We’re not saying all Republicans are racist, but it’s a sure bet that most racists are Republican. During a call to C-SPAN regarding the recent election bloodbath, Anthony from San Diego on the Republican line said:
This is about race. Republicans hate that n***er Obama.
At least he’s honest.
Here’s the clip, thanks to Talking Points Memo:
This isn’t the first time host Steve Scully has had to deal with idiotic racists calling in. On the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, multiple callers wanted to talk about “white oppression.” Let’s give credit to Scully for his apparently limitless supply of patience.
Yet language aside, Anthony from San Diego is somewhat right. Republicans really do hate Obama, and it really is about race. When it comes down to it, President Obama is a moderate at best. His economic record is better than Reagan’s. The deficit is down. Jobs are up. Yet no matter what, Republicans aren’t just naysaying — they’re refusing to cooperate or budge, even a little.
So what makes him different? I’d say it’s pretty obvious. It’s much easier to get people to vote against something than for, and Republicans capitalized on that this election cycle. Unfortunately for the GOP, now they find themselves in an awkward position for a party without a head — having to actually govern.
It’s hard to solve problems when nobody knows who is in charge or what ideology to follow. There’s a great chance that Anthony from San Diego will be right about the cost of overreaching, as well. And at this point, that’s the best hope of the Democrats.
Featured image screencaptured from video, H/T TPM
if a picture paints a 1000 words then why cant i paint you. but they will say we are the racist people lol. cindy lauper said it best true colors
Just because a fool called in on the Republican line does not make him a Republican. Democrats have along history of doing stupid things like this in an attempt to make Republicans look bad. Democrats founded the KKK.
You people are pathetic.
Sure buddy. Keep telling yourself that.
Nice response completely void of reality. Prove the caller was Republican.
Maybe not ,probably a dem . who done the math,and WOKE UP !!!!
How about you leave the math alone and start with the grammar and maybe the punctuation. That would be great.
How about starting the video again, then paying attention from around 0:15, when the caller says, “the Republicans - and I’m a Republican”?
Prove he was democrat. We have more evidence for him being republican, he did say he was republican.
NOOO, idiot (Me Her) - the Democrats who founded the KKK are now card bearing members of the Repugnicant party. You bought the stupid, hook, line, and sinker. YOU are the problem with America, YOU are the reason we are no longer a great country. YOU are the reason we will enter the next dark age. Do some frigging research, learn what actually happened before, during and AFTER the civil war. With morons like you voting, who needs world war 3, you are doing more damage with a voter ID than any bomb EVER could. AND I hate to tell you this but the guy who owns 1/2 your party is a Saudi Prince. The other 1/2 is owned by Koch industries. You are so blinded by race, gays and abortion you see NOTHING of the things we have in common - as your party slowly dismantles this now god forsaken country.
No, you moron, the Southern Dems that founded the KKK are all dead. But you Dems did have a former grand dragon of the KKK representing you in the Senate for many decades. Robert Byrd.
I don’t think that West Virginia qualifies as a bastion of Democratic influence, but nice try. That’s all the GOP lives to do…deflect away from what is right there. The reality is, those Dixiecrats exist the same way Jackie Robinson exists in baseball. They ESTABLISHED the foundation for which much of the Republican Party exists upon today…the southern strategy, extreme Christian conservatism, and the guise of lesser government. You know, for those gays and Muslims and blacks and immigrant Mexicans. But when it comes to guns or taking away women’s rights or whatever…never any problem interfering in matters or making the government’s role or scope of power larger. Amazing how that continues to work.
I’m not going to keep pointing out that which is a fact. Southern Democrats are the absolute inception of racism in the US. Saying that the Republican Party sprang from that somehow is asinine. Secondly, the current Republican party is slowly but surely being overcome by Libertarian leaning fiscal conservatives. It’s the Liberals and media that keep the social issues coming up over and over again. Frankly, I (a Republican) don’t give a damn who anyone sleeps with. And I’d challenge anyone to come up with one REAL right that Republicans are trying to take away from women. If you don’t know by now, the “War on Women” is a media-created lie. Never happened.
Not asinine at all. When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, he is known to have said that he had just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come. Hence the Dixiecrats who later became republicans. A REAL right that republicans are trying to take away from women is the freedom of choice over their own bodies. That choice was granted to them by the Supreme Court somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 years ago and I cannot believe that we are being forced to refight this battle. The War on Women is indeed real and is still happening. Another example is that women on average are paid .78 cents for every dollar a man makes for equal work. That is grossly unfair.
