Posted on 03/05/2005 6:31:00 PM PST by wagglebee
The brother of civil rights icon Medgar Evers is calling on Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean to resign for suggesting that minorities generally work in professions like maids and bellboys.
Speaking at Mississippi's Jackson State University College last week, Charles Evers said: "The Democratic Party [should] do the same thing to Dean that Republicans and other Democrats did to Senator Lott. Ask him to step down, because he's the wrong man for the position." Evers was reacting to Dean's comments last month to the Congressional Black Caucus, where he joked: "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had hotel staff in here."
Evers, a member of the Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, elaborated on his call for Dean's resignation on Thursday.
"As a black man, I resent anyone who says anything about us as a race," he told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "When are we going to learn to become Americans? When are we going to learn to respect Republicans and Democrats as human beings and not as black or white?"
Evers' brother Medgar became the civil rights movement's first martyr after he was assassinated in 1963 while working as the NAACP's first field coordinator in Mississippi.
lmao
Are the Rats still stashing him in the attic like some crazy uncle who puts lampshades on his head at parties, so you coop him up to avoid embarassment?
Dean is just helping the Democrats get in touch with their historically racist roots.
This piece of low class Democrat "Traitor" vermin (Howard Dean) will not even appear on TV network or cable news/talk shows. The Democrats are keeping this malcontent misfit in the closet!!! They are ashamed of him, and frightened of what will come out of his mouth!!!
We can't count our blessing too many times with this guy. What a loser.
LOL! Howling Mad Howard Dean, shooting from the lip and thinking he's hip.
Get rid of Dean, ... Nah, putting Dean in such a position is one of the better decissions those DUmies have made to make sure that they keep on digging their own hole.
Less than a month and he has already put his foot in his mouth!
This is gonna be great! (*gets popcorn*)
In 2000, it was "we wuz robbed in Florida." In 2004, it was "we wuz robbed in Ohio." Until the party suffers a lopsided defeat along the lines of McGovern in 1972, they will continue to cling to the hope that the American people support their message, they just haven't found the right way to present it.
It's almost funny, to the point of being ludicrous, that Lott lost his Sen Maj post for being kind to an aged man who once supported segregation while a senator, who was a kleagle with the KKK, still holds his seat in the Senate?
To play Devil's Advocate here, I think what Dean was trying to say is that the only position the GOP would allow blacks to be in is the hired help.
Of course I'm not crying that he's coming off looking like the loon he is.
Robert Byrd may be able to help Hateful Howard get a top quality Klan robe.
Indeed it is. I cannot fathom why the DNC was did not triangulate back to the DLC for leadership, but I am certainly happy at their bold move to the left under the amazing guidance of Governor Dean.
In fact, it downright tickles me that they have made the most progressive move possible short of nominating Mayor Dennis Kucinich or the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Oh man I hope they don't throw dr.dean away yet. At least let him make it to the ,06 election cycle . I don't give him much more than that . But I hope . Oh I hope. Dean can split the ,08 ticket if anybody can.
Sen. Lott nominates Howard Johnson Dean for President.
>>>>>I think what Dean was trying to say is that the only position the GOP would allow blacks to be in is the hired help. <<<<<<<<<<<<
uh duh, calling Condi Rice, Doctor Rice as Sec of State is a fine example of GOP progressive politics.
Dean's comment reflects the view of R. Byrd and the demofrantic party
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