Conservative claims GOP is waging "war on whites"
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:24 pm
August 6, 2014 It's not just the Democrats. The Republican National Committee is engaging in a "war on whites," GOP Rep. Mo Brooks suggested today, while expressing pride for coining the racially charged "hyperbole."
In a joint appearance on Dale Jackson's talk-radio show based in Huntsville, Ala., I read Brooks a paragraph from the Republican National Committee's postmortem analysis of the 2012 election. I identified the source, and explained to Brooks that the passage echoed a statement I made on Fox News Sunday that he had mischaracterized as part of the Democratic Party's "war on whites."
If Hispanic Americans perceive that a GOP nominee or candidate does not want them in the United States (i.e., self-deportation), they will not pay attention to our next sentence. It does not matter what we say about education, jobs, or the economy; if Hispanics think we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies.
Brooks replied, "By golly, we should not be dividing people as you just have in your commentary by race, by nationality, rather we should talk about …"
I interrupted. "That was not my quote. That was your party's quote. That's the RNC …"