In this video we learn how prominent Republican presidential candidates were caught with their hands in a racist cookie jar that was supplied by the Counsel Of Conservative Citizens (CofCC).
What is the CofCC? Here’s a brief history,
The CofCC was founded in 1988 in Atlanta, Georgia, and then relocated to St. Louis, Missouri. The CofCC was formed by various Republicans, conservative Democrats, and some former members of the Citizens’ Councils of America, sometimes called the White Citizens Council, a segregationist organization that was prominent in the 1960s and 1970s. Lester Maddox, former governor of Georgia, was a charter member.
The organization often holds meetings with various other paleo-conservative organizations in the United States, and sometimes meets with Nationalist organizations from Europe. In 1997, several members of the CofCC attended an event hosted by Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front party. The delegation from the CofCC presented Le Pen with a Confederate flag, which had been flown over the South Carolina state capitol building.
According to its supporters, the Council of Conservative Citizens opposes globalism, multiculturalism, racism against whites, and an intrusive Federal government. The group says it has a key role in reporting the racial overtones of violence against whites, both in the United States and elsewhere. An April 2005 photo essay on the CofCC website claimed that images of decapitated, burnt and mangled bodies of whites are victims of black violence in South Africa. The website closes with the statement that someday American whites will be a minority and will be subject to the same form of violence.
Various critics describe the organization as a hate group. The New York Times and the Anti-Defamation League have described the Council of Conservative Citizens as a white supremacist organization.?The CofCC is considered by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to be part of the “neo-confederate movement”. In general, organizations such as the NAACP, League of United Latin American Citizens, SPLC (which lists it as a hate grou) and the Anti-Defamation League consider it a threat. Max Blumenthal calls it America’s premier racist organization and elementally dangerous to America.
Columnist Ann Coulter repeatedly defends?the group. She says that she’s viewed their website?and?sees “no evidence” that the CofCC supports segregation. Really? This is from their official Statement of Principles, not my opinion.
Coulter and Pat Buchanan are listed as recommended columnists on?CofCC website.
Dylann Roof’s manifesto was discovered by the FBI; in the Manifesto, Roof sites the CofCC’s website as the source that opened his mind and helped change his world view. On the site, he found pages of “black on white” crimes that included murder and rape, and this caused him to become convinced that the black race was trying to destroy the white race.
Roof was quoted saying this while he murdered 9 innocent people:
?You rape our women, and you’re taking over our country, and you have to go.?
To this day, the CofCC defends its positions and supports Roof’s beliefs, while tacitly “denouncing” his violence. Note that on this same page that denounces the killings, there is an advertisement for a sale on Confederate flags.
Recently, Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and former Sen.?Rick Sanatorium returned money donated by the CofCC. I guess they kind of figured the public might frown upon a presidential candidate with close ties to a racist organization. However, you can believe that the CofCC has a long history of financing Republican candidates and will most likely continue to do so using more discrete mechanisms. And that’s just how how the cookie crumbles.
Year after year, we see more and more vocal black spokespeople come out supporting the Republican Party — the same party that closely associates with the CofCC. I personally do not favor using the term “Uncle Tom,” but if any black person can support the Republican Party and their continued association with the CofCC?– or any other similar group –?then I would be hard-pressed to find a more politically correct term to describe that person.
Here is a video from The Young Turks detailing association between the CofCC and the Republican Party.
