Meet The Moderator Behind CPAC’s Race Panel Gone Wrong

[DonViejo]

BENJY SARLIN MARCH 18, 2013, 4:46 PM 4627
A CPAC panel on minority outreach erupted into national news last week after participants demanded justice for “disenfranchised” whites and expressed sympathy for slaveholders. It’s a frustrating development for the event’s moderator, K. Carl Smith, who said he’s never seen anything like what happened Friday at his previous lectures.
“I read the summation of what happened in Huffington Post and those places,” he said. “If I had not been there I would have been infuriated, too, because they’re not telling the entire story of what happened.”

Smith, 55, was brought in by the Tea Party Patriots to deliver a talk entitled “Trump The Race Card: Are You Sick And Tired Of Being Called A Racist When You Know You’re Not One?” He travels the country selling books and lecturing audiences on how to turn black voters into “Frederick Douglass Republicans™.”

He accurately noted that Scott Terry, the person who asked Smith why Frederick Douglass forgave his former master for “giving him shelter and food,” was greeted with a shocked response from many attendees — not applause or cheers. But Terry and his companion, Matthew Heimbach, both of whom are associated with white nationalist movements, weren’t removed either. And several attendees expressed sympathy with their grievances about oppression against whites if not their take on slavery.

“I think if it lasted a little longer they would have been kicked out, but it didn’t last much longer after that,” he said. “I couldn’t see the back of [Heimbach’s] shirt, which had a Confederate flag. If that’s the case we need to be watchful of that kind of stuff.”

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. K. Carl Smith set up the whole 'food and shelter' crap the young white guy came up with

Douglass, Smith notes, never slept in a bed until the age of 10. He escaped from slavery at the age of 20. What does that mean?

“Slavemaster-run health care,” Smith says. “Slavemaster entitlements. Douglass was a 47 percenter. Slavemasters were Democrats.”
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He died wealthy, Smith explains. “He wrote three autobiographies. He owned two newspaper companies… Douglass was a 47 percenter. He became a 1 percenter.”
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“You cannot out-victimize Douglass. I don’t care what kind of categories. Nobody can out-victimize Douglass, a runaway slave…. Slavery is based on the distorted philosophy of taking the fruits of one man’s labor and giving it to another so that he can remain idle…. Douglass believed in assimilation. Now do you understand why you don’t hear too much about Douglass?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/03/15/how-not-to-sound-racist-the-most-awkward-cpac-panel-ever/

How many Republican buzz-word attacks on the modern-day state can you fit into 4 paragraphs ostensibly about slavery 150 years ago? I bet K. Carl Smith can fit in more than you. Even if they make no fucking sense whatsoever. One moment he's saying slavemasters were people providing healthcare and 'entitlements' to the 47% - which he then says is what Douglass was, ie slaves. The next, he's calling the slavemasters the ones who live off their slaves' labor so they can be idle - which is accurate, but completely at odds with what he claimed just before that.

[JHB]

3. "Slavemasters were Democrats." Who does he think he's kidding?

Yeah, the Democrats who these days are referred to as "the Republican base".

And the Republicans of Douglass' day were a liberal/left party. Mr. Smith, does CPAC know you're a 'liberal'?

[horsedoc]

2. As long as they permit the racists to remain in their ranks......

The repugs will continue their downward spiral....good riddance