Gentlemen, I Believe I Have Ascertained The Empirical Flaw In Your Minority Outreach Extravaganza

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“Well Zandar,” The Universe said. “As a black man active in politics and punditry, why do you believe that the GOP efforts to include more black voters has largely been ineffective?”

“I’m not sure,” I replied. “It may have something to do with nonsense such as this.”

A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as good for African-Americans.

The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.

After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, “why can’t we just have segregation?” noting the Constitution’s protections for freedom of association.

“Well Higgs my bosons!” The Universe stammered, clearly taken aback. “You seem to have a rather valid point there.”

And with that, The Universe slouched off, dejected. I felt badly about the whole affair, but then I remembered that I have food and housing and I’m only metaphorically shackled and beaten for it on a daily basis.


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related:

tweeted by, Ta-Nehisi Coates ?@tanehisi
CPAC defense of slavery at diversity panel, then The National Review runs a piece on black shoe shine dude. http://bit.ly/Zw0NXv

[Le Taz Hot]

1. "My people?"

Oh goddess. :shakeshead: And here I was hoping the "my people" klan would just eventually die off but here's a 30-year-old saying this shit.

[Ikonoklast]

14. It's sads when cousins marry.

[Zorra]

2. GOP philosophy: "I love (name the minority): everybody should own a few."

Thanks. Spreading tidbits like this like this is going to help us trounce the GOP in 2016, and help us make some gains in 2014.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Words fail me.

[Berlum]

4. Republicans are morphing into Totalitarian TeaBaggers

The rot at the core of the Republican soul is oozing its vile pustulent slime to the surface.

What Would Jesus Do? The Real Jesus would blow chunks to see how Republicans have occultly distorted His Sacred Image and Holy Message into their own deranged mind*ckery campaigns of fear and hate and guns and totalitarian control of the human soul.

[xtraxritical]

34. It could easily have been a set-up prank. Even if not, the guy hardly deserves the attention.

[bigtree]

37. Isn't it best

Jeet Heer ?@HeerJeet

@joshtpm Isn't it best to see all of CPAC as a giant and brilliant liberal false flag operation?
Retweeted by Josh Marshall

[Scuba]

40. The cheering too? At a liberal gathering he'd have been loudly booed.

[bluestate10]

50. The "guy" is a very real person who is tracked by the Southern Poverty Law Center,

when that group is on your ass, you have a real race hatred problem or hatred of Jewish people problem.

[rosesaylavee]

5. I am willing to bet that the Koch brothers

are heavily funding this 'Frederick Douglas' Republican character. Apparently, it's mainly this one guy, K. Carl Smith, who is available for events. Here's his page rewriting and twisting history facts: http://frederickdouglassrepublican.com/did-you-know/

Fool.

[SemperEadem]

6. Proof that the tea party/conservatives are racists and approve of this mess

now that this idiot has had his 15 minutes of fame, I wonder what is hiding in his past that will now be combed through by the media? Like outstanding warrants for arrest and the like.

[AlbertCat]

23. Proof that the tea party/conservatives are racists and approve of this mess

You mean:

MORE proof that the tea party/conservatives are racists and approve of this mess.

You don't have to go all the way to "slavery was good for blacks." to see it blatantly displayed.

[SemperEadem]

46. true dat...

[baldguy]

7. Scott Terry should get an award for telling the truth.

Everyone else at CPAC has the same views, but the GOP leadership is thinking of ways to repackage them and cover them up to make them palatable to the mainstream.

[JHB]

8. Check out the related link about the shoe-shine guy...

Dino Wright, manager and owner of the shoe-shine booth, has worked at the hotel since it opened five years ago.

CPAC and events like it boost business for Wright. He says he thinks it’s because he “provides a very important service to this very image-conscious group.”

Wright began shining shoes after the airline he once worked for defaulted on its pension obligations, driving him to find a source of income in retirement.

“I was able to create a pension for myself by creating an entrepreneurial activity,” Wright says. He noticed that fewer people were entering the shoe-shining profession, and “I saw that as an entrepreneurial opportunity” – an ethic that sits well with the CPAC crowd.

(emphasis mine -- JHB)
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343101/putting-shine-cpac-jillian-kay-melchior
via
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/03/15/an-african-american-cpac-can-embrace/

[hatrack]

17. Isn't that sweet! He's 65-70-75-whatever years old, but that entrepreneurial drive hasn't faltered!

IOW, he'll work until he dies because he got fucked by the corporation he once worked for.

Ain't that America, for you and me?

[Doctor_J]

9. black republicans; gay republicans

don't know whether to laugh or cry

[Rozlee]

31. Hispanic Republicans, Asian-Americans Republicans, female Republicans...

...keep laughing and crying.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

10. I know a lot of them actually think that way

but are you sure this guy wasn't a plant?

[AlinPA]

16. I know a lot of republicans. Most of them think and talk that way. Who might have "planted" him?

He is mainstream republican and given the fact that the room was entirely white people, it seems the moderator was the one that was "planted".

[timdog44]

35. Agreed.

K Carl was the plant. Allen West and Clarence Thomas are also plants. The repug way to say "see, we are not racists".

My brother who claims to be an independent, and having voted for Ds once in awhile, says about Allen West "now there is guy I can support" in the same tone people say "I have a black friend".

The whole ordeal was outrageous. I think the astonishment shown by some of the people was that someone would actually say what they all were thinking.

