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Saturday, January 19, 2008

more dirt on the huckster

and i do mean dirt. i'm not surprised though. how ANYONE could accept an invitation to speak at a white supremacist organization is beyond me. how ANYONE in public office could do so is over the line. why isn't this stuff on the front pages of msm?

Huckabee gave speech to white supremacists
Max Blumenthal
As South Carolina's Republican primary election draws nearer, Mike Huckabee has ratcheted up his appeals to the racial nationalism of white evangelicals. "You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag," the former Arkansas governor told a Myrtle Beach crowd on January 17, referring to the Confederate flag. "If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole. That's what we'd do."
Making coded appeals to white racism is nothing new for Huckabee. Indeed, well before he was a nationally known political star, Huckabee nurtured a relationship with America's largest white supremacist group, the
Council of Conservative Citizens. The extent of Huckabee's interaction with the racist group is unclear, but this much is known: he accepted an invitation to speak at the group's annual conference in 1993 and ultimately delivered a videotaped address that was "extremely well received by the audience."
Descended from the White Citizens Councils that battled integration in the Jim Crow South, including at Arkansas' Little Rock High School, the Council (or CofCC) has been
designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. .............

does HIS jesus only like white folk i wonder? (i'm not saying the huckster is a racist. i sure don't know. i DO know if i gave a speech to an organization such as the coc, i'd 'splain my actions. like i was temporarily insane or something like that)

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