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Uh, off the top of my head, how about Sen. Session's (ranking Republican on Judiciary Comm.) well-documented statements when he was up for a judgeship? How about Sen. McCain (GOP nominee for Pres. and leading voice) opposing a federal holiday for MLK, Jr. and applauding Gov. Mecham's recission of the holiday in AZ? For that matter, Pres. Reagan promised to veto a federal holiday and most Republicans voted against it.
How about a majority of the Republicans in the Senate opposing permitting the overwhelmingly-Black population of the District of Columbia the right to representation in Congress? Even though Republicans were going to get a balancing seat in Utah?
Again, if we want to dig deeper, we could also get into the ranking Republicans who have spoken to avowedly racist groups' conferences, or have courted votes/money from avowed racists.
Don't get me wrong, I think GREAT progress has been made. But, to try to pretend that racist leanings are gone - from anywhere, let alone from Republican officials - is just wrong.
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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/103322/unacceptable_gop_mailing_projects...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/fox-news-calls-michelle-o_n_106655...
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"All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement."
In 1954 he was elected to the Senate and remained there until just before his death in 2003. He never renounced his views on segregation. After death, it was revealed that he had an affair with a black maid and produced a secret daughter.
At a birthday party for Thurmond in 2002, Sen. Trent Lott claimed that if Thurmond had been president "we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years". Lott eventually resigned as Senate Republican Leader over the remarks.
Sen. Jesse Helms voted against every civil rights bill and blocked appointments of black judges and ambassadors. He was in office from 1973 to 2003.
One could argue that this was the "older generation" and these people are gone but people like this still exist and their influences still remain. Even RNC chairman Michael Steele admits that white Republicans are scared of him. That just makes me want to hit my head on something.
Source(s):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/us/strom-thurmond-foe-of-integration-dies...
http://www.slate.com/id/2075662
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1858
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/news.php?viewStory=200
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“The American people believe English should be the official language of the government...We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/31/politics/main2633372.shtml
Tom Tancredo in May of 2009:
"If you belong to an organization called La Raza, in this case, which is, from my point of view anyway, nothing more than a Latino -- it's a counterpart -- a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses. If you belong to something like that in a way that's going to convince me and a lot of other people that it's got nothing to do with race. Even though the logo of La Raza is "All for the race. Nothing for the rest." What does that tell you?"
(NOTE: That's not La Raza's motto. It's really "Strengthening America by promoting the advancement of Latino families.")
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/tancredo-claims-sotomayor_n_208831.html
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) in August of 2009:
"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope. I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/gop-rep-republicans-strug_n_270078.html
George Allen in 2006:
"This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his name is. He's with my opponent. He's following us around everywhere. And it's just great."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400589.html
John McCain in 2000:
"I hated the g--ks. I will hate them as long as I live."
http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/hongop.shtml
The New York Observer paraphrasing Sarah Palin in 2008:
"Before Ms. Palin took the stage in Estero, Fla., at the Oct. 6 event, one of the introductory speakers, Mike Scott, the sheriff of Lee County, referred to the Democratic candidate as 'Barack Hussein Obama,' a practice the McCain campaign has distanced itself from in the past. Apparently, no longer. Ms. Palin also said that she had advised Mr. McCain to 'take the gloves off' and said Mr. Obama was 'not one of us.'"
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/black-congressmen-declare-racism-palin-s-rhetoric
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But that doesn't hold any water in the land of proof. So here are some examples of GOP leaders acting in racist ways:
1. James L. Hart - a constant Congressional candidate in Tennessee who continues to campaign on the platform of eugenics--that's right, he runs on a platform of racial superiority and wants to keep the "less favorable races" from reproducing. He promises to keep the country from turning into "one big Detroit". Is he a Congressman? No. But he did win the Republican primary and was on the ballot for Congressman in 2004. He continues to campaign and run.
2. Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from South Carolina who ran on a campaign of segregation, and maintains the record for the longest ever Senate fillibuster--all in opposition of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Although Thurmond attempt to streamline his racial views in later years, he never did renounce his segregation support. He held office until 2003.
3. Trent Lott - At Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, Lott made a comment about Thurmond's run for president in 1948 as a Dixiecrat running on a heavily segregationist platform:
"When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either."
