it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

For as much as I hate seeing the kid win the seat, after the election is not the time to make a fuss about it.

Meh this was funnier when it hit the front page a few days ago (new window)

albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

He's been in Congress since 1952, back when the Democrats were the Party of Segregation. He'd have no chance of getting elected today.

He looks like the kind of kid that got stuffed in lockers in high school.

Sins of the father?

And his name is Black, i find that humorous

ClicheGuevara07: albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

He's been in Congress since 1952, back when the Democrats were the Party of Segregation. He'd have no chance of getting elected today.

Except maybe in Florida.

ClicheGuevara07: albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

He's been in Congress since 1952, back when the Democrats were the Party of Segregation. He'd have no chance of getting elected today while holding the views he held back then.

FTFY. Byrd has reformed and generally agreed that he was young and stupid in regards to his racism back then. In fact, Robert Byrd has given some of the most impassioned speeches on the floor of the Senate defending the disenfranchised.

Retroactively invalidating an election in order to put your favored candidate in place of the one actually chosen by the process? That's some major fail, there. Regardless of why you're doing it.

If he gets to call himself the Grand Wizard then I want to be called El Presidente Supremo.

The Dreaded Rear Admiral: ClicheGuevara07: albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

He's been in Congress since 1952, back when the Democrats were the Party of Segregation. He'd have no chance of getting elected today while holding the views he held back then.

FTFY. Byrd has reformed and generally agreed that he was young and stupid in regards to his racism back then. In fact, Robert Byrd has given some of the most impassioned speeches on the floor of the Senate defending the disenfranchised.

Regardless of whether he still believed now what he believed then, any association with a group like the KKK, past or present, would make it impossible to get elected to any public office today, outside of maybe Utah, Oklahoma or Southern Ohio.

guilt by association: He looks like the kind of kid that got stuffed in lockers in high school.

Probably was, seeing as he was home schooled
/explains a lot of things

DumbAmerican: Meh this was funnier when it hit the front page a few days ago (new window)

I didn't know Duke was getting involved. Fascinating.

Interesting bit of trivia: Don Black (Derrick's father) shares more than ideology with David Duke. In fact, Derrick's mother is David Duke's ex-wife, Chloe Hardin. David fathered 2 daughters with her, one of which still works for Palm Beach County in the Social (Community) Services division.

Derrick's mother was actually some form of white supremacist sloppy seconds for his father.

/these people are creepy

Rapmaster2000: If he gets to call himself the Grand Wizard then I want to be called El Presidente Supremo.

I want to be Captain Awesome Farking McBadass III.

Rapmaster2000: If he gets to call himself the Grand Wizard then I want to be called El Presidente Supremo.

Go for it, I've been referring to myself as the Lord High Executioner for years. Other than sometimes refusing to bring me my mail, it's been great.

Milkbeer: Democrats have no moral standards.

Teh stoopid. It hurts.

albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

geez, why don't you bring up Woodrow Wilson?

OLD NEWS!

OLD HEADLINE!


/that is all

Rapmaster2000: If he gets to call himself the Grand Wizard then I want to be called El Presidente Supremo.


Grand Pubah is far more dignified, in my opinion...

todangst: albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

geez, why don't you bring up Woodrow Wilson?

We could bring up Lincoln too...

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything."
- Abraham Lincoln

Source:
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
(The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)

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Just saying that people can change...

Rapmaster2000: If he gets to call himself the Grand Wizard then I want to be called El Presidente Supremo.

I've always been partial to the title Exalted Cyclops myself. I've always pictured the guys who came up with their org chart huddled in a room the night before it was due with a badly damaged copy of Gray's mythology and a thesaurus.


/These titles like Grand Wizard and Cyclop don't so much evoke mystery and fear as it does overweight asthmatics, silly costumes, and lots of duct taped weapons

He is being discriminated against.

It's just perfectly legal and he can't do much about it besides complain.

Damn, that makes two of them this week!

"County Chairman Sid Dinerstein said Black was ineligible to serve, not because of his associations, but because he was one of a handful of elected committee members who did not sign the party loyalty oath when they filed as candidates."

Loyalty oaths? How nazi of them.

albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

And Republicans kept re-electing Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms.

That's 2:1.

But Byrd renounced his past, making it 2:0.

/"Macaca."

kabloink: "County Chairman Sid Dinerstein said Black was ineligible to serve, not because of his associations, but because he was one of a handful of elected committee members who did not sign the party loyalty oath when they filed as candidates."

Loyalty oaths? How nazi of them.

