The Republican Party Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Race, Young Republicans Edition

It is a total coincidence that this lone-wolf racist just happens to be a prominent Republican activist; she could have just as easily just happened to have been a Democratic activist. A coin flip, basically. It has nothing whatsoever to do with any kind of social climate in her party or her movement that tolerates and encourages racism toward blacks...etc. etc.

Aw heck, I'll just get to the quotes:

* In October 2008, in the wake of news that an effigy of Sarah Palin was being hung outside an affluent Hollywood home as an offensive Halloween decoration, [Young Republicans chairman candidate Audra] Shay replied: “What no ‘Obama in a noose? Come on now, its just freedome [sic] of speech, no one in Atlanta would take that wrong! Lol.”

She picked up the thread again the next morning with a clarification and a new insight. “Apparently I could not spell last night. I am wondering if the guys with the Palin noose would care if we had a bunch of homosexuals in a noose.”

* Posting and endorsing a conspiracy-theory video that attempts to prove that Obama believes he can only “ensure his own salvation” and “fate” if he helps African Americans above whites, complete with Barnum-esque captions (“LISTEN AS HE ATTACKS WHITE PEOPLE”)...

Before her friend derided the “mad coons” who were destroying the country, he made the reference to “Obama Bin Lauden", as well as Muslims.

Cute..that's the kind of girl every nice young Republican boy should want to marry!

Fortunately, if you read the article, you'll see that there's a few Republicans actively trying to make the Republican party not about race. Good for them. Their first step, of course, was to recognize that as it stands the party really is a lot about race. Their second step was to recognize that this is something that can and should be changed.