Community | December 30, 2008 | 11 comments

GOP attempts to oust white supremacists

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/the-gops-white-supremacy_b_153823.html

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The Republican Party has come full circle from the days of Abraham Lincoln and so disproportionately represents the interests of white people that it ought to be renamed the White People's Party. The most recent chairman of the Republican National Committee, Haley Barbour, associates himself with the most despicable kinds of white racists -- those who have money and power. Haley Barbour recently appeared side-by-side with the Council of Concerned Citizens (aka the CCC, the Coo Clucks Clan, and the Uptown KKK), a white racist hate group which is almost exclusively male and which is off-limits to blacks, jews, and other minorities.

Haley Barbour's friends in the all-white CCC wave confederate flags, espouse deporting blacks to Africa, claim the Holocaust was a hoax, oppose immigration of Asians, Latinos, and other minorities, have ties to the French neo-fascist Le Pen, and oppose the mixing of races which they call miscegenation.

Haley Barbour's CCC friends oppose black voting rights and say "...negroes should not even be labeled as being in the same "nation" as Whites, much less should they be given any voting rights..." CCC writer George Crane (http://www.cofcc.org/articles.htm).

Haley Barbour's CCC friends, predominantly white male chauvinists, oppose women's voting rights and say "... it is absurd to allow females to sit on juries in our courts," and "There were no females in the Continental Congress and I don't believe any were necessary." CCC writer George Crane.

Haley Barbour's friends include George Bush and Dick Cheney, who are shamelessly supporting Barbour's campaign for Governor of Mississippi, a state with a history of white racism and KKK activity. Bush's grandfather also supported white racists -- he financed the Nazis during WWII.

The percentage of Republicans who are white is so embarrassing that the figure is not published. In a typical election over 85% of blacks vote democratic. The percentage of Republicans who are male is also unknown but would appear to be about 80%.
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11 comments // GOP attempts to oust white supremacists

  • alicynx
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      alicynx  

    • Although I don't agree with anything that the Republican party extremists root for, I have to allow them to have their voice as well. That is the American way. To silence them is harmful, because then we are no better than the people we point our fingers at in disgrace. I am not a subscriber to the neo-nazi movement, and I am not against the rights of minorities; however I am also not against the rights of majorities either, and believe that if this man won by a comfortable margin, he should be allowed to lead them in the way those people see fit. Regardless of whether or not we want to believe it, there are people out there who hold fast to the beliefs of racial superiority, and who am I to tell them that their belief structure is wrong? I also don't go up to Christians and tell them that the foundation of their religion is hidden from them, that many of the rituals they follow are against the original intent of their "lord". I also don't go up to Breatharians and tell them that they cannot survive on air alone, that they're killing themselves.
      If a group of people wish to be represented by a hate monger, let them. Perhaps he can be shown reason, or see that there is more to the world than his sheltered viewpoint - then he can take that to his 'flock' and plant the seeds there as well. To shut them out will only make enemies of them, and they will _never_ listen to reason after that...

    • 3 years ago
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  • tbowman131
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      tbowman131  
    • AcaiHelios:

      i hope that is some sort of sick joke.

      prior to the election, it was merely inappropriate. now that obama is our president-elect. implying that the president of the united states needs to be tortured (yes, waterboarding is torture, we put japanese soldiers to death for waterboarding US soldiers during WWII) is sick.

    • 3 years ago
  • AcaiHelios
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      AcaiHelios  
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    • Republican party leaders in two states pressed in recent months for the ouster of unabashed white supremacists serving in low-level GOP posts.

      In Arizona, three prominent Republican lawmakers joined their voices to a chorus of party officials demanding that J.T. Ready, an anti-immigration extremist with direct ties to neo-Nazis, be forced to resign his position as GOP precinct committeeman in Maricopa County for "sullying the party's image."

      Ready was photographed in September 2007 marching beneath a swastika banner in Omaha, Neb., with brown-shirted members of the National Socialist Movement, a crude neo-Nazi group. He later called for placing land mines along the U.S.-Mexico border and advocated martial law as a solution to the nation's immigration dilemma. Rather than resign, Ready allowed his term as a Maricopa County, Ariz., precinct committeeman to quietly expire on Sept. 3 without seeking to be returned to the post.

