A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as good for African-Americans. [An] audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said âFor what? For feeding him and housing him?â
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ThinkProgress spoke with Terry, who sported a Rick Santorum sticker and attended CPAC with a friend who wore a Confederate Flag-emblazoned t-shirt, about his views after the panel. Terry maintained that white people have been âsystematically disenfranchisedâ by federal legislation. When asked by ThinkProgress if heâd accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said âIâd be fine with that.â He also claimed that African-Americans âshould be allowed to vote in Africa,â and that âall the Tea Partiesâ were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.
At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Partyâs roots, to which Terry responded, âI didnât know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.â
But, yeah, a commenter on Daily Kos called George W. Bush a Nazi in 2004, so... both sides do it, right?