4. Haley Barbour - Republican Governor of Mississippi who was photographed during his campaign attending a CCC bbq - if you hadn't heard of them, they're the Council of Conservative Citizens whose causes include white nationalism and white separatism. Gov. Barbour was on the front page of their website for quite a while.
http://webpages.charter.net/micah/ccc.jpg
5. Barbara Cubin - Republican U.S. Representative from Wyoming who
made the following statement on the House floor:
--quote--
"My sons are 25 and 30. They are blond-haired and blue-eyed. One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean if you go into a black community, you cannot sell a gun to any black person, or does that mean because my …"
--end quote--
When asked for an apology by African-American Representatives, Rep. Cubin said she didn't intend to offend her "neighbors" over on the Democratic side. Then she defended her comment saying she was within the rules of the House.
6. Jefferson Sessions - Republican U.S. Senator from Alabama who aggressively pursued prosecutions against civil rights workers in 1984 for voter fraud in 1984 (one of whom was an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., most of the charges turning out to be baseless and lead to quick acquittals.
Then at the federal court level, Sen. Sessions has stated that the NAACP and ACLU sometimes can be "un-American".
He was also quoted as calling a black assistant U.S. Attorney, "Boy". HE also called a white civil rights attorney a "disgrace to his race".
The list can go on and on of Senators, Representatives, Governors, and other GOP bigwigs who have demonstrated at least mild racist attitudes--some worse than others. I would never claim that all Republicans are racist. Not even close. But there is a history there that does show GOP leaders reflect a demographic of their constituencies who do want segregation and still worship Jefferson Davis. It's sad, but it's out there.
Source(s):
http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Republican%20Racism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_thurmond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Lott
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeff_Sessions
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| November 10, 2009 08:03 PM |
How about a majority of the Republicans in the Senate opposing permitting the overwhelmingly-Black population of the District of Columbia the right to representation in Congress? Even though Republicans were going to get a balancing seat in Utah?
Again, if we want to dig deeper, we could also get into the ranking Republicans who have spoken to avowedly racist groups' conferences, or have courted votes/money from avowed racists.
Don't get me wrong, I think GREAT progress has been made. But, to try to pretend that racist leanings are gone - from anywhere, let alone from Republican officials - is just wrong.
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November 11, 2009 12:37 AM
Maybe she wasn't "high ranking," but how about when that woman in California sent out the newsletter with the "Obama bucks" depicting Obama with fried chicken and watermelon? Or how about Fox news calling the First Lady Obama's "baby momma"? I consider that extremely racist, and extremely disrespectful to such a classy, educated woman who happens to be his devoted WIFE not "baby momma."
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http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/103322/unacceptable_gop_mailing_projects...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/fox-news-calls-michelle-o_n_106655...
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November 11, 2009 01:47 PM
The woman in California may not even be involved in the Republican party for all you know. Unless "baby momma" is a known racial slur, it is merely disrespectful, and FOXNews is not made of high-ranking Republicans.
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November 11, 2009 03:32 PM
C'mon, sr. Fox would NOT have labeled Laura Bush as George's Baby Mama! Why not? Because, while not a "known racial slur", it certainly has racial implications.
I'm not sure who popularized the term (slang for an unmarried woman who has a child(ren), used in a possessive context) - I'm guessing a Black comedian - but even IF it has migrated into wider use, it still is associated in most people's minds with Blacks.
And, btw, the California woman was sending that e-mail out on behalf of an officially-sanctioned Republican woman's group.
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I'm not sure who popularized the term (slang for an unmarried woman who has a child(ren), used in a possessive context) - I'm guessing a Black comedian - but even IF it has migrated into wider use, it still is associated in most people's minds with Blacks.
And, btw, the California woman was sending that e-mail out on behalf of an officially-sanctioned Republican woman's group.
November 11, 2009 08:00 PM
srgothard--it's pretty clear to me that even if a republican donned a KKK robe and was burning a cross, you would be sure he's not racist, so this is only point I'll address: Fox is not "made" of high-ranking republicans, but they have donned the mantle of the voice of the party, and it's been pretty well accepted. Rush and Glenn get more attention than even Bush did.
Actually, I have to address one more: baby momma is a racial slur in this context, no question. Venture out into the world sometime and say hello! *rolls eyes*
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Actually, I have to address one more: baby momma is a racial slur in this context, no question. Venture out into the world sometime and say hello! *rolls eyes*
November 11, 2009 04:16 AM
I think it was extremely racist of Glenn Beck to call Obama a racist. While Glenn Beck is not an elected official, he is highly influential in the Republican world (arguably more influential than elected officials). To call Obama a racist was the most bigoted, racist things I've ever heard.
