Richard Ivory, Hip Hop Republican
- The French writer, Alexandre Dumas known the world over for his writings and sayings is claimed to have said that “I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest“. And after a week of racial innuendoes and jokes tossed around by the South Carolina GOP, you would think we as party would at least try to take a break and learn from our lessons. HHR blog recenlty recived in our email along with other bloggers this photo image of a conversation with one of the candidates to lead the largest GOP Youth group in the nation. If this is true exchange and the photo is not doctored then its a sad day for our party. If it is a doctored photo then shame on the persons trying to undermine the candidate who is running.
Based on what I see the person who is making the racist statment is not the candidate herself who is running. What us concering is the applause she gives in responce to what he said this show that she either did not read in whole what he said or she agreed with what he said. Right now no one knows what she was thinking. But again as a party we do not learn anything at all and we keep doing things like the above which make our party seem like it’s a racist party.
According to its charter The Young Republicans (YRs) is the oldest political youth organization in the United States and seeks to reach out to registered Republicans, 18 to 40 years of age, and provide them with better political knowledge and understanding of the issues of the day. The YR’s are in a huge race right now as to who will become its new president. How on earth can you do outreach and bring young people in when you applaud language like this?
HHR blog as do many other sites seek to bring in younger voters but especially minority voters into the party and “anything” or “anybody” that undermines this we have a problem with. So it is with great dismay that I have to report this but I must because I am pissed off and I am angry. Most people who know me know I have a temper but today it went into overload. The Republican Party is a great party I love to death and I want to see it grow and prosper. However we have a problem “A SERIOUS PROBLEM” we do not hold people accountable who do dumb stuff.
The exchange starts fairly sane but ends up being crude and racist to the bone. Again we would love to Audra to email us explaining her side but given the exchange and her response it doesn’t look good. As one person said who emailed HHR Blog “This stuff will not be tolerated in our party anymore. Audra is running for YRNF chairman. We cannot have leaders who support this stuff.
Kudos to Derrick Moss who noticed the exchange and alerted the many bloggers about this. Anytime Eric or Audra want to explain themselves and this exchange this blog will give them an open forum. Perhaps we all lost something in the translation concerning the words “mad coon”. We can disagree and critique Obamas policies without using racist words against him.
HHR Blog Update: According to our blogs sources Audra’s response is that she was responding to her 1st comment and didn’t read his 2nd one (the racist one) the problem I guess is that there were 8 mins between when he wrote coon and when she replied back plenty of time to read everything…no matter how slowly she reads. Howver the actual page was deleted so know one could see it but some one copy and pasted it before it was deleted.
