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Civil Rights Leader Blasts Dean for 'N'-word Fund Raiser (It's about time!)
Newsmax ^ | 12/19/03

Posted on 12/19/2003 1:43:51 PM PST by areafiftyone

A Washington, D.C.-based civil rights leader is blasting Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean for presiding over a fund raiser where blacks were derided as "n----rs," a gay female referred to as "a big lezzie" and presidential rival Joe Lieberman made fun of for being an Orthodox Jew.

"These bigoted and racist attacks upon the Jewish, African-American and Gay Communities for profit are a disgrace and have no place in American politics," complained Kevin Martin, political director of the African-American Republican Leadership Council.

"Howard Dean has shown he is a candidate for racial division and hatred and his supporters are nothing more than the new century's Ku Klux Klan," Martin continued.

Martin's complaint comes as Dean's fellow Democrats, including rival Al Sharpton, have yet to express any outrage over the ugly incident, which took place last Monday and went unnoticed until the New York Post revealed the details this week.

As part of the evening's entertainment, "comedian David Cross used the N-word for blacks in a disjointed 'joke,'" reported the paper's Washington Bureau chief, Deborah Orin.

"Sandra Bernhard insulted Condoleezza Rice in racial terms with a 'Yes Massa' accent at another Dean fundraiser the same night. ... "

Slurs and profanity seemed to be the order of the evening, as Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary was derided as "a big lezzie" and President Bush was slammed as 'this piece of living, breathing s---.'"

Dean later described the language as "wrong," adding that he didn't have "much tolerance for ethnic humor."

But the top Democrat's comments did little to assuage Mr. Martin, who observed, "Howard Dean's campaign has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Robert Byrd wing of the Democrat Party is alive and well."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; aarlc; dean; fundraiser; howarddean; kevinlmartin; nword; slur
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To: expatpat
Give the difference between peripheral vision and tunnel vision a thought! Why it is good to have both!
61 posted on 12/20/2003 11:01:52 AM PST by Chapita
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To: Crow357
Demos always get lenient treatment when they show their racist colors.

The thing is the pinko doctor probably isn't a racist; I read that he was fuming backstage. What did he say when he came out? He just said he didn't have much tolerance for ethnic humor, and this chicken $hit sob wants to be President. And to think I was once (43 years ago) a democrat.

62 posted on 12/20/2003 5:18:13 PM PST by Rider on the Rain
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To: rdb3
Considering that we have not yet heard-nor will we ever hear- from the Usual Suspects (Kwesi Mfume, Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Al Shapton, etc.), you know the old Black Democratic Double Standard is at work on this issue; the Blacks being insulted are Condeleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and Rod Paige, who are regarded as having sold their birthrights to the Evil Bush Empire, so are not 'really' Black at all.

-Regards, T.
63 posted on 12/22/2003 6:28:29 PM PST by T Lady (Who Let the 'RATS Out?!!)
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