2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRepublicans meet to discuss what went wrong and to discuss minority outreach..
Dumbasses!!!
Daily Kos
By Hunter
GOP retreat to feature helpful tips on how not to piss off women, minorities
Alas, some scoundrel somewhere (in this case, half the internet) always needs to crack wise about these things. (Republicans have trouble communicating with minorities and women? That's unpossible!) Things are complicated by the fact that their discussion on talking with minorities is being held in the Burwell Plantation room, named after the famous Virginia slave plantation. The entire GOP retreat is being held on the remnants of the Kingsmill Plantation, which advertises itself thusly:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/17/1179819/-GOP-retreat-to-feature-helpful-tips-on-how-not-to-piss-off-women-minorities
You want a chuckle about just how stupid they are, read the Kos post!
You can also read some more about the history of the retreat they chose here on the Colonial Williamsburg website:
The Burwells Move Their Slaves to the Southside
by Julie Richter
The seven lists of slaves recorded by four members of the Burwell family between 1746 and 1839 fill ten pages in the Ann Powell Burwell Commonplace Book. (See table below.) A Williamsburg merchant named Armistead Burwell authored two of the lists in 1746. The first was a record of Negros sent to Roanoke 5 march 1746 & seated there. This inventory included the names of four men and an equal number of women. Perhaps Roanoke was the name of Burwells 3,404-acre plantation on the south side of Finney Wood Creek in Mecklenburg County, land for which he received a patent on January 12, 1746/7.
http://research.history.org/Historical_Research/Research_Themes/ThemeEnslave/Burwells.cfm
Wow, quite a history Kingsmill Resort has going for it!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)"We'd like to welcome all the Coloreds, uh, I mean Negroes into the Grand Ole' Party. We'd also like to take this time to say "Aloha to our Mexican friends from Guatemala and Honduras and all them other Mexican countries. Limbaugh tells me great things about some of the vacation spots south of the border...
"And to the Women out there, we welcome you with groping, I mean open arms. It's about time we had some better legs on our side of the isle, heh heh heh. Just kidding, hugs all around for the pretty ladies in the House!
"To The Gays out there, we welcome you too, as long as we don't have to know you're The Gays..."
I see big things for the GOP in the future.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)oh, The republiKKKans are wearing them at their meetings!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,391 posts)they might want to think back to how they've responded to President Obama during the past 4 years. Might give them some clue......
LeftInTX
(25,106 posts)Stop talking about rape.
Keep your fantasies to yourself