Longtime Lindsey Graham advisor ripped MLK as editor of neo-Confederate magazine
Source: Raw Story
Longtime Lindsey Graham advisor ripped MLK as editor of neo-Confederate magazine
Arturo Garcia
11 Mar 2015 at 23:07 ET
A longtime advisor and pollster for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized civil rights heroes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela during his tenure as the editor-in-chief for a neo-Confederate magazine, Buzzfeed reported on Wednesday.
“Ignoring the real heroes in our nation’s life, the blacks have chosen a man who represents not their emancipation, not their sacrifices and bravery in service to their country,” Richard Quinn said about King in a column for the Southern Partisan in 1983. “Rather, they have chosen a man whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul.”
Seven years later, Quinn questioned in a column whether Americans were aware that Mandela was a “bad egg.”
“After all, Mr. Mandela was put in jail 27 years ago – not because of his humanitarian philosophy – but because he was a terrorist who openly advocated (and personally committed) violence against the government,” he wrote.
However, Quinn — whose consulting firm received $200,000 from Graham during the last election cycle — has since disavowed both those columns and the magazine’s viewpoints, telling Buzzfeed that he “wrote some things on the wrong side of history.”
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Richard Quinn was discussed at DU during John McCain's presidential campaign:
hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-21-08 04:17 PM
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Quinn the non-Eskimo: McCain's racist advisor
from Monday's Liberal Oasis
http://www.liberaloasis.com /
"Today, McCain is in Selma in a high-profile attempt to reach out to African-American voters and show that he rejects the racism that has been prevalent in the Republican Party -- as he did earlier when he apologized for previously opposing a Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.
Yet one of his long-time "senior political consultants" is Richard Quinn, long-time head of the racist Southern Partisan Quarterly Review. That's a far closer tie than what Obama has to Ayers.
According to the blog Anti-Neo-Confederate, Quinn was still listed as the owner of the magazine as recently as 2005.
McCain's employment of Quinn was raised in his 2000 presidential campaign. Quinn was editor-in-chief of Southern Partisan at that point, though he tried to downplay his role ..."
"In 2000, People For American Way called on McCain to fire Quinn, listing his disparaging of Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist," his promotion of David Duke ("What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?"and his selling of t-shirts praising Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
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Who are "The Blacks"? Are they really "Black" or shades of Brown? 
If you did not know, it was hard to continue reading Graham's advisory dibble beyond "The Blacks" as remaining paragraphs were not worth a moment of my time.
