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It would be fool hearted to believe that any party has a monopoly on prejudice or racism. In fact no race or ethnicity for that matter is pure. All else equal human’s carnality always seek for that last attribute to get ahead. When frustrated have many not used the skinny bitch attribute, or the fat slob, or the some racial epithet in frustration. In that light temporary slips do not make a person or party intrinsically racist or prejudice.
When the propensity of a person, a group, or party is to dwell on that which make people different, on prejudice, on race it creates a valid narrative of the immoral proclivity of that entity. That entity is today’s Republican Party and many of those group associated with it.
In these difficult times when the middleclass is forced to fight for the crumbs the top 2% discards, this will unfortunately be effective. As we reach a new normal which is on its way, and we settle in, and as the demographics of this country continue to change the effectiveness of this diabolical tenet will end.
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WASHINGTON — A billboard urging people to "Vote American" and support Kansas Republican congressional candidate Mike Pompeo is igniting controversy in the state’s fourth congressional district, with the campaign of Raj Goyle accusing its opponent of launching "bigoted attacks."
The digital billboard stands above an insurance agency run by a man named John Eck, who has donated to Republican causes. The images of the billboards supporting Pompeo:
On Saturday, the Goyle campaign sent out an e-mail to its supporters, asking them to sign a petition calling on Pompeo to have the billboard taken down. The campaign also sent a letter to its Republican opponent about the issue.
"It’s pretty obvious what they’re trying to say there," said Goyle Campaign Manager Kiel Brunner. "I don’t know that it’s going so far as a ‘birther’ thing, but it’s not the first time they’ve said something like this or been open about it. And whether or not it’s in the collusion with the Pompeo campaign, they apparently attract supporters and contributors who support this, and anything less than a denouncing of the tactics is unacceptable."
In response to an inquiry from the Huffington Post, Eck said he was not referencing anything about the ethnicity of Goyle, whose parents immigrated to the United States from India.
"I just like the word American," Eck responded in an e-mail. "No intention of any inference that Mr. Goyle is not American. I really don’t know him, but I’m sure he is American and I would be surprised if he doesn’t use the word (American) in his ads. Since I had a couple of other emails inferring this, I plan to eliminate the words (American) from the billboard this afternoon. I show a sign of the American flag flying each day in rotation and just like to use the term American. If I was supporting Mr. Goyle for our District, I would have used the same word for him."
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Eck does not, however, use the word "American" in his other billboard images:
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