Sid Dinerstein: Douchebag of the Day
This is the most mind-numbingly stupid quotes I have read recently. Sid Dinerstein, the chairman of the Palm Beach County Republican Party accuses the county's Democrats of being racists for supporting Charlie Crist over Kendrick Meek.
"This is racial politics at its ugliest," GOP chairman Sid Dinerstein said "The white Democrats, the ones who supported Hillary over Obama are teaming up with Charlie to throw Kendrick under the bus so they can say more nasty things about Hispanic Americans."
What does Hispanics have to do with support of Crist or Meek. The Republican Party has been running an xenophobic campaign against providing Hispanics a pathway to citizenship. If Diderstein feels that strongly about Meek being the victim of racism then I challenge him to make a pledge to work with Meek to guarantee the civil rights of Hispanics and African Americans. This would be a good thing and a true sign of bipartisanship. Otherwise, Diderstein is just deploying the Southern strategy in an apeal to conservative white voters. Former Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer admitted his attack against President Barack Obama's speech to school children was an appeal to racist voters.
"In the year since I issued a prepared statement regarding President Obama speaking to the nation's children, I have learned a great deal about the party I so deeply loved and served. Unfortunately, I found that many within the GOP have racist views and I apologize to the President for my opposition to his speech last year and my efforts to placate the extremists who dominate our Party today."
If the Republican establishment is so concerned with racism they can stop disinfranchising black voters, condemn racist Tea Party signs and get serious about immigration reform. The current GOP has Rand Paul telling voters that the government has no roll in enforcing civil rights. These people have no credibility on civil rights issues.
Labels: charlie crist, jim greer, kendrick meek, palm beach county, sid dinerstein, xenophobia
posted by Michael Hussey @ 9:31 PM
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH SHORT MEMORY, let me remind you that in this year’s HOTLY CONTESTED PRIMARY, MEEK, ONLY GOT ABOUT 17% OF ALL REGISTERED DEMOCRATIC VOTERS TO COME OUT AND VOTE FOR HIM. ON AUGUST 24, BLACK VOTERS’ TURN OUT WAS EVEN MUCH LESS THAN 17%.
YOU NEED TO PAY US BLACK VOTERS SOME RESPECT; WE ARE NOT PUPPIES WHO FOLLOW THEIR OWNER NO MATTER WHAT.
For your information, we are also intelligent, thinking beings, just like any other ethnic group, we too can do the math. A lot of us understand that if Meek has been campaigning for close to 2 years, longer than both Rubio and Crist and yet was not able to get black folks in his own congressional district to come out and vote for him during the primary then, what is the likelihood that Meek is going to be able to get black voters to come out in larger number for the general? Meek has been consistently polling in 3rd place. Does Meek or anyone else expect black folks to suddenly have an epiphany and discover that Meek is black; they are black and that they must come out for Meek because he is black?
Please give us a little more credit than that, this is the 21st Century, we black folks, no longer live on a plantation under the strict control of our master. If you understood that, you would have also appreciated our individuality as a people and treat us, especially during each election cycle accordingly as oppose to always rely only on our perceived master to deliver our “black votes”. If some of us don’t participate in the electoral process is only because of the insistence of a few to decide for us and their persistent attempts to conspire with our perceived master to undermine our individually.
At this point, a large number of us who like Meek , have painfully realized that Meek cannot win this election. Because Meek cannot win should we resign ourselves to handing the election to Rubio? Hell no. We have too much to lose with Rubio , that is why we’ve decided to rally behind Crist, notwithstanding the insistence of the leaders of the Democratic Party to continuously substitute their judgment for ours.
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