Black Republicans are running an ad that says Democrats found KKK

[LynneSin]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060921/ap_on_el_se/black_republicans_ad;_ylt=AlXb0oEtlCdHHkoNvG9AN6WM5QcF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

Black Republicans run racially tinged ad
By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press Writer
Thu Sep 21, 3:01 PM ET



ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers.

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the black Republican nominee for Maryland's open Senate seat, disavowed the ad Thursday as "insulting to Marylanders". He said his campaign asked the Washington-based National Black Republican Association to stop running it.

At an event in Baltimore, Steele said, "I don't know exactly what the intent of the ad was" but that "it's not helpful to the public discourse."

The ad does not mention Steele or his Democratic opponent, Rep. Ben Cardin.

The association's president, Frances Rice, did not return calls for comment. The group, founded a year ago, promotes the GOP to black voters

[marmar]

1. Proof positive that Repugs, regardless of race, color, class or creed...

are lying jackasses.

[yellowcanine]

2. I give Steele a little credit for distancing himself from this ad - though

it took him a couple of days to do it and his initial response was a little too tolerant of the idea, imo. But better late than never!

On edit: The cynical side of me wonders if Steele took some "wet finger in the wind measurements" in Prince George's County and sensed a black backlash to the ad against the pubbies.

[LynneSin]

4. I'm guessing the ads could show up in Pennsylvania and Ohio

God forbid they expose the real truth happening in Ohio where a black man is doing his darndest to repress African-American voters.

[yellowcanine]

9. Maybe someone should remind those black Repukes of RECENT history

say, beginning around 1964.

[zbdent]

3. Dems did found the KKK - in its early days ... it was the Repuke party

which re-animated its corpse and raised it from the dead to its current status ...

Funny, how the party that can only show the same 3 black people amidst the thousands of whites at their convention keeps saying that the opposition party is racist ...

And don't forget who the party is that embraces the flag that symbolizes the racists of old ... and says it's a symbol of "heritage" ... I wonder if they would be happy to be next door to an old German couple who want to show their "heritage" since they grew up in the 30s ...

[LynneSin]

7. It was a democrat who filibustered the Civil Rights movement.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond#1960s

Mind you, it was Strom Thurmond and he left the party because of the growing support of civil rights in the democratic party.

But idiots like this organization with the KKK ad would probably just add: "In 1957, it was democrats who staged the longest filibuster on record to prevent the passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act"

[zbdent]

23. You're making my point for me ...

Strom left because the Dems wanted them to have the rights that all should enjoy ...

[City Lights]

5. I heard about this on MSNBC this morning.

They're talking about it again now.

[TayTay]

6. Really, did they include any photos of Katrina victims on roofs in NOLA

by any chance? You know, the shots that prove that Rethuglican 'trickle-on' economics and compassionate conservatism are really working out well for people of color?

[LynneSin]

10. Or the 4-hour lines in Ohio Urban areas on 2004 Election day

where too few machines were distributed for such a large populated area?

[babylonsister]

8. MSNBC just aired it, claiming Steele wants it yanked. So question:

why'd they air it? To stir up the bigots?

[LynneSin]

11. Kinda like a push-pull

Run the ad a couple of times, get some press on it and THEN have the candidate state that he has nothing to do with it and the ad should be pulled.

I call it a raging sucess. Hopefully this will provide the negative press like the Santorum liefest ad he ran in Pennsylvania - Local News in PA are holding Santorum accountable for the falsehoods in that ad

[beaconess]

14. Because they think Black people are stupid.

[bushisanidiot]

12. Yes, but the KKK was and still IS a CONSERVATIVE organization

There was a time when republicans were more liberal than democrats, but the parties have changed since then.. anyone who doesn't know that and believes the shit the repukes are spewing, don't deserve to vote.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Doesn't this just show...

how much the Republicans have moved to the right?

[progressisvirtue]

15. well... they did

those who started the KKK WERE democrats, but as we all know party affiliation in the south flipped dramatically in the mid 20th century... i think it would be more apt to say RACISTS started the KKK, since the fight against racism dwarfs party politics

[LynneSin]

16. Like I said - it was a democrat who filibustered the 1957 Civil Rights Act

Of course the democrat in question was Strom Thurmond but we don't really need to bore people with the details

:crazy:

Welcome to DU :hi:

[progressisvirtue]

17. thanks!

ive been lurking for awhile, finally joined up

[progressisvirtue]

18. oh and

isnt that the fillibuster here he read names out of a phonebook?

[LynneSin]

21. Yep, longest filibuster on record done by a democrat against Civil Rights

Damn, did I forget again to mention that was Strom Thurmond who left the party because of the Civil Rights movement

:crazy:

[9119495]

19. And Truman desegregated the military, Johnson made civil rights

a reality.

And they are claiming Lincoln as their most recent example of a good republican for blacks.

Good luck with that.

[LynneSin]

22. If Lincoln was alive he'd be a democrat

and horrified at the state of the Republican party today

[9119495]

24. Good point.

[Jack Rabbit]

20. Fe, fi, fo, fove. I smell the shit of Karl Rove.

This sounds like the modus operendi of the Swift Boat Liars.

This isn't inaccurate. The South became a one-party state after the Civil War. Of course they were Democrats.

In more recent history, the Klan endorsed the re-election candidacy of President Reagan. In what was probably his greatest single act of generosity to Afro-Americans, Reagan renounced the endorsement.

And let us not forget to mention that Boss Tweed was Democrat. In the same era, James Fisk and Jay Gould were Republicans. In more recent times, Edwin Edwards, Dan Rostenkowski and William Jefferson are Democrats; and Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney are Republicans.

And Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who by black magic got voters to rise from the graveyards to vote for his machine's candidates, was a Democrat. And Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell are Republicans.