It "went on the wrong email"....
I saw this via the good folks at CrooksAndLiars.com, a website everyone should read, IMO.
First of all, for those of you about to come at me with the “isolated incident” and “don’t judge that entire party by the behavior of a few of its members” and “But Michael Steele is black!” arguments: you can just stow the bullshit right now. This is the legacy of the GOP’s famous “Southern Strategy” of the last forty years.
This is not an isolated incident. From the past year alone:
- Just last week, Longtime South Carolina GOP activist and former state Senate candidate Rusty DePass made a post on Facebook referring to an escaped gorilla as one of Michelle Obama’s ancestors (this was in reply to a friend’s post of a local news story).
- Last fall there was the now-infamous “blackbird flyer“ that the Tennessee GOP claimed to know nothing about (even though the words “Paid for by the Tennesee Republican Party” appeared in nice, big, easy-to-read letters on the flyer)
- Also last fall: Sen. George Allen’s “macaca” comment
- Also last fall: David Storck of the Florida GOP forwarding an e-mail warning of “carloads of black Obama supporters coming in from the inner city to cast their votes” (which actually might have been okay if the writer had gone to say “…and carloads of white Obama supporters carpooling in from the suburbs!” That would have been both accurate and a little funny)
- The NRCC intentionally darkening photos of candidate Ashwin Madia (f0rmerly of the U.S. Marine Corps and a veteran of the Iraq War) in their fall attack ads.
- Georgia GOP Rep. Lynn Westmoreland calling the Obamas “uppity“.
- Chip Saltman’s “Barack the Magic Negro” CD from last Christmas
- To0m Tancredo boycotting the Univision debates because some of the audience members are naturalized American citizens who still speak only Spanish
- And my personal favorite, Sen. John McCain accusing Obama of playing the race card.
This is all on top of such actions as making established racist senator Jeff Sessions the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the recent efforts by the California GOP to resurrect Proposition 187 (blaming illegal aliens for the state’s economic problems is a California tradition), and the simple fact that when you turned on coverage of the GOP’s convention last year, you realized just how white the party of Lincoln has become: out of 2300 delegates, only 36 were African American.
Did the party leadership really believe that they could appeal to America’s racist fucks without actually becoming racist fucks themselves? Forty years of exploiting racism makes you racist, period–no matter what political payoff is. You lay down with dogs, you’re gonna get up with fleas.