On average, women don’t do the same work as men. It’s a fact of society. They generally raise and care for the children and their careers are hurt for that reason. The Republican party is not keeping anyone from making any more money. Either sex. Keep up that rhetoric though. Fact is, most women know it’s a load of crap.
I don’t identify with either pro-life or pro-abortion politics. But the fact is when you say “freedom of choice over their own bodies” you are saying “freedom to kill a baby inside them”. My personal view isn’t necessarily a moral one. I actually think that most babies that are aborted are babies that I wouldn’t want coming into the world anyway. They are babies of irresponsible, resource-sucking parents (usually only the mother is still in the picture) that shouldn’t breed. It’s better for society as a whole to terminate this kind of population. On the other hand, I can clearly see why some have a moral problem with doing this. If it wasn’t such a big deal, mothers wouldn’t be getting counseling after terminating their babies….
Who repubs revere….
When you look at history, you see that the Progressives were Republicans, the racist, and frankly traitorous, Southern Conservatives were the Democrats. Over time they switched, with the last holdout Democratic Conservatives being the Dixiecrats. Republicans helped pass the Civil Rights acts of LBJ. Of course, the base of the Rs now is the solid South, Talk Conservative/Liberal, not Republican/Democrat when you recall the past.
You are so right! But!!!…all of those Democrats changed to the Republican party. All Republicans are not racist but, most of them are!
You are yet another moron who ignores the reality of the culture of the Klan. It wasn’t a political party that founded the Klan, it was the slave trading bible following people of the south. Their party can change daily, the culture does not. Today the same fools vote to undermine their standard of living in the same way their fore fathers did when they lined up in open fields to be shot dead so plantation owners could hold onto free labor that was constantly undermining the price poor white farmers got for the farm goods. The bible teaches that slavery is acceptable. It is not a book that founded the Democratic party. On the other hand, the Republicans swear the USA was founded on biblical principals. What more be said? A cult as the Klan is now a cult as a political party. You are a perfect specimen of such a cult.
oh st . jame,s look at Ferguson And do the math. we,ve got ignorant people every where. once again DO THE MATH !!
What really gets me about racist people is that they only see the
African part of Obama and ignore the Caucasian part of him. Obama was
raised in a white family setting; he had a Caucasian grandpa, a
Caucasian grandma, Caucasian uncles, and Caucasian cousins. In my
personal opinion, he’s more Caucasian and African, BUT the MATTER of
“Skin Color” has been an issue for hundreds of years. Apparently, it’s
not going away because (shades of color) is the PURPOSE of God. Now this
is one of those times when they need to, “GET OVER IT ALREADY.”
Far be it for me to defend racism or republicans, but that guy could have easily been a troll.
To state that most racists are Republicans is about as stupid of a comment that a person can make. Do you think a lot of Black Panters are Republicans? How about all of the members of La Raza? Or how about being a white person walking the streets of Harlem at night? Think a lot of racist Republicans are going to be around?
Just because this one man is too ignorant to control his own spewing mouth doesn’t give people a right to paint everyone that looks like him or votes like him in the same light.
Do you realize how stupid you sound with this attempt at false equivalency? White people walk freely around Harlem because a ton of them LIVE THERE stupid! The Black Panthers were a group created in REACTION to white oppression. Less than 0.02% of black people in the United States make up Black Panthers. There are literally over 50 million registered white Republicans. You’re such an idiot.
It’s not FALSE equivalency. It is the same stupid comparison. When you say that 50 million people who are registered Republican are all racist, chances are pretty good it’s you that is the brain-washed idiot.
I listened to a few minutes of Hannity while driving home yesterday. He had the nerve to say that blacks suffered the most oppression during the fifty or so years during the twentieth century when the Democrats controlled the Congress. I wonder who he thinks passed the Civil Rights Act and what Republican presidential nominee opposed it? We all had such high hopes in the sixties. Who would have seen the future?
Democrats also passed anti lynching laws. I guess old Hannity thought being beating to death for trying to vote and having no civil rights were good times.
