Message from Tom Tancredo to Obama: Go Back To Africa

The Republicans and their Tea Party supporters are either unable to hide their bigotry anymore... or they have simply chosen not to. Tancredo made his comments during a Tea Party rally in South Carolina.
The comments suggested that Obama was born in Kenya....and also seemed to send a wider message. The 'Go Back To Africa' theme was (and still is) common among racists, particularly in the South.

Obama won because Jim Crow-era law not on books - Tancredo

hat tip- morphus

From the Tea Party Convention today:

Tea Party convention's racial brouhaha: Obama won because Jim Crow-era law not on books - Tancredo
BY Brian Kates
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

The opening speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention called President Obama a "committed Socialist ideologue" who was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote."

"You have launched the counter-revolution," the speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), told 600 or so delegates of the grassroots movement assembled at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville Wednesday night. "It is our nation.

Tancredo also insisted on using Obama's middle name, Hussein, and said he was thankful Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona lost the 2008 presidential election because Obama has mobilized an uprising.

"People who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House," he said.

To make it simple, he wants THE LITERACY TEST BACK AT THE POLLS.

This ' test' was done to totally DISENFRANCHISE Black folks, because BLACK FOLK were the ONLY ONES given the Literacy Test during Jim Crow.

You can put this under the THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE news.

Nobody has come out from the GOP to condemn Tancredo...

Michael Steele, are you a mute on his comments?

Exec Director Of Tancredo PAC Admitted Karate Chopping Pedestrian, Calling Her 'Nigger'

From Jack Turner at JJP

via Tancredo Aide Pleads Guilty to Karate Chopping Pedestrian, Calling Her 'Nigger' | TPMDC.

On July 7, 2007, at approximately 7:15 p.m. at Jefferson and M Street, Northwest, in Washington, D.C., defendant was walking down the street making offensive remarks when he encountered the complainant, Ms. [REDACTED], who is African-American. The defendant uttered, "Nigger," as he delivered a karate chop to Ms. [REDACTED]'s head.

For real. Karate chopped. Called her nigger. The defendant is Marcus Epstein, former Tancredo speechwriter. This is madness.

rikyrah here: I found this in a DailyKos diary about this CRIMINAL racist thug-


From that DailyKos Diary on him:

Apparently Epstein
is a repeat offender:

CRIMINAL OFFENSE 1
Offense Date:
Case Number: 830GC0400168200
Offense Type: Trespassing
Offense Code: 18.2-119
Offense Description: TRESPASSING
Date Reported: 08/31/2004
Disposition: GUILTY
Sentence Details: COURT COSTS

CRIMINAL OFFENSE 2
Offense Date:
Case Number: 059GT0607878900
Offense Type: Traffic/Other
Offense Code: C.46.2-862
Offense Description: 075/55 RECKLESS
Date Reported: 04/06/2006
Disposition: GUILTY
Disposition Date: 06/05/2006
Sentence Details: COURT FINE & COSTS

CRIMINAL OFFENSE 3
Offense Date: 02/18/2007
Case Number: 013GC0700061400
Offense Type: Alcohol
Offense Code: 17-7
Offense Description: DRUNK IN PUBLIC
Date Reported: 02/20/2007
Disposition: GUILTY IN ABSENTIA
Disposition Date: 09/25/2007
Sentence Details: COURT FINE & COSTS

CRIMINAL OFFENSE 4
Offense Date:
Case Number: 830GC0400168300
Offense Type: Alcohol
Offense Code: 18.2-388
Offense Description: PUBLIC SWEARING/INTOXICATION
Date Reported: 08/31/2004
Disposition: NOLLE PROSEQUI
Disposition Date: 10/28/2004

CRIMINAL OFFENSE 5
Offense Date:
Case Number: 830GC0400168100
Offense Type: Larceny
Offense Code: 18.2-96
Offense Description: PETIT LARCENY
Date Reported: 08/31/2004
Disposition: NOLLE PROSEQUI
Disposition Date: 10/28/2004

CRIMINAL OFFENSE 6
Offense Date:
Case Number: 830GC0400168000
Offense Type: Assault
Offense Code: 18.2-57
Offense Description: ASSAULT & BATTERY
Date Reported: 08/31/2004
Disposition: NOLLE PROSEQUI
Disposition Date: 10/28/2004


Pensitoreview did a good write up on this and made some excellent points.

"The fact that the Buchanans and Tancredo rushed to the cameras to bash Judge Sotomayor with such glee, all the while knowing that at the end of the week Epstein would plead guilty plea for a racist assault is significant. They likely assumed — correctly — that Epstein’s plea would not get the attention of the corporate media, and even if it did, the Beltway bouffants would not connect the dots from him to them.

As of 6:30 a.m. Pacific on Monday, there has been no reporting about Epstein’s plea. Nor has an announcement that he has been fired made its way onto the Google — but why would there be when his bosses have known about this attack since the summer of 2007 and could have, should have, distanced themselves from him then."

Seems as if The University of Virginia Law School actually DOES have issue with this thug.

From Talking Points Memo:

University Of Virginia: Epstein Will Not Enroll With Us
By Brian Beutler - June 1, 2009, 4:12PM

One thing that struck us about The Karate Chop Heard 'Round The Blogosphere was the news that the chopper--Marcus Epstein--is saying goodbye to Tom Tancredo and Pat Buchanan this summer to go to law school at the University of Virginia. Dave Weigel reported this, and Bay Buchanan told me the same thing.

But Jason Wu Trujillo, UVA's Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, now says Epstein will not enroll this fall, or ever.

Trujillo couldn't discuss the specifics of that decision, but it raises a question: The incident itself occurred on July 7, 2007, before Epstein applied, but the school requires applicants to disclose all criminal convictions.