The same racist rhetoric that emanated from the extremists in the Republican Party continues….and it will be to the detriment of the GOP — another shellacking in the presidential election. Social conservative wingnut Ralph Reed compared President Obama to the late segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Um, so much for the GOP’s minority outreach.

“Fifty years ago George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door and said that African-Americans couldn’t come in,” said Reed, the founder of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, in response to the Department of Justice’s attempt to block Louisiana’s school voucher program. “Today, the Obama administration stands in that same door and says those children can’t leave. It was wrong then and it was wrong now and we say to President Obama, ‘Let those children go.'”

Remarkably, Reed wasn’t the first speaker at CPAC to compare the Obama administration’s policies to the Jim Crow South.

On Thursday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal made the same comparison in his address to the conference. “We’ve got Eric Holder and the Department of Justice trying to stand in the schoolhouse door,” he said. Source: Mother Jones

To compare President Obama and Eric Holder to a notorious segregation is not only disrespectful. It’s reprehensible. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal also went after Attorney General Eric Holder for trying to “stand in the schoolhouse door” to keep minority students from attending charter schools. That’s a clear allusion to George Wallace, who sparked a “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” protest when he blocked two black students from entering the University of Alabama by standing in the door of the school. What’s lost on Bobby Jindal and Ralph Reed that Eric Holder’s sister-in-law Vivian Malone-Jones was one of the two students George Wallace blocked from entering UAB.

This was cross-posted from The Hinterland Gazette.