This is how a party should deal with its racists/prejudice members in leadership. One should not make excuses for them. One should not defend them. One should not leave them in office to allow them to spread the cancer of hate.
One cannot help but be proud of the Bexar County Democratic Party leaders who voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to remove Chairman Dan Ramos for his behavior and hateful stances. This from the San Antonio Current on March 11th, 2011.
Ramos said he opposes homosexuality on religious grounds and doesn’t believe gay-friendly Democrats like Stonewall reflect the values of Bexar County voters. “I liken them to the Tea Party — the Tea Party and the fucking Nazi Party — because they’re 90 percent white, blue-eyed, and Anglo, and I don’t give a fuck who knows that. Just like the blacks … they’re American, but you can’t get your way just because you’re black.”
Now if the Republicans would handle the racist among them, specifically the preponderance of racists in the Tea Party, we would have a better country.