Just Think - News Archive

I have this tendancy to research things. You tell me something, I won't believe you until I've researched it myself. Well, when my wife told me about an unabashed racist running for a house seat in Tennessee I had to look it up. Not only did I find that to be true, but I came up with all of this other stuff as well:

Kentucky - Former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour is running for Senate in Kentucky. The man is openly racist. He is pictured here with members of the white supremacist group Council of Conservative Citizens. He has not been denounced by the GOP.

Haley Barbour and other elected officials pose with members of the white supremacist group Council of Conservative Citizens (C of CC) Pictured L-R: Chip Reynolds, State Senator Bucky Huggins, Ray Martin, Barbour, John Thompson and C of CC Field Director Bill Lord. Lord was also in a picture with Sen. Trent Lott that surfaced when Lott tried to suggest he knew nothing of the group.

Mississippi - Senator Trent Lott, as mentioned above, also has ties to white supremacist group Council of Conservative Citizens.

Senator Trent Lott posed with officials of the pro-white Council of Conservative Citizens in 1997. From left, William D. Lord, state coordinator; Mr. Lott; Tom Dover, president, and Gordon L. Baum, executive officer. Lott later tried to deny knowledge of the group.

Here is an advertisement that I found on the internet:

The Council of Conservative Citizens will hold its national conference in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 6 & 7. Other speakers include Samuel Francis and Mississippi governor Kirk Fordice. The CCC is the most effective pro-majority activist group in America. Please call Gordon Baum at (314) 291-8474 for details.

North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Republican National Committee member Buddy Witherspoon have also endorsed the Council of Conservative Citizens and spoken at the groups meetings. Helms has also been interviewed by Southern Partisan.

Tennessee - James L. Hart, an unabashed racist, will represent the Republican Party in the November election for a congressional seat.
Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist launched his career as a GOP operative in 1964 by harassing black voters.

Vice President Dick Cheney opposed measures strengthening laws against housing discrimination and collecting hate-crime data. Cheney also supported apartheid in the racist South African regime, even as it crumbled. Here is what Landover Babtist Church had to say about Mr. Cheney during the 2000 election year:

Cheney has done his part to put colored people in their place worldwide as well. Cheney consistently voted against sanctions on South Africa for its policy of apartheid (which, translated in English, means "God's chosen few"). Cheney even had the courage to vote against every House resolution calling for the release from prison of Nelson Mandela.

White House - Attorney General John Ashcroft, like Trent Lott, granted an interview to Southern Partisan. The Southern Partisan is published in Columbia, South Carolina and is the oldest and the leading neo-Confederate publication. Ashcroft opposed racial integration and the appointment of African Americans to offices as Missouri governor.

Pictured: Ashcroft's article in "Southern Partisan", a magazine that glorifies southern racists.

The Republican Party in general launched a strategy during the late 1960s to capture the southern racist vote by opposing affirmative action, supporting the rights of states like South Carolina to fly the Confederate flag in front of public buildings, and similar positions. Dubya Bush himself spoke before the segregationist Bob Jones University in South Carolina, genuflected before the Confederate flag, and helped implement the racist Willie Horton ad during the 1988 presidential campaign of Bush Sr., who approved the racist ad after lobbying by his son. Both Bush's have appointed many racists - both subtle and overt - to high offices, who now work to further erode civil rights.

These are just the people who are currently in, or running for, office in the GOP. There are many more examples if you look back through the years. We all remember Strom Thurman, of course, and the KKK grand wizard David Duke. There are many more. I didn't really want to believe it, but a little research shows that the GOP is chalk full of supporters of racist agendas.