Racism in the Republican Party  

 The Republican Party has come full circle from the days of Abraham Lincoln and so disproportionately represents the interests of white people that it ought to be renamed the White People's Party. The most recent chairman of the Republican National Committee, Haley Barbour, associates himself with the most despicable kinds of white racists -- those who have money and power. Haley Barbour recently appeared side-by-side with the Council of Concerned Citizens (aka the CCC, the Coo Clucks Clan, and the Uptown KKK), a white racist hate group which is almost exclusively male and which is off-limits to blacks, jews, and other minorities.

Haley Barbour's friends in the all-white CCC wave confederate flags, espouse deporting blacks to Africa, claim the Holocaust was a hoax, oppose immigration of Asians, Latinos, and other minorities, have ties to the French neo-fascist Le Pen, and oppose the mixing of races which they call miscegenation.

Haley Barbour's CCC friends support the neo-fascist, nazi-revivalist, prison inmate Eric Zundel, the son of a German Nazi, in his fight against the Zionist "New World Order."

Haley Barbour's CCC friends oppose black voting rights and say "...negroes should not even be labeled as being in the same "nation" as Whites, much less should they be given any voting rights..." CCC writer George Crane (http://www.cofcc.org/articles.htm).

Haley Barbour's CCC friends, predominantly white male chauvinists, oppose women's voting rights and say "... it is absurd to allow females to sit on juries in our courts," and "There were no females in the Continental Congress and I don't believe any were necessary." CCC writer George Crane (http://www.cofcc.org/articles.htm).

Haley Barbour's CCC friends claim that the fraudulent and discredited Protocols of Zion, forged in Czarist Russia about 1905, are the work of a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.

Haley Barbour's CCC friends say, " The word racism was concocted by a communist ideologue in the 1920's. The purpose of racism was to instill guilt and shame in the minds of white people and to inflame racial hostility among blacks."

Haley Barbour's CCC friends say, "One day, there may even be a monument erected to George W. Bush in Washington, DC to honor our current leader... It would not be ridiculous for there to be a Bush Memorial erected to honor the leader who saw America through it’s great period of ascendancy..." ( http://www.cofcc.org/missccc.htm) Is this the Fourth Reich? Hitler did not get a majority vote either, but got absolute power through intimidation, appeals to patriotism, the causing of chaos, and propaganda.

Haley Barbour's CCC friends say, "The elevation of Lincoln as the original American martyr is a direct affront to all of our legitimate heroes from our founding, during our secession from the British Crown, to the soldiers fighting on this very night over in Iraq." and "The Lincoln Myth needs to be exposed because it is a fraud." ( http://www.cofcc.org/missccc.htm) When Republican Conservatives say things like this, we really have come full circle.

 

Haley Barbour's friends include George Bush and Dick Cheney, who are shamelessly supporting Barbour's campaign for Governor of Mississippi, a state with a history of white racism and KKK activity. Bush's grandfather also supported white racists -- he financed the Nazis during WWII.

 

The percentage of Republicans who are white is so embarrassing that the figure is not published. In a typical election over 85% of blacks vote democratic. The percentage of Republicans who are male is also unknown but would appear to be about 80%.

 

George Bush became president only through the disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida. At least 120,000 mostly black voters were deprived of their right to vote in a state that has a history of disenfranchising black voters. The indifference of the Republicans to this fact and their near-violent opposition to a fair revote, which, God knows, they would have lost, highlights their disregard of the rights of black and minority voters. Republicans hypocritically patronize blacks and other minority voters to try to get enough votes to squeak into office, then they routinely oppose all policies that help the poor and support all policies that enable the rich to get richer at the expense of the poor.

 

Long time Republicans and closet racists Trent Lott and Bob Barr have also supported the CCC and remain unapologetic.

Right wing propagandist Rush Limbaugh, who managed to finish High School and nothing else, regularly manipulates the minds of 22 million Republicans of less intelligence than he on his radio disinformation show. This poorly educated loudmouth invents statistics on the air, and seems to have mastered the art of verisimilitude and prevarication. He is unable to hide either his racism nor his chauvinism, and recently could not hide his drug addiction. A list of the racist statements he has made over the years is available at http://www.fair.org/articles/limbaugh-color.html and a list of the innumerable lies he has told on the air literally fills volumes (see http://www.fair.org/press-releases/limbaugh-debates-reality.html) for a short list. Rush Limbaugh says "There are more Indians alive today than before Columbus," which is patently false, and "The larger the bra size the smaller the IQ," citing a Tufts University study which proved not to exist.