Marilyn Davenport’s Racist Email Denounced By OC GOP
We have seen this before. The images were different, but the intent to denigrate was the same. The “sense of humor” was the same. And the excuses were the same. The counter-accusations were the same. The pursuit of the whistle-blower, the refusal to consider that they may have been wrong, the refusal to consider the possibility that they should resign for the good of their cause. Pride and arrogance control them.
“I only sent it to a few people–mostly people I didn’t think would be upset by it.”
Admitting that there are others who think like her is not going to help their efforts to build a non-racist image. Every cause attracts it’s loons, but the honorable causes do not install their loons in positions of power or responsibility – and remove them when discovered.
Defaming President Obama is hardly the only monkey business incorporated by the GOP:
SD 56 GOP web video prompts call for ouster of district chair
http://minnesotaindependent.com/64086/joe-salmon-sd-56-gop-video (The “Who let the dogs out?” scandal.)
The republican party needs to show less “family values” intolerance and more respect for the rights of others and the basic social necessity of respecting human dignity.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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