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hurl

(935 posts)
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 02:59 PM Dec 2018

'Damn Right, I'm a White Nationalist' Declares Texas GOP Platform Committee Member

From the article:

At the Texas Republican Party’s 2018 convention, Ray Myers was a part of a select group of activists charged with crafting the platform for the biggest and most influential state party in the country. Myers is also a white nationalist, a fact that he declared last week. “Damn Right, I’m a WHITE NATIONALIST and very Proud of it,” Myers wrote in a Facebook post last Tuesday.

Myers is a 74-year-old activist who has been involved in GOP politics for decades. But “the pivotal political moment came when Obama came on the scene. I knew immediately that America was in trouble,” he said in an Empower Texans profile. Soon after, he founded a tea party chapter in Kaufman County, just east of Dallas. More recently, Myers was a member of Ted Cruz’s “Texas Leadership Team” during his presidential campaign, served as a Cruz delegate at the RNC convention and went on to become a Trump volunteer, according to his Facebook profile.

Reached by phone on Friday, Myers insisted that he saw nothing wrong with labeling himself a white nationalist. “I am Anglo and I’m very proud of it, just like black people and brown people are proud of their race. I am a patriot. I am very proud of my country,” Myers said. “And white nationalist, all that means is America first. That’s exactly what that means. That’s where the president’s at. That’s where I’m at and that’s where every solid patriotic American is. It doesn’t have anything to do with race or anything else.”

Myers told the Observer that he agrees with Trump’s claim that the media “is the enemy of the people,” and said the left is pushing a narrative to make white people ashamed of their heritage and to cast nationalists as racist right-wing Nazis, which he insisted “is the furthest damn thing from the truth ever.”

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https://www.texasobserver.org/damn-right-im-a-white-nationalist-declares-texas-gop-platform-committee-member/

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'Damn Right, I'm a White Nationalist' Declares Texas GOP Platform Committee Member (Original Post) hurl Dec 2018 OP
'Damn Right, I should be skewered and roasted over an open flame' FiveGoodMen Dec 2018 #1
Of course the lying repukes will cover for him oldlibdem Dec 2018 #2
Damn White I'm a nationalist and an old LakeArenal Dec 2018 #3
74 year old piece of shit with a head that looks like a toe. Javaman Dec 2018 #4

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
1. 'Damn Right, I should be skewered and roasted over an open flame'
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 03:51 PM
Dec 2018

Declares Texas GOP Platform Committee Member

LakeArenal

(28,798 posts)
3. Damn White I'm a nationalist and an old
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 11:18 PM
Dec 2018

Has been. Afraid of the others coming.

Heads Up, Meyers. The others are here and your world is crashing around your ears.

You and your ilk are outright cheating to stay in power and you know it.

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