Apparently, Max Blumenthal of The Nation magazine thought it would be fun to walk around CPAC with a camera so on line Nation readers could have some yuks after the conservative conference.
Unfortunately for Blumenthal, a "good looking fella" according to Ann Coulter, his camera man apparently caught him off guard. After making a somewhat bizarre plea to "Take a stand" for the Confederacy, Blumenthal approached the booth for the National Black Republican Association where he hurled a racial insult at Peter Rice, in Blumenthal's words, "a curiously pale Black Republican." Mr. Rice is the spouse of Francis Rice, Chairman of the National Black Republican Association. See brief YouTube video below.
As a conservative, I'd suggest it might be a good idea if CPAC were to ensure that future gatherings aren't attended by individuals who seem to have such serious issues with interracial marriage.
As Ms. Coulter seems to find him attractive, maybe the two of them can hook up somewhere at an off site hotel and simply skip next year's event.
If you'd like to see the worthwile events that went on at CPAC, see Michelle Malkin and Captain's Quarters for pics and more.
Greetings,
Progress! We black Republicans have gone from being non-existent to being mocked as non-existent.
I wonder why the ever curious Max Blumenthal didn't come to interview me, the Chairman of the NBRA, after interviewing my husband, Peter, who was manning our booth while we were holding our 2007 NBRA Annual Meeting and Pioneer Award Ceremony in the Palladian Ballroom. The theme of our meeting was "Celebrating Black Republicans - From Frederick Douglass to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Dr. Condoleezza Rice." The keynote speaker was The Honorable Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a black Republican. Speaking at that same event was The Honorable Jennifer Carroll, the first black woman Republican to be elected and subsequently re-elected to the Florida House of Representatives. Also speaking was Angela McGlowan, a FOX News Commentator and black Republican, who is the CEO of her own consulting firm and newly published author of the book entitled Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda. The truth-seeking? Max would have found a room of black Republicans, both ordinary citizens and accomplished individuals.
Max was also missing from our historic Reparations March on Congress on March 1st where we demanded an apology from the Democratic Party leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, for the Democratic Party's 200-year history of racism and failed socialism that have caused so much harm to black Americans. Max might learn a few things by reading our magazine, The Black Republican, and visiting our website at: www.NBRA.info/ where our Reparations Petition is posted. Also on our website are posted our radio ads and other information that highlight the fact that the Democratic Party fought to keep blacks in slavery, fought every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860's through the 1960's and started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch Republicans, black and white. The Democrats have hijacked the civil rights record of the Republican Party that fought to free blacks from slavery and championed all civil rights legislation.
The NBRA was founded to expose the racist past of the Democratic Party and their failed socialist policies that have turned our inner-cities into economic and social wastelands. We will demonstrate to black Americans how Republican Party principles of hard work, getting a good education and joining the ownership society are the pathway to prosperity.
I hope that you will join us in our fight to take back the Republican Party legacy and free black Americans from the Democratic Party's economic plantation.
Warm regards,
Frances Rice
Chairman
National Black Republican Association
Uh... he's not black.
Posted by: scarshapedstar | Sunday, March 04, 2007 at 11:49 PM
I think Max's point was that you ought to have... a black Republican... at the Black Republican table. His wife is, indeed, African-American. Doesn't make him one. Am I missing something here?
Also, if you had trouble following the "confederate flag" exchange, the guy who said the notion that Tancredo's supporters are racists or support white culture was "bullshit" was standing next to a guy who, curiously, felt the need to COVER UP his confederate flag lapel. When pressed for an explanation, he became evasive.
I agree with Max. If you're gonna wear the Stars and Bars, wear it proudly. Don't hide it under a bushel, lawd, let it shine!
Posted by: scarshapedstar | Sunday, March 04, 2007 at 11:55 PM
Max is annoying tool whose main purpose was to try and rile folks up. And for the most part, he did.
Sorta like Ann Coulter, but without the nice legs.
Posted by: seekeronos | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 01:55 AM
Frances Rice? Would that be this Frances Rice?
http://www.veniceflorida.com/features/falsegroundswell.htm
"Rice's letter plagiarizes a column by Colbert King that was published on January 22 in The Washington Post. Every other place where I found the exact same sentence gives an attribution to King's column. Everywhere except the Gondo, where it is published as though it was written by Frances Rice.
