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WaPo's Eugene Robinson: I Wish the Republican Party Could Not Be Racist
Breitbart ^ | March 18, 2015 | Trent Baker

Posted on 03/18/2015 11:40:17 AM PDT by Rufus2007

NASHVILLE, TN — On Tuesday, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson spoke at Impact Symposium at Vanderbilt University on the topic of “How You See It: Perceptions of (In)Equality.”

Robinson commented on the Republicans opposing President Barack Obama and their perception of being racist for doing so.

“I have written in my column, actually, that I wish there were a Republican Party that would actually go after African-American votes and like, not be racist,” he said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; blackkk; demagogicparty; election2016; eugenerobinson; gop; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; racism; vanderbiltu; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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This is straight out of Rules for Radicals -- six years after our "messiah" was inaugurated.
1 posted on 03/18/2015 11:40:17 AM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

They are becoming more brazen ...


2 posted on 03/18/2015 11:41:41 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Rufus2007

And wish you weren’t a dickweed.


3 posted on 03/18/2015 11:41:42 AM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

Well said.


4 posted on 03/18/2015 11:42:52 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Nachum

I wish there was a finite number of race cards in these clueless POS scum’s deck...


5 posted on 03/18/2015 11:43:32 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: Rufus2007

6 posted on 03/18/2015 11:43:37 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Rufus2007

When are these people going to be sent out into media oblivion. The fact that they are given a forum is sick.


7 posted on 03/18/2015 11:44:00 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: BunnySlippers

THE REAL HISTORY OF THE PARTY OF SLAVERY, THE KKK AND THE ABORTION OF BLACK BABIES

KKK Terrorist Arm of the Democratic Party

"Those who ignore history are damned to repeat it" George Santayana

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party (From Black Republican Woman)

Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,

"We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600's 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that:

(a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854,

(b) fought to free African Americans from slavery,

(c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,

(d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote,

(e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations,

(f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws,

(g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and

(h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War, Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was "stolen" from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the "Miami Herald" and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party's soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party's heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.

8 posted on 03/18/2015 11:44:23 AM PDT by Dqban22
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To: Rufus2007

I wish Eugene Robinson(and others in the MSM) did not constantly accuse people they has never met and know nothing about of being racist.

A broken record is less predictable than this jerk.


9 posted on 03/18/2015 11:45:20 AM PDT by detective
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The Democrats are the party of the KKK, Confederacy, Jim Crow, segregation, George Wallace, Bull Conner, the Knights of the Golden Circle, Robert Byrd, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, etc. and the REPUBLICANS are racist? Hahahahaha!


10 posted on 03/18/2015 11:45:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Rufus2007

I wish Eugene wasn’t a moron.


11 posted on 03/18/2015 11:46:16 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Rufus2007

#TalkRacism


12 posted on 03/18/2015 11:46:26 AM PDT by McGruff (Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.)
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I Wish Eugene Robinson Could Not Be a Communist.


13 posted on 03/18/2015 11:46:58 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Bush / Clinton 2016! Clinton / Bush 2020! Uniparty Forever!)
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To: Rufus2007

Racism was a minimal problem until scammers like Robinson started playing the Race Card at every opportunity. That Card is now way over its limit, so Robinson’s comments deserve to be greeted with general hilarity.


14 posted on 03/18/2015 11:48:24 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Rufus2007
As long as they absolutely REFUSE to see the REAL reason Republicans and Conservatives oppose 0bama, they will always chalk it up to racism.
They miss the mark every time but continue to play smug while we just shake our heads and wonder how on earth they don't get it.

15 posted on 03/18/2015 11:50:16 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Dqban22

Bookmarked , cut and pasted to send to these libtard stenographers.


16 posted on 03/18/2015 11:51:15 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The Democrats are the party of the KKK, Confederacy, Jim Crow, segregation, George Wallace, Bull Conner, the Knights of the Golden Circle, Robert Byrd, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, etc. and the REPUBLICANS are racist? Hahahahaha!”

THE party which “RULED FOR DECADES” Deeeetroit,Garrry,Cheekawgo...Atlanta....etc etc and countless other FAILED entities/ city/county/state etc and now have a CNC ( Commie in Charge) in Washington .....


17 posted on 03/18/2015 11:53:39 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: Rufus2007

There are more communists and racists in the Democrat Party. By far.


18 posted on 03/18/2015 11:54:28 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici ( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
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To: Rufus2007

“go after African-American votes”


Isn’t that statement in and of itself “racist”?
Are these votes of a different race or something?
I’ve never seen a space on the ballot to mark “race”.


19 posted on 03/18/2015 11:55:10 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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Thats red meat for the ‘no viewers’ cable politics channel.

Good thing their whole audience is about 10K (liberal) black women.


20 posted on 03/18/2015 11:56:06 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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