Why are South Carolina Republicans playing plantation dress-up?
FITS News, via Ben smith: “The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) held its annual fall Board of Directors meeting in Charleston, S.C. last weekend – a decision the organization is likely regretting after several controversial pictures from one of the meeting’s sponsored events began surfacing on the Internet. One of the pictures shows S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell – who FITS readers will recall enjoys dressing up as a Confederate General – posing in his Rebel garb with a pair of African-Americans dressed in, um, ‘antebellum’ attire. The event in question – dubbed ‘The Southern Experience’ – was held last Friday evening at the Country Club of Charleston. Hosted by the South Carolina Federation of Republican Women, it was included on the national conference’s official itinerary.” http://bit.ly/auhcHu President Obama today addressed the nation’s schoolchildren to mark the new school year. After last year’s speech, Jim Greer, then the Florida GOP chairman, made waves by
