences. They also found that conservative racial
attitudes among voters in the 1992 election strongly predicted Republican
voting, but only in counties where the KKK was organized in the 1960s.
