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To: Pitchfork
Personally, I'm largely just tired of hearing moderate to conservative blacks tell me that they can't bring themselves to vote Republican because they perceive the Republican Party as a home for racists. Yes, Southern Democrats fought against Civil Rights in the 1960s but the fact that many of those very same people switched parties to become Republicans and were accepted is not lost on many blacks. I don't believe the Republican Party is racist nor do I believe that many conservative policies that are called racist are racist. But to get past the perception that conservatives are racist, they need to avoid nonsense like this.

In fairness, I don't think they dressed up as KKK members. That particular bit appeared in a picture caption. But the blackface is bad enough, no matter what the intent.

26 posted on 12/09/2003 10:50:01 PM PST by Question_Assumptions
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To: Question_Assumptions
I am sick and tired of witnessing the harrassment conservative students receive if they dare to offend the lunatic left.

Offended conservatives are laughed at and ridiculed, as in the case of the death threat made by the black student in which the Penn State "...police decided that Black Caucus members were voicing opinions but were not disorderly."

This is a disgrace. If a white student had threatened the life of a black student at Penn State, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackon would be all over TV demanding a federal investigation and protection for the black students.

And to you people out there opining on how the College Republicans should have acted, what they did was on their own personal website, and their party took place off campus.

It's none of the University's business!

27 posted on 12/10/2003 6:28:04 PM PST by StopGlobalWhining (Cheney-Rumsfeld in '08)
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