Comments on: Gov. Ehrlich & His Racist Pals

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 04:07:23 +0000

Funny Oliver, I seem to recall your website peddling the book by former KKK Exalted Cyclops and career white supremacist/segregationist Robert C. Byrd.

Guess that makes YOU a racist, doesn’t it?

By: ian

ian — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 03:07:34 +0000

Sorry I didn’t elborate my post .. but Oliver you’re argument is ignorant. That is like saying the NAACP is a racist organization … hmm actually that is a bad argument because they are … but you get my point.

By: CollegePundit

CollegePundit — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:07:29 +0000

Give it a rest, Oliver. It was a fundraiser. Period. I don’t see your “moral indignation” over the fact that Democrats and their supporters held fundraisers there and yet there was no shaken fists and clenched teeth.

The club does not have a written policy forbidding African-Americans from joining, and club members attest to the fact that African-Americans have played and dined there – hardly the “racist” club that you make it out to be. Especially when a professional Drama Queen like Kweisi Mfume, who has probably never even applied to the club before, is suddenly a “victim” where they “can’t” join, despite no physical, verbal, or written policy that would prove that out. Nothing like a non-existent barrier to prevent you from joining, huh?

By: CollegePundit

CollegePundit — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:07:12 +0000

Non-Stories and the Guys Who Bring ‘Em Up

Oliver Willis has jumped onto this non-story (with more here) about Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich’s recent fundraiser at a “racist” golf club. By “racist”, Oliver and others are inferring that, because there are not any registered black members…

By: ian

ian — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 22:07:36 +0000

You’re ignorant Oliver.

By: cellulose

cellulose — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:07:41 +0000

Maybe I don’t understand the situation, but isn’t it illegal for a public event to take place at a private place, if that private place excludes certain people on the basis of race?

Or is this not a public event?

Either way, a “private right” does not necessarily entail “is not racist.”

By: JD

JD — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:07:53 +0000

Maybe Michael Steele does not give a rip if a group of people in a private club utilize their rights as private citizens. What is more probable is that the Governor and Lieutenant Governor rented a physical structure from a group for a fundraiser, and this gets morphed into he hangs out with racists?