[matt1234]

I feel compelled to correct one quote from the article: "Blacklisting conservatives is VERY real, even especially in communities like the Pacific Northwest."

[Da Coyote]

I’ve had it with these idiots.

I’m becoming sexist...it appears that liberals are really vapid uneducated individuals.

And liberal women are all of the above...plus they are bimbos.

[goodnesswins]

The Democrats, the party of the KKK and Jim Crow laws....Mayor Strickland THOUGHT she was off the record in her remarks...now that she’s been caught, she’s backpedalling. Democrats, like this Mayor, promote racism....and that’s the dirty little secret. They cannot abide the Plantation dissolving....for then they would not have any power.

[Sgt_Schultze]

If you have a valid point, is throwing the race card really a smart opening move?

[dragonblustar]

She told me more than once that she was impressed by the respectful tone of my commentary.

Well, isn't that grand. She can be a say what ever she wants then also gets to judge others on their tone.

[USS Alaska]

Of course, it's OK for these racists to call us racists. Bitch.

She didn't mean what she said.

[SoldierDad]

At least she acknowledges that Republicans are trying to include minorities, . . .

NO, she does not. She backpedaled only because she was caught saying something inappropriate.

[matt1234]

WA ping, please. Thank you.

[Hacklehead]

There are NO moderate, reasonable, respectable, fair-minded DemocRATS. PERIOD. There may have been at one time, but today they are extinct.
A democRAT is a loathsome creature that seeks to end liberty and everything that made America great. It spews hate at anything that opposes it and if given the opportunity, would violently purge the country of anyone they see as resisting them.

[blueunicorn6]

Another Thrall to the Democrat party.

[Old Sarge]

“Blacks are more racist than Whites.”

~ Larry Elder, “The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America”

[jimfree]

I understand that she has shoplifted from a video store. I have just as much basis for that as she has for any comments she has made about me.

[Altura Ct.]

At least she acknowledges that Republicans are trying to include minorities

What does this mean exactly? What do 'minorites', a misnomer, do?

[Tupelo]

If a Republican said that Democrats were racist, he would be booed off the stage. If a Democrat says Republicans are racist, she is not confronted until days later.
THAT my friends is the difference. The Democrats have told that lie enough that there are damned few under 40 that do not believe it. After about age 40 people start to think. Until then what they are told by “Officials that know more than I do” is perceived as fact.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Hey, Sister of Satan!

Ever heard of the "Abolitionists" they became the Republican Party.

So, considering:

That the civil war was waged between the Republicans and the democRAT slavers, and that the Klan was founded by Confederate veterans to keep blacks from voting for Republicans...

That the Republicans were referred to as "N-word lovers" by democRATs...

That all the segregationists including Bull Connor, George Wallace, Fritz Hollings, Robert KKK Byrd were racist democRATs...

That you cannot name a Republican figure who fits the above description (unless you try to foist that fraudster "David Duke" on us)...

That Congressional Republicans were the reason LBJ's Civil Rights Act was able to be passed, over the objection of democRATs...

That the Klan with a Tan (the racist NAACP) is nothing more than an ultra-partisan group who's purpose is to deliver the "black vote" to democRATs...

And that you Ms Mayor are performing exactly that function by outright lying about and demonizing Republicans...

Is it any wonder that Republicans are "perceived" to be racist?

[cookcounty]

Which American city over 250,000 population has the smallest income gap between White and Black?

Republican-run Colorado Springs, at 9%.

[DestroyLiberalism]

I’m actually a Pacific Lutheran University alumnus and I can see 15 years after graduating from that liberal haven that they’re continuing their rich tradition of paying left-wingers to visit the campus and make radical speeches to small audiences.

You may recall P.L.U. gained some national notoriety back in the mid-’90s when Rush Limbaugh on his TV and radio program blasted the kooky ultra feminist professor Erin McKenna who actually gave a campus presentation claiming that the eating of meat leads to male domination and enslavement of women in our society.

