In
modern GOP, the old South returns
“The Republican ticket may hail from Massachusetts and Wisconsin,
but Mitt Romneyand Paul Ryan head the most Southernized major
U.S. political party since Jefferson Davis’s day. In its hostility toward
minorities, exploitation of racism, antipathy toward government and suspicion
of science, today’s Republican Party represents the worst traditions of the
South’s dankest backwaters.”
“Following the
incident in which attendees at Tampa’s Republican National Convention threw
nuts at an African American camera operator and said, “This is how we feed
animals,” the Republican National Committee issued a statement:
“Two attendees
tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and
unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.”
CNN also issued a
statement:
“CNN can confirm
there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum
earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this
matter and will have no further comment.”
Cassi
Creek:
In Michigan, a college sophomore
attends an off-campus party. He is accosted
and beaten unconscious by two men who claim to be Klan members and who behave
as if they are Nazis. The victim is left
with a broken jaw and his lips are stapled to his gums. No party attendees intercede or even call the
police.
As if to prove the merit of Meyerson’s
article, two conventioneers throw nuts at a CNN cameraperson, calling the
African-American an “animal.” Such are
the people who wish to choose the future of our nation. Such are the people who want to “take America
back.”
The GOP sprang from the noble position
of an anti-slavery platform. Since the
days of Theodore Roosevelt, they’ve really done little to suggest that they
recall their heritage. When they allied
with the teavangelists and other religious right demagogues, they lost all
moral and ethical continuity with the party of Lincoln.
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