Colin Powell Still Sees 'Dark Vein' of Intolerance in GOP

[ColesCountyDem]

Speaking on the day following the 50-year anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama, the first African-American Secretary of State Colin Powell said he still sees a "dark vein" of intolerance in the Republican Party, echoing comments that he made in 2013.

"I still see it. I still see it in the Republican Party and I still see it in other parts of our country. You don't have to be a Republican to be touched by this dark vein," Powell told ABC's George Stephanopoulos Sunday on "This Week."

"We've come a long way, but there's a long way to go. And we have to change the hearts and minds of Americans. And I see progress, especially in the younger generation," Powell added.

President Obama, along with former President George W. Bush, was in Selma Saturday to mark the anniversary of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement. They were joined by Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who was brutally beaten during the march out of Selma that day in 1965.

"What that bloody Sunday event did for the nation was to hold up a mirror in front of all Americans and said, 'Look, this is what's going on in this country. This cannot continue,'" Powell said....

http://news.yahoo.com/colin-powell-still-sees-dark-vein-intolerance-gop-165315681.html

Ya think, Secretary Powell?

[KG]

1. piss on Colin Powell

[gordianot]

2. No feces Sherlock

[cloudbase]

3. Astute observation, Mr. Powell. n/t

[DavidDvorkin]

4. Lies and coverups, too.

[Aristus]

5. Thanks for pointing that out, Captain Obvious.

You carried water for the organization that is trying to deny people who look like you their right to vote, and the right not to be shot to death for no reason by some gun-crazed maniac hiding behind a badge or a neighborhood watch membership.

You stood up to be counted with the monsters who pointed to you and said "See? We got ourselves a colored feller too! We ain't bigots! Ain't that right, boy?"

[SummerSnow]

6. But he won't leave the party....stfu Powell

[gratuitous]

7. All right, point made

Now . . . what are you doing about it, Mr. Powell? Talk is notoriously cheap.

[hatrack]

8. Thanks, General Obvious!

Without your eagle-eyed input, we would never have known!