Former GOP Head Shown Supporting Group That Touts Holocaust Denial, Defense of Racism
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Photo Shown of Haley Barbour Attending Council of Conservative Citizens Barbeque
Washington, DC: The home page of the Internet site for the infamous Council of Conservative Citizens (http://www.cofcc.org) currently features a photograph of former Republican Party chairman and current Mississippi GOP gubernatorial candidate Haley Barbour at a barbeque sponsored by the Council of Conservative Citizens to raise money for private academy school buses, according to the site. The same page of the Internet site elaborates on the views of the Council of Conservative Citizens, including:
o An eight-part tract entitled In Defense of Racism;
o An image encouraging viewers to work to Free Zündel, referring to Holocaust denier and Hitler defender Ernst Zündel; and
o An Action Alert urging supporters to confront the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride in Chicago to stand up for law and order and white America!
The national leadership of the GOP have clearly learned nothing from the shocking missteps of Senator Trent Lott and others on the issues of race, sensitivity, and quite frankly basic human decency, said National Jewish Democratic Council Executive Director Ira N. Forman. The views of the CCC are unknown only to those who have hidden under a rock or not read a national newspaper in the last ten years. They are not conservative; in fact, they stand for the most insidious forms of racism, Holocaust denial, spiraling xenophobia, and white separatism and supremacy. Haley Barbour obviously should know better than to attend a CCC-sponsored function such as this, for his attendance can only be seen as an endorsement of their well-known repugnant views.
We say it so often now that it has become cliché, but in the face of the supposed all-out Republican effort to attract Jewish and minority voters, I will say it once more: If this is the Republican idea of Jewish outreach, then I'd hate to see what antagonism looks like, Forman added.
