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10

The news doesn’t mention political party thing


Whether or not a news outlet mentions a person’s political party isn’t something I watch that closely, though I’m pretty sure I have at least once or twice.

But here’s a case flagged by Pam’s House Blend: This Midland Daily News article, which is really pretty lengthy and full of many other small details, seems to forget to mention that a voter who utilized his First Amendment rights to protest the election of Barack Obama on behalf of white people is also…oh – well – I’ll let you read.

From an article last month in the Michigan Messenger:

A self-avowed member of the Klu Klux Klan, Randy Gray of Midland, is the second newly elected Republican precinct delegate in Michigan who has ties to white supremacist organizations.

Gray was elected by Midland County Republican voters to serve the party in Midland County.

Now, from today’s Midland Daily News:

Randy Gray, 30, of Midland, marched up and down the sidewalk in front of Garber Chevrolet for about 15 to 20 minutes [in his KKK robes]. Garber employees, speaking anonymously, said his demonstration was peaceful.

“He wasn’t raising a ruckus,” one man said.

The Midland Police Department and Michigan State Police responded sometime after noon. Acting Police Chief Bob Lane said Gray had a handgun and that he had a concealed weapons permit to carry it. Gray was questioned briefly and released after police found he had not violated any laws.

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Gray said he is a member of the KKK, but would give no further information about the organization or the number of members in Midland County. He has been connected with the KKK previously, submitting several shows titled “This is the Klan,” to Midland Community Television in 2005.

He said he wasn’t walking the sidewalk just because Sen. Barack Obama won Tuesday’s presidential election.

“I feel white people feel more oppressed,” he said. “We’re basically told as white people we can’t have any organizations. We’re ruled by communists.

“It’s not just about Barack Obama. It goes deeper than that.”

Gray then admitted he did pick Wednesday — the day after the first African-American was elected president — to go on his walk.

Okay then.  We are ruled by communists.  Does that include the last eight years and the next ten weeks since, you know, George W. Bush has been president all this time and up until January of 2007, we had a Republican-governed Congress?

Maybe he’s just talking about Michigan? Given the auto industry’s interest in bailouts?

Well – we have the First Amendment, so there’s at least that – for him and for everyone else.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:27 pm November 10th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Civil Rights, intolerance, Politics, PostWH2008, Race 

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