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Flyers19749/16/2009 4:25:37 pm PDT

re: #469 LudwigVanQuixote

Right, to all of you are are calling me Keith Olbermann, for daring to point out that the GOP is not perfect and that it is widely perceived as a racist and classist party by minorities, you are deluding yourselves.

I did not say that I think everything the GOP does is stupid or wrong. I said, quite correctly that the GOP has some very heavy baggage in these matters and that minorities do not so easily forgive or forget such baggage.

I also said factually correct that the racist overtones of the far right, and the current GOP are driving people away.

If you doubt that, you are in denial.

Are all republicans racist idiots - no of course not! Are the Republicans who are shouting the loudest and representing the party the loudest, racist delusional idiots and or religious ideologues - obviously yes.

Do not kid yourself that this will not have repercussions.

I don’t think the average Republican today is racist. I think the average Republican is guilty of willful ignorance regarding racial matters - because reality doesn’t mesh with the GOP platform. Its easy to blow off the social programs as nothing more than bribery to buy blacks votes if your version of US race relations is something like: slavery ended in 1865. The slavery side were Democrats, the anti-slavery side were Republicans - nothing happened after the Civil War ended until out of nowhere, hello Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.