*Colin Powell went in on his own Republican Party during an interview on “Meet the Press” Sunday, calling out some “former governors” as using racist statements to describe President Obama and noting that there is a “dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party.”
“What do I mean by that?,” he explained. “What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.”
Powell specifically pointed to October 2012 comments by former Alaska Gov. and Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin on the attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
“When I see a former governor say that the president is ‘shuckin’ and jivin’ — that’s a racial-era slave term,” Powell said, referring to Palin’s words on Obama’s response.
He also brought up another “former governor” who described President Obama’s as “lazy” during his first 2012 presidential campaign debate with Mitt Romney. Powell told host David Gregory that the word “may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African Americans, the second word is ‘shiftless’ and then there’s a third word that goes along with it,” when racists describe African Americans.
Powell added that Republicans had become too preoccupied with the candidate-selection process, losing sight of the group’s overall message.
“You’ve got to think first about what’s the party actually going to represent,” Powell said. “If it’s just going to represent the far right wing of the political spectrum, I think the party is in difficulty. I’m a moderate, but I’m still a Republican.
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