TagsTagsRachel Maddow reveals the connections between Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and the racist Council of Conservative Citizens, with photographs: Video
Haley Barbour, White Supremacists, White Citizens Council, Council of Conservative Citizens, Racism, civil rights, Republican Party, Video
From the "Saw This Coming" department: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is desperately trying to walk back his statements defending the segregationist White Citizens' Councils: Barbour clarifies: Citizens councils 'indefensible'. When asked why my hometown in Mississippi did not suffer the same racial violence when I was a young man that ...
Haley Barbour, White Supremacists, White Citizens Council, Council of Conservative Citizens, Racism, civil rights, Republican Party
TPM writer Eric Kleefeld spoke with Gov. Haley Barbour's official spokesman, Dan Turner, about Barbour's statements in the Weekly Standard praising the segregationist "Citizens' Councils." To recap, here's the quote from the interview: “You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK,” said Barbour. ...
Haley Barbour, White Supremacists, White Citizens Council, Council of Conservative Citizens, Racism, civil rights, Republican Party
The meltdown of the Republican Party into a stinky puddle of racist goo is accelerating. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Governor Haley Barbour (R-MS) actually praised the civil rights era white supremacist group known as the "White Citizens' Council." As Barbour recalls it in a new profile in ...
Haley Barbour, White Supremacists, White Citizens Council, Council of Conservative Citizens, Racism, civil rights, Republican Party