Black GOP homeless advocate says he's victim of political discrimination

[CatWoman]

Political Eviction

Ted Hayes, an advocate for the homeless who also happens to be a black Republican, says the 35 men, women and children who reside in the Los Angeles shelter he founded 12 years ago are being kicked out because of his political beliefs. In a Wall Street Journal Op Ed, Hayes writes that his landlord raised the Dome Village's rent from $2500 to more than $18,000 a month when he learned Hayes' political leanings and said the cause of his "eviction" was "because you are Republican,” adding that as a Democrat, he was tired of helping Hayes or his shelter.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180629,00.html

[Rainscents]

1. This man is black, working with homeless and he is republican???

I don't fucking get it! Doesn't this fucker knows, Republicans just don't give a fuck about black and poor???

[Balbus]

2. In your subject you acknowledge that this guy helps

homeless men, women & children yet you feel the need to call him a "fucker"? That's big of you.

[TheDebbieDee]

3. That's how we should to refer to ALL repukes!

[Balbus]

4. Keep on hating if that's what turns you on.

I prefer to judge people by their actions. But, hey, that's just me.

[LostinVA]

6. He is being judged by his actions

The GOP has, for many years now, publ.ciy stated their opposition to: gay rights, women's rights, race rights... hell pretty much ALL civil rights, shown contempt for the Constitution and other American tenets and laws, shown contempt for international laws, screwed labor, the poor, the sick, the environment, etc.... all while helping their corporate buddies and themselves.

You are judged by the company you keep.

[Balbus]

9. In this case the "company he keeps" is homeless people.

That mother-fucker - choosing to help homeless people!!

[Horse with no Name]

13. Remember Balbus

the company he "claims" to keep. The Democratic landlord he "claims" to have.
This isn't on a reputable news site and the original story originated on an OP ED page therefore not needing to be corroborated as truth, since it is opinion ONLY.
It hasn't been verified by a real news agency.
P-R-O-P-A-G-A-N-D-A anyone?

[LostinVA]

16. No, he is aligning himself with the GOP

With people who are going everything they can to MAKE people harmless. He votes for and publicly holds up people who vote to cut homeless programs, etc. And that's just how it is. You lie with dogs, you awake with fleas, as my grandmother always said.

Sorry. I can't sympathize with your sense of outrage in this instance. Plus, I very much doubt his rent went up because of his political affiliation. I'll believe that when I see that.

[KamaAina]

21. Freudian post of the year (to date)!

everything they can to MAKE people harmless.

Correct in essence: homeless = politically harmless to the Evil Empire.

[LostinVA]

23. You're right!

[CatWoman]

22. Lost -- see the LA Times link at the bottom of this thread.

[LostinVA]

24. Thanks

[KingFlorez]

19. He's a Republican

That contradicts anything he does. People who are support a party that is destroying this country shouldn't be given any breaks.

[patdem]

7. But he NEEDS the homeless and poor to keep HIS job...does that

make more sense now? If Democrats did away with a lot of homelessness he would have to work harder to find and house the homeless..now all he has to do is open a home..and pooof it's filled up!

[Horse with no Name]

5. This story doesn't ring true

It reeks of propaganda from the propaganda channel.
I don't believe a word of it.
"In a Wall Street Journal Op Ed, Hayes writes that his landlord raised the Dome Village's rent from $2500 to more than $18,000"
Why would this be an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal and not front page news on the LA Times?

If the story has a ring of truth, my guess is that Hayes (since he IS a Republican) was lying about who he was helping and his landlord found out.
However, I have a hard time believing that too.

[zbdent]

8. If the roles were reversed, the GOP would be screaming "Show the

proof" - so, tell Hayes to prove it . . . show any proof of being discriminated because he's republican. Bet there "ain't" any . . .

Repuke "victimology" - "I'm in the majority, so I can claim that I'm the victim . . ."

[Horse with no Name]

11. Exactly

Which is precisely the reason that this "story" is ONLY making an appearance on the Faux propaganda channel and the OP ED pages of the Wall Street Journal.
So that he really doesn't have to prove whether he is telling the truth or not--since it is an "opinion" piece after all.

[EST]

10. Imagine my surprise, after the hanging,

when he sidled around the corner, slipped off the white hood and tossed it under the porch, and I saw the color of his skin...

[quiet.american]

12. "O woe is me" -- last four paragraphs of the full WSJ article....

Even as a Democrat, I don't agree with what the landlord did. But I'm not ready to say "come to mama, come to mama, baby, do" either to this guy. Puhhhllleaaase. Wonder how far he gets if he tries to find funding from this Republican administration to take up the slack now? -- Oh, I forgot -- if he makes his organization a "faith-based," money-laundering charity, he's in.

Still, I cannot help but be saddened by the whole business. When I founded the Dome Village 12 years ago, we had an understanding that he could ask for his property back at any time for any reason, and I would say "absolutely" without hesitation. Still, his reason was prejudice against Republicans.

We see this across the country. Michael Steele, the lieutenant governor of Maryland and a Republican candidate for the Senate, has been crudely denigrated on racial grounds. A prominent leftist Web site, for instance, depicted him as "Sambo," among other aspersions. When Condoleezza Rice was nominated as Secretary of State, she faced similar treatment: editorial cartoons depicting her as a racial caricature, personalities calling her "Aunt Jemima" on liberal talk radio, and so forth. Clarence Thomas, Ward Connerly, Colin Powell, Thomas Sowell and other black conservatives regularly face similar smears.

These conservatives are attacked not because of the validity or judicious consideration of their views but because those views are supposedly heterodox for American blacks. Yet it is my opinion that many black people in the U.S. are politically and philosophically conservative -- and many are in fact actually closeted Republicans, fearful of persecution by friends, business associates, society clubs, school mates and even churches.

It is time for American blacks to have a conversation about the phenomenon of Democrats persecuting black Republicans. Why is this happening? What is it that the Democrats don't want black folks to understand about Republicans? What is it that the Democrats don't want black folks to know about Democrats? And how is it that we have come to this point -- after having endured so much -- where we have ourselves curtailed the freedom of political expression through the threat of retaliatory consequences?

[EST]

18. Liberal...talk...radio???

Why does this guy sound so much like Rash Limpbowell?
Republicans are not conservatives!! Dammit!
Most of the democrats I know could rightfully be called conservatives. Closeted republican, my ass! He is a liar, extrordinaire and that's what makes him a rethug.
Do these idiots really think we are so stupid?
I, too, call BS.

[Yollam]

14. Sounds suspicious.

If he's a republican, he's figured a way to get 4 of every ten dollars for his "Charity" into his own pockets.

They NEVER give to charity unless they get money or recognition out of it.

NEVER.

The fact that he went crying to Fox "News" does little to enhance his credibility...

[Brewman_Jax]

15. Something ain't right about this story

a fast search shows this story ONLY on the RW websites and blogs. I saw no corresponding coverage in the area newspapers or TV stations. Looks like a load of bull.

[Brewman_Jax]

17. As for black republican

race has been part of republican campaign strategy since the 1960's. I've never seen one that wasn't trotted out as a "dancing bear" to toe the party line and try to take the heat off the republican leadership when they get caught doing wrong. Independent thinking ones or the ones that get tired of dancing (see J.C. Watts) get their club cards pulled--fast.

[LA lady]

20. It was in the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dome25dec25,1,6147632.story?coll=la-headlines-california