Writes: Paul Jenkins

The GOP’s White Supremacy

When a 19 year-old white supremacist recently gained a seat on the Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committee, the election created such an outcry that embarrassed local politicians used a technicality to block his seating.

The entire process was buffoonish, although the views of the spawn of a grand wizard of the KKK and his supporters were not. Events such as this, or the stunning success of David Duke in Louisiana in 1990, occur every few years within the GOP, a reminder of the party’s racist faction.

   Dead GOP Elephant

Even more standard for Republicans, especially in the year that saw Barack Obama’s election, are the off-key comments about uppitiness, Senators whistling Dixie, and, most recently, a funny little party-endorsed mailer called "Barack the Magic Negro."

All of this stupidity, and hatred, is a symptom of the larger problem for the Republican Party: it is utterly unrepresentative of America in the 21st century. Its Congressional representation is nearly uniformly white, and overwhelmingly male.

So much so, in fact, that there is not one single African-American GOP member of Congress (out of 219 or 220); nor, for that matter, are there any black GOP Governors (out of 22).

There are just four Republican Latinos in Congress, all Florida Cuban-Americans; one of them, Senator Mel Martinez, has
announced his retirement. He is the only non-white or Hispanic GOP Senator…..[Continued]

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Watch Zbigniew Brzezinski Skewer the ALWAYS WRONG ReTHUGliNUT Joe ‘Marlboro‘ Scarborough, as his daughter Mika Brzezinski watches. Dr. Brzezinski Called Republican Scarborough — ‘Stunningly Superficial.’

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