Charlie Rangel: Current GOP Has “Big A Tradition…Of Hating Slaves And Black Folks”

BuzzFeed News ^ | March 6, 2015 | Megan Apper and Andrew Kaczynski

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Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York says Republican opposition to Loretta Lynch’s nomination as attorney general to replace Eric Holder is racially motivated. Rangel added that current Republicans have a “big a tradition out of hating slaves and black folks” because southern Dixiecrats changed parties and became Republicans.

“Well first of all we only have one black over there, a Republican, so I don’t have to tell him what the country is all about,” Rangel said of the Senate, referring to Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey is also black.

“My real concern is that, how close it’s been where we couldn’t even vote in the local—you know the Civil Rights Act, we are talking about 50-60 years but we are just talking about the ability to give black folks to be able to vote. We’ve got so far to go,” added Rangel to the Joe Madison Show

Rangel said Republicans come from the same communities as the former southern Dixiecrats and “have just as big a tradition out of hating slaves and black folks” and have “Confederate heroes on their wall.”

“Joe what we are doing now is feeling that having a black president—why do we have to go through all of these things today? What you have to keep reminding people is that these Dixiecrats who have just as big a tradition out of hating slaves and black folks—they just changed their party and became Republicans. They come for the same communities. They fight the same liberal ways of allowing people to vote. They have the same way. They have the same Confederate heroes on their wall. And it’s all changing Joe but it has not changed. It has not changed.”

Rangel then added, “you know if this woman was white we wouldn’t be going through this. As a matter of fact it has nothing to do with her.” The New York Democrat said the opposition is focused on current Attorney General Eric Holder.

“As a matter of fact it has nothing to do with her. It has everything to do with Eric Holder and everything to do with the president.”

Rangel said the Republicans are “holding her hostage” because “they want a piece” of President Obama and Holder.

Here’s the transcript of the exchange:

JM - Let me ask you about Loretta Lynch. You know her. You’ve obviously known her for a while. I understand there is one Republican vote short and then I found out historically that only two presidents have had their attorney generals rejected for confirmation. One was Andrew Johnson and that was before an impeachment trial, the other was Calvin Coolidge. Your message to those senators?

CR - Well first of all we only have one black over there, a Republican- so I don’t have to tell him what the country is all about.

JM-Now this is the Judiciary Committee. They need one vote from the the committee, republican.

CR- My real concern is that, how close it’s been where we couldn’t even vote in the local—you know the Civil Rights Act, we are talking about 50-60 years but we are just talking about the ability to give black folks to be able to vote. We’ve got so far to go. Joe what we are doing now is feeling that having a black president—why do we have to go through all of these things today? What you have to keep reminding people is that these Dixiecrats who have just as big a tradition out of hating slaves and black folks—they just changed their party and became Republicans. They come for the same communities. They fight the same liberal ways of allowing people to vote. They have the same way. They have the same Confederate heroes on their wall. And it’s all changing Joe but it has not changed. It has not changed.

JM - It’s changing, but it has not changed?

CR - But you know if this woman was white we wouldn’t be going through this. As a matter of fact it has nothing to do with her. It has everything to do with Eric Holder and everything to do with the president.

JM - You know I’ve said on Politics Nation they’ve probably mentioned Eric Holder’s name in the Judiciary Committee hearing than they mention her name.

CR - And no one said anything derogatory about her . I mean they are openly showing that they are holding her hostage because they want a piece of Obama, they want a piece of Eric Holder and they can’t get over it—they can’t get over it. And its going to take a generation of change—it’s going to take a generation of change. This tea party thing, I’m telling you. When I was Chair of the Ways and means we were reporting out the President’s Medicaid health bill. Those people holding those picket signs with the president out there looking like Adolf Hitler. The calls they were calling with John Lewis and me outside. Is the same type of voices—the same type of southern accents the same states when I was marching with Doctor Martin Luther King. I mean the hatred is still there. And what you are doing is saying I love the country we are thinking about going nowhere. We made our investment. We’ve got to make this country better. Everyone knows we are on the right track. People having respect for each other. Improving the quality our schools. Making our workforce more efficient. Making America more competitive with other nations. Fighting every damn war there . And we still have to fight to get recognize when we’ve got a damn African-American as president of the United States. And some people just can’t take it.

