CPAC Minority Outreach Panel Goes Poorly (caught on camera)

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CPAC Minority Outreach Panel Goes Poorly -- Daily Intelligencer

The surely well-intentioned Tea Party Patriots session with black conservative K. Carl Smith of the "Frederick Douglass Republicans" at CPAC today should have been an opportunity to address demographic issues within the Republican party that are not going away. Nope — a racist guy showed up. "It seems to be that you're reaching out to voters at the expense of young white Southern males," who are "being systematically disenfranchised," said the white nationalist dude. It got uglier!

When Smith explained that Frederick Douglass eventually forgave his slave master, the same guy said, "For giving him food? And shelter?" Then things escalated, Talking Points Memo reports: "'Let someone else speak!' one attendee in Revolutionary War garb shouted," not at the aggrieved caucasian man, but at a black woman who tried to say her piece.

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

These nationalistic revisionist cacs are out of their mind. Even other white people were like cringing.

 

[The War Report]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as good for African-Americans.

The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.

After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, “why can’t we just have segregation?” noting the Constitution’s protections for freedom of association. Watch it:

ThinkProgress spoke with Terry, who sported a Rick Santorum sticker and attended CPAC with a friend who wore a Confederate Flag-emblazoned t-shirt, about his views after the panel. Terry maintained that white people have been “systematically disenfranchised” by federal legislation.

When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.

At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.”

He claimed to be a direct descendent of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
The panel continued to be racked in controversy, as an African-American audience member repeatedly challenged the racism on display at this event. CPAC is the marquee conservative conference of the year, with speakers ranging from former Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney to Senator Marco Rubio.

 

[The War Report]

Race debate at CPAC descends into chaos after slavery slur | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

[ltheghost]

These mothafukkas are crazy.

 

[The Real]

 

[Clem]

 

[Crakface]

Dyin breed. They arent fit for the future.

 

[No1]

This can't be life breh.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

DID VINCE MCMAHON BOOK THIS, BROTHER?

 

[superunknown23]

where are the coli's resident c00ns at?

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

More proof that the reason why blacks don't vote Republicans is because they just want handouts.

Jesus fukking christ.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

K. Carl Smith, the panelist from Fredrick Douglass Republicans,*released a statement*following the media storm related to the racist outburst in his panel. Astonishingly, he reserves the brunt of his criticism for the female reporter who raised objections to the comments being made in the room:

I was invited by the Tea Party Patriots to conduct a breakout session entitled: “Trump The Race Card” and share the Frederick Douglass Republican Message. In the middle of my delivery, while discussing the 1848 “Women’s Rights Convention,” I was rudely interrupted by a woman working for the Voice of Russia. She abruptly asked me: “How many black women were there?” This question was intentionally disruptive and coercive with no way of creating a positive dialogue.In addition, a young man who wasn’t a Tea Party Patriot,*made some racially insensitive comments,*he said: “Blacks should be happy that the slave master gave them shelter, clothing, and food.” At the conclusion of the breakout session, I further explained to him the Frederick Douglass Republican Message which he embraced, bought a book, and*we left as friends.

The word c00n is overused and driven through the ground on this site, but this friends, is a c00n.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

listen to this whiny fukking cracKKKer

YOUR AN AMERICAN!!111!!