A second racially charged email has emerged on the Internet with links to Virginia Beach Republican Karen Beauchamp, a former GOP leader in Virginia Beach and backer of congressional hopeful Scott Rigell.
In the email - revealed on the liberal blog Blue Virginia - Beauchamp, a former vice chair of the city Republican Party recommends a video titled "Barack Obama the angry negro." In the note, which appears to have been sent on the last day in July, Beauchamp even warns that "the language in a bit strong, but the sentiment is right! We will take America back."
The video - which was removed from Youtube - can be found on the website www.conservativesportsmen.com and it includes a 4 minute diatribe by a man named Grady Warren. Here's some of the quotes that jump out from the video.
"You're an angry negro and you have now broken the hearts of more black Americans than any white man ever could," Warren says. "You have now proven that you are an enemy of the United States."
"You have declared war on the white man in America putting the wants and needs of moochers, leeches, looters and criminals ahead of the producers and the workers of America.
"And we don't want 15 to 20 million illiterate, Mexican and chicanos as our new welfare society living like rats in our neighborhoods," Warren says.
This is the second time in as many days that a racial email has caused a stir in the Republican Party in Virginia Beach, and the second official with links to Rigell's campaign against Democratic freshman Rep. Glenn Nye. David Bartholomew resigned as chairman of the city Republican Party late Wednesday after an email he forwarded about a blackdog applying for welfare was put up on the Internet on Blue Virginia.
Rigell quickly condemned the joke along with a handful of black Republicans and Virginia Republican Party chair Pat Mullins accepted Bartholomew's resignation late Monday.
Here's the text of a release by the Democratic Party of Virginia calling on Rigell to condemn this second email.
"In concert with yesterday's email from Dave Bartholomew, it appears that an ugly pattern is emerging. How many more racist emails have to surface before Scott Rigellwill clean house and disavow this sort of backwards thinking? Rigell choosing to seek counsel and advice from people like Karen Beauchamp is unacceptable and promotes divisiveness. We are calling for the Rigell campaign to remove her from their website and denounce her support."
More details soon.
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