Al Fonzi is a retired Army officer, former Chairman of the SLO County Republican Party, hosts the KPRL radio program Sound-Off on Fridays and writes political commentary for the Atascadero News and New Times. Courtesy photo

SLO County Republicans are standing against hate. We always have

August 30, 2017 1:24 PM

Democrats embraced eugenics as science and promoted the racist theories of Margaret Sanger that emphasized sterilization of African American women and any other Southern/Eastern European ethnic group she disapproved of, especially Catholics and Jews. Your party embraced the Klan and your President Wilson celebrated the Klan, showing Hollywood’s “Birth of a Nation” (which lionized the Klan) in the White House. Wilson described it as “thunder and lightning” as he segregated the armed forces and the federal civil service. Your Hollywood allies then portrayed African Americans in film in the most derogatory manner possibly for 60 years, promoting racist stereotypes which were firmly embedded in the public psyche. Your party continued to lionize public officials who were openly avowed racists, such as Sen. Robert Byrd, a high Klan official who never stopped using derogatory euphemisms towards African Americans. For over 140 years, the Democrat Party has winked at the racists in its midst. Mr. Fulks, you’re not in a position to exert moral authority over anyone.

Lately the “Left” has made excuses for so-called “antifa” (anti-fascists) who are nothing more than self-appointed vigilantes engaged in lynch-mob street fights against anyone with whom they disagree, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or age. They’re a danger to the Republic, to freedom of the press and speech. Their terrorist tactics are the hallmark of all tyrants. The free press is always their first victim whenever they win. Legitimize them at your peril.

Finally, Mr. Fulks, you implied the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an organization worthy of support — the same organization that characterized returning Iraq/Afghan war veterans as “terrorist risks” along with tar-brushing mainline Christian groups as “hate groups.” The organization is facing lawsuits from several mainstream Christian groups for defamation for falsely branding them as “hate groups.” Get your facts straight, Mr. Fulks.

To most Americans, Republicans are just like you.

They neither “hate” nor promote violence. The danger to the Republic comes from those who do, be they Klansmen, Nazis or black-clad, masked Neo-Nazi cowards in training.

Al Fonzi is a retired Army officer, former Chairman of the SLO County Republican Party, hosts the KPRL radio program Sound-Off on Fridays and writes political commentary for the Atascadero News and New Times.

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