The Family Research Council and the Ku Klux Klan
by John in DC - 6/8/2005
You always remember your first Klan...
http://americablog.blogspot.com/duke.jpg
The Family Research Council's executive director, Tony Perkins,
reportedly paid former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke over $80,000 for
his who's-who-of-racist-America mailing list in 1996.
This should be the death of the Family Research Council, one of the
religoius right's lead organizations, and the end of Tony Perkins
career.
Who on the left is smart enough to plunk down some money to organize
the campaign destroying the FRC and their executive director because
of his dealings with the Ku Klux Klan?
This was 1996, people.
That is well beyond, years beyond, the date that the entire nation
knew Duke to be a rabid KKK-loving racist.
But our pinnacle of family values, Tony Perkins, had no problem
enriching black-hater David Duke to the tune of $82,000.
And what's more, Tony Perkins had no problem trying to woo David
Duke's avowed racist following.
With the religious right trying to reach out to black folk, and more
generally trying to lecture the rest of us on morality, I want to know
why Tony Perkins hasn't been forced to resign, or, why the Family
Research Council hasn't been ostracized from the entire religious
right community.
Bob Knight and the rest of the Concerned Women for America, and the
American Family Association and Lou Sheldon and all the rest of you
supposed Christians, are you concerned that your good buddy Tony
Perkins appears peppered with racism?
From the Nation (I'd reported on this before, but this is big. This is
the end of the Family Research Council and the religious right's
efforts to woo the black community, if only some smart well-funded
liberal had the sense to do something with this.):
"Four years ago, Perkins addressed the Louisiana chapter of the
Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), America's premier white
supremacist organization, the successor to the White Citizens
Councils, which battled integration in the South.
In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke
$82,500 for his mailing list.
At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing
Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana.
The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000
for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke."
What would I do in response?
How about make sure the entire audience knows about Perkins' support
for Duke and affinity for racists at EVERY event he attends.
How about informing the black media and black churches about this tie
between racists and the religious right.
How about asking supposed religious right "black" leaders why they
don't speak out against the FRC and its executive director's affinity
for white supremacists.
How about demanding that the other religious right groups speak out
against Tony Perkins and his enabling of black-hating racists.
This is a campaign begging to happen.
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