"The actions they've taken haven't reflected the message they should be representing. I don't feel they're in the best interest of the conservative movement," Ritsko said. "It's unfortunate, and I hope both parties will be able to settle their disputes."
Jason Covener, the former USG member who dressed as Morgan, said that while he thinks some of the costumes in question were in poor taste, group members did nothing "beyond the realm of legality."
"There's no way I'm going to apologize," he said.
This is where the weak get separated from the strong, the sissies from the men.
I wouldn't apologize, either.
I would like to know, however, whether Battaglia posted the party pictures on his website (I presume his own, personal website) for the benefit of his friends so that they could view images taken at a private party, or whether he posted them with full knowledge that they would likely be viewed by members of the general public.
In other words, was he looking for a fight?
Whether one is weak or strong is irrelevent. What matters is whether they are right or wrong. The strong thing to do, if you are wrong, is to appologize. It takes more guts to admit you are wrong than it does to deny you were wrong. Do you really think pictures of white people in black face mocking blacks or joking about the KKK really has a place in the Republican Party of the 21st Century? Black people are not going to magically disappear from the United States and the more that conservatives do to alienate them, the less likely it is that they'll escape the spiral of poverty and crime that is not only a problem for blacks but for all Americans. Are there bigotted blacks? Sure there are. But the answer is not to show how bigotted whites can be in return. Attack ideas, not race.