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Posted by CycleSurfer on January 19, 2008, 12:51 pm
Unlike the guilt by very loos association MIKE HUCKABEE HIMSELF
ACTUALLY DOES HAVE TIES TO WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS. Mike Huckabee is
most likely the source of the false attacks against Dr. Paul... Here
are the FACTS.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_gave_speech_to_white_supremacists_0118.html
As South Carolina's Republican primary election draws nearer, Mike
Huckabee has ratcheted up his appeals to the racial nationalism of
white evangelicals. "You don't like people from outside the state
coming in and telling you what to do with your flag," the former
Arkansas governor told a Myrtle Beach crowd on January 17, referring
to the Confederate flag. "If somebody came to Arkansas and told us
what to do with our flag, we'd tell them what to do with the pole.
That's what we'd do."
Making coded appeals to white racism is nothing new for Huckabee.
Indeed, well before he was a nationally known political star, Huckabee
nurtured a relationship with America's largest white supremacist
group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. The extent of Huckabee's
interaction with the racist group is unclear, but this much is known:
he accepted an invitation to speak at the group's annual conference in
1993 and ultimately delivered a videotaped address that was "extremely
well received by the audience."
Descended from the White Citizens Councils that battled integration in
the Jim Crow South, including at Arkansas' Little Rock High School,
the Council (or CofCC) has been designated a "hate group" by the
Southern Poverty Law Center.
In its "Statement of Principles," the CofCC declares, "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."
The CofCC has hosted several conservative Republican legislators at
its conferences, including former Representative Bob Barr of Georgia
and Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. But mostly it has been a source
of embarrassment to Republicans hoping to move their party beyond its
race-baiting image. Former Reagan speechwriter and conservative pundit
Peggy Noonan pithily declared that anyone involved with the CofCC
"does not deserve to be in a leadership position in America."
During a lengthy phone conversation in 2006, CofCC founder and former
White Citizens Council organizer Gordon Lee Baum detailed for me
Huckabee's dalliances with his group. Baum told me that Huckabee
eagerly accepted his invitation to speak at the CofCC's 1993 national
convention in Memphis, Tennessee.
Huckabee's plan was complicated, however, when Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy
Tucker journeyed out of state and appointed a state senator to preside
over the governorship. The Arkansas state legislature passed a
resolution forbidding the lieutenant governor from leaving Arkansas
until Tucker returned, thus preventing Huckabee from attending the
CofCC's conference.
In lieu of his appearance, according to Baum, Huckabee "sent an audio/
video presentation saying 'I can't be with you but I'd like to be
speaker next time.'" (The CofCC promptly replaced Huckabee with
Michael Ramirez, a right-wing cartoonist whose work is currently
syndicated to 400 newspapers by the Copley News Service.)
Baum's account of Huckabee's videotaped message was confirmed by a
CofCC newsletter obtained by Edward Sebesta, a veteran observer of the
neo-Confederate movement. "Ark. Lt. Governor Mike Huckabee, unable to
leave Arkansas by law because the Governor was absent from the state,
sent a terrific videotape speech, which was viewed and extremely well
received by the audience," the 1993 newsletter (Vol. 24, No. 3)
reported.
The following year, in 1994, the CofCC held its national conference in
Little Rock, Arkansas to accommodate Huckabee. According to Baum,
Huckabee initially agreed to speak before his group, but became
apprehensive when the Arkansas media reported that he would be joined
on the CofCC's podium by Kirk Lyons, a white nationalist legal
activist who has hailed Hitler as "probably the most misunderstood man
in German history."
"He didn't know anything about Kirk Lyons or anyone else," Baum said
of Huckabee. "He said he would show up if we took Lyons off."
But Baum refused to remove his friend Lyons from the bill. Huckabee,
who was more concerned about receiving bad publicity than by the
racist underpinnings of the CofCC, withdrew his promise to speak. The
CofCC replaced him this time with former Arkansas Supreme Court
Justice Jim Johnson, a White Citizens Council founder who organized
the mob that rioted against the integration of Little Rock High School
and later served as the star narrator of Rev. Jerry Falwell's
discredited film, "The Clinton Chronicles."
In the end, Huckabee's aborted relationship with the CofCC benefited
the group. "We had the biggest crowd in our history because of the
publicity" surrounding Huckabee's planned appearance, Baum said of his
1994 conference.
The CofCC has since rebuked Huckabee for his insufficiently intolerant
political behavior. Unfortunately, Huckabee has never rebuked the
CofCC. Instead he embraced the group, ignoring its well known legacy
of promoting racism and only severing ties when his political
ambitions were threatened by bad publicity.
Cross posted at The Nation and The Huffington Post.
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