The McCarty-Wilson debate: Racism in our society and political culture
In the Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln once framed the Civil War as a conflict centered around the question of what kind of nation this would be, or if would be a nation at all. While the issue of white supremacists in the GOP raised on Brian McCarty’s blog last week certainly does not have the same kind of world-changing impact, he does ask for some serious soul-searching with regard to asking if the Republican Party will embrace those who take part in radical white supremacist efforts.For that, he has been the target of some serious criticisms and personal attacks, and now has been challenged to debate Mr. Wilson. I found it interesting to see the original challenge which was posted on Brian's blog avoided addressing the allegations raised on Voting under the Influence, instead, he simply chose to attack the credibility of Brian and his sources.
“Simple” is the right word here. Mr. Wilson’s rhetorical tactics are simple, and seem intended to avoid discussion of the allegations made about what role may be playing in the undermining of civility and rule of law in contemporary American society.
Brian and I were raised up in a South that was just a generation removed from the Jim Crow era where our communities were segregated and most political power controlled by small circles of “good ol’ boy” elitists that denied access and due process to minorities, and to a lesser degree, even whites of lower socio-economic standing.What many of these radicals and bigots don’t realize that the elitists at the pinnacle of the social, economic, and political structure which they claim to miss was based on education, family, wealth and land ownership. They wouldn’t have made the “A” list back then any more than they've made it now. Today’s outcast white supremacists are the inheritors of a sad tradition where the in-town crowd treated them with disdain and disgust, except to use them as the bully-boy enforcers of their Jim Crow order when challenged by “uppity” civil rights activists, blacks, or social reformers.
Personally, I am of mixed feelings about a debate, because Mr. Wilson has already shown that he is not willing to address the issues which Brian raised, or the place such views have in the present-day Republican Party, which are the only legitimate issues for a debate. Such an event would likely have a low turnout, packed with many of Wilson's parrots, and filled with the same kinds of evasions and intellectual cheapshots that he has already taken. But Brian is a grown man, capable of making his own decisions. I'll let him decide if he wants to waste an evening on the matter, but if he does, I'll be in the front row, because history teaches us that vigilance is essential to the defense of liberty.
Mr. Wilson may say that he wants a debate, but from where I see it, the debate has already begun.
If you care about this issue, then please make your voices heard.
Don't stand with the drunk, Mr. Capps, you will pay if you do.
What is this stuff about you having a kid who is half black? Do you think that is okay. Some of us now think of Strom Thurmond as a liberal.
Nevertheless, do not stand with the drunk Irishman.
Someone has to go forth to defend the good name of this party. It look likes, however much I do not want it, that person right now is going to have to be me.
I will show up and stand up. Who knows what happens after that. All I can offer is the truth.
If he's a drunk, then I'm sure law enforcement will deal with him soon enough for DUI.
You must be talking about my oldest daughter, Cecilia, whose mother, my first wife, was black. Wanna put that on a billboard somewhere? Let me know and I'll email you some photos you can use.
I'll stand where I want to stand, and your smear campaigns won't back me down a bit. But they will entertain me.
Ron Wilson will win the debate by default.
It does underscore the RINO slant.
I guess there could be worse Brian, such as; "you are a meth head gay guy" but that would not put you in the enemy category. Heck, they might even chant , "Sieg Heil" if you were that and their hero.
i can't believe anyone would want to be associated with this guy!
When he heals up from wherever you liberals have him hid out at, we true Southerners will be waiting for the scalawag. He can not hide forever.
And, Mr. Capps, we will deal with you as well, politically of course...we know both of you are getting paid huge amounts from liberals Bill McAbee and Morris Dees. We know who you are!
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