Leader of Michigan Initiative To End Affirmative Action Welcomes Ku Klux Klan Support
Leader of Michigan Initiative To End Affirmative Action Welcomes Ku Klux Klan Support
The man leading the effort to ban affirmative action in Michigan, Ward Connerly, welcomes the support of the Ku Klux Klan. Connerly said, “If the Ku Klux Klan thinks that equality is right, God bless them. Thank them for finally reaching the point where logic and reason are being applied, instead of hate.” Watch it:
Connerly, “defended his remark in a statement, saying he accepts support for banning affirmative action wherever he finds it.” According to Mark Bernstein of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, the Ku Klux Klan is the “only large organization” to endorse Connerly’s ballot measure.
Last month, Connerly was photographed shaking hands with John Raterink, chairman of the Michagan chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white separatist organization. The CCC “opposes most immigration and ‘all efforts to mix the races of mankind.’”
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Oh come on, the CCC? Couldn’t they have at least pretended to be avoiding triple Kah noises?
November 4th, 2006 at 2:12 pmHis mother and father must be so proud.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:22 pmbut… they DON’T think “that equality is right”…
November 4th, 2006 at 2:25 pmoh! ONLY the white right is entitled to quality… or something like that…
not?
There is no issue in the world that will get me to shake hands with the CCC, KKK or whatever alphabet they are using this year.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:26 pmConnerly had to go to Michigan from California to spread his so-called equality drivel because he was laughed out of his home state. What a fool to say the Klan has logic and reason, this guy is and always will be a pathetic fool.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:29 pmHe’ll take endorsements wherever he can find them, huh? Does anyone know Mark Foley’s thoughts on affirmative action?
November 4th, 2006 at 2:31 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
As a former resident of the state of Michigan, goons like this are not uncommon in my experience….
November 4th, 2006 at 2:37 pmThis Con-nerly is another stooge riding on the wealthy Republican manure wagon. He is also playing to the militia types in the northeast corner of the state, you know, terry nickles, timmy mcveigh and friends…….
Michigan has begun to emerge from the waste laid to the state by the departed from office John Engler, governer who stated he would accept a term limit of 2 terms and then ran for and won a third term. Which was the time he needed to rack up a huge deficit, left to the incoming Governor Jennifer Granholm, Democrat.
The only place in the state which benefited from “Big Boy” Engler’s profiteering was the Grand Rapids area, once referred to (by Pete Townsend of the Who) as “the belt buckle of the bible belt.”
Also home to the Amway Corporation, and the DeVos dynasty… one of whom is now running for governer against Granholm.
Thru her herculean (or rather Dianaesque) efforts, much of the damage done has been at least mitigated.
Michigan is still a quite segregated state, in terms of economic opportunity at the very least.
The hordes of retired management level auto industry execs who left the southeastern part of the state and moved to the northwest side; have completely bought up and locked up most of that areas former farms and blocked access to Lake Michigan.
A direct result of their being able to pay $1,000 to $2,000 a foot for enough lakefront to build 7,000 to 10,000 square foot retirement palaces for themselves and their wives, and the grandkids for two weeks in the summer.
I guess I’ll shut up now.
budpaul - surely pastor haggard has an interesting view on the subject…
November 4th, 2006 at 2:39 pmthink?
Here’s more on the GOP’s ongoing love affair with the Council of Conservative Citizens:
November 4th, 2006 at 2:39 pm“The GOP’s Amazing Race Card.”
Do extremists hate groups really like alliteration that much?
XXX would be more appropriate for those Xenophobes.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:42 pmThat is Soooo Bizarre! Doesn’t he know that the KKK is against Him personally???
November 4th, 2006 at 2:43 pmRepublican motto: “Ends matter, not means.”
November 4th, 2006 at 2:44 pmIf black people were truly equal, we would not need affirmative action. But, they aren’t. They’re dumb. Whether rich or poor, black kids tend to score lower on the math test, and nobody has ever figured what to do about it. That’s why they need the extra boost. Africa will be a “beacon of progress” before black people in the U.S. stop needing affirmative action to get into good schools. Pathetic.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:47 pmCCC is also the acronym for the Civilian Conservation Corps, a (Democratic Administration idea) organization which gave work to thousands of men and women in the 1930’s, and is responsible for a tremendous amount of reforestation, conservation and rehabilitation and public works projects all across our nation, and especialy in Northern Michigan.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:47 pmFor this hateful seperatist group to adopt the same acronym is playing to the same younger generation of dumbed down, racist, beer swilling deer hunters who complained so loudly about not being able to make huge piles of bait out in the woods. They said “How will we ever be able to hunt deer if we can’t bait them?”
