Posted on 12/01/2018 4:48:59 AM PST by reaganaut1
Democrats are taking racial politics to new heights—and no wonder, since the tactic has again succeeded. This week Republican Senator Tim Scott said he will oppose the nomination of Thomas Farr, tapped for a federal judgeship in North Carolina. Senator Jeff Flake is voting no to showcase his opposition to Donald Trump, and the two GOP defections are enough to torpedo Mr. Farr’s appointment this year.
Mr. Scott cited legal work that Mr. Farr performed decades ago for North Carolina’s then-Senator Jesse Helms. After the 1990 election, the Justice Department accused Helms of trying to intimidate black voters by sending a postcard claiming that people who recently moved were ineligible to cast ballots. Mr. Farr defended Helms in the matter. But he told the Senate last year that he wasn’t consulted on the postcard’s content and didn’t know it had been sent until Justice sent a letter to the campaign.
A 1991 internal Justice memo, published this week, says that Mr. Farr, who also had coordinated “ballot security” for Helms in the 1984 election, discussed the idea of sending some kind of postcard in 1990, but that he counseled against it. Nonetheless, Mr. Scott said Thursday that the memo “shed new light on Mr. Farr’s activities” and “created more concerns.”
There’s no reason to doubt the sincerity of Mr. Scott, the Senate’s only black Republican. But Democrats will see Mr. Farr’s defeat as a vindication of their most underhanded and inflammatory racial tactics.
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Consider a second complaint against Mr. Farr: that the North Carolina Legislature retained him to defend its 2013 voter-ID law. “This is a man who stands for disenfranchisement of voters, particularly minority voters,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said this week.
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How long will the Democrat’s core minority base allow themselves to be led by white men and women? IMHO the Schumers, Pelosis and other white liberals who lord it over the minorities will be replaced.
They’ve just traded one set of masters for another; whether blacks with white slaveowners or Hispanics with white Spanish colonizers, too many black and brown people are simply looking for another white group that will keep them fed, clothed, and housed.
I’d use the same analogy for the “immigration crises” today (in both Europe and the US/Canada); non-whites who threw off colonial rule are now beating down the doors to return to white “administrators” who will care for them. Self-determination failed...
“There’s no reason to doubt the sincerity of Mr. Scott”
Au contraire, Scott is either being a useful idiot for the Dims or he is exhibiting extreme tribalism. Either way, it’s not helpful to have him joining in this “suppression of black voters” idiocy when all the evidence points to just the opposite. See Brenda Snipes and black panther suppression of white voters in Philadelphia for two cases in point.
WTH does that even mean? Scott is putting race before everything else. Its OK when blacks do it, Is that it?
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