Colin Powell’s Former Chief of Staff Explodes on the GOP: ‘My Party Is Full of Racists’

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“My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people — not all of them, but most of them — who are still basing their decisions on race,” Wilkerson told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz. “Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander in chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that’s despicable.”

Powell broke with the Republican Party to endorse Obama for a second time this week, prompting Sununu — a top Romney surrogate — to say, “he’s got a slightly different reason for preferring President Obama…I think when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being president of the United States.”

Sununu walked the comment back hours later, saying in a statement he did not believe Powell’s endorsement “was based on anything but his support of the president’s policies.”

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1. I just saw that amazing statement on MSNBC, Alex Witt's show

The spokesman for Romney dodged the question as to whether the Republican party is filled with racists as Col. Wilkinson stated.

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2. Unfortunately, thanks the the media legitimizing the tea party racism as mainstream, a lot of the

country is full of racists

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3. I JUST POSTED TO MY FACEBOOK WALL. Thanks to the info.

i am seeing this all over facebook

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4. A Peculiar Institution

So tough to change-- so tough to share, so tough to avoid racist excuses for their own poor behavior.