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  • NAACP releases statement standing by Rachel Dolezal (#Transracial)

    06/12/2015 9:52:26 AM PDT · by tcrlaf · 105 replies
    KHQ ^ | 6-12-2015 | KHQ
    A day after the parents of Rachel Dolezal, the President of the Spokane Chapter of the NAACP, said she has been misrepresenting herself as black for years, the NAACP says they are standing by Dolezal. In a statement released Friday, the organization said: "For 106 years, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has held a long and proud tradition of receiving support from people of all faiths, races, colors and creeds. NAACP Spokane Washington Branch President Rachel Dolezal is enduring a legal issue with her family, and we respect her privacy in this matter. One's racial identity...
  • Texas GOP leaders are issuing apologies for slavery

    05/28/2004 7:59:25 PM PDT · by GOPcapitalist · 22 replies · 1,231+ views
    Various - Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman, FR discussions | 5/28 | vanity
    Did you know that several Republican leaders in Texas have been issuing apologies for slavery and bigotry on behalf of our party? They are and it includes our immediate former Republican Party of Texas Chairman Susan Weddington.Democrat liberals do this sort of thing all the time when pandering and race hustling to Jesse Jackson and his following for votes, but to see this sort of stuff from Republican leaders seems unbelievable.Since this story is so far fetched many have experienced disbelief in it at first. But rest assured, it happened and here is the evidence that could be assembled from...
  • Howard Dean's search for the South's poor n' oppressed

    12/10/2003 7:08:03 AM PST · by .cnI redruM · 10 replies · 353+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | December 10, 2003 | Kathleen Parker
    COLUMBIA, S.C. - Dr. Howard Dean, apparently having given up on the Confederate flag voting bloc, turned Sunday to African-Americans, invoking civil-rights history and towing a miniature rainbow coalition in the person of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. Dean left no emotional touchstone ignored. He mentioned the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and recited highlights of our civil-rights heritage. He even managed to include the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four little black girls. Well, how else you gonna attract black votes in the Deep South if you don't bring up the worst of the region's history?...