How Low Can They Go?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 21st, 2013
Good morning!
When you think the racists in America have reached an all time low, they mange to show they can go lower.
CPAC Participant Defends Slavery At Minority Outreach Panel: It Gave ‘Food And Shelter’ To Blacks
By Scott Keyes and Zack Beauchamp on Mar 15, 2013 at 4:23 pm
CPAC participant Scott Terry
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as good for African-Americans.
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. Watch it:
ThinkProgress spoke with Terry, who sported a Rick Santorum sticker and attended CPAC with a friend who wore a Confederate Flag-emblazoned t-shirt, about his views after the panel. Terry maintained that white people have been “systematically disenfranchised” by federal legislation.
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.
At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.”
He claimed to be a direct descendent of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
The panel continued to be racked in controversy, as an African-American audience member repeatedly challenged the racism on display at this event. CPAC is the marquee conservative conference of the year, with speakers ranging from former Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney to Senator Marco Rubio.
Update:
K. Carl Smith, the panelist from Fredrick Douglass Republicans, released a statement following the media storm related to the racist outburst in his panel. Astonishingly, he reserves the brunt of his criticism for the female reporter who raised objections to the comments being made in the room:
I was invited by the Tea Party Patriots to conduct a breakout session entitled: “Trump The Race Card” and share the Frederick Douglass Republican Message. In the middle of my delivery, while discussing the 1848 “Women’s Rights Convention,” I was rudely interrupted by a woman working for the Voice of Russia. She abruptly asked me: “How many black women were there?” This question was intentionally disruptive and coercive with no way of creating a positive dialogue.
In addition, a young man who wasn’t a Tea Party Patriot, made some racially insensitive comments, he said: “Blacks should be happy that the slave master gave them shelter, clothing, and food.” At the conclusion of the breakout session, I further explained to him the Frederick Douglass Republican Message which he embraced, bought a book, and we left as friends.
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March 21st, 2013 at 10:49 am
More of the same, Michelle:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/21/west-virginia-papers-anti-lgbt-column-wants-death-for-nggers-spics-kikes-and-wops/
I noticed in the comments someone said “West Virginia, where in 2008 14% of the population in exit polls said the explicit reason for them voting for McCain was because Obama was black.”
How nice it might be if our schools would only teach kindness and tolerance along with the ABCs.
/SB
March 21st, 2013 at 11:01 am
Slavery is still legal in the US… but only the government can do it. The text of the 13th amendment clearly states this:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation
Read Section 1 again, slower,…. that’s right, slavery is legal if you are convicted of a crime.
What crime is left unspecified. And slavery can’t be cruel and unusual since it is explicitly permitted here.
This seems a bit scary to me. And inexplicably unexploited. I’d have thought that the progressives would have latched onto this as a way to exploit the productive.
Politically it seems unlikely, but with enough fervor about a given crime, passions could overcome sense and we could have slavery again. But hey… I’ll give it a try for a very unpopular crime, just to show how easy it could be if we went down this path…
13th Amendment slavery could be useful as a way to get around the “rights” of sexual predators. Balancing those rights too often reintroduces them into society where they just shouldn’t be. As slaves we could put them where-ever.
There, I just justified slavery. It’s almost too easy!
And apparently, available.
March 21st, 2013 at 3:03 pm
Ken, too cute by half.
March 22nd, 2013 at 8:30 am
It amazes me that there are still so many people who are ignorant of basic premise that all men are created equal. I think that pretty much says it all. Articles like this truly sadden and offend me at my core.
March 22nd, 2013 at 8:32 am
Water Helps Your Brain
Drinking water is the easiest thing you can do for your brain, but most people don’t drink anywhere near enough.
Fact: About 80% of the brain is comprised of water.
If you don’t drink enough—or if you drink a lot of dehydrating liquids, such as coffee or alcohol—you’re going to struggle to think clearly and you may have memory problems. That’s because dehydration increases stress hormones, and stress hormones interfere with cognitive abilities.
Recommended:
Drink half your weight in water ounces every day. Example: If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ll want to drink 75 ounces of water a day. Drink more during the warm months or if you exercise regularly and lose water in perspiration.
Source: Daniel G. Amen, MD, and Tana Amen, RN, BSN. Dr. Amen is a brain-imaging specialist and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.
Tana Amen is a nutritional expert and neurological intensive care nurse. Dr. Amen is author of Use Your Brain to Change Your Age (Crown Archetype). http://www.AmenClinics.com
March 22nd, 2013 at 8:34 am
There are more of these people than you might think. Yeah, they’re serious. There was a short book published on Amazon a few years ago called “Southern Slavery as it was’ which claims to be the real history of slavery – how Christian and caring it was, how black people were happier then than now.
You can read the text here: http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/slavery/southern_slavery_as_it_was.htm