The Photo The GOP Is Trying To Hide

Frameshop: A Picture of the GOP on Civil Rights

The one photo the GOP does not want anyone to see was snapped at yesterday's NAACP GOP Presidential Candidate Forum. The NAACP invited all 9 Republican candidates to the forum, but only one showed up: Tom Tancredo. All the Democratic Presidential hopefuls showed up for their forum.

The excuses given by the Republican campaigns mostly had to do with scheduling conflicts--just too busy to make it.

The resulting photo of Tancredo--standing on a stage of empty podiums--sums up the Republican party's commitment to civil rights in America: the only Republican interested is the guy running to deny immigrant workers their rights.

http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/frameshop/2007/07/frameshop-a-p-1.html

That photo is a requirement to win nomination in The Republic Party where I come from. Every Republic running for office would be required to show that photo to their Republic constituents in order to win.

Now in a general election they may not want it used.............

Sad.

:grr:

that the Republican Party is the place to be if you're a minority!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl:

Nominated.

This one needs to be widely distributed.

or in bad taste to get a good graphics design program and put back ALL the major GOP candidates only with a slightly different twist?

Yeah take Guiliani, McCain, Romney etc and put them into white hooded caps. Then use the event in a cartoon. I dunno send it to Larry Flynt or something.

OK it's probably too over the top. Maybe some other concept superimposed over the creation could work.

I get credit for the idea now!

It speaks volumes in how the gop has written off groups like this.


Welcome to DU!!

Before AND After...

Seriously though remarks even poking fun of KKK types can tread on dangerous ground. They are just such obvious despicable jerks and worse.

Matter of fact (he strays from the subject) over at old Candlestick Park they did not allow "K's" to be posted on large signs at the Giants games. Imagine it's still the same over at ATT Park.

Reasoning? Well a "K" in baseball terms means a strikeout thrown by the pitcher in the scorecard. No harm in that. However three strikeouts in a row, while desirable as it ends the inning for the field team shows the unmistakable Three "K's"...

It's often done with harmless intent but is considered too dangerous a subject to allow at a game of rowdy beer swilling people.

Just thought you'd like to know.

I knew about the K's meaning strikeouts but I didn't know some parks don't allow the K's to be posted. Thanks for the info.

It's on all the security guard/threat notices. Part of the way ballpark employees are trained.

Sorta like getting on a plane and saying: "Hi Jack"!

conferences. He apparently did attend last year, but I haven't found any information as to whether or not he will attend this year.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/07/18/bush_reportedly_ready_to_end_naacp_boycott/

Fucking traitorous shits. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

And that storyline is that Black people are too dumb to know what's good for them. Since 90% of Black people reliably vote Democratic, it's clear to the Deep Thinkers in the popular media that Black people don't know which party has their true best interest at heart: The Republicans!

Okay, none of the leading candidates can be bothered to actually show up at the NAACP convention, but everyone knows that the NAACP hardly speaks for Black people. Certainly not like Clarence "Uncle" Thomas or Armstrong "Walletfat" Williams speak for Black people.

within this nation :cry:

I guess they showed their TRUE color.....

RWers scream 'we are a color blind society"--even the RW Court
used this phrase in that last issuance.

The very fact that they were no shows---fear they would insult
their white consituency.

:spray: :rofl:

Do they really think anyone believes that bullshit?

They don't CARE what African Americans want, think, or need and they know, being the racists they are, they won't get their votes either. I'm really surprised the xenophobe showed up though.:(

How often have you heard conservative pundits complain about how African-American blindly vote Democratic, implying that it could be in their interest to divide their vote more evenly. But then the GOP candidates make no effort at all to court them (and in fact fear conservative backlash if they tried).

cares nothing for "regular" people. They are the party of the have-mores. It makes my blood boil when I run into people who are blue collar workers and vote repub. I will never understand how they can vote against thier own interests and well being. When a straw poll was taken at my plant for the 2004 election the results were sickening. Blue collar workers voting for bush. I will never understand thier thinking. KNR

they don't comprehend the big picture. they vote one issue. it is probably spurious, but they think somehow that vote will (fill in the blank: cut their taxes, make blacks disappear...)

they are exactly what the concept of "a well-informed electorate" seeks to avoid

H.R. 1022

or anyone who's part of a minority support the GOP. The GOP certainly doesn't support them. In fact, the GOP works against them, and tries to legalize making their lives less worthy than others.

