Originally Posted By ecdc <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/daily-show-interview-don-yelton-racist-resign-2013-10">http://www.businessinsider.com...-2013-10</a> You've seen this Daily Show clip of North Carolina GOP county chair Don Yeltin, right? Of course you have because it's amaaaaaaazing!
Originally Posted By mawnck BTW, he got fired. For skipping the class, you know. Not for being dumb as a stump in a Republican leadership position.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I don't understand how someone could be so out of it to not only BELIEVE in what he's saying, but to actually SAY it on national TV.
Originally Posted By velo oh, I don't think he's the only one who believes this in his neck of the woods...
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Since I live in "his neck of the woods" I have to say that I couldn't be happier that he did what he did. The GOP has been undermining the voting process here in NC for quite a while and even though many warned about it, it didn't sink in. This, I hope, will put focus on it and it's intent. It would seem to me that honest, intelligent, real American Republicans would have to ask what happened to the Grand Ole Party that made it turn into Giant Overbearing ******heads. I've been an independent all my voting life, I have voted whatever way that I thought would be the best for the country, be it Republican or Democrat or in the case of Bernie Sanders .. Independent. Please, please Republicans stop this foolishness before the party is nothing but a laughing stock (if it's not too late). Force them to do the right thing for the good of the country and not just political gain. In this case, over time, there will be no political gain.
Originally Posted By TP2000 Constance, that's just how it is in small towns in the Carolinas. I lived in the Carolinas for several years in the 1990's, and traveled through the area extensively. They just have folks who aren't real savvy and don't know some things are just not acceptable to say anymore, ESPECIALLY if you are a white politician and have an "R" next to your name. A good analogy to use for your neck of the woods in the Northwest Constance would be the small lumber towns of southern Oregon. Except for hipster/liberal Ashland, of course. I was in Eagle Point (don't ask) recently at a lunch diner and heard a conversation at a nearby table that ran along these same racial lines of certain folks being "lazy" and living off the government dole. They just don't know you aren't supposed to say that stuff out loud in public any more. If a TV crew had caught that diner conversation, Eagle Point would be known as the Racist Capital of America by now.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I see racist stuff on Facebook each and every day. It's usually couched as "common sense" memes or an attempt at being witty, but it's racist all the same. Like Aasif said in the Daily Show piece, "You know people can see these Facebook posts, right?"
Originally Posted By mawnck He's pissed. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nc-goper-who-resigned-over-racist-remark-says-party-is-gutless-audio">http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l...ss-audio</a> >>Asked if the comment was worth making, Yelton said yes, because it made him realize the Republican party has "no guts." "I'll resign my position as precinct chair gladly, I'll give it up -- the heck with it, I don't want to be part of a group that is that mealy-mouthed and that gutless," he later added.<<
