Another republican using a racist term

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/we-used-to-have-50-60-wetbacks.html

‘We Used to Have 50–60 Wetbacks’

 

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http://nymag.com/dai...0-wetbacks.html

‘We Used to Have 50–60 Wetbacks’

“I will never submit to fight beneath that banner with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."”

Robert C. Byrd quotes

 

[700UW]

And how many years ago was that?

By Byrd's account, opposing civil rights legislation in the '60s was his greatest legislative mistake, and he would say his eyes were opened later upon seeing a father unable to get water for his young son when the "colored" drinking fountain wasn't working. In his later years, he struggled to make amends and getting money to help finish the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial became a passion. And Byrd's famously close relationship with his black Senate driver, Jim Allen, was part of this transition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqPq4AHjzU4

 

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Anything for votes....LOL

The Democrat way......

How about an update then:

Uh, uh; I know better and so do you and so does Charlie Martin of PJ Tatler, factually exposing the Democrats as the real racists. Long term, pervasive racists at that, but no surprise there.
A few examples:

It was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Democrat, who founded the Ku Klux Klan.
Woodrow Wilson segregated Federal Buildings and jobs after 50 years of integration under largely Republican administrations.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted Jim Crow Laws.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted "separate but equal".
It was the Democrat Party in the South that supported the Ku Klux Klan.
It was George Wallace and the Democrat Party in the South that said "Segregation Forever".
It was Orval Faubus and the Democrat Party that wanted the Arkansas National Guard to enforce segregation, and Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican President, that sent the 101st Airborne to integrate the schools.
It was Bull Connor, a member of the Democrat National Committee, who turned the hoses on the marchers in Birmingham, and it was the Republicans who made up the majority that passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, over the filibuster of such Democrat paragons as William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr. - and Grand Kleagle Byrd.
(And no, the Dixiecrats didn't join the Republican Party - most of them remained Democrats.)
It was the Democrats who kept Grand Kleagle Byrd in the party.
(sic) It's the Democrats who hold annual dinners honoring Andrew Jackson, who It was Democrats who called General Colin Powell a "house ******".
It was Democrats who called Condi Rice - who grew up with and knew the little girls in Birmingham who were blown up, by Democrats - an "Aunt Jemima" and ran cartoons of her with fat lips doing Hattie McDaniel riffs.
It was Democrats, or at least Obama supporters, who called Stacy Dash a hundred different racist names for daring to leave the Democrat plantation. owned slaves and who orchestrated the Removal, the Trail of Tears, the near genocide of several of the Indian Nations.​

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[700UW]

Keep changing the subject, its posted about a republican using a racial slur, now about Robert Byrd or the KKK, start a new thread if you like and keep on topic.

 

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The topic is about politicians and racial slurs.....equal time provisions apply.

Can't handle the truth? Again....

 

[700UW]

Equal time only applies to the media, not a message board.

Try again and thats only for elections, not news stories.

 

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Under pressure from fellow Republicans, Mississippi Senator Trent Lott recently stepped down from his post as Senate Majority Leader because of racially offensive comments he made earlier in the month. He was persuaded to take this step by Republicans who believed that his comments were at odds with the principles of their party.
Of course, Democrats have used the Lott affair to pillory the Republicans as racists. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who had first dismissed the idea that Sen. Lott was a racist, later claimed that his stepping down did not really address the Republican Party’s inherent racism. "Republicans have to prove, not only to us, of course, but to the American people that they are as sensitive to this question of racism, this question of civil rights, this question of equal opportunity, as they say they are," Senator Daschle told CNN. Among high-profile Democrats, Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer offered similar comments.

It’s about time that Republicans quit pussy-footing around on the issue of race. They need to point out that in both principle and practice, the Republican Party has a far better record than the Democrats on race. Even more importantly, they need to stress that on the issues that most affect African-Americans today, the Democratic position represents racism of the most offensive sort—a patronizing racism that denigrates Blacks every bit as badly as the old racism of Jim Crow and segregation.
Republicans can begin by observing that their Party was founded on the basis of principles invoked by Abraham Lincoln. He himself recurred to the principles of the American Founding, specifically the Declaration of Independence, so we can say that the principles of the Republican Party are the principles of the nation. In essence these principles hold that the only purpose of government is to protect the equal natural rights of individual citizens. These rights inhere in individuals, not groups, and are antecedent to the creation of government. They are the rights invoked by the Declaration of Independence—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—not happiness, but the pursuit of happiness.
We should remember that the Republican Party was created in response to a crisis arising from the fact that American public opinion on the issue of slavery had drifted away from the principles of the Founding. While the Founders had tolerated slavery out of necessity, many Americans, especially within the Democratic Party, had come to accept the idea that slavery was a "positive good." While Thomas Jefferson, the founder of what evolved into the Democratic Party, had argued that slavery was bad not only for the slave but also for the slave owner, John C. Calhoun, had turned this principle on its head: slavery was good not only for the slave holder, but also for the slave.
http://ashbrook.org/publications/oped-owens-02-racism/

 

[700UW]

Even his fellow party members are throwing him under the bus

http://www.mysananto...orm-4396087.php

From House Speaker John Boehner to Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn, Republican leaders have condemned and cut loose the veteran GOP lawmaker from the nation's final frontier.

