Charlie Dent Staffer, College Young Republican President Caught Inciting Racial Hatred

Yesterday, a young Democratic friend of mine from Pennsylvania was talking with me about his plans to run for Congress in a few years. Although he's currently working for the federal government in Washington, DC, his roots in his district are strong and deep. In fact, one of the biggest towns in the district, Kutztown, gets its name from his family. That town is also the home of a university and it is conceivable that my friend will one day be running for Congress against, Adam LaDuca the current fired president of that school's College Republicans (who is also the just fired Executive Director of the PA Federation of College Republicans).

The Pennsylvania Progressive has done yeoman's work in helping LaDuca get his Republican message out to everyone in Pennsylvania so that no one is in doubt as to what the College Republicans, both at Kutztown University and throughout the commonwealth, are all about. Let's take a look at some of this year's Facebook postings on the young Republican's site:

From Facebook:  Sunday, July 27, 2008 at 6:41pm
Obama and McCain, what a wonderful matchup for this November, right? Wrong. On the contrary, it features one man of honor and intellect, someone who doesn't care WHAT people think of him (that would be McCain) against a man with nothing more than a dumbass with a pair of lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami (and probably would.)

4:25pm on August 1st, 2008
I'm sure his penis is bigger than mine too? Want to discredit the biological fact that blacks have larger lips than a white boy like me, might as well discredit all of them! :) See, now watch. You will say I am discussing such obscene things (blah blah blah)...it's all in humor

August 1st, 2008
Biologially speaking, the larger set of lips can be traced to a few different areas. First of all, it is to be noted that not ALL blacks have larger lips than whites (just like there are some white who actually have quite large lips.)

So here goes: one is that poorer Africans generally have been found to breastfeed. The placement of the lips on the mother's breast creates a larger lip that separates from the gum more clearly than a white's.

Another thought is that, since thick lips are a dominant phenotype to thin lips and that this genetic trait is found more often in blacks/African Americans.

A third still, is that lips are a type of air conditioning for the body. As warm air passes over the moist lips, the air is cooled before going into the lungs. This helps keep the body cool in general. People with ancestors who had come from warmer climates (such as Africa, Cuba, Central America, and the like) generally have larger lips.

I don't remember the source of number 2. I had learned that in a high school biology class. Number 3 I had read in a Western Kentucky Univ. biology lab.

11:42pm on August 1st, 2008
And man, if sayin someone has large lips is a racial slur, then we're ALL in trouble.

Friday, August 1, 2008 at 3:54pm
I made the comment in a prior note "Juuust the Two of Us..." that Obama had "lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami..."

I have had two people now get cranky at me for it, and while I will not flat out retract the story, let me explain this comment. First, a little history on lips and poking fun at people.

While supposedly seen as an insult, it is biologically, physically obvious that blacks/African Americans have lips, of which are larger than a white cracka's like mine.

How this is taken to be offensive, I would not know. Everyone makes fun of McCain for his age and point that he's as shiny as a queball. That would seem like age discrimination to me. Or what about George Bush's ears being so large he looks like Dumbo (and many times takes on the persona of the name itself.)

That is like saying "that man must be Jewish because of his schnoz." I have friends who are Jewish and poke fun all the time. Who cares? So ya have a big nose, it's who you are. And I wore blocks in my shoes when I was little because I had club feet.

Much like I poked fun at a fellow employee for HIS lips (because he was black.) The gal and guy (respectively) couldn't have cared less. Perhaps it's because we are friends and have a mutual understanding we're just bustin' eachother's chops.

6:23pm Monday, Jan 21
There's a lot that many don't see for MLK Jr's hypocrisy. This is why I listed him as a pariah, a fraud, on my facebook status. He supported affirmative action (which does NOT provide equality), he was an adulterous man (as opposed to his Rev. status!)...and the like...see the next few notes (including this one) for more ideas. He stood for a lot, but he also stood for very little.....

6:31pm Monday, Jan 21
MLK had some interesting ideas, but he promoted themin all the wrong ways, for all the wrong reasons, and while being perhaps one of the largest pariahs in American history.

And all of America has fallen for it. Just like those who believe Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will finally bring together the racial divide in the country. Last time I checked, the reason the racial divide exists is BECAUSE of these two men, the ACLU, and their followers. Just about all of America is not racist. And in human nature, we are all apt to be wary of things (and people) that are different. But to call it, at this point in time, racist, would be a gross misnomer. So if Al and Jesse, the ACLU, and their followers want to change HUMAN NATURE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INCLINATION, they better look a lot farther ahead than raising millions of dollars for their own sick pleasure

Rather than go on with this-- although you can read more of the sexist, homophobic and racist Republican rantings at The Progressive Pennsylvania site-- I'd like the small handful of anti-Obama racists from West Palm Beach to take a look at what they're joining as they march firmly over to the McCain camp. (LaDuca, by the way, is the Kutztown University campaign coordinator for McCain's Pennsylvania campaign... big surprise. It's where racism lives.)


UPDATE: DENT DENIES ANY KNOWLEDGE OF LaDUCA

I called Sean Millan, Charlie Dent's campaign manager, and he categorically denies that Adam LaDuca is a paid staffer and says he's never heard of him. I can't get a comment out of anyone in Dent's DC office.


UPDATE TWO: WHERE DO YOUNG REPUBLICANS GET THIS SICK RACIST MINDSET?

Well... from old Republicans, their mentors and role models, of course. WorldNetDaily is a Republican Party propaganda operation and Craig Smith's feature, "The Hip-Hop President," is one of the most racist Republican tropes of the season.

I can see it now. Air Force One decked out with "22s" and spinners. Maybe even a set of hydraulics. Watching the hip-hop president in the Oval Office with his baseball cap on backward coping a gansta lean in the big chair. Should be really pimp, don't you think? Cool man, real cool. Instead of giving away presidential cuff links to guests, as is the custom, he will offer "bling bling."

I imagine a whole group of special advisers to the president sitting around the Oval Office discussing policy. Kanye West, 50 Cent and maybe even Eminem (to keep the diversity thing going), all sharing their life experiences with the prez to assist him in understanding his "peeps."

No more press conferences or State of the Union addresses will be necessary. He will text message any comments he has to his public and his pals in the media. When it comes time for the State of the Union, he can just post it on his blog and cc the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post. The first interactive, full-bandwidth prez. How 21st century.

After a few months on the job, he can refer to his cabinet members as his "bitches." Hey don't get angry at me. Take a listen to any hip-hop song, and that is the type of endearing language you will hear. A group of playas that have no respect for the country. The same country that affords them a lifestyle most people only dream of, and all they can do is endlessly complain about it. Barack is very good at putting America down. Just like his hipster homeboys. Remember that hip-hop is a culture, not a color. It's a mind set and a way of life – one that is chosen not inherited. It has been slowly infiltrating every class and race in America for years. A culture that has led people to believe they deserve more. That America somehow owes them something. And because they think they have been ripped off in some fashion, they are angry.

This morning the phone rang at 6:30 AM-- not 3 AM, but still...-- and it was George McElwee, Charlie Dent's chief of staff. He was reading DWT and wanted to let me know that, despite his claims, young Adam LaDuca, doesn't work for the campaign. "I've never heard of him," he claimed. There was no discussion of the racism, homophobia and sexism LaDuca, the Executive Director of the PA Federation of College Republicans, has spent the last year publicly propagating on a Republican website or why Republicans feel that virulent racism is a legitimate part of the political discourse. Maybe that's above his pay-grade and Lehigh Valley residents should ask Charlie Dent about it when they see him.