N.Y. GOP candidate exposed as racist

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Congressional hopeful Jim Russell wrote an essay opposing interracial relationships and integration of schools
By Justin Elliott

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NY GOP candidate exposed as racist
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Maggie Haberman at Politico today dug up a virulently racist essay written by Republican Jim Russell, who is challenging Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) -- and who has been endorsed by the state Republican Party and the state Conservative Party, according to his website.

Russell is a perennial candidate for Congress in New York's 18th district, which includes most of Westchester County, north of the city. He got 32 percent of the vote in 2008. In the 2001 essay (.pdf) "The Western Contribution to World History," Russell wrote in opposition of interracial relationships -- and integration of schools -- and praised the anti-Semitic theories of T.S. Eliot. It appeared in the publication Occidental Quarterly.

While Russell is a longshot, the essay is significant because he seems to have the support of the state Republican establishment -- though it's not clear whether the party previously knew about the essay.

Here's a small taste, via Haberman (emphasis ours):

“It has been demonstrated that finches raised by foster parents of a different species of finch will later exhibit a lifelong sexual attraction toward the alien species. One wonders how a child’s sexual imprinting mechanism is affected by forcible racial integration and near continual exposure to media stimuli promoting interracial contact. The most serious implication of human sexual imprinting for our genetic future is that it would establish the destructiveness of school integration, especially in the middle and high-school years. One can only wonder to what degree the advocates of school integration, such as former NAACP attorney Jack Greenberg, were conscious of this scientific concept. It also compounds the culpability of media moguls who deliberately popularize miscegenation in films directed toward adolescents and pre-adolescents. In the midst of this onslaught against our youth, parents need to be reminded that they have a natural obligation, as essential as providing food and shelter, to instill in their children an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage.

Russell, who was identified in a newspaper article this year as a case manager at the New York State Insurance Fund, has a PhD in "historical theology" and is author of the book, "The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation."

He explains in his official campaign biography that, "I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens where I witnessed first-hand the destructive effects of uncontrolled immigration." His website emphasizes opposition to immigration and a housing desegregation settlement that Westchester County entered into last year.

We've reached out to the state GOP to see if it is standing by its endorsement of Russell, and we'll update this post if we hear back. We've also reached out to Russell.
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http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/09/20/new_york_gop_jim_russell/
 
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That reminds me, what ever happened with Hilary Clinton's thesis paper? Is it still in the "process" of being released?
 
ResearchMonkey

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Gee comrade spike, I see you're labeling him as a racist but I don't see how this makes him a racist.

Can you explain it in clear logical terms. I think your just grasping at straw.
 
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Yeah, spikey, show us!

Interracial marriages makes people lose their ethnic identity. There is nothing racist about that.
 
spike

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He's against school integration and inter-racial marriage. Discrimination based on race. Racism.

Interracial marriages do not make people lose their ethnic identity. They give you a broader ethnic identity.

You guys going to defend race based school segregation now? WTF.
 
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spike said:
He's against school integration and inter-racial marriage. Discrimination based on race. Racism.

You guys going to defend race based school segregation now? WTF.
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Oh, that is why. You do not know the definition of racism. Let us take a look:


rac·ism

–noun
1.
a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2.
a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3.
hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

Discriminating base on race does not constitute racism. It all depends on the motive of discrimination.

spike said:
Interracial marriages do not make people lose their ethnic identity. They give you a broader ethnic identity.
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No, it does not. How many different races are you, spike (I would not be surprised if you were not even certain)? Out of those races in which you are comprised of, how many of those languages that each of those races speak do you know? How many authentic dishes can you cook that is part of the races in which you are? How much history and tradition of each race do you know?

People lose their ethnic culture/heritage when they are mixed.
 
ResearchMonkey

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You work hard to live in a nice neighborhood with nice schools, you send your kids to the school in your neighborhood. Whats the problem?
 
jimpeel

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Robert Byrd was a Klansman and Bill Clinton defended his choice to be a Klansman at his funeral.

There are a lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers, and I read a bunch of them, and they mentioned that he once had a fleeting association with the Klu (sic) Klux Klan and what does that mean. I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and the hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected, and maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up -- and that's what a good person does.

