Can any of us imagine the hell that would be unleashed if the Republican Party in 2007 held an annual fund-raising dinner named after a white supremacist?
Well, I guess it’s okay if Democrats do it….
Conservative group targets name of Democrats’ event
by Jordan Schrader
September 27, 2007RALEIGH — Leaders of the state Democratic Party fire up the faithful when the party meets each year for dinner at Asheville’s Grove Park Inn.
The speeches don’t promote white supremacy like those made by Democrat Charles Aycock in his victorious 1900 campaign for governor.
But the Vance-Aycock Dinner still bears his name, a tradition that a group of conservative WNC Republicans has seized upon as a way to criticize the very different Democratic Party of 2007 — and even peel away its African-American support.
The Carolina Stompers plans to stage a demonstration during the Oct. 6 dinner at Macon and Charlotte streets to protest the continued use of Aycock’s name. They will air an ad on WLOS-TV the same night blaming Aycock for the Wilmington race riot of 1898 that left up to 60 people dead, group president Chad Nesbitt said.
The chairman of the N.C. Democratic Party said the dinner is named for Aycock out of tradition but doesn’t honor him.
Also noteworthy is the fact that news stories make mention of the Carolina Stompers as a “conservative” group, like that’s a bad thing. If Republicans held such a dinner, would the media refer to Jesse Jackson-led protesters as a “liberal group”? Probably not.
Oh, and by the way… there’s a high school named after Mr. Aycock. No big deal, right?
Are North Carolina Democrats racist? Probably not. Would they complain if the situation were reversed? Based on the recent race-baiting tendencies of liberals, most probably. Would this be considered insensitive? Definitely.
But as we’re talking about Democrats and a sympathetic media, there will probably be a Vance-Aycock Dinner this year, next year, and so on. Remember this when liberals lecture everyone else about racial sensitivity.
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