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terrorist group that was lynching
and murdering black people. That
was an outgrowth of the Demo-
cratic Party. FDR put a Klansman
[Hugo Black] on the Supreme
Court, and Democrat in good
standing Bob Byrd [U.S. Senator
Robert Byrd] was a recruiter for
the Klan.
KW: Nonetheless, I still have
the sense that most of the South-
erners who would’ve been
segregationists in the Fifties and
Sixties are now in the Republican
camp.
AC: No, that’s only because lib-
erals say this over and over and
over again to hide the actual his-
tory, which is why I go through
the specifics on the big segrega-
tionists in the United States
Senate, the ones who signed the
Southern Manifesto and the ones
who voted against the 1964 Civil
Rights Act. There’s a panoply of
issues to consider. These were
aggressively-liberal Democrats
who loooooooved big govern-
ment when it came to The New
Deal and Great Society programs.
The first time they objected to the
Federal government doing some-
thing was when it came to civil
rights legislation. This is in stark
contrast to the very few Republi-
cans who voted against the ’64
Civil Rights Act.
KW: Harriet Pakula Teweles
asks: What do you hope will be
people’s reaction to being
“Mugged” by you?
AC: [LOL] I like that! Two
reactions. The main point is: don’t
make the mistake, America, of
voting for Barack Obama who, by
the way, does not come out of the
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American black experience and
everything white Americans feel
guilty about. He’s a Hawaiian
born in 1961. Weirdly enough, the
best thing that ever happened to
black people in the last twenty or
thirty years was the O.J. verdict
because it shut down the white
guilt bank. And white guilt has
never led to anything good. It’s
brought us spiraling crime rates,
mostly with black victims, and a
permanent underclass living in
public housing projects. For
years, liberals cried that “law and
order” and “welfare reform” were
racist code words. Yet, when
Republicans were finally able to
push through tough policies on
crime and welfare which they’d
supported for decades, they were
magnificent successes for the
entire country, but especially for
black people. Release us, and
great things will happen!
KW: Yale grad Tommy Russell
asks: Are you familiar with Dr.
Nina Jablonski and her important
work that helps debunk the myth
of race? Do you feel it’s important
to get past the notion of race as
something that separates us, and
use our understanding of its at
times painful history to move for-
ward as a country, civilization and
world?
AC: I have not heard of her
work, and I have not thought
about the issue in those terms, but
I would say “Yes!” based on the
way it was phrased in the question.
KW: Tommy also asks: As a for-
mer smoker, do you feel a special
kinship with President Obama?
AC: [LOL] Yes, though I think
he’s a little more uptight than most
smokers. We’re usually pretty
relaxed.
KW: Why do you make the
point in the book that he might
have slave trader ancestors?
AC: Because of all our presi-
dents, Obama is the one most
likely to be descended from a slave
trader, since Kenya had a major
slave-trading port, and the Mus-
lims were heavily involved in the
slave trade. Right before The Civil
War, only 8 percent of white peo-
ple
owned
slaves.
Some
plantations would have hundreds
and hundreds of slaves, but the
vast majority of whites didn’t have
any.
KW: Richie the intern asks:
What did you think of how the car-
toon The Boondocks depicted
you?
AC: I’ve at least heard of The
Boondocks. But again, I have no
idea how that was done. I wouldn’t
know all that I do about history, if
I spent my time watching cartoons
and other TV shows. [Chuckles]
KW: Richie was also wondering
what Christian denomination you
are affiliated with.
AC: I don’t really talk about it
much, but I’m a Presbyterian.
KW: Ilene Proctor says: Beware
the Coultergeist! She asks: Why
did you recently say that civil
rights should only be limited to
African-Americans?
AC: Because, historically, that’s
what civil rights were. The
Democrats pretended to care about
black people for about five min-
utes to help their electoral process,
and then civil rights suddenly
became abortion on demand, gay
marriage, rights for the homeless,
etcetera. Frankly, I’d be a little
ticked off if I were black that, after
the legacy of slavery and Jim
Crow, everybody else wants to get
to the head of the parade. Well, no!
Listen, I like white women. I am a
white woman. But we didn’t go
through slavery and Jim Crow.
Knock it off with this stuff!
KW: What inspired you to write
this book?
AC: I was morose that the Era of
Obama has returned us to a period
where everything is racist, every-
one is walking on eggshells, and
you get the moral preening from
white liberals who don’t actually
even know any black people. But,
oh, do they love to get on their
high horses and accuse Republi-
cans of being racist for opposing
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very liberal government policies
and a very liberal Democratic
president. It’s an extension of the
civil rights label being slapped on
gay marriage and abortion. Allow
me to be bi-partisan for a moment,
and love this moment because it
won’t last long. In my last chapter,
among the public officials I men-
tion who I think are spectacular
and unaided by white guilt is the
Democratic Mayor Cory Booker
of Newark. He was Mau-Maued
for not being black enough. He’s
been like Giuliani in Newark. He’s
got to become a Republican.
KW: Kate Newell asks: What do
you think of the use of satire in
getting your views across?
AC: Obviously, I’m a fan of satire.
I’d debate anyone, but it would
have to be the actual person. That
would be my only hesitation about
debating Colbert. If he were play-
ing a character, it wouldn’t really
work. But I’d pretty much debate
anybody. I prefer to debate smart
liberals. I’m not saying this about
Stephen Colbert but, unfortunate-
ly, the most famous liberals
generally aren’t the smartest ones.
I have a list of the smarter liberals
I recommend.
KW: Fellow attorney, fellow
Cornellian and, in his opinion, fel-
low fiction writer Peter Brav says:
Where do I start? I worked really
hard to come up with a question
for you, telling myself that your
act is just an act, that you might
actually help my wheelchair-
bound mother across the street and
not push her into traffic to help
reduce the Medicare deficit,
because I don’t want to risk Kam’s
not making it onto your website’s
short list of seven “Interviewers
Who Are Allowed to Interview
Ann Again.” But I just couldn’t.
AC: [LOL] Read the book,
Peter! You’ll come up with a lot of
questions. I don’t know why liber-
als find it comforting to say this is
an act. If you like saying that,
okay. But it’s an act that apparent-
ly you can’t respond to, and an act
that is intellectual and well thought
out enough that you don’t have a
response to, otherwise you
would.
KW: Peter’s wife, Professor
Janet Brav says: Since things are
not going as well as you might
have hoped for Mitt Romney, with
the benefit of hindsight, whom
would you have preferred to head
the Republican ticket this year?
AC: No, it’s still Romney. And I
don’t think things are going that
badly. I believe the media’s lying. I
think it’s part of their attempted
suppression of the Republican vote
to discourage them by announcing
that the campaign is over.