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It’s good to see that the next generation of Republicans have elected a leader with the same traditional values the party has supported for so long. The states rights crowd that fled the Democratic party after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act later found a home in the formerly racially progressive GOP and never looked back, despite the facts and the morality.
Audra Shay, 38, has won the post of chairman of the Young Republicans — despite accusations that she endorsed racism on Facebook.
Shay’s candidacy, supported by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, hit a snag in recent weeks when she responded to a comment made by a friend on Facebook saying “need to take this country back from all of these mad coons” with “You tell em Eric! lol.”
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But more controversial comments from Shay were found by the Daily Beast. After an effigy of Sarah Palin was hung, she said “What no ‘Obama in a noose? … I am wondering if the guys with the Palin noose would care if we had a bunch of homosexuals in a noose.” She’s also written that President Obama “attacks white people” and posted a video claiming Obama believes he has to help African-Americans over whites to “ensure his own salvation.”
Onward, regional pro-racist right wing party, onward.
(Also, why is a 38 year old leading the Young Republicans?)
why is a 38 year old leading the Young Republicans?
Look at the GOP demographics. A 38 Y.O. IS a “young” Republican.
“Audra Shay, 38, has won the post of chairman of the Young Republicans — despite accusations that she endorsed racism on Facebook.”
She didn’t just endorse racism, she attacked those who complained about racism.
This is the party of Dennis the Bigot, Amused Observer, etc.
To these people, racism isn’t a problem, trying to fight racism is.
You sit in an apartment in Canada and make taunts at people on a blog you can’t see or talk to personally. That’s your idea of doing something about racism. That is, if you really wanted to actually do something about racism, other than assuage your White Guilt complex.
According to you, you identify and mock racists. That’s all you, or anyone for that matter, can do, you say.
Bravo, Strawbridge. You be da man. You set a fine example for everyone.
Both of you quit it. Tired of the personal-insult based thread hijacks. Stick to the issue at hand, even remotely.
“You be da man”
It’s always funny when they demonstrate their misunderstanding of the usage of “be” in African American Vernacular English.
Me: “To these people, racism isn’t a problem, trying to fight racism is.”
Dennis the Bigot: “You sit in an apartment in Canada and make taunts at people on a blog you can’t see or talk to personally. That’s your idea of doing something about racism.”
Hmmm… Didn’t you just complain about personal attacks?
You completely ignored my point, and went after me instead.
“That is, if you really wanted to actually do something about racism, other than assuage your White Guilt complex.”
That’s right. Calling black people ‘Coons’ and telling them to ‘not let the sun set on their black ass’ isn’t racism, it’s all a figment of my ‘White Guilt.’
Is that really what you want to be on record as saying?
Oliver Willis: “Both of you quit it. Tired of the personal-insult based thread hijacks. Stick to the issue at hand, even remotely.”
I am sticking to the issue at hand. Or do you not see the parallel between Audra Shay de-friending the people who complained about the racism and Dennis saying I have a mental disorder for recognizing racism.
In both cases, instead of combating racism, they attack those who point it out.
You called out AO and me unnecessarily in your very first post, then try to act innocent of making personal attacks, when that is your MO here. You never think you are at fault and you’re incapable of ever admitting it when you are.
As to the topic at hand, pointing out racism is ALL you do. Again, what do you do to combat it, Strowbridge?
Even to the people here you feel a burning desire to mock and dishonestly lump them in with racists, none of us takes you even the least bit seriously because it’s all you ever do. You’re like the little boy who cried wolf.
It’s concerning to me that people who are elected officials, who should know better, decided to continue to support Audra, even after she made these racist statements. People that not only supported her but continued to run on Audra Shay’s Ticket such as:
Audra Shay’s Treasurer Candidate – Kelly Arnold, County Clerk – Sedgwick County, Kansas
Audra Shay’s Auditor Candidate – Dennis Cook, President, Consolidated District 230 Board of Education – Illinois (who is thinking of running for Statewide Office in Illinois)
I think it is unacceptable to have these elected officials continue to get elected after their support of such behavior from Mrs. Shay. They should resign along with Mrs. Shay.
The Young Republicans, and even the older ones, while they may try outwardly to distance themselves from racism and homophobia and religious discrimination, know that their “base” consists of the uneducated racist homophobic “God-fearing American” underbelly of our country. They would rather have some nobody Republicans like Shay espouse racism, and benefit from the boost in the Republican base, than do it themselves. This way their base will still vote Republican, and they are personally blameless.
That’s why Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was such a fool in the Sotomayor hearings, to appeal to the base, to show them he wasn’t going to let some “racist Latina female” get by easy. (He will be easily re-elected in Alabama). There is always an undercurrent of this type of tactic in what has sadly become the Republican Party. Even old Richard Nixon warned againt being too beholden to the religious conservatives and rednecks.
I am black and know Audra personally. She is not racist. Some persons campaigning against her had a person write a message about generic conservative ideals to which she wrote a strong supportive response. It was after that response was posted that the “coon” statement was posted on her facebook profile. She is not a racist and I understand better how both people within a party and idea-set and beyond can take something and, without all the facts, use it to claim an entire group is racist. I kind of feel bad for jumping to similar conclusions about other stories I have only gotten snippets of.