MORE MACACA AND BEYOND!!!!

[radfringe]

Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen
by MAX BLUMENTHAL
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060911&s=george_allen



Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.

In 1996, when Governor Allen entered the Washington Hilton Hotel to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative movement organizations, he strode to a booth at the entrance of the exhibition hall festooned with two large Confederate flags--a booth operated by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), at the time a co-sponsor of CPAC. After speaking with CCC founder and former White Citizens Council organizer Gordon Lee Baum and two of his cohorts, Allen suggested that they pose for a photograph with then-National Rifle Association spokesman and actor Charlton Heston. The photo appeared in the Summer 1996 issue of the CCC's newsletter, the Citizens Informer.

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Descended from the White Citizens' Councils that battled integration in the Jim Crow South, the CCC is designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. In its "Statement of Principles," the CCC declares, "We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races."

The CCC has hosted several conservative Republican legislators at its conferences, including former Representative Bob Barr of Georgia and Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. But mostly it has been a source of embarrassment to Republicans hoping to move their party beyond its race-baiting image. Former Reagan speechwriter and conservative pundit Peggy Noonan pithily declared that anyone involved with the CCC "does not deserve to be in a leadership position in America."

[NewJeffCT]

1. I'm embarrassed George Allen is a US citizen

Does he have any redeeming qualities?

[rfranklin]

No.

No.

[acmavm]

4. Apparently not.

[electropop]

2. Ouch!

That's going to sting!

[radfringe]

3. heh heh

macaca's hitting the fan now...

[LostinVA]

5. So, he's also a member of the Public Klan

Because that's what the CCC is.

[bullimiami]

6. isnt it obvious that the racists, disgusted by the democrats in the 60s

and 70s, and haunted by the no longer acceptable labels of the past, found their refuge in the republican party and changed 'white' to 'conservative'.

this happened all over the south and it was predicted that the democrats would lose the south for a generation.
here we are now dealing with the aging and most virulent of those who are grabbing now for all they can take.

[HereSince1628]

7. The guy is a gift that just keeps on giving...

He shoulda married Kathryn Harris. What a pair that would be

[Botany]

8. But the photo is out of context

:rofl:

[radfringe]

11. I'm waiting for the Katherine Harris spin on it...

"I only joined for political reasons..."

[bahrbearian]

9. He likes to hang out with People who can tuck their Ties in their Belts

[Cooley Hurd]

10. K&R - Wikipedia entry for the CCC:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens

Council of Conservative Citizens
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Council of Conservative Citizens (abbreviated CCC or CofCC) is a racist American paleoconservative political organization that supports European and white heritage and opposes multiculturalism. It is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and its most active chapter is in Mississippi. Other states with active chapters include Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and New York. Sporadic CCC activities occur in other parts of the country as well.

Its executive committee is made up of Gordon Lee Baum, Bill Lord, and Tom Dover. The 16 member board of directors includes Leonard Wilson, Sam Dickson, and AJ Barker. Lester Maddox, the late former segregationist governor of Georgia, was a charter member of the CCC. His last public appearance, before his death, was at the 2002 CCC National Conference. Other notable charter members include Major Bob Paterson, first Provost Marshall for the American sector of Berlin, and John Rarick, a conservative former congressman who left the Democrats to form a third party.
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The CCC in Its Own Words

"Each of the three major races plays a distinct role in history. . . . The whites were the creators of civilization, the yellows its sustainers and copyists, the blacks its destroyers.” (www.cofcc.org, 12/98)

“Is it racist to say that it is legally and morally wrong for government to force a mixing of the races to produce a mongrel?" (Citizens Informer, Spring/97)

Abraham Lincoln was "surely the most evil American in history," and Martin Luther King was a "depraved miscreant.” (www.cofcc.org, 12/98)

"Western civilization with all its might and glory would never have achieved its greatness without the directing hand of God and the creative genius of the white race. Any effort to destroy the race by a mixture of black blood is an effort to destroy Western civilization itself." (Citizens Informer, Fall/94)

"Our liberal establishment is using the media of television to promote racial intimacy and miscegenation…. All of the news teams on the major networks have black and white newscasters of opposite sexes." (Citizens Informer, Fall/98)

"The Jews' motto is 'never forget, and never forgive.' One can't agree with the way they've turned spite into welfare billions for themselves, but the 'never forget' part is very sound." (Citizens Informer, Winter/97)

"The presence of even one white person with our interests foremost in his mind is simply unacceptable to the issues-obsessed conservative race traitors. Texas Governor George Bush and his brother Jeb in Florida have manifested their self-hatred by embracing Hispanics ahead of whites. Somehow we must find a way to relieve whites of their self-hatred." ("Open Letter to White People,” www.cofcc.org, 12/98)

"If we want to live, white Americans must begin today to lay the foundations of our future and our children's future.... Start today, fellow white Americans. Look at the faces around you: Find the faces like yours, and see them as your brothers and sisters. Find the fair-skinned babies and see them as your children." ("A Call to White Americans," www.cofcc.org, 12/98)
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Macaca...:grr:

[Orrin_73]

12. What, Charlton Heston attending a CCC meeting....

didn't he support MLK during the sixties, in his civil rights march?

[radfringe]

13. that was during the sixities

according to the article the photo was taken a decade ago (10 years) --
possible heston was there about some NRA crap

[slestak]

15. Yup

The photo was taken at a generic conservative meet-up. I'm sure Heston was there to rep the NRA and probably had piles of people wanting their picture taken with him.

[Richard Steele]

14. The CCC is just the KKK members who can spell.

They always have been; it's not like it's a secret or anything.