CPAC co-sponsor: Nelson Mandela a 'bloodthirsty terrorist'
A recent blog post featured at the site accuses the African National Congress, the nation's ruling party, of waging a 'genocide' against Afrikaners, and pins much of the blame on revered former president Nelson Mandela...
From Mother Jones: Last February, activists pitched a fit when it was announced that, for the second consecutive year, the gay Republican group GOProud would be a cosponsor of Washington’s biggest right-wing confab, the Conservative Political Action Conference. The Heritage Foundation and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) both skipped the event in protest. That came a year after Ryan Sorba, chairman of California Young Americans for Freedom, delivered an epic rant against GOProud at CPAC’s main stage. In July, the American Conservative Union, which puts on the conference every year, bowed to complaints, and in July informed GOProud the group would not be invited back in 2012 (the only other group to receive a disinvite was the John Birch Society).
CPAC isn’t so discerning about the rest of its cosponsors, though. As Right Wing Watch notes, one of the sponsors at February’s conference will be Youth For Western Civilization, a group dedicated to, as the name suggests, preventing the “extinction” of Western Civilization at the hands of multiculturalism. Per its mission statement, the group boasts that, “in spite of the continual assault and hatred it endures from the radical left, we wish to revive the West, rather than see our civilization be sent to the graveyard of history.”
How does that manifest itself? Among other things, the group is a passionate defender of South Africa’s white heritage. A recent blog post featured at the site accuses the African National Congress, the nation’s ruling party, of waging a “genocide” against Afrikaners, and pins much of the blame on revered former president Nelson Mandela.
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