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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Let's just call them "The Confederate Party" from now on, shall we?
Posted by Jill | 7:03 PM
I never would have dreamed that the Republican Party would ever embrace its own racism this openly. Not even Lee Atwater, the architect of the Willie Horton ads who played blues guitar with B.B. King at George W.H. Bush's inaugural ball, would have advocated this:

It's now becoming clear that there is a good-sized contingent of Republicans who are openly defending Chip Saltsman, the former Tennessee GOP chairman and candidate for RNC chair who sent out a CD to committee members that includes a parody song called "Barack The Magic Negro."


• Mike Huckabee, for whom Saltsman served as campaign manager, has chimed in to defend Saltsman against the charge of racism, while at the same time acknowledging that "Chip should have been more careful" in picking the CD. "It shouldn't be the main factor in the RNC race," Huckabee wrote on his blog.


• Another person defending Saltsman has been Mark Ellis, the GOP state chairman in Maine -- not the sort of place you would automatically expect someone to stick up for this: "When I found out what this was about I had to ask, 'Boy, what's the big deal here?' because there wasn't any."


• "I don't think he intended it as any kind of racial slur. I think he intended it as a humor gift," said Oklahoma committeewoman Carolyn McClarty. "I think it was innocently done by Chip."



"A humor gift." Can you believe it? Next thing they're going to say that because Richard Pryor used the word "n----r", it means that a bunch of Southern White Men who believe in flying the Confederate flag can do it too.

I say let them stop even this amount of nicety and say what they really think of the President-elect. Because after a fall campaign in which "terrorist" and "terrorist sympathizer" and "exotic" and "that one" were all used as euphemisms for "n----r", why are they even trying to be genteel anymore? Let 'em put on their fucking hoods and burn crosses and be done with it already. It's not as if they're fooling us as to what they really are.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Call them what they are. Whiny boring, trite, insecure, useless, over grown juvenile white assholes who can not function in the 21st century. It's more accurate.
12/30/08, 11:04 PM  
Blogger Chuck Butcher said...
In from Jon Swift - Feminism post. The song might be funny on an elementary playground, but its childishness isn't just about race, it is that limited intellectual capacity to recognize its childishness that is telling. It is reflected in the magic thinking of supply side economics and a whole lot of other issues. The song isn't offensive in their world because they don't want it to be, just as their failures for the most basic needs of the citizenry aren't the fault of their policies - they don't want it to be so.

I titled my rant "Confederate Party of Republicanism" so I guess we're thinking a bit alike.
12/31/08, 2:53 AM  
Blogger Bob said...
They are uncomprehending about the demographics of Obama's decisive victory. First night of Repug convention, a delegate wearing crazy hat - an Obama doll in the jaws of an alligator, clear reference to an old racist joke. This election was the majority of Americans electing a black man named Barack Hussein Obama. You'd think they'd get the message: No more alligator hats.
12/31/08, 5:01 PM  
Blogger Phil said...
Happy New Year to ya Darlin'.

Busted
1/1/09, 12:08 AM  
Blogger jurassicpork said...
Don't think just because Maine's in New England that there aren't racists there, too. I lived there so I know them. Maine is just Mississippi with potatoes. And it's almost all white people. Brain damaged, Pepperidge Farms-sounding white people.
1/1/09, 11:57 AM  
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