Posts Tagged ‘racial opportunists’
Paterson’s wife implies Obama shows racism »
You never heard of that before, David’s the first African-American governor in the state of New York and he’s being asked to get out of the race. It’s very unusual and it seems very unfair… I never heard of a president asking a governor not to run … so I thought it was very unusual that this would be asked of David and I don’t [...]
A liberal assessment of the 9-12 D.C. rally »
Logically, there is no way I can assess the collective motivations of 70,000 people in Washington, or the tens of thousands of people who showed up at other events across the country. And, in truth, I confess to having an inner Maureen Dowd voice — and not the snarky part of that voice — but the voice that tells me that these protests are [...]
What a NYT columnist heard in Joe Wilson’s »
The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the [...]
Jimmy Carter calls Joe Wilson and ‘the »
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American ... I live in the South, and I’ve seen the South come a long way and I’ve seen the rest of the country that shared the South’s attitude toward minority groups at that [...]
Rep. Hank Johnson’s logical conclusion on Joe »
It did not help the cause of diversity and tolerance with his remarks. If I were a betting man I would say that it instigated more racist sentiment feeling that it's OK, you don't have to bury it now you can bring it out, talk about it fully. And so I guess we'll probably have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again riding through [...]