      Meanwhile, across the country in West Palm Beach, Fla., Republican officials were aghast to learn in late August that 19-year-old Derek Black, who'd just been elected to the Republican Executive Committee of Palm Beach County, is the proud son of former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon Donald Black, the founder of Stormfront.org, the world's largest white supremacist online forum. Derek Black is listed as a radio commentator for Stormfront. In 2001, when he was 12, Derek Black created a Stormfront children's page that featured white supremacist sing-along lyrics and anti-Martin Luther King Jr. bedtime stories.

      "I ran because I want to make an impact at the local level. Don't judge me by my family. Judge me by what I want to achieve," Derek Black told the Palm Beach Post. "Everyone in this country has the right to protect his group's interests. White people will soon be a minority."

      As news of Black's background and views spread, Palm Beach GOP operatives began scrambling to find a way to prevent the budding white supremacist leader from assuming the post he'd won by a comfortable majority of votes. According to Sid Dinerstein, the Jewish chairman of the Republican Party of Palm Beach, Black is ineligible to serve because he failed to sign a loyalty oath to the Republican Party pledging to not engage in any activities harmful to the party. Signing the oath is a prerequisite to running for office, the GOP chairman said.

      "Once we figured out who he was, we found that the guy wasn't really qualified because he hadn't signed the loyalty oath. He won't be seated in December because he's not qualified," said Dinerstein.

      Derek Black vowed to challenge the legality of any attempt to unseat him

    • 3 years ago
  • dissimulator
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  • tbowman131
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      tbowman131  

    • and yet, a candidate for the RNC chairman chose to distribute a CD that featured the parody tune "Barack the Magic Negro"... apparently, he didn't get the memo

    • 3 years ago
  • phoenixtoo
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      phoenixtoo  

    • Just because a few extremist who are embarassing are rejected does not change the overall bias of the party. I still believe it should be renamed the Party Of the South or POS (which can stand also for a number of other things). It is and is likely to remain for some time a white man's party. Until it can make the necessary changes to it's platforms, to attract any significant amounts of people of other colors,those white men (who are rapidly becoming the true minority), it will shrivel and die. I think that would be very troublesome. I hope some respectable ,respecting leader emerge

    • 3 years ago
  • mojojuju
  • AcaiHelios
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      AcaiHelios  
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    • Republican party leaders in two states pressed in recent months for the ouster of unabashed white supremacists serving in low-level GOP posts.

      In Arizona, three prominent Republican lawmakers joined their voices to a chorus of party officials demanding that J.T. Ready, an anti-immigration extremist with direct ties to neo-Nazis, be forced to resign his position as GOP precinct committeeman in Maricopa County for "sullying the party's image."

      Ready was photographed in September 2007 marching beneath a swastika banner in Omaha, Neb., with brown-shirted members of the National Socialist Movement, a crude neo-Nazi group. He later called for placing land mines along the U.S.-Mexico border and advocated martial law as a solution to the nation's immigration dilemma. Rather than resign, Ready allowed his term as a Maricopa County, Ariz., precinct committeeman to quietly expire on Sept. 3 without seeking to be returned to the post.

      Meanwhile, across the country in West Palm Beach, Fla., Republican officials were aghast to learn in late August that 19-year-old Derek Black, who'd just been elected to the Republican Executive Committee of Palm Beach County, is the proud son of former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon Donald Black, the founder of Stormfront.org, the world's largest white supremacist online forum. Derek Black is listed as a radio commentator for Stormfront. In 2001, when he was 12, Derek Black created a Stormfront children's page that featured white supremacist sing-along lyrics and anti-Martin Luther King Jr. bedtime stories.

      "I ran because I want to make an impact at the local level. Don't judge me by my family. Judge me by what I want to achieve," Derek Black told the Palm Beach Post. "Everyone in this country has the right to protect his group's interests. White people will soon be a minority."

      As news of Black's background and views spread, Palm Beach GOP operatives began scrambling to find a way to prevent the budding white supremacist leader from assuming the post he'd won by a comfortable majority of votes. According to Sid Dinerstein, the Jewish chairman of the Republican Party of Palm Beach, Black is ineligible to serve because he failed to sign a loyalty oath to the Republican Party pledging to not engage in any activities harmful to the party. Signing the oath is a prerequisite to running for office, the GOP chairman said.

      "Once we figured out who he was, we found that the guy wasn't really qualified because he hadn't signed the loyalty oath. He won't be seated in December because he's not qualified," said Dinerstein.

      Derek Black vowed to challenge the legality of any attempt to unseat him.

    • 3 years ago
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