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Huckabee has racist ties - ETSUfan1 - 01-19-2008 12:49 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/mike-huckabees-white-sup_b_82263.html

"As South Carolina's Republican primary election draws nearer, Mike Huckabee has ratcheted up his appeals to the racial nationalism of white evangelicals. "You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag," the former Arkansas governor told a Myrtle Beach crowd on January 17, referring to the Confederate flag. "If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole. That's what we'd do."

Making coded appeals to white racism is nothing new for Huckabee. Indeed, well before he was a nationally known political star, Huckabee nurtured a relationship with America's largest white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. The extent of Huckabee's interaction with the racist group is unclear, but this much is known: he accepted an invitation to speak at the group's annual conference in 1993 and ultimately delivered a videotaped address that was "extremely well received by the audience."[/list]Descended from the White Citizens Councils that battled integration in the Jim Crow South, including at Arkansas' Little Rock High School, the Council (or CofCC) has been designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center."





EDIT. I really don't think he's a racist, but if Ron Paul is considered one, then this story must make Huckabee one too.


RE: Huckabee has racist ties - Fanatical - 01-19-2008 01:27 AM

Watching American politics; I lived in Cincinnati, I'm no longer surprised by racism. We've been been dealing with it for decades and there has never been an end.

I wish I knew a way for everyone to understand we're all human.


RE: Huckabee has racist ties - THE NC Herd Fan - 01-19-2008 10:15 AM

ETSUfan1 Wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/mike-huckabees-white-sup_b_82263.html

"As South Carolina's Republican primary election draws nearer, Mike Huckabee has ratcheted up his appeals to the racial nationalism of white evangelicals. "You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag," the former Arkansas governor told a Myrtle Beach crowd on January 17, referring to the Confederate flag. "If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole. That's what we'd do."

Making coded appeals to white racism is nothing new for Huckabee. Indeed, well before he was a nationally known political star, Huckabee nurtured a relationship with America's largest white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. The extent of Huckabee's interaction with the racist group is unclear, but this much is known: he accepted an invitation to speak at the group's annual conference in 1993 and ultimately delivered a videotaped address that was "extremely well received by the audience."[/list]Descended from the White Citizens Councils that battled integration in the Jim Crow South, including at Arkansas' Little Rock High School, the Council (or CofCC) has been designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center."





EDIT. I really don't think he's a racist, but if Ron Paul is considered one, then this story must make Huckabee one too.

If this was a REAL issue the mainstream press along with Mitt Romney, Fred Thomas and other rivals would have been shouting about this from the highest rooftops.


RE: Huckabee has racist ties - ETSUfan1 - 01-19-2008 11:00 AM

Because we should all believe what the MSM says? God knows they aren't biased.


RE: Huckabee has racist ties - BlazerUnit - 01-22-2008 06:33 PM

ETSUfan1 Wrote:Because we should all believe what the MSM says? God knows they aren't biased.

I thought The Huffington Post was a blog, or more accurately, a collection of blogs and opinion pages.