Tony Perkins and White Supremacy

[ccharles000]

The MSM puts Family Research Council honcho Tony Perkins on the air to represent the "family values" agenda, but seem to ignore his outlandish racist affiliations documented in this diary, including ties to the Council of Conservative Citizens, declared a hate group by the SPLC, and the KKK. More background, via Media Matters:

The Boston Herald reported in an October 16, 2006, article, "In 2001, gave a speech at a meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a hate group."

Indeed, a Fall 2004 article in the SPLC's Intelligence Report asserted that Perkins "spoke to the Louisiana Council of Conservative Citizens on May 19, 2001," during his tenure as a Louisiana state legislator. The SPLC characterizes the CCC as a "white nationalist" organization, and has reported that the group is "the reincarnation of the racist White Citizens Councils of the 1950s and 1960s." The CCC declares in itsstatement of principles:

We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races.

When confronted with this information, an FRC tool said Perkins has "cannot remember" speaking to the group, but Perkins himself told the Vancouver Sunthat he "could not recall what he said to the group and that he said he had been unfamiliar with the CCC's history at the time."

The family values organization head has also sidled up to former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. While campaign manager for Louis E. (Woody) Jenkins's campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1996, forked over $82,500 to buy Duke's mailing list. Yes, Perkins wanted make sure to reach the white supremacist voting base.

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13356/tony-perkins-and-white-supremacy

[ccharles000]

1. kick

[BOSSHOG]

2. BIG KICK and thanks for posting this CCharles

tony perkins is just another hatefilled family values, constitution hating puke that we must contend with. And being a good conservative, when he says he is not a racist you know he is lying.

[Dogtown]

3. K&R n/t

[MountainLaurel]

4. Guess non-white families don't count for the FRC?

We knew that gay families, non-fundangelical families, nontraditional families weren't really families to this group, but people of color is a new one.

Edited to add that this does not surprise me in the least.