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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAdvisor To Major Pro-Trump Group Runs Racist Newsletter (Turning Point USA)
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It was an email so racist it might make a ku klux klansman blush.
An advisor for the influential conservative youth organization Turning Point USA recently published an essay for subscribers of his personal newsletter that, among other things, said Black people have become socially incompatible with other races and American Black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime-ridden mess.
It also said white people arent racist but just exhausted with Black people. It portrayed post-Civil War America as a 150-year-long experiment to see whether Black people could be taken from the jungles of Africa, enslaved, and then integrated into a majority-white society. It said that experiment had failed.
The email, which included Turning Points logo and a fundraising appeal for the group, was sent out on April 29 by Rip McIntosh, an 85-year-old white Florida man who sits on the organizations advisory council, a board that includes the likes of former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and, until his recent death, GOP mega donor Foster Friess. The newsletter, which McIntosh says has more than 25,000 subscribers and which he sometimes publishes as often as five times a day, is frequently filled with culture war rants, conspiracy theories, racism, and other types of bigotry, but this email stood out even among that toxic stew.
So much more at the jump:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/advisor-to-major-pro-trump-group-runs-racist-newsletter
Yep, not even hiding it anymore, but trumpeting it from the rooftops.
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Advisor To Major Pro-Trump Group Runs Racist Newsletter (Turning Point USA) (Original Post)
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2021
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CurtEastPoint
(18,634 posts)1. Behold the Ripster.
tanyev
(42,540 posts)2. An un-fixable and crime-ridden mess.