Jeff Frederick Proves The Virginia GOP's Ongoing Racism

Despite the blather by some in the Republican Party that the GOP wants to attract non-whites and minorities, the truth is that the GOP, especially in Virginia, remains a white man's club - women are allowed too so long as they "know their place" and are subservient to men, especially in gynecological matters  - and those few blacks that are used for photo ops are the equivalent of the obsequious house servants of the antebellum South.  Lest we forget this reality, former Republican Party of Virginia chairman, Jeff Frederick, sought to remind us with a bust of spittle flecked batshitery in response to an innocuous tweet by the RNC aimed at blacks.  Blue Virginia looks at the brouhaha.  Here are highlights: 

[Jeff] Frederick [former Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia] is baaack, this time livid that the Republican National Committee (RNC) had the audacity to wish people "Happy Kwanzaa." Admittedly, I find it surprising the RNC would do that, since they're usually all about "War on Christmas" faux outrage, including their principled stance of NOT recognizing others who celebrate non-Christmas holidays this time of year. So it's hilarious to see former RPV chair (and former RNC member) Jeff Frederick going off on the RNC for celebrating a "made up holiday" (after first mocking the RNC, then being accused of racism by a Democrat, who Frederick claims is being a "tool of the hysterical left" - lol). Of course, the fact is that ALL holidays are "made up" by humans, pretty much by definition (e.g., we're humans, we're the ones who come up with culture, religion, custom, whatever). 

As for Kwanzaa, it was created in 1966 "as the first specifically African-American holiday, with the name deriving "from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning 'first fruits of the harvest.'" What on earth is wrong with that is beyond me, but apparently it set off the former chair of the Virginia Republican Party. From the responses on Twitter, it looks like it set off a bunch of other right-wingnuts as well (e.g., one wrote, "@GOP Kwanza. R U kidding? It was started by a communist convicted felon who beat and tortured women.")

Blue Virginia gets it right: ALL holidays - including Christmas and Easter - are made up by humans.  Moreover, the principal Christian holidays are remade versions of older pagan festivals and holidays that were hijacked by the Roman Catholic Church centuries ago.  Nonetheless, in today's white supremacist leaning Virginia GOP, only white Christian originated holidays count.