I'm sorry, but a poltical party is one of those organizations where a loyalty oath makes sense.

If you don't subscribe to the party platform, why the he'll are you running?

Milkbeer: It wouldn't have mattered if Hitler himself ran as president. Democrats have no moral standards..... i.e. Byrd.

So Robert Byrd is worse than Hitler?

/Excuse me, but what's this hook doing in my lip?

How the hell is it possible for someone to get elected to the executive committee without even some kind of a vetting process? Maybe the committee I sit on is more professional because we're a big county, but our leadership still has to run and people check them out. I don't get it.

If the kid is a white supremacist, don't seat him. If he's normal, don't hold the fact that his parents are retards against him.

kabloink: Loyalty oaths? How nazi of them.

It's not really a "loyalty oath." Generally, it's just a statement that you'll support the party candidates. Which makes sense - you don't want sitting members of the party committee supporting Democrats or third party candidates.

ClicheGuevara07: The Dreaded Rear Admiral: ClicheGuevara07: albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

He's been in Congress since 1952, back when the Democrats were the Party of Segregation. He'd have no chance of getting elected today while holding the views he held back then.

FTFY. Byrd has reformed and generally agreed that he was young and stupid in regards to his racism back then. In fact, Robert Byrd has given some of the most impassioned speeches on the floor of the Senate defending the disenfranchised.

Regardless of whether he still believed now what he believed then, any association with a group like the KKK, past or present, would make it impossible to get elected to any public office today, outside of maybe Utah, Oklahoma or Southern Ohio.

How about West Virginia?

Discrimination is just a word. It can be used in the context of something that is bad, or it can be used in the conext of something good.

Sounds like this white supremicist is learning that the hard way. His amoral racial discrimination has lead to the understandable (and good) discrimination from the structure of a political party.

Republicans are ashamed of their ideological relatives, and seldom invite them round for dinner.
(With apologies to Douglas Adams)

redmid17: ClicheGuevara07: The Dreaded Rear Admiral: ClicheGuevara07: albo: it's not fair. after all, the democrats put Robert Byrd in the Senate

He's been in Congress since 1952, back when the Democrats were the Party of Segregation. He'd have no chance of getting elected today while holding the views he held back then.

FTFY. Byrd has reformed and generally agreed that he was young and stupid in regards to his racism back then. In fact, Robert Byrd has given some of the most impassioned speeches on the floor of the Senate defending the disenfranchised.

Regardless of whether he still believed now what he believed then, any association with a group like the KKK, past or present, would make it impossible to get elected to any public office today, outside of maybe Utah, Oklahoma or Southern Ohio.

How about West Virginia?

I already said Southern Ohio.

jso2897: Republicans are ashamed of their ideological relatives, and seldom invite them round for dinner.
(With apologies to Douglas Adams)


So what? EVERYONE has relatives they are ashamed of. Don't act like this is something uniquely Republican. Also, don't act like all the racists in the world are affiliated with the Republican party. History is quite a bit more complicated than that.

mongbiohazard: So what? EVERYONE has relatives they are ashamed of.



Good luck in 2012, Jeb.

mongbiohazard: jso2897: Republicans are ashamed of their ideological relatives, and seldom invite them round for dinner.
(With apologies to Douglas Adams)


So what? EVERYONE has relatives they are ashamed of. Don't act like this is something uniquely Republican. Also, don't act like all the racists in the world are affiliated with the Republican party. History is quite a bit more complicated than that.

Uh, I was just crackin' wise, son. Breathe slowly into a paper bag until your heartbeat stabilizes.

DeltaXi65: kabloink: Loyalty oaths? How nazi of them.

It's not really a "loyalty oath." Generally, it's just a statement that you'll support the party candidates. Which makes sense - you don't want sitting members of the party committee supporting Democrats or third party candidates.

But when Democrats want Lieberman to do it we're horrible people. . .

RemyDuron: DeltaXi65: kabloink: Loyalty oaths? How nazi of them.

It's not really a "loyalty oath." Generally, it's just a statement that you'll support the party candidates. Which makes sense - you don't want sitting members of the party committee supporting Democrats or third party candidates.

But when Democrats want Lieberman to do it we're horrible people. . .

Not saying you have said that, but it is kind of funny.

RemyDuron: Not saying you have said that, but it is kind of funny.

It's weird how those of us who are just party guys are held to a higher standard than our candidates are. :)

Rapmaster2000: If he gets to call himself the Grand Wizard then I want to be called El Presidente Supremo

Isn't that a combo at Burger King?