In Aurum Veritas 0
Dick Polman follows the money. A snippet:
This is the group that runs the website that educated Dylann Roof in the ways of racial hatred; we know this because Roof reputedly said so in an online manifesto. He educated himself with some bogus crime stats on the CCC site – about how blacks supposedly kill whites in droves – and he wrote, “I have never been the same since that day.” In all likelhood, he also noticed the CCC’s so-called statement of principles, which opposes “all efforts to mix the races of mankind.”
And now it turns out that, since 2011, group president Earl Holt III has donated lavishly and exclusively to Republican candidates: Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum. Plus a slew of Republican House and Senate candidates: Michele Bachmann, Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, Thom Tillis, Mark Sanford, and Chris McDaniel. Plus a slew of conservative PACs on the Republican right.
Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, it was the White Citizens Councils. That was where the respectable racists, the ones who didn’t (admit to) wearing sheets, hung out.
The names change, but the bigotry remains.
As an aside, this is the perverse outcome of Nixon’s odious Southern Strategy. Nixon hoped to harness Southern racism to maintain a Republican majority, but the Southern strategy went out of control, as appeals to hatred and bigotry are wont to do.
Racism is now the user; the Republican Party is the tool.