It’s about ideology, not party label. The reason racist have to go back over 150 years to claim President Lincoln, is because the republicans stopped being the party of Lincoln shortly after his assassination. They do that, because they started to take on the racist ideology long ago. The republican party had changed so much, 67% of blacks in the north voted for FDR, a Democrat. By 1964 and 65 after the civil and voting rights acts were passed, the remaining Democrats (dixicrats) went to the Republican party, because they didn’t want blacks to have civil rights. So blacks started voting 90 to 95% for Democrats. We knew who the kluxers were and they were in the REPUBLICAN party. That’s why the southern strategy ( to draw all racist together as a voting block to vote against what they, REPUBLICAN RACIST CALLED “N LOVERS”. And the republican party of today, is still about 100% southern strategy racist. Heck, they just elected a white supremacist, who still believes in secession and the wrong side won the civil war. In other words, they elected a guy who still believes in slavery. Old black Mississippian and I approve my message, because I lived it. The republican party today, is full of those with a vicious racist IDEOLOGY.
I don’t care how many republicans racist say they aren’t racist. Every black person in this country know they are, because we’ve live under their feet of oppression all of our lives. Who knows it better then black people, especially old black Mississippians like myself. Southern black people actually RAN from the republican party, when we saw all those kluxer dixicrats coming to the Republican party, after the civil rights and voting rights acts were passed. Why did we run? Heck, no one knows KLUXERS like we do. We refused to HANG, get it, HANG around those republican kluxers and confederates. I wish Abe had listened to my distant cousin General Sherman, if he had, we wouldn’t still be dealing with these traitors. They wouldn’t have been given the right to vote back and their confederate ancestors would have gotten life in prison. Traitors!!!
Wait just a minute, I resent the notion all Republicans are raciest and some of you need to get your history straight. Raciest come in all flavors, black, white, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Mormon, Baptist, Hindu, short, tall, skinny and fat doesn’t matter, a raciest is a raciest, it’s that simple.
To claim one political party is more raciest over another is pure stupidity, in fact just saying something as stupid as that is almost raciest (bigotry and racism are birds of a feather). Anyone can call a conservative talk show, claim to be a Republican and say anything they want with total anonymity, so that eliminates any credibility of the caller.
FACT: The first slave owner in America was Anthony Johnson, a “free” black farmer who OWNER black slaves, this incidentally started slavery in America, up until then slavery wasn’t legal in the American colonies.
FACT: During the civil war, the North (mostly Republicans) fought the South (mostly Democrats) to end slavery. (NO, I’m not suggesting all Republicans fought against slavery, nor all Democrats fought for it, see stupidity above)
FACT: The KKK was formed by Southern Democrats and had direct ties with the Southern segregationist (Democratic) government
FACT: The last 5 states to end segregation were Democratically controlled and all 5 had Democrat Governors.
FACT: If all we do is sit around pointing fingers at each other, racism will thrive. We MUST STOP injecting race into every aspect of our lives, We hear it all too often even if race clearly had absolutely nothing to do with the situation.
FACT: Black people have to stop playing the victim, you have to stop listening to the jacksons and sharptens of the world, you ARE good enough, you can have opportunities, you can have a better life, we can live side by side no matter what they try to sell you.
FACT: We all share a common ancestry, your father is my father, we have the same DNA and the same blood flows through our vanes, there is only one race, the human race. Why can’t we just love or hate people because of who they are, not the color of their skin? Do we really want to be the kind of special idiot that only sees skin color?
FACT: Peace, love and respect to all, I’m going to bed…
Of course not all Republicans are Racist; however, those serious Racists, the ones filled with hatred and anger, are ALL Republicans. How could they be otherwise? “Oh I hate those Ni**ers, but I”m voting for Obama……. Seriously? The Tea Party is a magnet for Racists, Good ‘ol Southern Boys having a hard time accepting the Civil War results, KKK,
and angry White Guys feeling displaced…. and my own brother…. who by the way, coincidentally, doesn’t like Blacks.
You must not know too many union members. All of the ones I know are definitely Democrats and they all are racists. Not just against blacks either….
Whenever someone uses the word “all”, I know I’m in a losing battle. MOST union members ARE Democrats, but surely you must realize that a lot of Republicans start working somewhere and then are forced to join a union. Do you really think that would suddenly make you a Democrat? And they are not “ALL” racists; my dad, a Democrat, and member of the railroad union was not a racist. However, do you think anyone with a racial dislike of Blacks would be a Democrat and support Obama? I don’t know any. I do know a few people who spew racial hatred/jokes, and when I ask them if they are they Republicans, they look at me as if I’m crazy and sputter “of course!”
Wow. You are as blind as you are stupid…. which is beyond measure.