[mark8express]

...”Dixiecrats” !!! , Seriously ?.
Well , lets see , it would appear that the most prominent of the so called Dixiecrats was a Democrat Senator from Illinois , a Senator with a legal background built around social issues and a personal vendetta against the Constitution of the United States of America and the American People as well.
A Senator that went out of his way to defect from the Democratic Party and became a Republican candidate for president,for the sole purpose of bringing forth a Civil War in this nation over a social issue which had already been resolved.
The same Senator was thought to be a Christian and a savior of the Negro Race , he was neither , however, he was in fact a tyrannical social activist that brought about the brutal deaths of untold millions of Christians in this Republic through the manipulation of the Press and public ignorance.

[MaxMax]

People have egotistically chosen to regulate God for their personal life rather than
living by the Word of God. Sunday only Christians is how I refer to them.

[muir_redwoods]

A much greater percentage of republicans in congress than democrats voted to pass the Civil Rights act of 1965. FDR consistently vetoed anti-lynching planks in the democrats platforms of his four terms.

Every Jim Crow law ever written, proposed, voted on, passed,signed into law and enforced was done so by democrats.

[norwaypinesavage]

Charlie Rangel: Current GOP Has “Big A Tradition…Of Hating Slaves....”

Rangel is simply delusional. Someone needs to bring the white coat and finally drag him off to the Alzheimer's ward. How do you hate someone who hasn't even existed for more than 6 generations?

[MayflowerMadam]

The truth:

http://cache.trustedpartner.com/docs/library/NationalBlackRepublicanAssociation2009/NBRA%20Civil%20Rights%20Newsletter%2018June2012.pdf

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We can hear those Darkies singing, Old Black Joe.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The *only* Dixiecrat, out of dozens of prominent ones, who switched parties was Strom Thurmond. ALL the other Dixiecrats remained Democrats until their dying day.

Every single, solitary Dixiecrat but one.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Democrat plantation owners take it seriously and make an example of the slaves attempting to escape its domain.

[Awgie]

Notice how dems have a window into the hearts of repubs...they can attest to what we feel and believe and pronou ce it to the world without condemnation. Wonder why Rudy cant do the same about BO?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

So were the Red Shirts and the White League.

[Dqban22]

KKK Terrorist Arm of the Democratic Party

82-Year-Old Black Grandma Votes Republican “Because of What Democrats Have Done to My People”

By Daniel Greenfield On October 29, 2014 @ 9:32 am In The Point

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/82-year-old-black-grandma-votes-republican-because-of-what-democrats-have-done-to-my-people/print/

Not exactly what C-SPAN expected to run right before airing someone from the Center for American Progress.

A self-described “82-year-old black senior citizen grandmother” named Joyce called C-SPAN to explain why she voted for the Republican candidate in every race on the ballot this cycle.

I voted straight Republican because I have noticed for years what the Democrat Party has done to my people,” she said. “Unemployment is higher in the black community that it is — double with unemployment than it is anywhere else.”

“There’s no way I could continue to say I’m a Christian and stay with the Democrat Party,” she continued. “They advocate the killing of babies and taking from the doers and giving to the ones sitting doing nothing.”

Clearly Joyce is…

1. A racist

2. Not really black

3. Suffering from false consciousness

[Dqban22]

KKK Terrorist Arm of the Democratic Party

[tet68]

The calls they were calling with John Lewis and me outside.

Only this was, it never happened...

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh every day when a Republican gets up the first thing he/she thinks about is how can I eff up a black person today.

[Popman]

Can Charlie tell us of one republican who hates his slave ?

Pre civil war, the vast majority of slave owners were affiliated with the democratic party...

I also wonder if the black slave owners hated their slaves too..

[TigersEye]

I’m starting to truly hate these people. Proglodytes that is. All four of my great grandfathers fought in the Union Army. Many of their brothers and cousins died in the Civil War.