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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 11:04 AM Aug 2017

North Carolina GOP leader accuses Democrats of murdering blacks in unhinged Twitter rant

Source: Raw Story

07 Aug 2017 at 10:43 ET

Republican leader from North Carolina this week went on an unhinged Twitter rant in which he accused the North Carolina Democratic Party of “murdering blacks” in response to an official party tweet in support of the Voting Rights Act.

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NCGOP Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse responded to the tweet by accusing the NC Democratic Party of “murdering blacks” while citing the 119-year-old Wilmington Race Riot as evidence.

The News & Observer asked Woodhouse why he was using a massacre that occurred in the 19th century to attack the modern-day North Carolina Democratic Party, and he “cited the Wikipedia and Encyclopedia of North Carolina entries on the 1898 event that NPR called ‘the only coup d’etat in U.S. history.'”

The News & Observer also notes that, while the Democratic Party in the Southern United States was solidly aligned with white supremacists throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, its grip on the South loosened “beginning in 1948 when some Southern Democrats who disapproved of desegregation and other policies of Democratic President Harry Truman formed the ‘States Rights Democratic Party’ in support of then-South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond in his bid for the presidency.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/north-carolina-gop-leader-accuses-democrats-of-murdering-blacks-in-unhinged-twitter-rant/




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North Carolina GOP leader accuses Democrats of murdering blacks in unhinged Twitter rant (Original Post) inanna Aug 2017 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Shrike47 Aug 2017 #1
They'll do everything they can to try to redirect the racism tag away from themselves, Judi Lynn Aug 2017 #2
The last picture ........... he has the Trump smirk Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #7
This "extraordinarily ugly man" is also extraordinarily stupid red dog 1 Aug 2017 #11
Yes, Democrats killed black people... Aristus Aug 2017 #3
Most especially since the mid-60s when the Civil Rights Act rurallib Aug 2017 #9
freak out .... riversedge Aug 2017 #4
His eyes look..oh I don't know.... inanna Aug 2017 #14
Nuts mountain grammy Aug 2017 #5
The issue is NOT Democratic vs Republican...it's Progressive vs Conservative. Pendrench Aug 2017 #6
woodhouse is simply another malevolent repub asshole. worthless. NRaleighLiberal Aug 2017 #8
The only coup d'etat in US history? What was Fort Sumter, a game of bowls? muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #10
K&R red dog 1 Aug 2017 #12
Oh look, another person who doesn't understand the difference between Democrat and Dixiecrat sakabatou Aug 2017 #13

Response to inanna (Original post)

Judi Lynn

(160,508 posts)
2. They'll do everything they can to try to redirect the racism tag away from themselves,
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 11:20 AM
Aug 2017

even when sane people have always known that the racists in the Southern Democratic party deserted to become Republicans long ago, once Democrats started writing and passing Civil Rights legislation.

This extraordinarily ugly man is parroting the same failed stunts his fellow hate-driven scumballs have tried unsuccessfully far too many times already.



Aristus

(66,307 posts)
3. Yes, Democrats killed black people...
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 11:22 AM
Aug 2017

...in the 1870's! Where the hell has this guy been for the last 140 years?

rurallib

(62,401 posts)
9. Most especially since the mid-60s when the Civil Rights Act
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 12:08 PM
Aug 2017

The Voting Rights Act and Dick Nixon realigned the racist elements into the Republican base.

Pendrench

(1,356 posts)
6. The issue is NOT Democratic vs Republican...it's Progressive vs Conservative.
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 11:43 AM
Aug 2017

The parties have evolved.

The Democratic Party WAS more conservative in the past.

The Republican Party WAS more progressive in the past.

So if he wanted to be honest with his history, he would have said Conservatives were at fault.

I'm sure he knows this, but would rather exploit the ignorance of his intended audience to make a political point.

Tim

muriel_volestrangler

(101,294 posts)
10. The only coup d'etat in US history? What was Fort Sumter, a game of bowls?
Mon Aug 7, 2017, 02:25 PM
Aug 2017

When you fire on federal troops to make them surrender, and occupy a significant part of the country for 4 years, that's a coup d'etat.

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