Ouch! Cynthia R. Greenlee: Dear Thom: I hope I can call you Thom; you may certainly call me Cynthia. Given the circumstances—given how far the policies youve supported since becoming Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives have reached into my home and even my vagina—I feel we are on intimate terms that make surnames superfluous. In your 2012 comments to Carolina Business Review, unearthed by TPM last week, you talked about how Republicans need to reach out to communities of color, the type of GOP hand-wringing weve heard since Mitt Romney went down in flames. I believe your specific comment was this: The traditional population of North Carolina and the United States is more or less stable. It’s not growing. The African American population is roughly growing but the Hispanic population and the other immigrant populations are growing in significant numbers. We’ve got to resonate with those future voters. Daniel Keylin, your helpful spokesperson, clarified what you meant by traditional: “‘Traditional North Carolinians’ refers to North Carolinians who have been here for a few generations. A lot of the state’s recent population growth is from people who move from other states to live, work, and settle down in North Carolina. Thom Tillis, [who moved his family to North Carolina from Virginia in 1998], for example.” Nice try, but your comments to CBR specifically excluded African Americans from your definition of “traditional North Carolinians.” Your narrow and racialized definition of North Carolina-ity—to coin a phrase—neatly cuts out about 20 percent of the states people, people you purport to represent.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:00:53 +0000
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