There’s always one who wants to argue slavery was good for black people.
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This weekend, during a Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) event, a Towson University student who is a member of the White Student Union defended slavery and advocated for racial segregation.
Scott Terry, 30, said the comments after asking whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. The presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, replied by telling the story of Douglass writing a letter to forgive his former slave master.
What Terry said next was met with audible gasps, but mostly cheers from the crowd.
“For what? For feeding him and housing him?”
Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.
Terry then mumbled this:
“Why can’t we just have segregation?”
ThinkProgress spoke to Terry, who was decked out in a Rick Santorum sticker and attended CPAC with a friend who wore a Confederate Flag-emblazoned t-shirt. He explained how he feels white people have been “systematically disenfranchised” by federal legislation.
When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.
At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.”
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He also claimed to be a direct descendent of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Damn. Wouldn’t be surprised if dude became the new mascot for the GOP!
SOURCE: ThinkProgress
