~Donna Brazil, Al Gore’s presidential campaign
manager, called Republicans “white boys” who aim to
“exclude, denigrate and leave behind.” And, when the
Washington Post asked Brazil what she would do for the
Gore campaign, her response was that she was there to
ensure that the campaign and election did not fall into
the hands of “white boys.”
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Racist Liberals? Go Figure
by Lana Hampton
Trent Lott’s nostalgic words at a birthday celebration for
Strom Thurmond plunged him in a lot of hot water and
led him to eventually step down from his position of
Senate Majority Leader. Several Republican leaders
denounced Lott’s statements and some Democrats, as
usual, called the Republican party, a party of racists.
The Democrats, however, are not in a position to cast
stones.
Here is a compilation of racist statements made by
prominent liberals:
~Ex-Klansman, Senator Robert Byrd used the term “white
nigger” on Tony Snow’s Fox News Sunday.
~During a speech, Democrat Lieutenant Governor,
Cruz Bustamante, used the N–Word.
~Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) told reporters on
December 14, 1993, that he attended international
summits alongside “these potentates from down in
Africa.” He continued, saying, “rather than eating each
other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal
in Geneva.” Senator Hollings also held out for keeping
the confederate flag flying over the state capitol. In
1960 Hollings “warned today that South Carolina would
not permit ‘explosive’ manifestations in connection with
Negro demands for lunch-counter services.”
~New York City Councilman Charles Barron told a
crowd at the Millions for Reparations March in
Washington D.C. that he wished his goal of seeing
blacks compensated for the enslavement of their
ancestors was closer to fruition. He said, “I want to go
up to the closest white person and say:’You can’t
understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just
for my mental health.”
~Donna Brazil, Al Gore’s presidential campaign
manager, called Republicans “white boys” who aim to
“exclude, denigrate and leave behind.” And, when the
Washington Post asked Brazil what she would do for the
Gore campaign, her response was that she was there to
ensure that the campaign and election did not fall into
the hands of “white boys.”
~ Senator Dodd (D-CT) made these remarks during a
tribute to Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV): “It has often been
said that the man and the moment come together. I do
not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend
from West Virginia that he would have been a great
Senator at any moment. Some were right for the time.
Robert C. Byrd, in my view, would have been right at
any time.” Tom Daschle (D-SD) defended Dodd’s
comments, which sounded an awful lot like the
comments made by Senator Lott.
~Jesse Jackson, who misses few opportunities to expose
racism in others, referred to New York City as
“hymietown.”
~Jackson’s buddy, Al Sharpton, was a central figure in
fanning the 1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob
killed an innocent Jewish man. In addition to that,
Sharpton also initiated a 1995 protest of a Jewish owned
store in Harlem where protesters used several anti-
Semitic slurs.
~Bill Clinton was among three state officials in Arkansas,
in 1989, who were sued under the federal Voting Rights
Act of 1965. “Plaintiffs offered plenty of proof of
monolithic voting along racial lines, intimidation of black
voters and candidates, and other official acts that made
voting harder for blacks,” according to the Arkansas
Gazette, “The evidence at the trial was indeed
overwhelming that the Voting Rights Act had been
violated.”
During Clinton’s 12-year tenure as Governor, he never
approved a state civil rights law.
Bill Clinton admired Oral Eugene Faubus, whose claim to
fame was trying to bar nine black children from
attending Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957.
Clinton was also a friend of William Fulbright, a
segregationist who signed the Southern Manifesto,
which denounced the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board
of Education decision. Clinton referred to Fulbright as
“my mentor, a visionary, a humanitarian.”
~Democratic National Chairman, Terry McAuliffe used
the term “colored people” in a speech soon after
becoming DNC chief. And I thought liberals were
progressive.
~San Francisco Democrat, Mayor Willie Brown, after
winning the 1995 election said, “The white boys got
taken fair and square.”
~Apparently Spike Lee has a problem with interracial
couples as he has stated that, “I give interracial couples
a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they
see me on the street.”
~Dan Rather, having avoided covering a story on
Condaleeza Rice, eventually did the story, saying that
CBS “got the Buckwheats,” suggesting that CBS was
afraid not to cover the story because the other networks
were covering it.
~Andrew Cuomo found himself in an uncomfortable
position when he said that voting for his rival for the New
York Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Carl McCall,
who is black, would make for a “racial contract”
between black and Hispanic Democrats “and that can’t
happen.” Cuomo eventually dropped out of the race
for governor.
~Former Democratic Minority Leader in the U.S. House
of Representatives, Dick Gephardt, gave several
speeches to a now defunct white supremacist
organization called the Metro South Citizens Council.
Gephardt also asked the group for an endorsement of
his candidacy.
~Regarding Clarence Thomas and Affirmative Action,
Maureen Dowd insults Thomas’ accomplishments by
writing, “It makes him crazy that people think he is where
he is because of his race, but he is where he is because
of his race.” Is Dowd saying that without Affirmative
Action, blacks are incapable of accomplishing anything
great or is she saying that all whites are racist and
therefore would never have given Thomas a chance?
It may be one thing for a conservative to point all of
these things out, but there are some black Democrats
who have accused their own party of racism. Says
Baltimore Democrat, Tony E. Fulton, “They really don’t
care about us. We are used every four years, then
thrown back.” Black conservatives have been pointing
that out for years.
Dereck E. Davis, of Prince George, Maryland, is
chairman of the Economic Matters Committee.
According to Davis, “The state party is racist to the
core.” And Nathaniel T. Oaks, a Baltimore Democratic
Delegate, remarked, “I think the Democratic Party takes
black people for granted.”
The above are all fairly recent incidents, but racism in
the Democratic Party stems back to prior to the Civil
War. The Republican party was created in response to
a growing number of Americans who were against
slavery. Thomas Jefferson, and others with the same
philosophy, that slavery was a “positive good,” founded
the Democratic Party.
Following the war, Democrats continued to fight against
equal rights for blacks, eventually defeating
Reconstruction and implementing Jim Crow. During the
1920s, Republicans repeatedly called for anti-lynching
legislature that was opposed by Democrats.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt did his part to continue the
trend of Democratic racism. In addition to the
Japanese Internment situation, Roosevelt is also
responsible for appointing two notorious segregationists
to the U.S. Supreme Court - Jimmy Byrnes and Hugo
Black.
Hugo Black, a former Democrat Senator from Alabama
had a long history of hate group activism. He was a
member of the Ku Klux Klan and became famous for
defending Klansmen under prosecution for racial
murders.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 got more support from
Republicans than from Democrats. Republican Senate
Minority Leader, Everett Dirksen, pushed the bill through
the Senate despite 21 no-votes from Democrats,
including Al Gore’s father and, of course, Robert Byrd.
Only 4 Republicans opposed the bill.
Democratic opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 split
the party in two. Forty percent of the House Democrats
voted against the Civil Rights Act. At the same time,
80% of Republicans supported it. Republican support in
the Senate was even higher.
So, the next time a liberal brags about their record on
race issues, you know what to say.