Membranophonist’s Ramblings

In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.

The Nation: Justice Sunday Preachers

The current Republican strategy for gaining black American votes: “Don’t let our relationships with arch-racists get in the way of your concern that your cousin might have ’sugar in his tank’!”