Arkansas’ Denny Altes: Today’s Republican Bigot Eruption

7:46 pm EST November 29th, 2007 | News | 4 Comments

Here we go again. They can’t help themselves.

image An Arkansas legislator apologized Thursday for an e-mail in which he wrote that "we are being outpopulated by the blacks" and "we are being overrun" by illegal immigrants.

But state Sen. Denny Altes insisted the comments in the e-mail he sent earlier this month to former Fort Smith Mayor Bill Vines were not racist.

"I apologize and I am sorry if it hurt anyone’s feelings. … I’m sorry if it offended anyone, but I didn’t consider it a racist remark," Altes told The Associated Press Thursday.

Altes, who is white, wrote in the e-mail that he was in favor of returning illegal aliens to their countries, but "we know that is impossible."

"We are where we were with the black folks after the Revolutionary War," Altes wrote. "We can’t send them back and the more we (anger them) the worse it will be in the future…. Sure we are being overrun but we are being outpopulated by the blacks also."

Altes is not apologizing. He’s using the weasel language "I’m sorry if it offended anyone". And his friend McQ is buying it.

What’s also funny is in this video where he backpedals to the tried and true racist trope of how his friends come from all races, sort of like Stephen Colbert’s "black friend".

Man, I just don’t know why more black voters don’t vote Republican.

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4 Responses to “Arkansas’ Denny Altes: Today’s Republican Bigot Eruption”

  1. Enlightened Liberal says:
    November 29, 2007 at 7:53 pm

    Robert Byrd !!1111!one!!!!1 There trolls, take the rest of the night off.

  2. MrGreyGhost says:
    November 29, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    Thanks for mentioning Byrd EL, but since OW loves to pick on relatively unknown GOP pols who make dumb remarks, I figure that the most appropriate (and pretty recent) counter in this case would be the notorious Carla Dartez:

    http://www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=7339230

    They just can’t help themselves.

  3. Enlightened Liberal says:
    November 29, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    Thanks ghost for pointing out another conservative racist. You are right, they just can’t help themselves.

  4. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    November 29, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    “…but since OW loves to pick on relatively unknown GOP pols who make dumb remarks…”

    The GOP have used in the past and continue to use a very racist policy called The Southern Strategy. The party as a whole is racist because as a matter of policy, they are racist.

    Finding one or two Democrats doesn’t compare to a strategy implemented by the leadership.