Posted on 04/19/2016 11:10:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
During an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) again showed us he doesn’t know history by saying that the GOP is the party of the Ku Klux Klan. Mitchell was noting how Sen. Bernie Sanders’ populist messaging seems to be resonating, even if there is a lack of data to support his claims. Worse yet, there have been some reports showing that his proposals, like universal health care, would be disastrous for the working poor. Rangel mentioned the end of the Republican Party, and the misappropriated racist ties, towards the end of the clip cut by our friends over at The Washington Free Beacon (via WFB):
Clinton supporter Charlie Rangel calls Republicans the party of the Ku Klux Klan
We are seeing the end of the Republican Party as we know it, a party that has the Ku Klux Klan, has the Tea Party, the Freedom Party, and this used to be the Party of Lincoln, and we’re seeing it fall apart,” Rangel said.
The racist organization was founded in the Reconstruction era by southern whites, many of whom were Democrats, and it committed acts of murder, intimidation and other violence against blacks. While the organization still exists, its numbers are greatly depleted compared to its heyday.
This isn’t the first time Rangel has gone off the hinges concerning Republicans and racism. In 2014, he said that Southern Republicans still support slavery. It was an accusation so wild that even ardent liberals called it embarrassing and deserved no place in politics. At the time, ESPN writer and CNN commentator LZ Granderson said that anyone who thinks like Rangel regarding race and politics is an “idiot.”
CNN panel has had it with Charlie Rangel
“I’m trying to figure out why he’s even still in office,” said ESPN commentator LZ Granderson after observing that Rangel has been cited on 11 ethics violations over his career as a congressman representing Harlem. “If you think what he says is true, then I’m just going to tell you the truth: you’re an idiot.”“Slavery, and that time period, does not exist today,” he continued. “Is there racism? Absolutely, but it doesn’t exist in the same way it did during slavery times.”
“I think it’s hard because it just feels so non-productive given the tone and the conversation that has been going on in this country for some time,” CNN anchor Michaela Pereira observed.
Indeed. Also, Tax Day was Monday. I hope the congressman filed on time–and that the forms included all relevant information.
Tis is why they do not teach history anymore. So agitprops like Rangel say false sh1t like this and no one instantly corrects/rebukes their lie.
KKK or NAACP.
Both the same kind of organization these days.
Excellent point.
At least he didn’t say 7-11.
Charlie is one of those.
Two words, Charlie: Robert Byrd. I rest my case.
Even if the Repubs win the Presidency, and are able to maintain the House and Senate advantages, repealing 0bembacare means that it would be ‘replaced’ by some other government-controlled, socialist program. The dims have won this one. Here is a reminder: Freebie programs have never, and I repeat, NEVER been repealed without replacing the freebie programs with some other freebie program.
Don’t forget that the Westboro Baptists are also Democrats.
He is also one of the prime example of why we need term limits.
“CNN commentator LZ Granderson said that anyone who thinks like Rangel regarding race and politics is an “idiot.””
So LZ Granderson thinks the majority of black people in America are idiots?
Our ignorant kids don’t know how history got us to where we are today. Here’s a remedy
ANDREA MITCHELL DOESN’T KNOW HER HISTROY EITHER BECAUSE SHE DIDN’T SPEAK UP.
Wasn’t it Regan that said something to the effect that”It wasn’t that the libs didn’t know anything its just that so much of what they know is wrong”?
All Special Snowflakes believe in “the Big Switch,” i.e., that all segregationist s became Republicans immediately after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
I suspect they learn this from Howard Zinn. Along with the “fact” that the Constitution says that blacks are “three-fifths human.”
Charlie is so fn dumb he can’t spell KKK.
Educate Charle and libs with this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-relentless-conservative/the-democratic-partys-two_b_933995.html
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