“Congressman Young's remarks were offensive and beneath the dignity of the office he holds,” Boehner said Friday. “I don't care why he said it — there's no excuse and it warrants an immediate apology.”

On Twitter, Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, demanded Young apologize for his comments: “I call on US Rep Young to apologize NOW for using a racial slur about Hispanics. There is no excuse — apologize!”

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[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Anything for votes indeed.

Today DIMocratic Libtards are pushing for gay marriage. Not long ago they were singing a different tune. Be sure to watch the video.

http://news.yahoo.co...--election.html

 

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Republican Senator Rob Portman

http://www.equalityo...news&Itemid=114


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/us/politics/prominent-republicans-sign-brief-in-support-of-gay-marriage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Among them are Meg Whitman, who supported Proposition 8 when she ran for California governor; Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Richard Hanna of New York; Stephen J. Hadley, a Bush national security adviser; Carlos Gutierrez, a commerce secretary to Mr. Bush; James B. Comey, a top Bush Justice Department official; David A. Stockman, President Ronald Reagan’s first budget director; and Deborah Pryce, a former member of the House Republican leadership from Ohio who is retired from Congress.

 

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Even his fellow party members are throwing him under the bus

http://www.mysananto...orm-4396087.php

What would you expect them to do, embrace him?
At least the man made a timely apology.

However, it doesn't seem to work that way in the other party.....seems possily a double standard?

Joe Mitchell, Alabama Democrat, Sends Email Blasting Constituent's 'Slave-Holding, Murdering' Kin

The Alabama conservative blog Yellow Hammer Politics reported that Mitchell, who is black, sent the racially charged email to Alabama resident Eddie Maxwell in January in response to a mass letter Maxwell sent to state legislators demanding they “not violate [their] oath of office by introducing additional gun control bills or by allowing those already enacted to remain in the body of our laws.”
Maxwell responded two weeks later on Feb. 11 and told Mitchell his email was “not the type of reply I expect to receive from a state legislator,” calling Mitchell’s words “especially offensive.” He criticized other members of the Alabama legislature -- who were included as recipients on the full correspondence -- for not speaking out against Mitchell’s email.

“The lack of response to your racist comments from your fellow members speaks volumes about the state of our legislature as a whole,” Maxwell wrote.
Maxwell’s second email prompted Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham) to condemn Mitchell’s remarks, writing to Maxwell that she was “saddened by the tone of my colleague's email.”
Two days later, Mitchell again emailed Maxwell, but offered no apology or acknowledgement of his previous comments.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/joe-mitchell-alabama_n_2966361.html

 

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Republican Senator Rob Portman

http://www.equalityo...news&Itemid=114


http://www.nytimes.c...wanted=all&_r=0

Dr. Paul Kengor on March 28, 2013 ·
Bill and Hillary Clinton have endorsed gay marriage, completely reversing their support of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

Mrs. Clinton calls herself a “progressive.” It’s funny, I wrote an entire book on Hillary Clinton, and never once heard her call herself a “progressive.”

Well, that’s just as well. The progressive tag fits best. After all, that’s what she and other liberals are doing: they are ever evolving, changing, progressing along to something. Their positions are forever in flux, with the only commonality being that they favor more government centralization to handle perceived injustices. The evolution across issues is so vast, so unceasing, that no progressive can tell you where they will stand years from now. They merely know they’re progressing.

The marriage issue is an excellent case in point. No progressive 100 years ago could have conceived of gay marriage. In fact, merely a decade-and-a-half ago, the entirety of the Democratic Party supported traditional marriage, codified under law. And yet, Democrats turned on a dime in faithful obedience to Barack Obama’s mountaintop-message sanctifying gay marriage a year ago.

 

[southwind]

The topic is about politicians and racial slurs.....equal time provisions apply.

Can't handle the truth? Again....

How dare you slander the Libtard/Demorats Liberal/Democrats !

Equal time only applies to the media, not a message board.

Try again and thats only for elections, not news stories.

Looks like we have a new moderator.................watch out Dell !

 

[SparrowHawk]

When it comes to Racism it takes a Liberal Democrat to fully define the word.