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For giving them food and shelter?
Oh you just had to be from NC didn't you? Way to represent my oppressed brother. And here's to all who cheered you on. White power.
http://www.wral.com/nc-man-defends-slavery-at-cpac/12229254/A North Carolina man is all over online media tonight after arguing at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland Friday that slavery gave "shelter and food" to slaves.
The statements by Scott Terry of NC were made during a CPAC panel session aimed at improving conservatives' outreach among minority voters.
According to ThinkProgress, a left-wing blog that was the first to report the flap, Terry asked African American conservative presenter K. Carl Smith whether Republicans could endorse racial separatism.
"It seems to me that you're reaching out to voters that might fit the program you're speaking of at the expense of young white Southern males like myself," Terry tells Smith in the video provided by ThinkProgress.
"I feel like my people - my demographic, people like myself, are being systematically disenfranchised," Terry says.
Smith answers Terry's question by telling him that Frederick Douglass wrote a letter to his former master "and said to him I forgive you for all the things you did to me."
"For giving him shelter and food?" Terry asks Smith.
Some in the audience laugh. Others cheer and clap.
According to ThinkProgress:
After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, why cant we just have segregation? noting the Constitutions protections for freedom of association.
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When asked by ThinkProgress if hed accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said Id be fine with that. He also claimed that African-Americans should be allowed to vote in Africa, and that all the Tea Parties were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.
At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Partys roots, to which Terry responded, I didnt know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.
He claimed to be a direct descendent of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Smith, the presenter, released a statement to TPM late Friday saying that despite "some racially insensitive comments," Terry later came to understand Smith's point, and the two "left as friends."
Smith also said an African-American reporter caused even more disruption at the panel when she "rudely interrupted" him with questions.
The story caught fire on left-leaning sites, but quickly reached mainstream outlets like Gawker and Wonkette.
Oh you just had to be from NC didn't you? Way to represent my oppressed brother. And here's to all who cheered you on. White power.