I guess these people must like being beat up by others (not literally, but figuratively).

Every time I see a black person on television defending Bush and his policies, or speaking on behalf of the GOP, I just wonder what the hell is wrong with them. Blood isn't flowing properly in their brain or something.

And Log Cabin Republicans, I just think they're pathetic.

They are the party pandering to the rich, white majority. Anyone else is voting against their own interests, and even white rich people are better served by the Democratic Party--they just get tricked into believing otherwise.

that for the most part eliminated affirmative action programs? I'm not black so I feel I shouldn't even have an opinion on this, but it sure strikes me strange when I hear the few black or gay GOPers too!

My parents are staunch Republicans. They aren't rich, so I can't figure out what it is they think the R's are doing for them.:shrug:

They were Democrats til the 60s when, as the racists they are, they switched over to the Repuke party in protest of the Civil Rights Act of '64. They've never gone back. I was 3 then, so my G'ma told me about it. She's been a Democrat all her life and said she was glad to see them go and take their racism with them.

Hes such a hypocrite and it all came to a boil when i laughed hysterically at all their precious 'tax payer dollars' going to fund robot toilets in Florida to curb gay bathroom sex.

He would be a repug if he werent gay, instead a libertarian cause hes gets his evil greed there and they couldnt give a shit if hes gay. :puke:

:kick:

I'm glad all the Dems showed for theirs, but... jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez...

I keep hoping we're making real progress on the issue of race in America, and every now and then get a tantalizing glimpse like the rates of inter-ethnic dating and marriage among younger generations, or something like that.

But really, we're not that far along, are we? On one end we have the "Race isn't really an issue anymore because we all love each other and get along, kumbayah, kumbayah... but we'll certainly show up for all these events because we really want THEM to know how much solidarity WE feel with THEM about their oppressed past, even if today everything's pretty close to fine, donchaknow..." folks. On the other end, we have the "Well, we'll throw them a nickel anytime there's something in it for us, but they're still a buncha brown people with all the lazy, shiftless, crime-prone, low-intelligence qualities that go with brown skin so if we can get away with ignoring them, we will" folks.

And in between, a lot of people who are still damned uncomfortable with the whole idea of race and racism whenever they think about it, so they just don't think about it.

We're never gonna make real progress until so many generations cycle through mixing that everyone is a little brownish-- but that's gonna take a long time-- or until whitefolks sit down and say, "OK, race is The Big Issue and we really need to listen and talk and try to deal with the discomfort and be aware of it the way someone with brown skin is aware of it all the time." What are the odds of that happening any time soon?

I look at a picture like this and think, "pretty piss-poor."

sadly,
Bright

I guess since none of the cable networks "sponsored" it, this isn't "news".

How ironic it was Tancredo who showed. He's helping ensure Hispanics vote for Democrats in overwhelming numbers the way blacks do.

Next...I hear there's gonna be a debate among all the Repugnican House and Senate blacks. :rofl:

The cavemen and hillbillies.

Hillbillies fought for the North. They were poor and abused by society and thought slavery was wrong.

We mustn't base our opinion on television shows. Ya hear, now?

in my mind i heard Tancredo channeling Kanye West.

dp

I had a green room pass at the National Assn. of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in Orlando.

All of the Dems were there, and Tancredo was the only Puke to show up.

Do you know how that was covered in the Hispanic press, 'cause the MSM sure didn't spend a moment on it that I'm aware of?

In Chicago. Both Bush and Gore were supposed to put in appearances, but they both canceled to get ready for their last debate, but the place was crawling with democratic big names (got to meet Jesse Jackson). The only "big" Bush supporter that showed up was the democratic mayor of El Paso (I think). It was supposed to be non-partisan, but you could tell which way the votes were going to go.

I also met some Mexican nationals who went to college at the University of Texas in El Paso - apparently there's some sort of system set up with Juarez, Mexico, where they can easily take classes from UTEP. They told me that a Bush campaign guy approached them to see if they'd like to take part in a program to learn more about American politics - they'd be bussed to the location and get their room and board for free. They all agreed, and it turned out the program was the Republican National Convention where they were brought up on stage as American Hispanic citizens who supported Bush. They realized they had been used, but they didn't care much as they got a free trip out of it, but they were amazed that they couldn't find any actual American Hispanics to be part of it.

