Posted on 04/10/2015 7:09:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Lawrence Wilkerson is a contradictory figure.
Wilkerson is a career military man, who served as chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell; but he has also voiced reluctance to involve American forces in foreign conflicts, and slammed the Bush administration for its handling of the Iraq War. He is also a lifelong Republican who, far from just criticizing his party, has actually gone on the warpath against it at times.
When Powell was attacked by conservatives in 2012 for endorsing Barack Obama for reelection — Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu famously suggested that the endorsement was motivated by race — Wilkerson sprung to the defense of his former boss, saying that the Republican Party was “full of racists.”
Wilkerson stands by those assertions. In a recent conversation with Salon, the retired U.S. Army colonel renewed his criticism of the GOP and the Bush administration. He also addressed recent saber rattling by Republicans on the issue of Iran. The following interview has been lightly edited.
Q: You have been very critical of the Republican Party. Why do you stay?
A: There are sane and sober people in the Republican Party. The public persona of the Republican Party has changed since the days of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight Eisenhower.
Q: In the past you have said the Republican Party is full of racists. Do you stand by that and aren’t you afraid of a backlash?
A: I’m not afraid of a backlash. The GOP has scores of racists. Under Richard Nixon’s blessing, the GOP took advantage of disgruntled Democrats in the South. They are still there and their children are there. This is very much known in our party. This was a conscious strategy.
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The definition of racist has been twisted so much as to have no meaning other than to spur even more resentment in the black community. According to “white privilege” all you need to be a vile racist now is white skin. How is that different from the KKK hanging the first available man with black skin after a confrontation or suspected crime?
If you are white or Asian or non black Hispanic, you are racist. There is an old saying about pointing out a sliver in your opponent’s while ignoring the timber in your own. Rioting, beating old men and young women, looting, murdering each other in large numbers are all the white mans’ fault and to be forgiven as understandable and deserved where whites are the victim.
Now Rand Paul is going to throw out the laws that disproportionately affect blacks. I guess he’ll be vacating murder convictions if the accused is black.
Rant over.
The GOP has scores of racists. Under Richard Nixon’s blessing, the GOP took advantage of disgruntled Democrats in the South. They [Those Democrats] are still there and their children are there. This is very much known in our party. This was a conscious strategy.
They cannot handle even the slightest criticism of Obambam without screaming “racist” can they?
“Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu famously suggested that the endorsement was motivated by race “
Actually, Powell himself alluded to the racial importance of his vote..In other words, he said it.
That about says it with Colin Powell. If you aren’t smart enough to not have your picture taken with Screwy Louey, you aren’t very smart/politically astute. Or you have completely unacceptable politics. Either way, it isn’t good.
But not as many as the Democrats.
Anyone who doubts that fact need only look at Detroit.
As though there weren’t millions of racists
in the Democrat party.
Strike “Author” and insert “idiot quoted by the author”.
These anti-freedom liberals really need to get a new diatribe. This old song and dance was old 10 years ago let alone now.
Heck, if anything, the liberals have proven themselves to be the racists on every level while conservatives do their (our) level best to get along with everyone who believes in America and the American way.
Don’t want to assimilate? Fine. America; love it or leave it. It isn’t just a bumper sticker anymore.
I don’t give a flying rat’s dingleberries what color someone’s skin happens to be or where their daddy came from. I hold everyone to the same standard. I am the kind of person that Democrats like to pretend is racist.
Sounds like one of those "lifelong Republicans" who,like Powell,voted for Obola....twice.
Lawrence Wilkerson is a self-hating Republican.
Republican orthodoxy? If you have no ideals, you can have no orthodoxy.
Name one publically known Republican who is racist, hotshot!
Never heard of him but somehow Salon has.
Another Infiltrator probably with connections with McCain
You couldn’t get me within a 1000 yards of Calypso Louie.
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