Charlie Rangel may think tea partiers are racist, wannabe slave-holders who wish the South won the Civil War. But darn it if he can’t help but find them endearing, anyway. That was the 84-year-old Democratic congressman’s excuse when confronted with remarks he made about the Tea Party in 2013. “It is the same group we faced in the South, with those white crackers and the dogs and the police,” he said at the time. The Huffington Post’s Marc Lamont Hill asked Rangel about that description, which many viewed as a racial slur, during an interview on Monday. “I thought that...
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