[sbMKE]

I’ve never known the John Birch society to be racist.

With a mission to restore the constitutional republic, I see them as strong advocates of state’s rights - and by virtue of that, advocates of all manner of things, as decided by the individual member-states of the republic. Sounds more like freedom than racism to me.

Of course, there could be some civil rights era history I’m missing - the Birchers were very outspoken and some were very in-your-face back then. Entirely possible that there are some incidents with the membership back then, but I don’t see it in the organization now.

http://www.jbs.org/

[DoughtyOne]

Then there’s the fact that if you don’t think our policy of handouts to poor Blacks generation after generation are a good thing, or you don’t think affirmative action is a good thing overall, you simply have to be racist in some folks’ eyes.

I’ve seen this smear so many times, it’s just a given anymore.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for your comments sbMKE.

[Designer]

"Entirely possible that there are some incidents with the membership back then, but I don’t see it in the organization now."

There is some vetting of new members, and any candidate who is racist is not accepted.

Furthermore, if any member is later found to be racist, his membership is revoked.