Black Conservatives Embrace The Klan…
This, friends, is why black conservatives do not have any support within the black community. Ward Connerly, black conservative and founder of the American Civil Rights Institute, is backing an initiative in Michigan to end affirmative action. Also sup…
November 4th, 2006 at 2:49 pm#13 You are obviously nothing but a big racist. Black kids are not dumb, they’re just in the worst schools and don’t have the same opportunities as white kids which is why Affirmative Action is still needed. The fact that the KKK is a hate group, whose specialty is hating Blacks, just shows how pathetic you and Ward Connerly and his crusade is.
November 4th, 2006 at 3:10 pmWow.
I hope this a major case of the stupids…
But… wow.
November 4th, 2006 at 3:12 pmhttp://digg.com/ political_opinion/ Call_30_Republicans_in_competitive_districts_and_ask_them_to_vote_blue
November 4th, 2006 at 3:19 pmclick here
November 4th, 2006 at 3:20 pmConnerly is one seriously f***ed up dude, a real psychological mess.
November 4th, 2006 at 3:27 pmAs if George Bush, a white man, did.
November 4th, 2006 at 3:29 pmI think the CCC is the group that George Allen belongs to: a white supremecist group.
November 4th, 2006 at 3:39 pmI think #13 may be a member - he certainly is a sympathizer.
#14 aguafiero
November 4th, 2006 at 3:47 pm“CCC is also the acronym for the Civilian Conservation Corps”
You make a good observation.
Before I was born, my father worked for the CCC when he could and he worked for the WPA when he could. He also never talked too much about the free groceries he had to pick up for his family - I think he was ashamed that he was forced to need it, but he did it for the family.
When I take my own kids to the state park, I remind them of the men who built it up for us. I remind them of how in bad times, it is even more important for people AND THEIR GOVERNMENT to help each other.
When I see the decay of our infrastructure today and read of the billions being spent in Iraq, where we destroyed so much, I see that the world is upside down.
I live in Georgia and we kicked the clan out of here years ago, but Michigan needs to do the same and Jeb Bush’s redneck Florida too!
November 4th, 2006 at 4:01 pmDon Ramon sounds as if he’s been reading the Bell Curve. Well, I sure hope your Asian Mr Smart guy, otherwise we will have to consider you are dumb and not know what to do about you.
Ethnic group 2006 SAT math score Percentile
November 4th, 2006 at 4:12 pmWhite_____________536________________6.2%
African American_____429_______________21.9%
Asian______________578_______________69.9%
src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
the white should have read 56.2% not 6.2% [[ sorry =]
November 4th, 2006 at 4:14 pm#13 is qrong, so is #16. Even when growing up, bussing and all, same teachers, same classes, there was a disparagy amongst people. Had nothing to do with poor schools, had everything to do with wether or not the student wanted to learn, and did the family support the student. THAT was the only difference, Other than that, we were ALL in the same schools, with the same teachers, and in the same classes.
In some areas, that MAY be true, in others, not really.
November 4th, 2006 at 4:15 pmBefore I moved to Georgia, about 2 years ago, I lived in and owned a business in St. Augustine, Florida, which is just below Jacksonville. Some Gay citizens of the city wanted to display rainbow flags for an event, but the mayor received a death threat from the KKK, so the city outlawed the display of rainbow flags. The mayor himself told me about the phone call, and I was shocked, but if I had been the mayor I would have told the clan to go screw themselves. Gov. Jeb Bush visits St. Augustine a lot, because there is still throwback “Deliverance” Republicans in the city, who support the KKK. I miss my progressive Democrat friends, but not the KKK GOPers!
November 4th, 2006 at 4:24 pmWard C. has been invited to be the guest of honor at next week’s MichiKlan Konklave & Koon Kicking Kontest in Traverse City (sheet optional). He is expected to emphasize God’s blessings on the group, possibly during the popular annual Simon Legree 10K, which he is expected to run in.
