2006-09-21 Black GOP Groups Woo Mfume, Blast Democrats to Back Steele

2006-09-21 \right-wing lies\Michael S. Steele\neocon reality inversion\National Black Republican Association\US Republican Party\US Democratic Party http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092100735.html Black GOP Groups Woo Mfume, Blast Democrats to Back Steele &ldquo;...radio advertisement targeting African American listeners that was sponsored by the Washington-based National Black Republican Association. The ad identifies Martin Luther King Jr. as a Republican and pins the founding of the Ku Klux Klan on Democrats. .. One woman says: "Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan." .. "The Klan?" her friend replies. "White hoods and sheets?" .. First woman: "Democrats fought all civil rights legislation from the 1860s to the 1960s. Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks." .. Second woman: "Seriously?" .. The ad says that "Democrats want to keep us poor while voting ONLY Democrat" and, "Democrats have bamboozled blacks." .. In an interview yesterday, Steele said he had not heard the 60-second spot but said he generally does not oppose Republican efforts to assert their "real place in history." Today, though, his campaign released a statement blasting the ad.&rdquo;   