THURSDAY UPDATE: The photo in question has been removed from the Jefferson County GOP’s website, as reported late yesterday evening by Jeffco Pols.
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At the website of the Jefferson County Republican Party, the first thing you’re asked to do:
The two men in the well-known photo above are members of the New Black Panther Party, charged with making an isolated disturbance outside a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008. No other incidents of the kind were reported anywhere else, but the photo of these two men has been used countless times by Republicans to incite baseless race-baiting fears of Black Panther thugs headed for your suburban neighborhood polling place to make trouble.
Oh, wait a minute!
Full story: Jefferson County GOP: Black Panthers Are Coming To Steal Your Vote
specifically “True The Vote,” fronted by Tea Party nutter Catherine Englebrecht. Luckily though, no one in Colorado gives that organization any credibility…except, wait, Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who speaks regularly at their functions.
“The racial makeup of Jefferson county was 90.59% White, 0.89% Black or African American, 0.75% Native American, 2.28% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 3.23% from other races, and 2.18% from two or more races. 9.95% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.” The Wiki
a lot easier to spot all those panthers.
They do it because they know there are no consequences. 0.9% of the population can’t vote anybody out of office for this.
What a disgrace to my great county.
How can these awful people dare to call themselves civilized?
Racist bastards.
Senator Obama, 2008
New Black Panthers in Jeffco? uh-huh, no racist sentiment there.
OBTW- the people Senator Obama was talking about agree with him. They just don’t like him very much.
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I guess you thought that because dukeco1 said “racist bastards,” he was calling your name . . . ?
Getting all excited about getting after the black man.
I would not be surprised if they had a few pictures out of Sanford and Son as backup “see, they be real” scary stories.
This non-event occurred in a predominantly African American precinct so it’s kind of hard to see it as racist. It was two guys with some neo-Black Panther wannabe group, not even connected to the original Black Panthers and who seemed not to even know what point it was they wanted to make. Hardly anybody seemed intimidated. Is this really the best Jeffco Rs can come up with?
Scaring old white people. Now me, I have integrity, so I couldn’t do this. But JeffCO GOP? Apparently not.
Been in play since 1988, why stop now?
Racist scumbags, put it back up! Be proud. Let the whole fucking world see it.
Thanks for shining a light on these cockroaches. Look at them run!
In a nearly all-white suburb is racist?
Next you’ll suggest that no rapes are legitimate.
because every women comes equipped with “Sperm Guard” the guaranteed magical way to not have a rapists baby.
to try to shut that whole thing down.
Is this part of the Republicans GOTV? Part of their voter intimidation? I don’t know, but the last time I checked the vast majority of Voters in Jeffco were mail ballot voters. Please, please Republicans volunteer for this and waste your time. Hahahahahahahaha. I guess they are drinking the kool-aid even in Jeffco now.
Are the Republicans intentionally trying to make themselves into basically a permanent-minority, (almost) all white party?
The demographics in this country as a whole are heading towards whites being a minority. Meanwhile, the Republicans:
- Put out this crap in Jeffco.
- Have a county office in Virginia that proudly refuses to take down Facebook photos of Obama as a witch doctor and gorilla
- Have Mitt Romney go on Univision in brownface (OK, that last one was likely unintentional, but it all adds into the perception)
- Have a convention featuring all angry white men during the biggest prime-time period
- Have “Macaca” Allen as their Virginia Senate candidate
The list goes on and on, both locally and nationally. They are just so damned dumb it’d be funny at this point – if it weren’t also so sad.