November 4th, 2006 at 5:01 pmgreat news at pollster.com.
in 85 of the house seats they are tracking as ‘in play’, the war party has only six (6) where they lead significantly!!!!
vote early and vote often!!!
November 4th, 2006 at 5:13 pmBreaking News: Rev. Ted Haggard has been fired from his church for immoral conduct with a male escort. Ends up Ted did have a 3 year paid sex relationship with the escort and is a meth-head as well. His flock is furious that he lied to them, so they fired his ass this afternoon. This will be a big story tonight on CNN and on all the talk shows this Sunday too.
November 4th, 2006 at 5:37 pmShakespeare knew all about things like this:
‘Tis a common proof,
November 4th, 2006 at 5:38 pmThat lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.
(Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 1)
Gee, Mr. Connerly is just catching up with Tom Tancredo, who has a long history with the CCC (as well documented by the WinterForCongress campaign and others.) Heck, check out the immigration page of the CCC - One-Trick Tom’s photo shows up 3 times on that one page!
November 4th, 2006 at 5:48 pmJay Randal,
Evangelical Leader Resigning From Church
By KIM NGUYEN (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
November 04, 2006 5:28 PM EST
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Rev. Ted Haggard agreed to resign Saturday from his New Life Church after its independent investigative board recommended removal, saying he was guilty “of sexually immoral conduct.”
“We, the Overseer Board of New Life Church, have concluded our deliberations concerning the moral failings of Pastor Ted Haggard,” a statement from the church said. “Our investigation and Pastor Haggard’s public statements have proven without a doubt that he has committed sexually immoral conduct.”
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
ahhhhh, poor hypocrite republican evangelical…..
November 4th, 2006 at 5:50 pmewww.
Just clicking on your link (Fbiots) made me feel dirty…. I need to take a shower, and do a disc cleanup on my computer…..
;) Fbiots
November 4th, 2006 at 5:52 pmWard Connerlly is a african american at that as well just stunned
November 4th, 2006 at 5:53 pmGee, Mr. Connerly is just catching up with Tom Tancredo, who has long standing ties with the CConCitizens, as well documented by the WinterForCongress campaign and others. Heck, if you take a look at CConCitizens’ immigration page, One-Trick Tom’s photo shows up 3 times on that one page!
November 4th, 2006 at 5:53 pmWard Connerly is STILL a slave…
…he is of the tribe who sold his people into slavery…
…an al Cracker wannabe TRAITOR of the first degree…
…I hope he has a flat tire passing thru South Central L.A. and is recognized…
November 4th, 2006 at 5:53 pmHaggard says he did buy some meth from the escort, but didn’t inhale.
He also claims that while he did examine the fellow’s ‘naughty bits’, he didn’t inhale then, either.
November 4th, 2006 at 5:55 pmWard Conerly:
“You mean I’m going to STAY this color?”
November 4th, 2006 at 6:21 pmSlowly but steady Amerika is pulling down her mask! Yours comes down with it.
November 4th, 2006 at 6:24 pmWhat the hell? What the Jesus Christ shit?
November 4th, 2006 at 6:32 pm13 - Don Ramon
November 4th, 2006 at 6:33 pmThen why is it, Don Ramon (and I can’t believe there are still jerks like you in the gene pool) , that those in all black schools do quite well and go on to be productive adults?
If a child is truly respected and taught with a healthy attitude, no matter what race, he will do better than those who are not.
Enough of the same, change would ya? What did you get stuck?
November 4th, 2006 at 6:36 pm#38 - “…I hope he has a flat tire passing thru South Central L.A. and is recognized…” - Comment by big papa
********Dear BP - Thank you for providing more evidence of the racism alive and well in the Progressive movement. You sound a tad like the racists who throw Oreo cookies at Michael Steele and hate people like Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, et al. I guess to be a REAL black person, blacks have to think alike. Is this because you don’t think they are smart enough to form their own opinions?? (Conservatives will give progs a break in the racism department when you contritely apologize for the race-based fear mongering of the Dems.)
November 4th, 2006 at 6:38 pmIf a child is truly respected and taught with a healthy attitude, no matter what race, he will do better than those who are not.
Comment by Lee — November 4, 2006 @ 6:33 pm
As a teacher, I couldn’t agree more. This statement is very true.
In one of my classes the students who hold the second and third highest grades in the class are the only two black students I have. They are both loved, even though one is poor. I never have any problems or attitude from either of them. I thank their loving and supportive families for that.
