Democratic Congressman: Slaveholding States Became Tea Party, Oppose Obama Because Of His Race

[DonViejo]

“I have been requested not to talk about that too much.”

posted on Aug. 25, 2014, at 12:30 p.m.

Andrew Kaczynski
BuzzFeed Staff

Democratic New York Rep. Charlie Rangel stood by earlier comments that Republican opposition to President Obama is in part based upon his race, and added in an interview with C-SPAN’s Q&A that slaveholding states became Tea Party states.

“I have been requested not to talk about that too much,” Rangel said in the interview, when asked about his previous remark. “I think the reason for it is that it is just too darn obvious as to what it is all about.”

“I think if you take a look and see which counties and which Congressional districts, which areas of the United States had the most prejudice, it would be the slaveholding states,” he continued. “It would be the Confederate states. It would be the states that fought the Union. Those that hated Lincoln.”

Rangel went on, saying Confederates became Dixiecrats and are today members of the Tea Party.

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. The blatant, ugly truth.

We're still two countries, joined at the hip. The Union and the Confederacy. The only place I disagree with Rangel is in that the geography is more muddled these days. There are plenty of wannabe Confederates in 'northern' states as well.

[AlinPA]

2. I believe Charlie Rangel: most people know that the animosity is because of the President's skin

color. A considerable number of the teabagger/confederate type are in PA as well as in the previous "slave states".

[hifiguy]

3. Mighty hard to argue with that.

[Octafish]

4. Hasn't been talked about too much since this guy was in the White House.

Which is as long as Trickle Down has been the law and lay of the land.

[riqster]

5. There are a lot of those jackalopes in Ohio, too.

I don't think it can be neatly defined by state boundaries these days.

But by racial animus? Oh fuck yeah.

[underpants]

6. "George W. Bush should put to rest forever the idea of white supremacy"

Charles Rangel paraphrased

On edit - actual quote

http://politicalquotes.org/node/67251


"He shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all."

Charles B. Rangel
U. S. Congressman (Democrat, NY)
Description of President George W. Bush
Interview on New York Public Television, March 28, 2005