There are no perfect people! There are certainly no perfect politicians.
--Bill Clinton, July 2, 2010 at Robert Byrd's memorial
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Fleeting??? Robert Byrd was a Grand Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan!!!

Ku Klux Klan

In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.[10]

According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did." Byrd held the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops. When it came time to elect the "Exalted Cyclops," the top officer in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.[10]

In 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo:
“I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
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Bill Clinton's mentor, J. William Fulbright, filibustered and voted against the civil rights acts.

James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975.

Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist, supported the creation of the United Nations, signed the Southern Manifesto and opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. He is remembered for his segregationism, opposition to US involvement in the war in Vietnam, and efforts to establish an international exchange program, which thereafter bore his name, the Fulbright Fellowships. Fulbright was the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Bill Clinton cited him as a mentor.

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Fulbright signed The Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. He subsequently joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as voting against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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It was the democrats who stood in the school house doors. It was the democrats who opposed the civil rights acts. It was the democrats who filibustered the civil rights acts.

It was the republicans who led the charge for civil rights, like Hubert Humphrey, in the face of staunch resistance from the democrats.

I guess we are supposed to overlook these cases because they are democrats.
 
spike

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Gotholic said:
2.
a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3.
hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
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There you go. He does not want to tolerate another race marrying his or attending his schools. Discrimination based on race. Glad we settled that.

No, it does not.
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Sure it does.

How many different races are you, spike (I would not be surprised if you were not even certain)? Out of those races in which you are comprised of, how many of those languages that each of those races speak do you know? How many authentic dishes can you cook that is part of the races in which you are? How much history and tradition of each race do you know?
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I think you're confusing race with nationality. I'm pretty much one race. Ancestors had various nationalities though which has caused me to take an interest in each of them as opposed to one. Expanding my heritage.

People lose their ethnic culture/heritage when they are mixed.
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No, they can just as easily expand it.

Really it depends on the person though. You generalizations are silly.

Who cares anyway. People should be encouraged to marry the person they are in love with that makes them happy. Basing it on race is stupid.

Ask ResearchMonkey if he lost his culture and heritage when he married his wife.
 
spike

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jimpeel said:
It was the democrats who stood in the school house doors. It was the democrats who opposed the civil rights acts. It was the democrats who filibustered the civil rights acts
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Nice try changing the subject but we've covered this before. The racist Southern Democrats turned Republican over the passage of the civil rights bill.

"The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was widely opposed by white Southerners, was the event that finally moved the majority of Southerners to the Republican Party on a national level."

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

How do you forget this stuff?

And now...

White Supremacist Stormfronters -> Almost exclusively Republican or Tea Party
Bigots against gay rights -> Right wing thing mostly
Bigots who hate all Muslims -> Right wing thing mostly
Anyone on this board who has made an argument that women shouldn't have been given the right to vote -> Republicans
Winky -> Republican
 
ResearchMonkey

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If i spend my money to live in a nice place with nice schools, they shouldn't be bussing kids from the shit-hole to my nice school i worked hard to live by.

But of course you don't have any appreciation for individuals and hard work for personal benefit. You prefer to take from those who 'do' and give it those who 'don't'.

You're a commie or neofacist, ...it still up in the air.
 
spike

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ResearchMonkey said:
If i spend my money to live in a nice place with nice schools, they shouldn't be bussing kids from the shit-hole to my nice school i worked hard to live by.
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That's an unrelated issue. Unless you think people of other races only live in shit holes. That would be dumb though.

But of course you don't have any appreciation for individuals and hard work for personal benefit.
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Sure I do, the difference being I appreciate when people of any race work hard for personal benefit. While you defend racially segregated schools.

You're a commie or neofacist, ...it still up in the air.
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Yeah sure, and your views tend toward racist fascist neocon troll. :yawn:
 
ResearchMonkey

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Russell wrote in opposition of interracial relationships -- and integration of schools
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Sound to me like he was opposed the forced integration busing of individuals to 'fix" some liberal race quota. I don't see him proposing any laws.

I think you're wetting your race-panties because your socialist Utopian world is unraveling in front of you.

Work hard, live good, it's the American way.
 
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