How is something like this even remotely possible nowadays?

[AirForceTeacher]

N.Y. GOP candidate exposed as racist - War Room - Salon.com

 

[DaisyDay]

What do you mean, how is it possible?

 

[AirForceTeacher]

I mean - how did someone liek this end up on the ballot, and really, how does anyone even believe something as hateful as this nowadays?

 

[WalksWithChrist]

It really is mind boggling.

 

[blueapplepaste]

I wonder how many more posts until our friends from the right say Obama and Democrats are the racist ones.

 

[tulc]

The Associated Press: GOP will try to get own candidate off NY ballot
tulc(well it appears someone has now read the essay)

 

[Gawron]

Because person A may be a racist this does not preclude that person B may also be a racist. Or not. Works both ways.

 

[tulc]

Because person A may be a racist this does not preclude that person B may also be a racist. Or not. Works both ways.

uhmm...what?
tulc(seriously doesn't understand, plz explain?)

 

[Steve Petersen]

Guy sounds a lot like many Democrats in the 50's and 60's.

Robert Byrd comes to mind.

 

[Gawron]

I was responding to post number five, but in a non-specific manner so as not to be accused of saying something I didn't.

 

[DaisyDay]

Guy sounds a lot like many Democrats in the 50's and 60's.

Robert Byrd comes to mind.

The OP did say "nowadays".

 

[DesertSky]

How is it possible? What....people can't have opinions any more?

 

[tulc]

Guy sounds a lot like many Democrats in the 50's and 60's.

You're right, a lot of Democrats were like that back in the 50's and 60's. Which is why the Republican "Southern Strategy" worked so well. As Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips said:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

Robert Byrd comes to mind.

Yep he did indeed have quite a past. In the past. Of course he eventually out grew it.
tulc(hopes others will also)

 

[Panzerkamfwagen]

Guy sounds a lot like many Democrats in the 50's and 60's.

Why do you have to go back fifty years?

YouTube - Joe Biden's racist slip

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

They put that guy in a high political office.

You only have to look to the most recent presidential campaign to find people that the Democrats put in high office making racist remarks.

 

[BoltNut]

Why do you have to go back fifty years?

YouTube - Joe Biden's racist slip

Joe Biden....... Sheeeeshh!

 

[Ar Cosc]

Aaaaand, nobody condemns it. The right simply flock to attack perceived instances of racism gleaned form Democrat speeches. The man wrote an entire essay. don't even pretend it's on the same level as someone making a remark, which is likely just getting their words mixed up.

 

[mcswan]

Aaaaand, nobody condemns it. The right simply flock to attack perceived instances of racism gleaned form Democrat speeches. The man wrote an entire essay. don't even pretend it's on the same level as someone making a remark, which is likely just getting their words mixed up.

Of course we condemn it,... I condemn it. Racism isn't acceptable.

 

[Panzerkamfwagen]

Joe Biden....... Sheeeeshh!

What? It's not like he's the Democrat choice for vice president or anything important like that, is he?

 

[Belk]

What? It's not like he's the Democrat choice for vice president or anything important like that, is he?

Can you think of a better way to combat serious assassination attempts then putting someone no one wants in power in the number two spot?

 

[AirForceTeacher]

There's a huge difference between a slip of the tongue (which probably reveals some latent, subconcious prejudice) and writing a whole racist essay.