[JHB]

36. No plants, just manure n/t

[Scuba]

41. They cheered. He wasn't booed, contradicted or called "a bit extreme". He was cheered.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

45. Oh I'm sure he's their hero.

I was just saying it could have been someone going for their 15 minutes of fame. ...Or maybe it was one of them telling the truth about what he "thinks".

[mountain grammy]

11. for a second I thought it was my nephew. all those redneck racists look alike.

[WCGreen]

12. Well, at least a lot of people in that room were affended by this ass holes'

statement about the slaves having free room and board...

[tblue37]

44. Yes--did you see the appalled look of WTF on the face

of the young dark-haired woman on the left of the screen whose mouth was hanging open in disbelief the whole time?

[Bibliovore]

13. Actual letter from Frederick Douglass, which he published in the newspaper he founded

Well worth reading.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/02/i-am-your-fellow-man-but-not-your-slave.html

[DebJ]

18. Thanks.!

[treestar]

20. A great read

Also evidence against the claim slaves were cared for in their old age, another one made by these racist right wingers.

[JHB]

22. Also,in Douglass' day, the Republicans were the liberal/left party.

He definitely would not be welcome at CPAC.

[drm604]

39. A wonderful letter.

Thank you!

[yellowcanine]

15. Also "my demographic" meaning "us white young males." They didn't invite Chris Christie but they

let this CSA wannabe guy come in?

[JHB]

19. His demographic is narrower than that...

...one that romanticizes white garments, and I don't mean spats.

[AlbertCat]

21. 30 years old...

What does he know about "separate but equal"? He was born in 1983! Like that "worked" or did anything useful.

What a maroon.

[chervilant]

24. Feels good,

doesn't it? To deride those among us whose lives are marred by various manifestations of racism, an ism many of us diligently deny. And, it becomes a handy rationale for climbing aboard the Verbal Abuse Train (we've all ridden this train -- try not to live in denial...).

So, speaking of my own tendency to indulge in snarks and thinly veiled sarcasm, I've only recently begun to examine this slippery slope that often catapults its denizens into that yawning abyss of verbal bullying. (It's especially apparent in threads about rapists, wherein many gleefully wish upon such damaged humans a 'taste of their own medicine' inside whichever prison they'll eventually inhabit.)

Why not use Satyagraha? Why not put our energy into writing this pitiable racist (envision thousands of such missives) to gently and diplomatically acknowledge their 'ism wound' and recommend various educational resources (Eyes on the Prize, Four Little Girls, etc)?

By example, we can eliminate verbal bullying, and help our children love and support one another, regardless of personal isms.

[W T F]

25. The slave masters gave the slave free food and shelter?.....Who gave the slave masters.......

food and shelter?

[caseymoz]

32. The masters did it themselves, just the way they do now.

And it's through the accidental kindness of their self-interested hearts that they generously fed and sheltered those misguided, ethnically underprivileged slaves.

(for those who don't know.)

[caseymoz]

26. Every decade, Republicans insult African Americans

In the 2000s, the insult was Katrina. Always, Republicans don't comprehend what the insult could have possibly been, they always attribute it to a minor side effect of some higher principle (like Freedom of Association), they always they maintain that racism is dead, and say the very fact that anybody would be insulted shows that some people are trying to revive racism. Which is dead. It's insane enough to be considered a psychiatric disorder.

This has happened since Herbert Hoover with the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 (like Katrina, but hundreds of times worse) alienated the Black vote from the Republicans-- forever. And if African Americans ever begin to think of today's Republicans as the Party that ended slavery, the Republicans always remember to insult them every decade.

If you wonder why Repubs can't appeal minorities, it's because as soon as they do, they'll alienate Whites like the ones covered in that video, who have their principles to defend.

[Yavin4]

27. If this is the modern Republican Conservatism, then it's done.

Sure. In any given presidential election cycle, the Republicans could nominate someone with enough charisma to overcome their out and proud racism and bigotry and win an election.

However, conservatism is becoming more and more about White nationalism, and that is a losing strategy.

[angrychair]

28. I can only know

People based on there words and actions. Given that, in all my daily interactions with coworkers and many family members, over many years, there is very little doubt that to throw in your lot with the gOP defines who you are and where you stand on the issues as much as being a liberal defines who I am. If you stand with the gOP you are defining yourself as a racist and a misogynist.

[1monster]

29. Let us supply this young ignoramous with a quote from another prominent 19th Century

figure:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth and remove all doubt."

Because he left no doubt at all about his foolihsness or his racism.

[pinto]

30. Wow.

Just wow.

[modrepub]

33. Many Slave Owners

felt similarly after emancipation. They felt that they had provided for all of their slaves and they would therefore gladly stay where they were and work for their new masters albeit under different circumstances. Surprisingly many slaves just up and left not for any particular reason other then for the first time in their lives they could freely go where they pleased.

[drm604]

38. Let's just call it KKKPAC.

Wouldn't that be accurate?

[Scuba]

42. America will be a better place when my generation is gone.

[nadinbrzezinski]

49. He is younger tan either you or me

Just saying...

[napkinz]

43. Wow!

Just speechless.

[Iris]

47. Disgusting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

48. My people are getting disenfranchised

If you mean racist fucks living in the 19th century...yup.

[shenmue]

51. Wow. Wow!

My head asplode.