Funny how we can’t see to get back racist views in this country and the presidential elections have seemingly embolden those scumbags to rear their ugly heads. The Council for Conservative Citizens was denounced in 1998 by Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson for its “racist views”has had an increasingly difficult time attracting politicians and other mainstream figures. All decent lawmakers with any sense of dignity and integrity would not be caught associated with this group. It’s pretty hard to publicly justify working with a group that has described black people as a “retrograde species of humanity” who are “genetically inferior,” and has accused dark-skinned immigrants of turning America into a “slimy brown mass of glop,” and named Lester Maddox, the now deceased baseball bat-wielding, arch-segregationist former governor of Georgia, “Patriot of the Century.”
Enter Alabama State Senator Charles Bishop (R-Jasper). This June 21, he gave the keynote speech to a CCC “leadership conference” in Alabama, where he denounced any apology for slavery and drew a standing ovation. Bishop rose to national infamy last year when he punched state Sen. Lowell Barron (D-Fyffe) in the face during the last day of the legislative session. He also told his audience that he regretted attacking Barron on the Senate floor: “I should have taken him outside and kicked the hell out of him.” Yep, a throwback to the Jim Crow era.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, also in June, the CCC advertised in the Las Vegas Review-Journal that it was “co-hosting” a strategy session with Americans4America, the Las Vegas chapter of Jim Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project — an anti-immigration group that expressly claims that it will not countenance or work with racists (Gilchrist also recently denounced violence in nativist groups). The meeting took place June 24, providing some of the strongest evidence yet of racism in the nativist movement.
A little background on Charles Bishop:
- Represents the 5th District, which includes Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Winston;
- Elected to his third term in Alabama Senate, November 7, 2006
- Born in Moro, Arkansas
- President, CEO of B&D Industrial Mining and Services in Jasper
Make no mistake, Barack Obama’s accomplishment has riled these white supremacist morons to no end, but that’s okay. We are ready to go toe to toe with them this time. This isn’t the 1950s nor the 1960s. They are dealing with a whole different ilk of Americans who won’t tolerate such overt bigotry. To all the people in State Senator Charles Bishop’s district, you need to know that you have a racist representing you and that is certainly not what we need in office.
Filed under: Charles Bishop, Council for Conservative Citizens, Lowell Barron
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