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 detat 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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Judi Lynn
(160,508 posts)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.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)Aristus
(66,307 posts)...in the 1870's! Where the hell has this guy been for the last 140 years?
rurallib
(62,401 posts)The Voting Rights Act and Dick Nixon realigned the racist elements into the Republican base.
riversedge
(70,177 posts)I looked at some of his tweets. He a mean dude.
H
inanna
(3,547 posts)Psychotic? In that photo anyways.
mountain grammy
(26,605 posts)Pendrench
(1,356 posts)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
NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,294 posts)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.
What a weasel!