Republicans losing thier minds as a nigger gets closer to being POTUS

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Lets see, you started a thread accusing Republicans of racism while using childish adjectives such as Bush lite-Mcain and pubbie. OK, lets review the history of the KKK.

From Wiki:

** Indeed, all they had in common, besides being overwhelmingly white, southern, and Democratic, was that they called themselves, or were called, Klansmen.[15]

Historian Eric Foner observed:

In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.[16]

To that end they worked to curb the education, economic advancement, voting rights, and right to keep and bear arms of blacks.[16] The Ku Klux Klan soon spread into nearly every southern state, launching a “reign of terror” against Republican leaders both black and white. Those political leaders assassinated during the campaign included Arkansas Congressman James M. Hinds, three members of the South Carolina legislature, and several men who served in constitutional conventions.**

It’s not the Republican Party that has a former Klan leader firmly seated in the Senate. In fact, when a Klan member tried to run as a Republican (David Duke) he got the beat-down from his own party. And I’m sure you’re aware of the AP poll that shows 1/3 of white Democrats have racial issues. Trying to assign Klan beliefs to Republicans is a HUGE case of hypocrisy.

Since I don’t think you’re capable of apologizing for your racist views I’ll just invite you to sit on your hatred until civility and rational thought return you to your senses.

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Holy crap you said the “n word”!! :eek:

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Interesting red herring. But then you left off this telling bit from that very same Wikipedia page.

So, if the South and lower Midwest tends to vote Republican NOW (since that estimate is of the present), that means that KKK groups and supporters are either a democratic minority in these areas or they vote along with the Republican majority in these areas. Since I don’t think anyone could claim that KKK members vote Democratic with a straight face, that means that they have likely abandoned the Democratic party. So, what changed - the political positions of the Democratic party or the political positions of the Ku Klux Klan?

Even the OP isn’t saying that all Republicans are racist.

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It might surprise you to learn that things have changed a little in the last 130 years.

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The AP poll wasn’t taken 130 years ago.

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Never siad he did. He said “many” and I pointed out the hypocracy and backed it up with the AP poll.

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I wouldn’t want any of them brain-dead fools who were interviewed, voting for me anyway, if I was Obama. I never knew being able to sing “The Star Spangled Banner” was an election qualification though, so I’ve learned something by listening to that crap.

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I seriously doubt a white candidate with the same political equivalent of Obama would have been elected in the Primary. You can’t deny that Obama got a bump from African American voters.

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Sometimes, much more than is admitted, it’s the first resort.

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Wrong. Most black racists don’t vote.

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I’ve been trying to stay out of the various racism threads because I have been wholly unable to formulate my own view. On one hand, I still believe racism will strongly influence the voting this year, either in its pure form, its reverse form, and maybe even in “white guilt” form. But, bring it into focus, this is just saying: race is not a dead issue in America. I think that’s a well-accepted notion that requires no debate. This run for president has brought the subject up again, but let’s not suppose that this is actually some kind of special phenomenon. Racist thoughts in various ways aren’t dead, and a black person running for president makes us see more clearly that this issue is here. End of story.

Sometimes I think the McCain camp has tried to tickle some dormant racist ideas in the electorate as a campaign strategy. I am not convinced it can make a difference, which then causes me to think that I only think I see the McCain camp tickling those ideas and they really aren’t tickling those ideas, because they can reason it out same as I. Which then causes me to wonder to what extent, and in what way, race is affecting my decisions in this election. I’m seeing shadows of racism everywhere. But then I think: well I admit race is not a dead issue, maybe I’m not seeing shadows of it in my hallucinatory peripheral vision, maybe I’ve just underestimated its ubiquity.

One thing is certain: it will not become clearer to me what the real situation is after the election. Obama being elected, or not, is not conclusive data on the issue of race in America.

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Not to mention the most incompetent.

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Let me get this straight, you’re equating this:

With support/membership in the KKK? While 1/3 of the respondents’ inclination towards negative adjectives for an entire race is troubling, of that 33%, 58% still said they planned to vote Obama. So, it stands to reason that this 58% of this subset aren’t the ones saying Obama is an Arab/secret Muslim/terrorist/black militant. But just to continue with your comparison, who do you think the membership of the KKK is more inclined to vote for now?

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I’m a little concerned you may have something there. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that black churches have begun to take precautions.

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This topic is GD material and not Pit? Surely the SDMB is now showing its liberal bias. WTF now, what is exactly being debated here with this inflammatory subject?

It is purely Pit material and insulting to any McCain supporter who is voting on ideology. Are the 90 plus percent of blacks voting for Obama doing it for racial reasons? Can I post in Great Debates that “Niggers Hate White People” because of these polls?

I would submit that the admin that the moderator spoke with needs to rethink his decision…

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what percentage of Republicans does that represent. I’ve never met anyone who remotely thinks Obama is Muslim or for that matter would care. And your discounting Democrats who spread the same rumors.

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It offers no basis for comparison between parties, not that the AP poll has squat to do with what I posted anyway, which was simply addressing your bizarre introduction of 19th-century politics into a thread about contemporary events as if the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s had never happened.

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Really, so Louis Farrakhan isn’t publicly supporting Obama? Can you back up your statement?

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I was browsing a website I used to frequent when I was more righty…and I can’t tell if I’ve just become that liberal or they’ve gotten more insane, but the people on those forums are completely fricken insane. When the lady said she was afraid of Obama because “He’s an Arab” and McCain told her Obama was a nice guy, the deziens completely lost it, and started condeming McCain for being a Giant pussy and wanting to lose. They also think that McCain has been far too nice to Obama in his attack ads.

Of course, most of those people also really, really believe that Obama is both a Muslim and a Socalist, Islamofacist terrorist sleeper Agent.

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He’s not Muslim! [j/k]