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Jul. 22nd, 2004 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingRepublican party platform: "Make sure only the right colour people get to vote"
Quoth TNH
Michigan state representative John Pappageorge [R-Troy] in the Detroit Free Press, remarking about Republican prospects in Michigan that "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we’re going to have a tough time in this election."
Needless to say, but the Free Press says it anyway:
Blacks comprise 83 percent of Detroit’s population, and the city routinely gives Democratic candidates a substantial majority of its votes.
Of course, Rep. Pappageorge is truly, deeply sorry if anyone has drawn any conclusions from his accidentally telling the truth:
"In the context that we were talking about, I said we’ve got to get the vote up in Oakland (County) and the vote down in Detroit. You get it down with a good message. I don’t know how we got them from there to ‘racist,’" Pappageorge said. "If I have given offense in any way to my colleagues in Detroit or anywhere, I apologize."
Deliberate suppression of the rights of black people to vote, because they tend not to be Republicans:
http://www.forward.com/issues/2000/00.12.22/oped3.html
http://www.whiteprivilege.com/archives/2002/11/05/black_vote_suppression_in_baltimore
http://www.democrats.org/news/200210300001.html
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/10/23ky/wir-front-votes1023-9144.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views/120200-101.htm
Kerry's response:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/politics/campaign/19VOTE.html?ex=1247889600&en=f7beb144c45a5460&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
Bush: "Black people shouldn't get to vote because they'll vote against me."
Kerry: "Everyone should get to vote freely, as they see fit"
And you jackasses are still seriously telling me Shrub's got a hope in hell?
The Onion said it best: Amercian Public reuled unfit to govern.
Quoth TNH
Michigan state representative John Pappageorge [R-Troy] in the Detroit Free Press, remarking about Republican prospects in Michigan that "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we’re going to have a tough time in this election."
Needless to say, but the Free Press says it anyway:
Blacks comprise 83 percent of Detroit’s population, and the city routinely gives Democratic candidates a substantial majority of its votes.
Of course, Rep. Pappageorge is truly, deeply sorry if anyone has drawn any conclusions from his accidentally telling the truth:
"In the context that we were talking about, I said we’ve got to get the vote up in Oakland (County) and the vote down in Detroit. You get it down with a good message. I don’t know how we got them from there to ‘racist,’" Pappageorge said. "If I have given offense in any way to my colleagues in Detroit or anywhere, I apologize."
Deliberate suppression of the rights of black people to vote, because they tend not to be Republicans:
http://www.forward.com/issues/2000/00.12.22/oped3.html
http://www.whiteprivilege.com/archives/2002/11/05/black_vote_suppression_in_baltimore
http://www.democrats.org/news/200210300001.html
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2003/10/23ky/wir-front-votes1023-9144.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views/120200-101.htm
Kerry's response:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/politics/campaign/19VOTE.html?ex=1247889600&en=f7beb144c45a5460&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
Bush: "Black people shouldn't get to vote because they'll vote against me."
Kerry: "Everyone should get to vote freely, as they see fit"
And you jackasses are still seriously telling me Shrub's got a hope in hell?
The Onion said it best: Amercian Public reuled unfit to govern.