Oh No…More Republican Racism

The Republican Party’s plan to woo minority voters via a “minority outreach program” is not going so well.  In fact, it is a colossal disaster!

Last month, GOP Rep. Don Young of Alaska embarrassed the party by using the term “wetbacks” to describe Mexican farm workers his father once employed. Now, another Republican has stuck his foot in his mouth by spewing yet another racial term, at a time when the GOP would rather they all shut up and just fool everyone into thinking they’ve changed tow the party line.

During a recent county meeting, Saline County, Kansas commissioner Jim Gile was discussing hiring an architect to design repairs for the county’s Road and Bridge Department.  During the discussion, the 68-year-old Gile calmly told his fellow commissioners that he did not want low quality work, but preferred to hire a legitimate architect over having someone “n*gger-rigging it.”  HUH???

As the GOP cringed at yet another party member butchering their pretend minority outreach program, Gile borrowed the same excuse Congressman Young used last month and blamed his “bad choice of words” on having “grown up” around the term.

“I am not a prejudiced person,” Gile said in a forced (by the GOP) apology. “I have built Habitat homes for ‘colored’ people.”  Oh really??

In his further attempts to make it all better, Gile added (the familiar old excuse) that one of his closest friends is black, whom he “regards as a sister.”