Posted on 02/02/2013 7:36:47 AM PST by Altura Ct.
A Republican House freshman will be in the spotlight Friday at an NAACP press conference for an email he sent to the state organization, calling the group and its leader "racist" and "race-opportunists."
Rep. Michael Speciale, R-Craven, along with all other state lawmakers, received an emailed version of a statement last week by NAACP state president William Barber on proposed voter ID legislation.
In the statement, Barber calls voter ID initiatives "national propaganda efforts by the far-right to justify the obvious tactic to suppress the votes of minorities, youth, disabled and the elderly," and urges Republican legislative leaders to abandon their push for such a law in North Carolina.
WRAL News obtained the email below that Speciale sent in response:
From: Rep. Michael Speciale Date: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:39 PM Subject: RE: NC NAACP Statement as Read at Morning News Conference on Voter Suppression To: "northcarolinanaacp@gmail.com"
Dr. Barber,
This is as insulting a diatribe as I have seen in years. The NAACP has a proud history of working on behalf of black Americans to address the problems of society directed at them. You tarnish that with your racist diatribes and your race-baiting attitude. The photo requirement to vote is to prove that one is who they say they are. Nowhere in anyones minds but yours and your fellow race-opportunists is race, ethnic background, or color of ones skin mentioned, insinuated or inferred regarding the proposed voter ID laws.
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Please ... show some respect to the racist organization. This is the NAACP we're talking about ... thus, the congressman is criticizing a "colored person".
So do we tell him we are sorry?
Ok, I'm sorry you are a "racist".
“How is this news?”
In and of itself, it isn’t news! But it IS NEWS when a legislator says so publicly.
I am so tire of this “poor us” BS spouted by the so-called “black support” organizations like the NAACP. With very few exceptions, blacks put skin color ahead of everything when voting, and yet they continue to “wonder” why they are still the dregs of society. It actually amazes me that Black Christian Churches don’t have images of Jesus depicting Him as Black!
This is as insulting a diatribe as I have seen in years. The NAACP has a proud history of working on behalf of black Americans to address the problems of society directed at them. You tarnish that with your racist diatribes and your race-baiting attitude. The photo requirement to vote is to prove that one is who they say they are. Nowhere in anyones minds but yours and your fellow race-opportunists is race, ethnic background, or color of ones skin mentioned, insinuated or inferred regarding the proposed voter ID laws.
“Can I tell you how this will play out?
Like a good member of the Stupid Party he will come out either this weekend or Monday.”
Instead of acting like a worthless surrender monkey, how about you defend the man.
Not necessarily a slam towards him. Give the establishment time, they'll get to him. My guess is, an apology is already in the works.
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
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