Frances Rice lifted almost all of her ideas straight from King, including the reference to and criticism of a Pat Oliphant cartoon that King/Rice find offensive (wonder if either Rice ever even saw the original cartoon that is being referenced?)."
Posted by: noen | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 02:18 AM
Noen yea that Francis Rice. The one who played the race card as soon as someone called her on her plagerism.
Posted by: klyde | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 06:13 AM
"Uh... he's not black."
Neither was Bill Clinton - our "first black president"
Posted by: Purple Avenger | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 07:04 AM
Neither was Bill Clinton - our "first black president"
Was he manning the booth too?
Posted by: TheSpartan | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 07:12 AM
Just watch Max's whole video, now that's some funny stuff.
Posted by: TheSpartan | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 07:25 AM
He didn't actually "hurl" the insult did he, as the "curiously pale" comment seems to have been made in voice-over?
Posted by: SJ | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 08:33 AM
"Max is annoying tool whose main purpose was to try and rile folks up. And for the most part, he did."
He riled people up by asking people about their positions? Are you kidding? People got "riled up" because they couldn't stand having their "ideas" exposed to daylight outside of their little isolated echo chambers. Max' subjects showed themselves to be the cowards they are - all on their own.
Posted by: Legalize | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 09:34 AM
"Sorta like Ann Coulter, but without the nice legs."
Why were you checking out Max Blumenthal's legs?
However, defaming Mr. Rice, the blackest man at the CPAC convention was entirely out of line. Of course, maybe its you who are the racist, Dan. Maybe Max just doesn't see color. Maybe he's beyond that. Did you ever consider that Max was commenting not on the color of Mr. Rice's skin, but the content of his character? I thought not.
Why can't people see it? Mr. Rice didn't look black. He didn't look white. He looked like an idiot. And that's what really matters. Racist.
Posted by: Zifnab | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 10:20 AM
Francis Rice wrote a letter. How nice. Did she explain why The Black Republicans couldn't find enough actual BLACK republican faces to man their booth during CPAC? Did the Log Cabins have that problem?
Posted by: Nikki | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 11:47 AM
The spokesperson for the Concerned Women for America is a man. No amount of right wing spin can make up for their utter tone deafness.
Posted by: mightyjoeyoung | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 01:26 PM
The spokesperson for the Concerned Women for America is a man. No amount of right wing spin can make up for their utter tone deafness.
Posted by: mightyjoeyoung | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 01:46 PM
The spokesperson for the Concerned Women for America is a man. No amount of right wing spin can make up for their utter tone deafness.
Posted by: mightyjoeyoung | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 01:50 PM
The spokesperson for the Concerned Women for America is a man. No amount of right wing spin can make up for their utter tone deafness.
Posted by: mightyjoeyoung | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 01:55 PM
Say what?
Posted by: Zifnab | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 03:45 PM
If you leftards bothered to read the post you would have seen that the booth was manned by the chair's husband because, at the same time the NBRA was having its national meeting in the ballroom. Had Blumenthal really wanted to see Black Republicans instead of snarking he could have easily found the ballroom.
But then the left has long embraced the "one drop of black blood" concept of racial identity, so Obama is black despite having a white mother, and Hallie Berry is considered a black actress despite having a Jewish mother.
Posted by: Bozoer Rebbe | Monday, March 05, 2007 at 11:36 PM
Had Blumenthal really wanted to see Black Republicans instead of snarking he could have easily found the ballroom.
Was that the ballroom marked "supply closet"?
Posted by: TheSpartan | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 at 12:07 AM
Yeah Max!! He exposed the GOP, (definately not the GOP of my grandparents, but a remnant destroyed by high hatted judgemental Faux Christian racists parading around as Conservatives), for what it has become, what it is today.
You can't see it because you, like so many on your side, are too busy sitting in the frame.
Why hide the Stars and Bars, wear it proudly, let the world know what the GOP has become...
Posted by: April Ginsberg | Tuesday, March 06, 2007 at 12:50 AM