Black Conservative at Cain Event Calls Dems 'Party of KKK'

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Black Conservative at Cain Event Calls Dems 'Party of KKK'

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Conservative activist Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, chairman of the right wing blog ragingelephants.org, called the Democrats a racist party of the Klu Klux Klan at a Houston Tea Party rally.

"They're the racists, not us," he said alluding to the Democratic party's past affiliation with Jim Crow and segregation.

The words were spoken at an event sponsored by the Clear Lake Tea Party where Herman Cain was the keynote speaker.

Cain took the stage after Kamau-Imani and has not condoned nor condemned Kamau-Imani's comments.

"Our campaign is all about promoting civil dialogue -- while there may be differences of opinion on a wide variety of topics, we believe in never being disagreeable," Cain's spokesman toldNBC News.

Kamau-Imani continued with his comments, name-calling prominent individuals.

"Somebody needs to get in Al 'Shakedown' Sharpton's face and call him a liar. Somebody needs to get in Cornell West's face and call him a bald face gap tooth liar."

And that's not all.

"Somebody needs to get in front of Jesse 'castration' Jackson and call him a liar."

Cain was not in attendance while Claver was speaking and his spokesman said he does not think the presidential hopeful was aware of Kamau-Imani's contentious remarks.

Other Tea Partiers spoke at the event as Cain autographed copies of his newly-released memoir, This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House.

 

[thoughtone]

 

[QueEx]

The good Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani is right! The Democrats were the party of the racist Klu Klux Klan.

But, like many who skew history for their own benefit, he half spoke. The good Apostle omitted the rest of the story:

"From the Civil War until the 1930's, the party of Lincoln was the party of black America. The Democrats permitted no blacks to attend conventions in any official capacity until 1924, and even the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 did little at first to change things. Ralph Bunche, later a noted peacemaker but then a young black political scientist, complained that ''the New Deal only serves to crystallize those abuses and oppressions which the exploited Negro citizenry of America have long suffered under laissez-faire capitalism.''

. . .​

But in 1936, there were 10 black delegates and 22 alternates at the Democrats' convention in Philadelphia, despite Southern protests, and Roosevelt, with union support, captured 71 percent of the black vote.

Still, in that Presidential election and the six following ones, Republican nominees took 25 percent to 40 percent of the black vote. Black delegations from Southern states survived well into the Eisenhower era.

The big change came in 1964 with Barry Goldwater and ''states' rights,'' <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">a phrase and philosophy widely seen as anti-black</span> and opposed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the godfather of voting rights for blacks. In that Presidential election and the seven after, no Republican gained more than 15 percent of the black vote. Mr. Bush took only 10 percent in 1988, when he built his campaign in part around his opponent's freeing a black convict who then raped a white woman. In 1992, he added but one percentage point.

. . .​

But most important is the Republican Party's recent record as the vehicle of white supremacy in the South, beginning with the Goldwater campaign and reaching its apex in Richard M. Nixon's <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">''Southern strategy''</span> in 1968 and 1972. Republicans appealed to Nixon Democrats (later Reagan Democrats) in the Northern suburbs, many of them ethnic voters who had left the cities to escape from blacks, with promises to crack down on welfare cheats and to bring law and order; the party also fought affirmative action.

That legacy, said Eddie N. Williams of the Joint Center for Political Studies, a nonpartisan research group focusing on black issues, remains a formidable burden for Republicans. Even if General Powell had been on the ticket this year, Mr. Williams said, Republicans would probably not have won a majority of black votes.

. . .​

. ''Something more fundamental . . . as to change. Their program has to change; their approach has to change.''


That flies in the face of the tactics enunciated by Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Citing polls that show one-third of blacks or more defining themselves as conservatives, Mr. Barbour argues that it would be a mistake to ''water down'' his party's message. Instead, he says, Republicans need to convince blacks that smaller government, education reform and tough criminal-justice policies are in their self-interest.

See, G.O.P. Tries Hard to Win Black Votes, but Recent History Works Against It​

And, regarding that Southern Strategy, "[a]lthough the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it but merely popularized it. In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.​

The good Apostle was only half right. The whole truth is there are racist elements in BOTH the Democratic and Republican parties, the Libertarians not excluded.

 

[thoughtone]

The good Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani is right! The Democrats were the party of the racist Klu Klux Klan.

But, like many who skew history for their own benefit, he half spoke. The good Apostle omitted the rest of the story:

Republicans sight the "Good ole' days" of 50, 70, 80 years ago.

I wonder why?

 

[Upgrade Dave]

Since the Politics Board crew already checked in on this thread, I'll just at that idiot's blatant pandering.
He needs to be quiet. The GOP like to cater to the KKK vote and we wouldn't want them thinking his boy Herm isn't one of the "good ones". Maybe that's why Cain distanced himself from the statements. He wasn't worried about civil discourse when he was defending Hank Williams Jr.

 

[QueEx]

Since the Politics Board crew already checked in on this thread, I'll just at that idiot's blatant pandering.

Hell, LOL, I could have saved all those words and summed it all up with just two (2) of your words: "blatant pandering."

BTW, why has Gunner, Lamar, et al., not denounced the good Apostle already ???

Where are they? - Paling around actinanass ???

 

[Upgrade Dave]

Hell, LOL, I could have saved all those words and summed it all up with just two (2) of your words: "blatant pandering."

BTW, why has Gunner, Lamar, et al., not denounced the good Apostle already ???

Where are they? - Paling around actinanass ???

I wouldn't have been reduced to two words if you hadn't put out so much factual information. So I just play my lane of witty one liners.


They never seem interested in this kind of stuff. It's far more immportant to follow behind the next fake scandal trumped up by Fox News and their ilk.
I can't remember what any of them said about GOP voter suppression laws.
The game is :we allow that Democrats and Obama aren't perfect and do things we disagree with and we say so openly while Gunner and Co. never acknowledge the hot mess that is the Republican Party nationally.

 

[SPECTRE1]

Unions have been gutted (a source of campaign donations) forcing many Democrats to cozy up more to corporations and the wealthy. The corporations, Wall Street, and the wealthy have become a pimp putting both parties on the stroll for the voters to pick. That is why you see weak actions taken by Democrats to improve Unionization, Universal Healthcare, employee representation in the boardroom, getting rid of employment at will, unemployment insurance, or having a Job Council overwhelming stacked with Corporate Leaders (20 to 1 ratio). The reason 'Bush' tax cuts are renewed and the willingness to cut benefits rather than raising taxes on the rich.

When Republicans weaken Unions they force Democrats to get more of their money from corporations and become Republican lite.

If they are not talking about employee representation in the boardroom, getting rid of employment at will, universal healthcare like the rest of the industrialized countries, than you are not dealing with a real liberal.

 

[nittie]

It's a mistake to focus on race it's about ideology anyone can move up if they understand the game thats why Cain and Obama are where they are. It's why C J Walker was able to become the first female millionaire in America.