So you thought we were past this? We hear it all the time, that racism is dead because we have a black president! And the you hear things like this: At a recent gathering for the Republican group CPAC, a member says that blacks should be happy slavery happened, because the slaves were provided food and shelter.
The Republican then wished for segregation!
The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.
After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, “why can’t we just have segregation?” noting the Constitution’s protections for freedom of association.
ThinkProgress spoke to Scott Terry after he made his feelings know;
When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.
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Stop being so shocked when this type of thing is said… reality check, after reality check. Sometimes some of the more emotional types speak their view of the world more freely than others but don't be fooled that this type of thinking is dead… far from it.