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Saturday, November 22nd, 2014

Incoming Nevada House speaker: ‘Simple minded darkies’ show ‘lack of gratitude’ to whites

Author:     Scott Kaufman
Source:     The Raw Story
Publication Date:     20 Nov 2014 at 13:42 ET
Link: Incoming Nevada House speaker: ‘Simple minded darkies’ show ‘lack of gratitude’ to whites
Stephan:   I actually have five other similar stories about newly elected Republican politicians, and I chose this one because the Speaker of the House in Nevada is one of the most powerful positions in the state. I think we need to face up to the fact that the Majority Minority Trend is inflaming a level of racism I have not seen since the late 1950s. The linkage of the Republican Party and racism is a subject corporate media won't touch but I think it has become a major factor in American politics.
Ira Hansen Credit: Facebook

Ira Hansen
Credit: Facebook

ira-hansen-facebook-800x430Nevada’s next House speaker is likely to be the most controversial in the state’s history, the Reno News Review reports.

According to the paper — which investigated 13 years’ worth of columns Ira Hansen wrote for the Sparks Tribune — the incoming Speaker of the House has the potential to be the most controversial in the state’s history given his print record of disliking blacks, gays, the state of Israel, most Nevadans, and even his Republican colleagues.

For example, he wrote that he composes his columns beneath a Confederate flag, “in honor and in memory of a great cause and my brave ancestors who fought for that cause.” Hansen devoted columns published around the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. to attacking the civil rights leader, writing that “King’s private life was trashy at best…King Jr. is as low as it gets, a hypocrite, a […]

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