I also remember hearing a story about a Black delegate at that (or the 04) convention who had white delegates constantly coming up to him asking him to take their bags up to their rooms/get them a taxi/etc. I wonder if he ever admitted to himself he was in the wrong party.

TlalocW

splains alot, it does.

I mean, did the NAACP have advance notice of who would attend, or did the candidates agree and then cancel? I'm familiar with Republicans' attitude toward the NAACP, I just wonder if this was done for effect; not that there's anything wrong with that.

You have to look real hard. He's there. Amazing isn't it?

I know republicans think that the majority of blacks won't vote for them and don't want to waste their time but geeze!

Well, Tancredo moved up a notch in my book!

blacks should be angry at Hispanics for taking jobs and he feels this is a way to split up the upcoming votes so that the CONS can get back in and finish the destruction of this country.

recently defeated?

I know that many at DU opposed the legislation and were happy that it died. Did the NAACP take a similar position as many liberals at DU or did it support the bill since most of the beneficiaries would be Hispanic, i.e. "colored people"?

The GOP's true nature is on public display this week. Thanks for posting!

What did you expect? Most of them consider NAACP a "special interest" group and want to fly the confederate flag....Glad my man Rudy stayed true to his racist self!

what did they think this was, New Orleans?

<crickets>

It's the party of emptiness, led by empty suits, for empty minds.

The GOP does NOT represent the United States!! They represent wealthy white men and corporations ... and they don't even try to HIDE it!!

I often wonder about the token african-american repuke shills they throw at us on Fux Noose and other talking head programs ... all I can figure is they have no self-respect and only really care about their own bank account balance.

By 1833, Mount Misery's owner was Edward Covey, a farmer notorious for breaking unruly slaves for other farmers. One who wouldn't be broken was Frederick Douglass, then 16 and later the abolitionist orator. Covey assaulted him, so Douglass beat him up and escaped. Today, where the drive begins, Mount Misery seems a congenial place, with a white mailbox with newspaper delivery sleeves attached, a big American flag fluttering from a post by a split-rail fence and a tall, one-hole birdhouse of the sort made for bluebirds — although the lens in the hole suggests another function.

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/travel/escapes/30michaels.html?ex

Arbeit macht frei, y'all!

How utterly sad, pathetic, and predictable.

K & R

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ELECTION FRAUD!

Besides, the whole GOP machine is greased with corruption favoring fat cats, many of whom are not only racists themselves but WANT a suppressed caste to furnish cheap labor and cannon fodder. Slavery by another name. Civil rights would oppose this agenda, and the fat cats won't stand for it. This photo is so very revealing.

K & R

Or gathering at a prayer rally in hopes that their digits don't appear on the DC Madam phone records.
Or mebbe they're attending a reacharound conference hosted by Bob Allen.

how can they face Al Qaeda?

:applause:

:rofl:

The questions they asked were great and the format was much more fair than those other forums.

Then I'll double my constituency!"

I wonder if his speech went something like "Vote for me, I think you are way better than Hispanic people."

the most racist major party candidate in a generation and he shows up. Gotta hand it to him. What on earth did the other eight candidates think they were going to lose?

or, if he is, he's not as racist as George Bush Sr., who rode Willie Horton into the White House, or George Bush Jr., whose treatment of Katrina victims should earn him the distinction of being the most racist political figure since Wallace.

So far as I can tell, Tancredo is a nationalist who seems sincere in his effort to reach out to other Americans across the lines of race and party. I hope he's their nominee--we'd beat the snot out of them, and it would cost Republicans the Hispanic vote for a generation.

but his whole career is based on white fear of black and brown people. And he has been brazen about it. Nationalist? You sure you don't mean National Socialist?
Reaching out to other Americans? I'm glad he attends debates sponsored by Hispanic and African-American groups (I'm even more glad that he seems to be the only GOP candidate who does) but his rhetoric on immigration is straight of the KKK playbook of the 1920's.
I'm actually kind of shocked that someone on here would defend Tancredo's Weltanschaung but I'll applaud the diversity shown here.

GONE! start over from scratch

Betcha he uses it.

A Rally and initiation with their BASE perhaps.




Awww, GOP shouldn't be painted with such a broad brush? Well, checking California conservatives site is pretty revealing. Oy!
http://www.californiaconservative.org/photos/klan-holds-rally-at-gettysburg-whats-wrong-with-this-picture/

I'm just saying. :shrug:

There is nothing about conservative politics that even comes close to the needs of any working class person.


