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September 27, 2012 12:48 AM UTC

Jefferson County GOP: Black Panthers Are Coming To Steal Your Vote

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  • by: Colorado Pols

THURSDAY UPDATE: The photo in question has been removed from the Jefferson County GOP’s website, as reported late yesterday evening by Jeffco Pols.

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At the website of the Jefferson County Republican Party, the first thing you’re asked to do:

The two men in the well-known photo above are members of the New Black Panther Party, charged with making an isolated disturbance outside a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008. No other incidents of the kind were reported anywhere else, but the photo of these two men has been used countless times by Republicans to incite baseless race-baiting fears of Black Panther thugs headed for your suburban neighborhood polling place to make trouble.

Oh, wait a minute!

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25 thoughts on “Jefferson County GOP: Black Panthers Are Coming To Steal Your Vote

  1. “The racial makeup of Jefferson county was 90.59% White, 0.89% Black or African American, 0.75% Native American, 2.28% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 3.23% from other races, and 2.18% from two or more races. 9.95% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.” The Wiki

    1. They do it because they know there are no consequences. 0.9% of the population can’t vote anybody out of office for this.

      What a disgrace to my great county.

          1. “And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant  sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

            Senator Obama, 2008

            New Black Panthers in Jeffco?  uh-huh, no racist sentiment there.

            OBTW- the people Senator Obama was talking about agree with him. They just don’t like him very much.

            http://publicreligion.org/rese

  2. This non-event occurred in a predominantly African American precinct so it’s kind of hard to see it as racist. It was two guys with some neo-Black Panther wannabe group, not even connected to the original Black Panthers and who seemed not to even know what point it was they wanted to make.  Hardly anybody seemed intimidated. Is this really the best Jeffco Rs can come up with?

  3. Is this part of the Republicans GOTV?  Part of their voter intimidation?  I don’t know, but the last time I checked the vast majority of Voters in Jeffco were mail ballot voters.  Please, please Republicans volunteer for this and waste your time.  Hahahahahahahaha.  I guess they are drinking the kool-aid even in Jeffco now.

  4. Are the Republicans intentionally trying to make themselves into basically a permanent-minority, (almost) all white party?

    The demographics in this country as a whole are heading towards whites being a minority. Meanwhile, the Republicans:

    – Put out this crap in Jeffco.

    – Have a county office in Virginia that proudly refuses to take down Facebook photos of Obama as a witch doctor and gorilla

    – Have Mitt Romney go on Univision in brownface (OK, that last one was likely unintentional, but it all adds into the perception)

    – Have a convention featuring all angry white men during the biggest prime-time period

    – Have “Macaca” Allen as their Virginia Senate candidate

    The list goes on and on, both locally and nationally. They are just so damned dumb it’d be funny at this point – if it weren’t also so sad.

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