Mel Watt has “no use” for whites in the democratic process.
The Daily Caller reports that Obama has nominated Congressman Mel Watt D-NC) will be the nominee to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which regulates the government-sponsored mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
67-year-old Watt, a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, once declared that white Americans should be denied suffrage.
On Oct. 14, 2005, during a Washington hearing held by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act, Watt said:
“There would be a substantial majority of white voters who would say that under no circumstances would they vote for an African American candidate. [The Voting Rights Act should be expanded to] adjust districts to take [racially motivated voting] into account. [Those white voters] “need to be factored out of the equation [because] I’ve got no use for them in the democratic process.”
According to a contemporaneous report of the hearing published by the Cybercast News Service, Watt said that black voters — unlike whites — don’t have “an absolute commitment” to voting for a candidate based on race because “Black people have not had the luxury of being able to say, ‘Under no circumstances will I vote for a white candidate.’”
Belying Watt’s racist assertions, in the 2008 presidential election, an overwhelming 95% of blacks and 43% of whites voted for Obama — the largest share for any Democrat in a two-man race since 1976. Those white Obama voters must be fake white people!
In 2004, Ralph Nader accused Watt of hurling a “racial epithet” at him during a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus who urged Nader, the progressive independent presidential candidate, to suspend his campaign and instead support John Kerry. Nader claimed Watt called him “just another arrogant white man – telling us what we can do – it’s all about your ego – another f–king arrogant white man.”
Watt is the second African-American to be handpicked for a Cabinet position this week, following Charlotte mayor Anthony Foxx’s nomination for Transportation Secretary.
H/t The Federalist
~Eowyn
