Missouri Democrats place race baiting billboard, then say "Who, me?"

Ramblings' Journal / Project 21 ^ | 5.22.04 | Michael King

[mhking]

Democrats in Missouri actually have the gall to insist that a new campaign billboard is not "race baiting."

The billboard, pictured here, has a black man's face dourfully looking out next to the words "Missouri Republicans have a plan. You are not a part of it." -- all of this is splashed across an American Flag graphic.

Now I've been called naive, I've been called gullible, and I've been called a lot of other things that I won't print nor say in mixed company in my years. But I'm not so dim as to believe that this is not meant to be racially driven.

Missouri Democrats insist that this is not the case.

“We stand very much with what's behind the billboard,” said the Democratic Party's executive director, Jim Kottmeyer. “It has nothing to do with race.”

The same message, he said, applies to other groups, such as young people and seniors. “They do have a plan,” he said of Missouri Republicans. “Average Missourians are not part of it.”

Viacom rejected the billboards when presented to them earlier this year, saying the campaign did not meet their company standards. Translation: They could see that this was meant as pure race-baiting.

A different billboard company, Waitt, placed the billboard near 14th Street and Troost Avenue in Kansas City. Presently, it is the only one in the state of Missouri.

“Even after they were rejected by one of the state's largest advertisers, Democrats continued to press forward with a campaign that targets African-Americans in a hateful and vile manner,” said Ann Wagner, chairwoman of the Missouri Republican Party.

Anything to keep blacks on the intellectual and ideologocial plantation. Of course, it also serves to continue the vilification of conservatives, black and otherwise, not only in Missouri, but across the nation.

[mhking]

Heads up -- I'll get the ping list on this after I get home.

[Southack]

Republicans appointed Powell, Powell, Paige, and Rice to top-level federal positions; Democrats can't even put two Blacks onto Senator Kerry's campaign staff (even Donna Brazille is left out in the cold in favor of lily-White shrum).
Democrats let lily-White Pelosi steal Black Harold ford's House Minority Leadership role.
Democrats let lily-White MacAuliffe steal Maynard Jackson's DNC leadership role.
Republicans favor faith-based charities; Democrats oppose them.
Republicans favor private scholarships for inner city minority youths; Democrats oppose them.
Blacks and Republicans are overwhelmingly pro-life; Democrats are officially pro-abortion.

Faced with being anti-Black on almost every major issue, Democrats know that they have to play the race card, i.e. go on the offensive, in order to maintain their current support among American Blacks.

This billboard is part of that offensive.

[tkathy]

Let the demagoguery begin.

[rj45mis]

Too bad I can't intellectually say that this is unbelievable. I want Willie to see what his boys in Missouri are up to.

[tioga]

-that billboard shows the hate the democrats possess. It is pure negative advertising with no plan of their own.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I don't know who owns the Wiatt signboard company, but I'm about to find out.

[Hotdog]

WOW!...talk about desperation...whew...Dem's a stooping lower than Hell!

[Hotdog]

"I don't know who owns the Wiatt signboard company, but I'm about to find out."



Hey...let us know when you find out...this could be fun!

[Darth Reagan]

I'd nominate your post for best of the month, if there's such a thing.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Man, just when you think they can't go any lower....this is disgraceful.

Anyone who says this is NOT race-baiting is either ignorant or hopes you are. In the black community (at least in Washington, DC - there have been many articles about it over the years) there has always been talk of "the plan" that white people have to basically put black people back into slavery. The word "plan" in this context is totally loaded and targeted to blacks, clearly designed to remind black Missourians that Republicans are "out to get them." Of course, we should not be surprised to see this in the state that gave us Lacy Clay and his St. Louis machine that nearly stole the election from George W. Bush and did steal the Senate seat from John Ashcroft, with the last minute court filing by a dead man to keep the polls open, the late-night recorded phone calls from Jesse Jackson, ad nauseam. They must be really scared about the 2004 election to have started this so soon and in such a blatant manner. Sadly, it will probably work.

We need to call the national Democrat party on this and force them to repudiate it and order it removed.

[Republicus2001]

if 14th and Troost Streets are near Martin Luther King Blvd. then they are simple LIARS

[Thinkin' Gal]

Another billboard ought to go up right next to it. It should have the same images, only it would read:

Missouri Democrats have a plantation

And you are part of it.

[Sir Gawain]

lol

[jojodamofo]

I am printing that picture out in case I ever hear another colored Dem use the words "Willie Horton." Talk about race-baiting!!

[SoDak]

I can't be totally sure, but I think that Waitt billboards are owned by Norm Waitt Jr., the brother and co-founder of Gateway exec Ted Waitt. I would expect as much from Waitt, that he wouldn't have a problem with this. Waitts give a lot of dollars to libs.

[SoDak]

See above.

http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/54/2002/LIR.jhtml?passListId=54&passYear=2002&passListType=Person&uniqueId=RNKE&datatype=Person

[FrankR]

"We stand very much with what's behind the billboard,” said the Democratic Party's executive director, Jim Kottmeyer. “It has nothing to do with race."

Well, of course they STAND behind it, but it has EVERYTHING to do with RACE.

Another case of democRATs peeing on our shoes and telling us "it's raining"....

[BARLF]

Bless you Southack, your fact sheets are great!

[livius]

Incredible.

Well, alas, not incredible, but pretty disgusting nonethelesss.