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November 11, 2009 01:45 PM
Does it make you racist to call Glenn Beck racist when you have no examples of him demeaning someone of another race or treating someone differently for their skin color? Glenn Beck is not a "high-ranking" Republican, and his seeing racism in someone who happens to be black would not be racist unless he had said something like, "Obama is racist because all blacks are," which he did not say.
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November 11, 2009 04:53 PM
To understand how Glenn Beck is a racist you must first understand the definition of racism.
"a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
So when Glenn Beck interviewed Democrat Keith Ellison and asked him to prove he wasn't working with the Islamic enemies of the United States he only asked that because Keith is Muslim. Some people found this a racist comment.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611150004
I don't know Beck personally, I don't know if he is actually racist or if it's just part of his act, but you must admit he spends a lot more time defending "the white race" then anybody I have ever seen. He does tend direct his attacks towards Latinos, Muslims and blacks. His show reaks of racist paranoia a good example of that was how somebody on a shaky cellphone camera sent him this image off two scary looking dudes - Glenn Beck turns it into a segment of how Obama is building an army of black panthers.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/obamas-army-glenn-beck-sees-scary-bl
And that is just one example, personally, I don't care for the whole racism argument regardless your side, I grew up indoctrinated with the idea that we are all equal no matter our color so when I see the amount of time Glenn Beck obsesses over skin color be it his own, or others makes it does make my stomach turn.
He talks a lot about Obama "deep seeded hatred of whites" yet fails to understand his own religion Mormonism, has a "deep seeded hatred of blacks" - as right up until the late 70's blacks were still considered lesser people to whites as part of their religious texts.
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"a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
So when Glenn Beck interviewed Democrat Keith Ellison and asked him to prove he wasn't working with the Islamic enemies of the United States he only asked that because Keith is Muslim. Some people found this a racist comment.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611150004
I don't know Beck personally, I don't know if he is actually racist or if it's just part of his act, but you must admit he spends a lot more time defending "the white race" then anybody I have ever seen. He does tend direct his attacks towards Latinos, Muslims and blacks. His show reaks of racist paranoia a good example of that was how somebody on a shaky cellphone camera sent him this image off two scary looking dudes - Glenn Beck turns it into a segment of how Obama is building an army of black panthers.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/obamas-army-glenn-beck-sees-scary-bl
And that is just one example, personally, I don't care for the whole racism argument regardless your side, I grew up indoctrinated with the idea that we are all equal no matter our color so when I see the amount of time Glenn Beck obsesses over skin color be it his own, or others makes it does make my stomach turn.
He talks a lot about Obama "deep seeded hatred of whites" yet fails to understand his own religion Mormonism, has a "deep seeded hatred of blacks" - as right up until the late 70's blacks were still considered lesser people to whites as part of their religious texts.
November 11, 2009 10:25 AM
Strom Thurmond, anyone? He ran for president in 1948 under a segregation platform, after Harry Truman desegregated the Army. "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement."
In 1954 he was elected to the Senate and remained there until just before his death in 2003. He never renounced his views on segregation. After death, it was revealed that he had an affair with a black maid and produced a secret daughter.
At a birthday party for Thurmond in 2002, Sen. Trent Lott claimed that if Thurmond had been president "we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years". Lott eventually resigned as Senate Republican Leader over the remarks.
Sen. Jesse Helms voted against every civil rights bill and blocked appointments of black judges and ambassadors. He was in office from 1973 to 2003.
One could argue that this was the "older generation" and these people are gone but people like this still exist and their influences still remain. Even RNC chairman Michael Steele admits that white Republicans are scared of him. That just makes me want to hit my head on something.
Source(s):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/27/us/strom-thurmond-foe-of-integration-dies...
http://www.slate.com/id/2075662
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1858
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/news.php?viewStory=200
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November 11, 2009 03:22 PM
Those Michael Steele comments are VERY interesting. Thanks for bringing them to our attention (and for your entire answer), Irig.
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November 11, 2009 05:41 PM
Newt Gingrich in 2007: “The American people believe English should be the official language of the government...We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/31/politics/main2633372.shtml
Tom Tancredo in May of 2009:
"If you belong to an organization called La Raza, in this case, which is, from my point of view anyway, nothing more than a Latino -- it's a counterpart -- a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses. If you belong to something like that in a way that's going to convince me and a lot of other people that it's got nothing to do with race. Even though the logo of La Raza is "All for the race. Nothing for the rest." What does that tell you?"
(NOTE: That's not La Raza's motto. It's really "Strengthening America by promoting the advancement of Latino families.")