By the way, no offense to any Freepers who may live there, but I found Tacoma to be an ugly city and a depressing place to live. It’s no surprise to see they’ve elected a mayor who reflects the sad state of that area.

[NavyCanDo]

The Democrats are the party of Jim Crow

The Democrats gave birth to the KKK which original purpose was to suppress the black vote (who voted 100% Republican) by intimidation, murder, and terrorism.

The Democrats voted against all anti-lynching laws proposed by Republicans.

The Civil Rights movement did not start in the 1960s it stared 100 years earlier, and it was the Democrats that harshly opposed giving former slaves Civil Rights, and kept that fight up for over 100 years.

It was the Democrats that began poll taxes, literacy test, grandfather clauses, hide-and-seek polling places, and several other ways to keep the Blacks from voting (because blacks voted 100% Republican).

It was the Democrats who would lynch Blacks & Whites trying to advance Civil Rights and Voting rights for former slaves.
It was a Democrat who shot the Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln.

And it was Democrats that did not elect their first Black to Congress until 1935 while Republicans have been doing it for 67 years.

The First Blacks In Congress Were All Republicans

United States Senate
Hiram Rhodes Revels (1822-1901); Republican – Mississippi; 1870-1871
Blanche Bruce (1841-1898); Republican – Mississippi; 1875-1881

House of Representatives
John Willis Menard (1838-1893); Republican - Louisiana; 1868
Joseph Rainey (1832-1887); Republican - South Carolina; 1870-1879
Jefferson F. Long (1836-1901); Republican – Georgia; 1870-1871
Robert C. De Large (1842-1874); Republican - South Carolina; 1871-1873
Robert B. Elliott (1842-1884); Republican - South Carolina; 1871-1874
Benjamin S. Turner (1825-1894); Republican – Alabama; 1871-1873
Josiah T. Walls (1842-1905); Republican – Florida; 1871-1873, 1873-1875, 1875-1876
Richard H. Cain (1825-1887); Republican - South Carolina; 1873-1875, 1877-1879
John R. Lynch (1847-1939); Republican – Mississippi; 1873-1877, 1882-1883
James T. Rapier (1837-1883); Republican – Alabama; 1873-1875
Alonzo J. Ransier (1834-1882); Republican - South Carolina; 1873-1875
Jeremiah Haralson (1846-1916); Republican - Alabama; 1875-1877
John Adams Hyman (1840-1891); Republican - North Carolina; 1875-1877
Charles E. Nash (1844-1913); Republican – Louisiana; 1875-1877
Robert Smalls (1839-1915); Republican - South Carolina; 1875-1879, 1882-1883, 1884-1887
James E. O’Hara (1844-1905); Republican - North Carolina; 1883-1887
Henry P. Cheatham (1857-1935); Republican - North Carolina; 1889-1893
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897); Republican – Virginia; 1890-1891
Thomas E. Miller(1849-193); Republican - South Carolina; 1890-1891
George W. Murray (1853-1926); Republican - South Carolina; 1893-1895, 1896-1897
George Henry White (1852-1918); Republican - North Carolina; 1897-1901

The Democrats did not elect their first black American to the U.S. House until 1935, and he was from the North. The Southern Democrats waited until 1973. The first Black Senator was not elected until 1993.

[RetiredArmy]

I thank God every day for getting me and my wife out of Washington state and back to Alabama and placing us in a wonderful Bible believing, Bible teaching church. Thank You God. Thank You, thank You, thank You!!!

[redpoll]

Having lived in the Emerald People’s Republic, I was about to write that, too. Beat me to it. :)

[RinaseaofDs]

Tacoma lost Russell Investments about five years ago. The only reason why race wasn’t mentioned in leaving Tacoma was that Russell’s founder is black.

They got the WAMU building for the price of a hot dog and moved to Seattle.