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Scott Terry thinks blacks should be grateful for food and shelter provided by Massa and why can’t we just have segregation?
So much for minority outreach, lol. My fellow North Carolinians out there, look at what is “representing” at CPAC [shaking my head...]:
The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst. After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, “why can’t we just have segregation?” noting the Constitution’s protections for freedom of association
…When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.”
Honest to god, the vast majority of North Carolinians aren’t this backward, of course, but this attitude is out there, waning and angry at the social change going on. Watch it:
At least a number of conservatives in that room laughed at Terry’s statements, but hey — this is the Base that the GOP wants to retain…the Republican Party has catered to it for decades and barely contained its race-baiting in just about every election in which it thought it could gain advantage. It can’t run away from it now.
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Don’t forget the jobs, full employment!
I don’t understand the hatred
I did enjoy the part near the end where the girl in the front row with the blue shirt and black hair said, “Really, and had this look, ‘I can’t believe he is saying that OUT LOUD! We save that talk for our private diners!”
It is also interesting his talk about, “my people” meaning white people, or racists conservatives?
Until the Republican party can look at this and go “holy crap” the Republicans can look forward to many more years of losing major political races in this country.
Supporting homophobes, racists and the uber-wealthy are not going to win you votes kids.
Even allowing for the fact that the Democrats are the worst debaters in the history of politics, it still defies my imagination that when the Tea Partiers slithered out of their holes in 2010, the Democrats never, ever pointed out that it was a collection of Birchers, looney-ass conspiracy theorists, and yes, racists.
Holy Crap.
I have always known there are people that think this way but haven’t run into many willing to say it out loud!
Just the other day:
“The politics are going to overwhelm the policy. It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House right now, especially for the Republican Party.”
– South Carolina state Rep. Kris Crawford (R), quoted by the Charleston Regional Business Journal.
Libertarian ‘let the States decide’ utopia, right Rand?
Well democrats are the same, because UNIPARTY, right? /s
Actually its about gaud damn time they did come clean and say it out loud.
Actually some did, and were ATTACKED for calling them out.
Watch this clip of Janeane garofalo. Note how the guy interviewing her works to get her on her totally inclusive argument. If she had said that “some” were racist I suppose they would just find some other thing to argue about. Note how he didn’t answer her questions about seeing the racist signs.
I love her, she took so much grief for her push against the right wing because she was a celebrity and they love to get with a celebrity since their “celebrities” suck so bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmsr0KGgEFQ
States’ rights are grand when it comes to executing 14-year-olds or making it easier to buy a gun than a six-pack of beer. When it comes to abortion, assisted suicide, and same-sex marriage, those are moral issues to be decided by Congress.
Those people are hypocrites of the first magnitude.
with the “do unto others” from jesus….did anyone suggest that whites could be slaves to our black citizens? by golly, we are supposed to be equal under the law. sauce for the goose and all that.
Main thing I remember about the Tea Party was Mrs. Tiger going to Congressman Dingell’s ACA town hall in Romulus, Michigan. She said that Dingell was shouted down by these crazies and, later, being physically threatened by one of them.
Could you imagine what would happen if Code Pink turned up at a Peter Hoekstra town hall on the Iraq War in January 2003? The protesters would have died of sunstroke while on a 50-mile forced march in Camp X-Ray.
Actually, I don’t hear people cheering or applauding. But I do think that this is a consequence of a liberal identitarian and relativist ideology that has tended to pretend we are all equal rather than a class-based one that united poor people to fight the rich.
Our enemies are MUCH more the banksters and brokers than this guy. He’s just a powerless schmo railing–wrongheadedly–at his powerlessness.
This is very poorly set up, by the way. You don’t tell us what the topic is, what CPAC is, why a Black person is with these people. . . I’m taking it that this is a bunch of conservatives trying to figure out how to draw Black votes for conservative candidates?
Just watched this with my wife w.o. saying anything to her–she thought the laughter was astonishment at the guy’s comment. It’s a serious leap to say that the crowd is supporting him.
Cell phones are gonna be the death of the Republican party.
Amen.
The 1%, enabled by politicians of both major political parties, took most of the nation’s wealth. It is is in the process of taking the little that is left and the the 99% have no plan of action to stop them.
We need to focus.
The same in talk or in action?
BTW, this guy is not “the Republican Party.” I am sure I could find a bigot like him at a gathering of Democrats, too.
I totally agree. Politics ain’t church. I will take this guy’s vote, racist though he is. We still have race problems in this country, but not like the very successful 40-year long class war by one class against the rest of a society that doesn’t know that it has been at war and losing badly.
It’s a serious leap to say that the crowd is supporting him.
But it’s you who took the leap, Matthew. Pam said
At least a number of conservatives in that room laughed at Terry’s statements
at least being the operative point. I read that as ‘not everyone in this room is in agreement with the goof’, meaning not everyone, i.e. not ‘the crowd’ supported him.
You were down Emily LaTella Road from the get-go.
Looks like a Christian Patriarchy, Sovereign Grace freak. Yeah they are Rick Santorum’s and to a certain degree Ron/Rand Paul’s base, and while their numbers are miniscule, they can swing republican caucuses and primaries, because hardly anyone shows up for them.
Actually, Pam travels down that road to set up her pieces time and again, with incendiary teasers that don’t pass the smell test. And she doesn’t respond to comments, which is really a sign that we should all ignore the diaries. I have made my opposition to her liberal and identitarian support for the likes of Obama at the expense of working people clear time and again.
I’ll try to do better by not responding, but I stand by what I said above.
…When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.”
Follow up question…what about vice versa?
I usually agree with you, Pam, but I think you’re going too far with this one. This racist pig is a nobody and rest of the people in the room clearly see him for the idiot he is. If he were a prominent and respected conservative whose words actually carried some weight among his ilk, you’d have a point.
As it is though, it’s really not much different than Matt Barber going to the Folsom Street Fair, taking video of the most outrageous things he can find, then posting it and using it to represent the entire LGBT community.
I wonder if the guy giving the presentation has started rethinking the wisdom of being a black conservative.