Nita Lowey rival wrote anti-integration, racially charged essay

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/maggiehaberman/0910/Nita_Lowey_rival_wrote_antiintegration_racially_charged_essay_.html?showall

Longtime Democratic incumbent Rep. Nita Lowey's Republican challenger this fall is a Christian conservative author and activist whose writings have frowned on inter-racial marriage and movies like "Save the Last Dance," touted the benefits of studies linking race to IQ and said parents need to teach their kids "appropriate ethnic boundaries" for marriage and socializing.

Jim Russell, who's challenging Lowey in a repeat after trying to take her on in 2008, made the statements in an essay called "The Western Contribution to World History," which was published in a 2001 - 2002 edition of the Occidental Quarterly, and had also been featured on infamous former politician and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's website. It's since been taken down from there.

But it's still available in the back issues of the Occidental Quarterly, a far-right magazine that the civil rights-focused Southern Poverty Law Center dubbed a "racist" publication whose "editors and advisory board members have constituted a 'Who's Who' of the radical right, and its regular publication of extremists' articles has made it a favorite among academic racists in America."

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The comments about preserving ethnicity - and lauding eugenics, a social movement that's become yoked to practices by the Nazis - put Russell far to the right in the state, and are not likely to play well in the suburban district, predicted Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic strategist.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. As the former half a racially mixed marriage (for 20 years)

Mr. Russell, if you have problems with other people's personal relationships, then please seek professional help.

[blondeatlast]

2. I'm another ex-mixed married--and what you said. In fact,

I think of another DUer a while back who suggested that the RW fixation on personal lives (among other things, such as choice of religion) should be dubbed as abnormal and irrational.

It is--and it should be framed as such.

[golddigger]

3. I have been constantly saying, that the Repuke party

is the new KKK.

[theothersnippywshrub]

4. How very Republican. n/t

[TheWraith]

5. The irony is he's just saying openly what a lot of Republicans secretly believe.

They just like codewords, like "self made" meaning that your parents weren't poor, and "Christian nation" meaning "we want to get rid of the Jews."

[classysassy]

6. Greed and Racism

will destroy our country if it is not mortified.

[Name removed]

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