November 4th, 2006 at 6:41 pmmighty a, you are the only racist in the room.
November 4th, 2006 at 7:00 pmIsn’t working with the Klan the American equivalent of defending Hitler?
You know, isn’t it the thing you just don’t do?
November 4th, 2006 at 7:23 pmDear Dems are the Fear and Smear Party - When a political ideo;logy believes that a racial group should think similar thoughts on similar issues THAT is racist. You are an excellent example of such thinking - thank you for playing….
November 4th, 2006 at 7:23 pm#49, no one is suggesting that all Black people should think the same way. We just think that no one should support the Ku Klux Klan. Do you think the same way?
If you are a member of the KKK, or are thinking of becoming a member because of your independent-thinking idol, Ward Connely, perhaps you should give it some more thought.
November 4th, 2006 at 7:47 pmMA go cut Mehlman’s hair > he needs a trim before being outed and having to face the press like Ted Haggard did before his resignation!
November 4th, 2006 at 7:49 pmI can only think that Don Ramon is a handle for a relatively stupid Mafia boss.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:06 pmAdolph Hitler liked dogs. If I like dogs too, it hardly means that I hate Jews. By the same logic, it is quite possible for Connerly and the evil KKK to agree on one issue that is not inherently bad, while disagreeing on the issue that the white race is superior.
I can understand people defending affirmative action, but it is discriminatory. Whether it is justified or not is another issue. I for one say it is not.
November 4th, 2006 at 9:56 pmTerrin, are you kidding? You DO hate Jews.
November 4th, 2006 at 10:49 pmI don’t know if I would vote for or against affirmative action. On the pro side it evens out the playing field. On the con side it is nothing but a lollipop for minorities. Instead of actually improving public education we have a givaway to minorities. Of course if the Thugs had their way we wouldn’t educate them or hire them.
November 4th, 2006 at 11:31 pm#53 perhaps you don’t live in America or don’t know our history. White America has a history of discriminating against Black people. White America built up the economy by using Black people as slaves while keeping them down by making it illegal to educate them. I worked with a Black woman who was in her 40s who said that when she was growing up in the South, the “new” books that the Black schools got were the old books that the White schools were throwing out. The books were cruddy and the information was outdated. How does this help Black people get a good education? How does this help level the playing field? We still have a long way to go before we can say things are equal and until then we can’t just stop in the middle and say we’re done. I seriously doubt that either Ward Connerly or the KKK wants the best for Black people.
November 4th, 2006 at 11:42 pmI ain’t never been to rural Virginia. I reckon they got plenty technology in Virginia cause they got U.Va. down there, and that there was founded by none other than Thomas Jefferson.
I’d bet they got the very latest in voting machinery. Stuff that don’t need no paper cause it’s all done with ‘lectricity, like that what Democrats brought to the Tennessee Valley.
It would take some one a whole lot smarter’n me to figure out how to hack into those machines.
Hell, when they had an election up here to move the Capital, all the ballots were on good old fashioned paper. Now, them folks down in Juneau sure didn’t want the Capital of Alaska up in Wasilla, ’cause that would be like taking horses out of Virginny. No way were they going to let yahoos in Wasilla take the Capital away from them. Trouble is, they hadn’t invented them computified counting machines.
See, if you wanted to steal an election in them days, you had to do real work. You had to do stuff like open up a fire hydrant with a twenty-pound wrench. When I think of all them Wasilla voters slipping and sliding and blocking intersections, well, it’s a lead-pipe cinch they ain’t about to be voting to move no damn Capital to where they coulda kept an eye on them politicos. I guess them fancy pants politico scientists would call that “voter surpressin’.â€
I don’t know if an open fire hydrant would make a whole lot of mud in the Old Dominion, and I guess that could kinda get the votin’ bogged down, if you know what I mean. Especially in precincts where that George Allen feller is running so strong.
That weren’t all they done in Alaska to keep the Capital from being moved. They had to take a big old chain, and drop it on a ‘lectric transmission line. ‘How did they do that?’ you might be asking, and hell, back them a lot of people asked the same question.
Turns out they used a whirly-bird heliocopter, which might could sound like going to a parcel of trouble just to drop a chain on a ‘lectric line. But somebody must have known something, because just about all of Anchorage went dark, and people started thinkin’ a lot less about where the Capital was gonna be, and a whole lot more about how they could keep their pipes from freezin’ up. I shutter to think what woulda happened if we had them modern ’lectric voting machines back then.
