January 28, 1999 Congessional Black Caucus Letter to J.C. Watts
on Republican Connection to the Council of Conservative Citizens
January 28, 1999
http://www.jessejacksonjr.org/query/creadpr.cgi?id=%22000443%22
The Honorable J.C. Watts, Jr., Chairman
House Republican Conference
U.S. House of Representatives
1210 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Representative Watts:
We are sure that you are aware of recent newspaper reports in The Washington Post and The
New York Times linking two important and high profile members of your party with a white
supremacist and anti-semitic group, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC).
Representative Bob Barr of Georgia, a member of the House Judiciary Committee and one of
the thirteen managers in the impeachment trial, and Senate Majority Leader, Senator Trent
Lott of Mississippi, were the two named in the various articles. Their linkage to white
supremacist and anti-semitic groups in 1999, and their weak denials, are of great concern
to all Members of Congress and the American people.
Undoubtedly, groups that are exclusionary, anti-Black and anti-semitic are essentially
anti-American. The identification of these high profile Republican leaders with the CCC --
and the CCC's identification with them -- means an identification with the Republican
Party generally. The Republican Party does not need an identification with a new CCC that
is reminiscent of an old KKK. That not only represents a danger for the Republican Party,
it represents a danger and is a moral affront to America.
As the recently elected Chairman of the Republican Conference, your colleagues and the
nation look to you for leadership and direction. Thus, we urge you to insure that the
Republican Party, its leaders and all of its members clearly and publicly distance
themselves from the CCC and any other white supremacist, anti-semitic or hate groups.
Sincerely,
Members of Congress
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)
Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX)
Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
Gregory Meeks (D-NY)
William Clay (D-MO)
Eva Clayton (D-NC)
Major Owens (D-NY)
Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
Donald Payne (D-NJ)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH)
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