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Salt Lake County GOP chairman James Evans has ratted out the NAACP to the IRS for vowing to get Sen. Chris Buttars dumped.Evans, who is an African-American owner of a chain of payday loan businesses, says NAACP officials violated their nonprofit status when they said they would work to defeat Buttars after the he made a series of what they saw as racially offensive remarks. Buttars speechified on a bill as, “This baby is black... It's a dark, ugly thing.” When the NAACP called for his resignation, he claimed a “hate lynch mob” was out to get him.
Jeanetta Williams, president of the Salt Lake chapter of the NAACP told KCPW radio that the group does not target candidates, but focuses on issues. It could be argued that Buttars' mouth is both.
Apparently, Evans found no problem with Buttars' comments. But in 2006 Evans complained loudly that then-Mayor Rocky Anderson had called him a "slave" during an anti-war speech.
Here's what Rocky said:
So, to James Evans and these folks who financed this massive radio campaign these last few days [urging Anderson to forgo the protest], let them finally understand, blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism. "A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; or to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president.Frankly, I don't think Buttars' statements were virulently racist, by any means. Yes, the remarks were woefully ignorant for any Utahn to say, and colossally stupid to come out of the mouth of a state senator. Still, it's fascinating that Evans, who turned Rocky's "slavish" into a racial epithet, is solid with Buttars. Apparently, party loyalty is thicker than blood.
3 Comments:
Call me racist, but I just cannot figure out how any self-respecting black person can be a Rethuglican, let alone a sleazoid mouthpiece for the Utah GOP.
Of course, Evans runs payday loan stores, so maybe he's helping level the racial injustice playing field by screwing white trash out of their car titles.
People of intelligence and integrity come in all colors so it doesn't surprise me that there are black Republicans. There are some who can see through the divisive, goose-stepping approach revealed in the first posted response.
To Anonymous #1:
Thank you. I will accept you invitation and call you racist.
I am proud to be a Republican (Rethuglican for some). I am also so sick and tired of all the Democrap. Really.
Peace out, homey.
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