Josh Marshall: When The GOP Told Whitey I Aint Gonna Take It No More

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When The GOP Told Whitey I Aint Gonna Take It No More

When The GOP Told Whitey I Aint Gonna Take It No More
Josh Marshall March 16, 2013, 2:51 PM 798


Yesterday, a CPAC breakout session on reaching out to black voters broke down in shouting and acrimony as a handful of ‘disenfranchised whites’ attacked the premise of the session (along with black complaints about slaveholders), got into a verbal fight with a black female attendee and with all that managed to unite the crowd against the black woman as the one who somehow spoiled all the fun.

TPM’s Benjy Sarlin was there right as it was all happening and wrote this eye-popping account in more or less real time. (If you’ve already read Benjy’s piece definitely also check out fellow TPM scribe Pema Levy’s companion piece just filed this morning on her effort to find out from CPACers why they think Romney lost.)

Already this morning, I’ve watched on twitter the birth of a mini-conspiracy theory that the slavery defenders were liberal agents provocateurs, presumably sent by whoever sent Todd Akin and the rest of the plants who now are ruining the conservative brand.

But the bigger thing coming out of this raucous event isn’t what the one or two people said — though that was probably enough to be the takeaway for many for the entire conference — as the fact that the whole imbroglio ended with denunciations of the black woman who was the one person to go into freak out mode — pretty understandably — on hearing the merits of chattel slavery being argued in the 21st century at a panel on racial tolerance and outreach. (And I’m using ‘freak out mode’ here in the most positive sense.) And that, I think, goes to the heart of the enterprise, this panel, itself.

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http://editors.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/03/yesterday_a_cpac_breakout_session.php?ref=fpblg

Benjy Sarlin's account here:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/tea-party-event-on-racial-tolerance-turns-to-chaos-as-white-supremacists-arrive.php?ref=fpa

[pacalo]

1. Mr. Smith conveniently left out that those "Democrats" who founded the KKK

are now Republicans!

[JHB]

2. Exactly. The Dixiecrats have become Dixiepublicans.

They also forget that in the days of Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, the Republicans were what we would call a liberal/left party.