Now in these modern times, Republicans steal elections just like falling off a log. And there ain’t hardly an old-timer around, who remembers what real work was. Or where to get a twenty-pound wrench. Or a damn whirlybird heliocopter. If you know what I mean.
If’n you do know what I mean, do me one favor. Don’t …
“… tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!â€
November 5th, 2006 at 12:57 am#45 I heard, the throwing Oreo cookies at Micheal Steele incident was proven to be false. And again no person should align themselves with a hate group, especially if it is you they hate.
November 5th, 2006 at 12:58 amGreetinx from (co)coon rapids
http://www.twincities.com/ mld/ twincities/ news/ politics/ 15925644.htm?source=rss&channel=twincities_politics
http://www.geocities.com/aastingeraa10/min-05
November 5th, 2006 at 5:31 am“When a political ideo;logy believes that a racial group should think similar thoughts on similar issues THAT is racist.”
What political ideology is that? Please provide clear (unequivocal) examples. Thanks.
November 5th, 2006 at 11:31 amu r a slob for believing wat u believe in.
November 8th, 2006 at 7:40 pmu need jesus fast hypocrite
November 8th, 2006 at 8:11 pmIt is funny how people who know nothing about the KKK can post so much that is not true. I am in the Klan and it is nothing like it is made out to be.. http://www.unskkkk.com
We do not hate anyone, and it is sad that a African American can understand that , but many of the people posting here seem to be blind to what the United Northern and Southrn Knights of the KKK really is about..
November 8th, 2006 at 10:49 pm[…] Follow Story from Think Progress. […]
November 12th, 2006 at 3:15 pm#13, I understand you’re a stormfront member. However, as a black woman, I’m dumb even if I have a Master’s degree in Mathematics and you don’t? Being an instructor at Emory University is so, because I have more education than you, I make more money than you and I’m much smarter than you——-Trust!
So calm your nerves, I’m not your enemy, as a matter of fact, I teach white pupils daily and many of them are not smarter than some of my black students. Reading “The Bell Curve” will have that effect on you; I’m no stranger to Statistics, I taught it, and to white folks. So you need to get educated and learn to think.
It’s better to appear stupid than to open your mouth or post your type of comments to remove all doubt.
November 13th, 2006 at 1:47 pmcurrently working on my doctorate
November 13th, 2006 at 1:51 pmI am working on my doctoral degree in quantitative psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill. I saw Ward Connerly for the first time in October of 2006 when he spoke in Raleigh at the Pope Center for Higher Education, a committee of illusioned, white conservative elitists who disapprove of any form of affirmative action research, factualized data, and/or free thinking.
The one thing which stood out for me was how Connerly continually emphasized the fact that he is only a “fourth white.” I don’t know- -I’m African-American and my mother is half white, yet Connerly has more “black features” than both myself and my mother. Yep, even in a previous radio broadcast, he adamantly defended his anti-affirmative action goals by professing his mixed heritage and boasting once again about being only a fourth black.
I could be way off the mark here, but it seems to me that the man hates who and what God intended him to be. Connerly vehemently wants to be accepted by whites (he somehow managed to marry a white woman back in the early 1950s), he would rather aid whites than promote any true measure of equality, and most of all, he is after money.
KKK, CCC, or any other three-lettered acronym used to label an evil and disgustingly racist regime is of no consequence to Ward Connerly. Denying his African-American heritage and making money by putting his own people through the ropes is the name of the game.
November 25th, 2006 at 12:54 am[…] Or has it? The inititiative was pushed by Ward “God Bless the Klan” Connerly, and I would argue that the re-segregation of California’s school system is one of the measure’s intended effects. […]
December 27th, 2006 at 7:19 pmKKK SUCKS
January 30th, 2007 at 10:13 amIf Mr. Connerly can see what the UNSK KKK stands for, Why cant the rest of you?? Equal means equal, No special treatment to minorities. Affirmative action is reverse descrimination. If whites wanted special treatment it would be concidered segregation or racist, But if minorities want it its fine, I fail to see the equality in that. Didnt the Blacks want that in the beginning?? Feel free to visit us at http://www.unskkkk.com
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