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"Harry Hope" |
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24 Oct 2006 04:16:45 PM |
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Racist Republican TV ad being denounced |
From The Houston Chronicle, 10/24/06:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4282493.html
Republican TV ad being denounced as racially divisive
New spot targets black candidate in Tennessee, playing on fears of
white voters, critics say
By PETER WALLSTEN
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -
A new Republican Party TV ad featuring a scantily clad white woman
winking and inviting a black candidate to "call me" is drawing charges
of race-baiting, with critics saying it contradicts a landmark GOP
statement last year that the party was wrong in past decades to use
racial appeals to win support from white voters.
Critics said the ad, which is funded by the Republican National
Committee and has aired since Friday, plays on fears of interracial
relationships to scare some white voters in rural Tennessee to oppose
Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. Ford is locked in a tight race to
become the first black senator since Reconstruction to represent a
state in the former Confederacy.
"It is a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about
African-American men and white women," said Hilary Shelton, head of
the Washington office of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
A former Republican senator, Bill Cohen of Maine, was more blunt.
Speaking on CNN, Cohen called the GOP ad "a very serious appeal to a
racist sentiment."
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No surprise.
Harry
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| User: "enialle" |
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| Title: Re: Racist Republican TV ad being denounced |
24 Oct 2006 09:42:29 PM |
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:16:45 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
From The Houston Chronicle, 10/24/06:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4282493.html
Republican TV ad being denounced as racially divisive
New spot targets black candidate in Tennessee, playing on fears of
white voters, critics say
By PETER WALLSTEN
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -
A new Republican Party TV ad featuring a scantily clad white woman
winking and inviting a black candidate to "call me" is drawing charges
of race-baiting, with critics saying it contradicts a landmark GOP
statement last year that the party was wrong in past decades to use
racial appeals to win support from white voters.
Critics said the ad, which is funded by the Republican National
Committee and has aired since Friday, plays on fears of interracial
relationships to scare some white voters in rural Tennessee to oppose
Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. Ford is locked in a tight race to
become the first black senator since Reconstruction to represent a
state in the former Confederacy.
"It is a powerful innuendo that plays to pre-existing prejudices about
African-American men and white women," said Hilary Shelton, head of
the Washington office of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Leave it to the right wing party of racism and homophobia to appeal to
the basest emotions of their party faithful. It's nice to know what
kindred spirits linger in their party. I guess they must be proud of
this.
A former Republican senator, Bill Cohen of Maine, was more blunt.
Speaking on CNN, Cohen called the GOP ad "a very serious appeal to a
racist sentiment."
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No surprise.
Harry
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