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citizens and scaring them with accusations that chris mcdaniel has come for them and he is literally a klansmanand bring back the battle base and he's going to bring back jim crow. that's the kind of campaign that i thought was disgusting. why are they doing that? after all there are lots of senate races. why are they focused on that? let me suggest that thad cochran should the republicans take the senate that congress is going to be the head of appropriations. if you are the chief lobbyist who owns the state the most corrupt state in the country it helps to be the head appropriator in your corner. that is kind of a pro bono why do this kind of thing? what happened? i posted all the documentation and i have all the mississippi housewives. i will say hey get this document for me and someone will drive for in a half hours and get it for me. people are so angry at what happened and what happened as a whole number of democrats crossed over and voted. you are probably going to say this is politics and politics is an business. this is terrible but you know how likely is that? there are an awful lot o
citizens and scaring them with accusations that chris mcdaniel has come for them and he is literally a klansmanand bring back the battle base and he's going to bring back jim crow. that's the kind of campaign that i thought was disgusting. why are they doing that? after all there are lots of senate races. why are they focused on that? let me suggest that thad cochran should the republicans take the senate that congress is going to be the head of appropriations. if you are the chief lobbyist who...
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they start saying chris mcdaniel is a klansman, and he's going to take away your government benefits, shut down historically black colleges. you name the most absurd, racist things democrats have said about you, now the republican establishment is saying it about chris mcdaniel. so, naturally, i thought he was awesome. i felt like if they're really this targeted towards him, this must be something there that they're afraid of and what is it, right? because they're not actually talking about the issues. so what they tried to do was they tried to get a whole number of african-american voters, and they ran a whole bunch of racist radio ads and robocalls. you've probably seen those around. i found all of those and posted them online. people thought i made them up, i didn't make them up. rick back there tracked down all of the different call stations and found out who the people were that were paying for all these. all these ads were produced by all-white firms. so they have this black guy come on with this jazzy voice in the background. by the way, we haven't released who funded all of th
they start saying chris mcdaniel is a klansman, and he's going to take away your government benefits, shut down historically black colleges. you name the most absurd, racist things democrats have said about you, now the republican establishment is saying it about chris mcdaniel. so, naturally, i thought he was awesome. i felt like if they're really this targeted towards him, this must be something there that they're afraid of and what is it, right? because they're not actually talking about the...
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not even going to speculate, but to me as awful and unjustified as it was, it' not the same as a klansmane out and killing somebody because any want a vote. they are two terrible things bu they're differently motivated. so i don't really see terrorismn of the kind that we saw in the 6 1870s and 1960s as a factor today. not sure i'm being responsive but that's what you're going to get.t yeah, david.t >> do you see sort of a parallel between the lies at the end of the 19th century and some of thh lies today through coded terms. when southerners say they want d to restrict black voting they went for poll taxes and today there are policies like stop and frisk or mandatory minimums or law that is disproportionately affect people of color and particularly black men that seem to operate through a nonracial context but in the end kind of operate exclusively on those groups. you think there's kind of a parallel there? >> let m ae say in the late 19th he century the language wasn't as a coded as we might think. the actual laws couldn't refer to race because they would have been in contravention of
not even going to speculate, but to me as awful and unjustified as it was, it' not the same as a klansmane out and killing somebody because any want a vote. they are two terrible things bu they're differently motivated. so i don't really see terrorismn of the kind that we saw in the 6 1870s and 1960s as a factor today. not sure i'm being responsive but that's what you're going to get.t yeah, david.t >> do you see sort of a parallel between the lies at the end of the 19th century and some...
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not even going to speculate, but to me, as awful and unjustified that was, it's not the same as a klansmanng off and killing somebody because they wanted to vote. they're two terrible things but they're differently motivated. so i don't really see terrorism of the kind that we saw in the 1870s and 1960 as a factor today. i'm not sure i'm being responsive, but that's what you're goinghhhh yeah, david. >> do you see sort of a parallel between the laws of the end of the 19th century and some of the laws today that operate through terms when southern states wanted black voting they went for literacy tests and poll taxes or today just laws that affect particularly black men that seem to operate through a non-racial context but in the end kind of operate exclusively on those groups? do you think there is a parallel there? sdp >> let me say that in the late 19th century, the language wasn't as code as we might think. the national laws couldn't refer to race because they said you couldn't deny the vote based on race, color or previous condition. so you couldn't pass a constitution in mississippi t
not even going to speculate, but to me, as awful and unjustified that was, it's not the same as a klansmanng off and killing somebody because they wanted to vote. they're two terrible things but they're differently motivated. so i don't really see terrorism of the kind that we saw in the 1870s and 1960 as a factor today. i'm not sure i'm being responsive, but that's what you're goinghhhh yeah, david. >> do you see sort of a parallel between the laws of the end of the 19th century and some...
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not even going to speculate, but to me, as awful and unjustified as it was, it's not the same as a klansmanout and killing y somebody because they want to voteto. they're two terrible things but they're differently motivated.y so i don't really see terrorism of the kind that we saw in the 1870s and 1960s as a factor today. i'm not sure i'm being responsive, but that's what you're going to get. yeah, david.david. >> do you see sort of a parallee between the lies at the end of the the 19th century and some of the laws today that operate throughh coded terms, in terms of when southern states wanted to some s restrict black voting, they when for literacy tests and poll taxes. there's stop and frisk or mandatory minimums.nd fri people that affect people of ins color and particularly black met that seemed to operate through a nonracial context but in the end kind of operation exclusively o those groups? do you think there's kind of a parallel there? >> let me say that in the late 19th century, the language wasn't as code as we might think.centthink. the actual laws couldn't refer to race because
not even going to speculate, but to me, as awful and unjustified as it was, it's not the same as a klansmanout and killing y somebody because they want to voteto. they're two terrible things but they're differently motivated.y so i don't really see terrorism of the kind that we saw in the 1870s and 1960s as a factor today. i'm not sure i'm being responsive, but that's what you're going to get. yeah, david.david. >> do you see sort of a parallee between the lies at the end of the the 19th...