"Members of the NAACP, we republicans support anti affirmative action plans. We celebrate the latest Supreme Court decision to end equal opportunity in education. We give you vouchers so we can get rid of public education and so that your kids can go to white Christian right wing academies. We support off shoring manufacturing jobs and want to end any type of social safety net. Basically we want to end any type of social programs so that if you ever get a good paying job you can keep more of your money rather than pay taxes to support those too lazy to work. We want all of you to have health care so we are going to mandate that you buy a health insurance policy rather than waste your money on big screen tv's and Ipods.

Basically we want to end the way the Democrats keep you down and on welfare for generation to generation. We will make you part of the ownership society!

thank you USA today!

know their base. no matter what lame ass excuse they give.

Were you guys watching this, anyone?

Who's has been showing up on CNN and MSNBC as a "Republican Strategist" or Analyst or some such crap! I never will understand black people, or hispanics , or any member of any working family ever supporting a Republican for anything, ever! That picture says it all! They don't give a crap about anybody except themselves and their corporate and super-wealthy puppet masters!

Would love to see her on Chris Mathews (better yet John Stewart) explaining how the Republicans are committed to the interests of African-Americans as she visibly squirms in her seat.

Skin color and gender aren't any sort of antidote, or protection from, simple greed.

Simple greed is an equal opportunity infection.

The individuals who would sell their souls in this fashion come from the "Take the Money and Run" school. It's one of those schools in the same neighborhood as the "My Third Party Vote Doesn't Matter" University!

Actions have consequences...!

he still lost the debate.

:rofl:

well McCain is open about his hatred of asians and anyone who looks vietnamese. But Tom Tancredo is an anti-hispanic, anti-immigrant racist piece of shit.

K&R

And if you got a vote, on the floor of house to return to slavery, every Republican would vote for the return of slavery.

*&(&)(&(&*(%%$#%#^%@ them all.

:grr:

where they campaigned to stop Hindus from praying in the senate.

It shows how much value the Republican party puts on civil rights and African American issues. None.

I don't know why any Black Americans support the Republican party, but some do.

So a minority advocacy group invites all the Republicans to a round table–and only the next-to-worst one of them shows up...

Unless they were trying to make the point that the Republican party doesn't give a damn about black people, I don't see why they were even trying. Just one tool showed up for it? Actually, I am fairly surprised one of them showed up.

But chances were, he just looked at them at a bunch of potential voters and nothing beyond that.

Kanye West had a point, I think, though I'd expand his comment to include anyone who isn't both incredibly wealthy and white.

I wish some of us would just quit pretending that just because the Republican Party has a few members in it who stand up for minorities and the poor (typically when it's safe to do so) that they really care at all about anyone who's not white and rich.

Notably, as much as we'd like to think they're embarrassed by this photo, the vibe I get from the Republicans is that they don't care at all. So there's a picture in which just one of them accepted the invitation to speak in front of one of the nation's premier civil-rights activist groups? So what?...this is what they're thinking.

They don't have any shame anymore.

They are the Cartmans of the world.

At least he's willing to face the people he intends to stab in the back.

Or a rally to support Jesus-drunk Pharmacists who flush unmarried womens' birth control pills down the toilet at Walgreens.

...of what the Bush Admin wants than a slogan for the NAACP (apparently it was the NAACP theme for the event.)

They're just going to cage the minority votes in contested districts anyways.

Why waste valuable diaper session time on people whos votes aren't counted anways? :shrug:

Jeezus I am sick of him on every Hardball trying to cover for his boss Dick Cheney. And yes I am going to say it: I am sick of trying to figure out which eye is looking into the camera. Yes, I said it and I don't regret it!

black people anyway, so he was just wasting his time hoping against hope he'd get a few. All the other "R's" apparently got the memo and acted accordingly.

I think perhaps Tancredo is the only 'true believer'. Maybe Duncan Hunter, but Tancredo seems to honestly believe that the only color that matters in America ia Green.

major political parties would the Ku Klux Klan be most closely aligned?
They have Ku Klux Karl, Ku Klux Koulter, the Konservative Kristian Kouncil, This could go on for a while. Use your imagination.

Repukes don't give a shit about minorities. Or women, or the elderly, or the sick, or the poor, etc.