Posts Tagged ‘Dean Grose’

If you were in any way unclear why the Republican Party is unable to build any measurable minority base…let’s just review recent history.  This isn’t 1964 Mississippi…this is 2009 with an African-American president.  Yes, the GOP is clinging tightly to the 20th century.  God bless their little racist hearts.  They’re so cute, yes they are (pinching their cheeks).

Let’s review the past 12 months through the eyes of GOP racism at its unparalleled best.  OF COURSE the GOP does poorly recruiting African-Americans.  Who in the hell wants to be associated with a party without outright contempt for you and anyone who looks like you?  And Mo’Kelly is only referencing the PUBLIC gaffes by party leadership.  Mind you, this is all POST the death of Jesse Helms.

Keep it up Republicans, you’ve just ensured another 50 years of African-American loyalty to the Democratic Party.  That stale argument of Democrats taking African-Americans for granted is lukewarm on its best day, especially when we have this RECENT history in which to prove that the Republican Party is and will always be the party of “Southern Politics.”

Yes, welcome to the “post-racial” America of the 21st century.  We may be in the 21st century, but the GOP has a stranglehold on 1964 and just won’t let it and the rest of the 20th century go.

6.17.09 – JUST ADDED! – South Carolina GOP operative tweets…

“JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT’S WHITE AND IT WORKS.”

6.16.09 – Tennessee GOP staffer emailed the “Spook” President photo

Sherri Goforth

Sherri Goforth, an executive assistant for Tennessee State Rep. Diane Black (R-Gallatin), sent this picture out to other legislative staffers.

Goforth admitted to sending the email, but she apologized only for sending it to the wrong people.

“I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button,” Goforth said.

“I’m very sick about it, and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”

Spook Jokes in the 21st Century?!

6.15.09 – South Carolina GOP operative

Rusty DePass

Rusty DePass

Over the weekend, a gorilla escaped from a zoo in Columbia, and according to the New York Daily News, DePass just couldn’t resist what he saw as the perfect opportunity for humor, updating his status message to read,

“I’m sure it’s just one of (First Lady) Michelle’s ancestors – probably harmless.”

6.4.09 - GOP operative Manuel Miranda

Manuel Miranda

“By the way, Hispanic polls, Hispanic surveys, indicate that Hispanics think just like everyone else.

We’re not like African Americans. We think just like everybody else.”

5.4.09 - GOP Chairman Michael Steele plays Magic Negro Card

2.27.09 – Republican California mayor Dean Grose and the “Watermelon Patch” email photo attachment

White House "Watermelon Patch"

12.27.08 – RNC Chairman candidate Chip Saltsman plays Magic Negro card

Chip Saltsman

Chip Saltsman, the former Tennessee state Republican chairman who ran Mike Huckabee’s underfunded but shrewd bid for the GOP’s presidential nomination.  Remember him?  Saltsman wanted to be Republican national chairman, and, apparently as part of his campaign, he sent his associates a Christmas gift consisting of songs by the satirist Paul Shanklin.

The title track, sung in a voice meant to impersonate Al Sharpton, is Barack the Magic Negro.  It parodies then president-elect as a Black man acceptable to whites. Another song, Star Spanglish Banner, disparages Latinos.

10.17.08 – Republican website encourages “torture” of Obama

9.6.08 – Obama called ‘uppity’ by Republican Congressman

Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)

“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said.

Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”

4.12.08 – Republican

Geoff Davis (R-CA)

Congressman calls Obama ‘boy.’

At an April 12 event in his district, Kentucky Rep. Geoff Davis (R) said of Obama: “I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button.

He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”

7.22.08 – Republican state senator directly compares Obama and “Osama”

Feel free to share this with your Black Republican friends…all 3 of them.

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For those of you who might have been of the opinion that the New York Post’s controversial cartoon was open to interpretations other than those of a racist bent…this is for you.

Los Alamitos, CA mayor…yes, MAYOR Dean Grose sent out a mass email (to those including African-Americans) with this picture attached, which replaced the White House garden with…

A watermelon patch.

What, no lawn jockey at the front of the patch?  No flaming cross in the front yard?  No dirty, half-dressed pickaninnies running about?  If you’re going to go “offensive” show some balls and go all the way.  Show a watermelon patch AND a cotton field while you’re at it.

Not only that, after one is “truly” bold and brazen in one’s racist stupidity…don’t back off after the fact.  If you’re going to be absolute idiot, claim and be true to the stupidity.  Go ALL the way.  No stupid act goes unrewarded, so be sure to garner ALL the fruits of your unintelligent labor.

Mayor Grose had this to say…

The way things are today, you gotta laugh every now and then. I wanna see the coloring contests.”

#1…what the hell does “coloring contests” mean?  #2, What’s funny about the juxtaposition of watermelons and the President of the United States?  #3, see #1 and 2.

But so far so good…he’s being consistent in his idiocy.  He started strong and is maintaining momentum.

Gold star for Grose.

Then…it went all to hell for Grose.  He later “apologized,” among other things claiming ironically “ignorance” of the offensive nature of watermelon “humor” in relation to African-Americans.

”It was just poor judgment on my part, and I am deeply sorry.”

Punk.  Be a man.  If you’re going to be an idiot, at least be a man about it.

That’s just Mo’Kelly’s opinion.  Express yours personally and directly to Gross at dgrose@ci.los-alamitos.ca.us

Mo’Kelly would say exercise discretion and respect, but don’t worry about it.  Say whatever you want and then follow it up two days later with another email explaining…

”It was just poor judgment on my part, and I am deeply sorry.”

But hurry…word is he’s turning in his resignation.  Don’t let him walk out the door, be sure to help give him a good shove in the process.

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.  Mo’Kelly can be reached at Mo@MrMoKelly.com and he welcomes all commentary.

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