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/tancredo-claims-sotomayor_n_208831.html
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.) in August of 2009:
"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope. I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/gop-rep-republicans-strug_n_270078.html
George Allen in 2006:
"This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, macaca, or whatever his name is. He's with my opponent. He's following us around everywhere. And it's just great."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400589.html
John McCain in 2000:
"I hated the g--ks. I will hate them as long as I live."
http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/hongop.shtml
The New York Observer paraphrasing Sarah Palin in 2008:
"Before Ms. Palin took the stage in Estero, Fla., at the Oct. 6 event, one of the introductory speakers, Mike Scott, the sheriff of Lee County, referred to the Democratic candidate as 'Barack Hussein Obama,' a practice the McCain campaign has distanced itself from in the past. Apparently, no longer. Ms. Palin also said that she had advised Mr. McCain to 'take the gloves off' and said Mr. Obama was 'not one of us.'"
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/black-congressmen-declare-racism-palin-s-rhetoric
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November 11, 2009 06:01 PM
Of course a large part of the problem is that GOP bigwigs are smart enough to keep their tongues in check and leave the dirty work to underlings who AREN'T running for office. It is the fringe GOP supporters who display the most blatantly racist attitudes: Distributing "Obama bucks", spreading chain emails that Obama wants to exterminate whites, etc. But that doesn't hold any water in the land of proof. So here are some examples of GOP leaders acting in racist ways:
1. James L. Hart - a constant Congressional candidate in Tennessee who continues to campaign on the platform of eugenics--that's right, he runs on a platform of racial superiority and wants to keep the "less favorable races" from reproducing. He promises to keep the country from turning into "one big Detroit". Is he a Congressman? No. But he did win the Republican primary and was on the ballot for Congressman in 2004. He continues to campaign and run.
2. Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator from South Carolina who ran on a campaign of segregation, and maintains the record for the longest ever Senate fillibuster--all in opposition of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Although Thurmond attempt to streamline his racial views in later years, he never did renounce his segregation support. He held office until 2003.
3. Trent Lott - At Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, Lott made a comment about Thurmond's run for president in 1948 as a Dixiecrat running on a heavily segregationist platform:
"When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either."
4. Haley Barbour - Republican Governor of Mississippi who was photographed during his campaign attending a CCC bbq - if you hadn't heard of them, they're the Council of Conservative Citizens whose causes include white nationalism and white separatism. Gov. Barbour was on the front page of their website for quite a while.
5. Barbara Cubin - Republican U.S. Representative from Wyoming who
made the following statement on the House floor:
--quote--
"My sons are 25 and 30. They are blond-haired and blue-eyed. One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean if you go into a black community, you cannot sell a gun to any black person, or does that mean because my …"
--end quote--
When asked for an apology by African-American Representatives, Rep. Cubin said she didn't intend to offend her "neighbors" over on the Democratic side. Then she defended her comment saying she was within the rules of the House.
6. Jefferson Sessions - Republican U.S. Senator from Alabama who aggressively pursued prosecutions against civil rights workers in 1984 for voter fraud in 1984 (one of whom was an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., most of the charges turning out to be baseless and lead to quick acquittals.
Then at the federal court level, Sen. Sessions has stated that the NAACP and ACLU sometimes can be "un-American".
He was also quoted as calling a black assistant U.S. Attorney, "Boy". HE also called a white civil rights attorney a "disgrace to his race".
The list can go on and on of Senators, Representatives, Governors, and other GOP bigwigs who have demonstrated at least mild racist attitudes--some worse than others. I would never claim that all Republicans are racist. Not even close. But there is a history there that does show GOP leaders reflect a demographic of their constituencies who do want segregation and still worship Jefferson Davis. It's sad, but it's out there.
Source(s):
http://archive.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Republican%20Racism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_thurmond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Lott
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeff_Sessions
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1) Sessions' comments:
2) McCain/Reagan/MLK, Jr. Holiday: personal experience, and http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/the-complicated.html
3) DC Voting: filibustered by the Republicans in 2007, http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2007-339&sort=party
4) Speaking to racist groups: this is the one that seems to repeatedly come up in various campaigns, though I'm confident there are similar stories: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=802
By the way, the genesis of this question apparently comes from the reports on Freep (conservative website/forum) that noted that actor Alec Baldwin stated (on Maher's show) that Republican stars say racist things. However, the quote clearly shows he was referring to conservative media personalities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbpxkF5Sbs