Pope Center Wants To Sandblast the Color Out of NC Higher Education

A North Carolina right-wing "think tank" (if "thinking" means "maintaining ideological purity"), connected to You Know Who, has issued a report on the University of North Carolina that strongly suggests that a retreat from all this confusing multiculturalism will save the country, or at least save rich white privilege.

Evidently, "western civilization" is the only civilization, and the only literature/history/political thought that should count is Anglo-Saxon in origin.

Just more racial politics. Maybe they should get Don Yelton as Dean of General Education. I hear he might be available.

Too Much Honesty Can Get Your Ass Fired

Soon after Don Yelton's hair-raising appearance on The Daily Show (see video down-column), Doug Clark in the Greensboro News & Record praised him (in a back-handed sort of way) as "the most honest Republican in North Carolina."

Why? Because Mr. Yelton, until yesterday a member of the Buncombe County Republican Executive Committee, told the truth about the real motives behind the new voter suppression law passed this summer by the new Republican majority in the NC General Assembly. Said Mr. Yelton, North Carolina's new voter ID law "is going to kick the Democrats in the butt."

Both the Buncombe County Republican Party and the NC Republican Party fell all over themselves calling for Mr. Yelton's prompt resignation as a Buncombe precinct chair. He had pulled the white sheet a little too far back to reveal the contemporary Republican Party in the modern South, and though a majority of Republicans agree with Mr. Yelton's opinions, his blabber-mouthing their strategy all over Comedy Central was a definite no-no.

Sort of like Watauga Republican Party Chair Anne Marie Yates blabbing to the Watauga Democrat newspaper about how the local Board of Elections was planning to play hardball over the college student vote. So far, Yates still has her job. That's the big difference.

POSTSCRIPT
The refreshingly honest Mr. Yelton doubled-down in an interview with Jake Frankel in the Mountain XPress:

"The comments that were made, that I said, I stand behind them. I believe them." 

The short interview clips were edited together from a much longer two-hour sit-down, says Yelton. But he says he was pleased overall with the parts that were included. In fact, he notes that some of the comments he made that weren't included might've even been more controversial. "To tell you the truth, there were a lot of things I said that they could've made sound worse than what they put up." He adds, "I would've loved to been able to do it live. … But that wasn't offered."

Emphasis added. The man's proud of himself.

Don Yelton live. Boggles the mind.

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Asheville Will Be on The Daily Show

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We're told that the segment filmed recently in Asheville by "The Daily Show" regular Aasif Mandvi and focusing on voter suppression in North Carolina will be broadcast Oct. 23rd or Oct. 24th, and it will feature an interview with Buncombe County conservative Don Yelton. Yelton is already suspicious that he will be made to look "racist."

One wonders why he would think that. He knows what he said. If he's ever watched The Daily Show, he should know that if he said anything outrageous or stupid or "racist," it'll get major play.

The Buncombe GOP is even more factionalized and poisonous than the Watauga GOP. Yelton is part of the Tea Party wing, and he was kicked out of the regular Buncombe Republican Party last year. He's been some sort of local talk show host and enjoys describing himself as the "Rush Limbaugh of Western North Carolina."

You wouldn't expect the Rush Limbaugh of Western North Carolina to say something "racist," now would you?

Yelton has run repeatedly and unsuccessfully for public office. Apparently, he can't resist a TV camera or any opportunity to be in the spotlight.