CPAC Participant Defends Slavery At Minority Outreach Panel: It Gave ‘Food And Shelter’ To Blacks

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Source: Think Progress

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — 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. Watch it:

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/03/15/1729331/cpac-slavery-minority-outreach/


More on the event from TPM:

A CPAC session sponsored by Tea Party Patriots and billed as a primer on teaching activists how to court black voters devolved into a shouting match as some attendees demanded justice for white voters and others shouted down a black woman who reacted in horror.

The session, entitled “Trump The Race Card: Are You Sick And Tired Of Being Called A Racist When You Know You’re Not One?” was led by K. Carl Smith, a black conservative who mostly urged attendees to deflect racism charges by calling themselves “Frederick Douglass Republicans.”

Disruptions began when he started accusing Democrats of still being the party of the Confederacy — a common talking point on the right.

“I don’t care how much the KKK improved,” he said. “I’m not going to join the KKK. The Democratic Party founded the KKK.”

Lines like that drew shouts of praise from some attendees and murmurs of disapproval from one non-conservative black attendee, Kim Brown, a radio host and producer with Voice of Russia, a broadcasting service of the Russian government.

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/tea-party-event-on-racial-tolerance-turns-to-chaos-as-white-supremacists-arrive.php

[tavernier]

1. I worked for a southern lady

who opined that our country would have turned out much the same if the south had won the war, because most slave owners had already given their slaves their freedom, and the freed slaves were happily working for wages on same plantations, often having been absorbed as members of the family.

I could almost picture the bluebird sitting on Uncle Remus' shoulder as she spun her tale.



Yep, she was a republican.

[exboyfil]

2. You mean forgive him for

forceably separating him from his mother and grandmother?
Being passed around like a piece of furniture from one owner to the next?
Trying to prevent him from learning to read and write?
Preventing him from teaching other slaves to read and write?
Giving him to a known slave abuser to be broken? Someone who beat him until he fought back.

Not being able to leave to be with the woman he loved? Not having his labor be his own.

Are people really that stupid?

Hey but the grits and cornbread was tasty and he had a roof over his head.

[Sunlei]

3. Republicans got the party they deserved when early on they let those politicans get away with

those horrible, horrible emails. Remember those? the pictures of the white house with watermelons, the bone in the nose picture, the pray the president dies emails, and the others. They even funded the kkk and the JBS. Let kochs JBS set-up a booth at their first primary and sponser!! the venue.

Damn it what did the republican party expect when they didn't stand up and condem that crap. They emboldened their own parties race haters and nazis, whored themselves for votes. Losers!! you fed those cockroaches and that doomed your party. May as well run Mr. slut Rush or Koch for President at this point, you'll lose anyway.

[CosmicDustBunny]

4. The collective IQ in that room is smaller than my shoe size.