{"id":9923,"date":"2013-03-15T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2013-03-15T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T00:31:27","slug":"racist-fun-at-cpac-who-coulda-seen-it-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9923","title":{"rendered":"Racist Fun at CPAC! Who Coulda Seen It Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ScottTerry_CPAC_2013_ConfederateFlag.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">A session today at the <a href=\"http:\/\/conservative.org\/cpac\/2013\/#\">Conservative Political Action Conference<\/a> (CPAC) titled<b> &#8220;Trump the Race Card: Are you Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You&#8217;re Not One?&#8221;<\/b>, as sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots, didn&#8217;t work out as well as organizers had planned. Or maybe it did.<\/p>\n<p>Things fell apart at the year&#8217;s most prestigious Republican event in DC, during questioning at the session by one white southern attendee who felt that his &#8220;people and culture&#8221; were being &#8220;systematically disenfranchised&#8221; by the federal government. It&#8217;s a problem, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2013\/03\/tea-party-event-on-racial-tolerance-turns-to-chaos-as-white-supremacists-arrive.php\">he made clear<\/a>, that &#8220;all the Tea Parties&#8221; were concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>God bless the event&#8217;s African-American presenter, K. Carl Smith, who tried to put out the fire (somehow) by explaining that Frederick Douglass had written a letter to his former slave master expressing his forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For what?,&#8221; the <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/03\/15\/1729331\/cpac-slavery-minority-outreach\/\">attendee Scott Terry of North Carolina asked<\/a>. &#8220;For feeding him and housing him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Terry, who was sitting next to a friend in a Confederate flag t-shirt, was sick and tired of being called a racist when he &#8212; like so many others in the oppressed minority that is the Republican Party &#8212; knew he was not one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A session today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) titled &#8220;Trump the Race Card: Are you Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You&#8217;re Not One?&#8221;, as sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots, didn&#8217;t work out as well as organizers had planned. Or maybe it did. Things fell apart at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}