Tancredo Aide Epstein: Racist crackpot calling the kettle black

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http://washingtonindependent.com/45075/tom-tancredo-and-the-n-word

Tom Tancredo Staffer Pleads Guilty to Karate-Chopping Black Woman
By David Weigel 6/1/09 10:49 AM

For years, conservative writer and activist Marcus Epstein has worked with the mainstream of the immigration restrictionist movement. He wrote speeches for former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) during his presidential bid, and he’s still working as the executive director of Tancredo’s Team America PAC, alongside Bay Buchanan. Epstein has been targeted for years by civil rights groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the One People’s Project, who have obtained Epstein’s guilty plea to a hate crime he committed two years ago.


From the U.S. Attorney’s factual proffer:

On July 7, 2007, at approximately 7:15 p.m. at Jefferson and M Street, Northwest, in Washington, D.C., defendant was walking down the street making offensive remarks when he encountered the complainant, Ms. <REDACTED>, who is African-American. The defendant uttered, “Nigger,” as he delivered a karate chop to Ms. <REDACTED>’s head.

Epstein has pled guilty and will be sentenced on July 8, although he changed his plea to water down an admission of guilt into the belief that “the government could prove me guilty.” A spokesman for Team America PAC confirmed that Epstein is still at work until he leaves for law school in the fall, and an official statement is forthcoming.

Tancredo has taken a large public role in criticizing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, telling MSNBC that the judge “appears to be a racist.”

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1. Names to faces

Mr. Epstein:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Marcus Epstein is part Korean and part Jewish. What the fuck is he thinking.

Is he really so deluded to think the white supremacists he so desperately wants to be a part of regard him as one of them?