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"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?
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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
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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 Bushs 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.
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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.
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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".
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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"
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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"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."
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