Yes, Please Immediately Apologize to Every Racist in the South
Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu is not my favorite Democratic senator. Truth be known, on my list of likes she’s somewhere around Tierra Del Fuego.
She ain’t much of a Democrat so I was shocked when I heard her say that the South “has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.” I know that’s pretty much a DUH statement but coming from Landrieu, it’s something.
Well, the minute she said that, the wheels came off hell’s hot rod.
Republicans are calling on Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu to apologize after she suggested Thursday that President Barack Obama’s deep unpopularity in the South is partly tied to race.
The comments came after an NBC reporter asked the senator why Obama has such low approval ratings in Louisiana. Landrieu’s first response was that the president’s energy policies are deeply disliked by residents of the oil and gas-rich state.
She then added, “I’ll be very, very honest with you. The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. It’s been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader.”
Now, to you and me, that’s a pretty tame statement. It’s a fact based on the Civil War, Governor Orval Faubus standing in the school house door, Bull Conner turning the dogs on freedom fighters, Rosa Parks going to jail, Alabama State Troopers standing at the entrance to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the bodies of four little black girls in a Birmingham church, the first bus boycott in Baton Rouge, the voting rights act, and damn Dixie flag still flying in Louisiana.
State Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere issued a statement late Thursday calling Landrieu’s remarks “insulting to me and to every other Louisianian.”
Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal issued a statement calling Landrieu’s comments “remarkably divisive.”
Oh give me a headache and a half. Racism is not divisive but speaking about it is? “The Governor doth protest too much, methinks.”
Now if Landrieu does apologize, I’m going to call her office and make biological sounds into the phone.
Amazing.
Barack Obama has been called everything but a child of god for the last six years. He’s been pictured with bones in his nose, watermelons on the WH lawn, accused of being a Kenyan usurper, a thug, pictured lynched, accused of being dumb and not loving this country; while U.S senators, governors and congressmen alike have accused him of sedition, murder, physical intimidation (Jan Brewer) and crimes against humanity.
So what is the republican standard these days for being a racist—-in their simple minds— its only if someone calls the
man a nigger. Then they whine that black people say it–so why can’t they.
Well . . . .my dreadlocked nineteen year old nephew thinks the north should have salted the confederacy earth and took all the firstborns and educated them in New England. Maybe he
1isn’t wrong.
OK, what part of her base is she actually talking to? No, I seriously doubt she is going to apologize. Why should she? What she said is the truth and you would have to be as senseless as a telephone pole not to know it.
2you are right….mary is not a democrat as i think a democrat should be…..she is however in a red state….and while she doesnt be a democrat all the time she is the right now the ONLY thing partial protecting the people of her state…hopefully she is able to fend off the tea party darling this year
3Sen Landrieu spoke the truth. The “tell” was all the exploding racist heads. Such whining, when the shoe is a perfect fit.
4There’s nothing like a true statement to make the rednecks go nuts, is there??
5the thing these racists maybe hate most is thinking that anyone could possibly think their eeewonderful selves could be racist
They don’t feel they are other than upright and honorable and anyone who tries to shake their faith is a horrible nasty unperson and should just shut up and go die.
6Racism? 1 minute into this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1gMtc81CE
7She’ll probably be happy to take your call JJ, even if it consists solely of varied biological sounds. It’ll be a heck of lot more intelligible (and intelligent) than the cascade of geological sounds coming from the Republican side.
8Judging by the number of campaign commercials I have seen lately, Barack Obama is running for multiple seats in the state house, state senate, congress and Governor. But his skin color has NOTHING to do with that.
9Since it is TRUE, no need for an apology.
10Give Landrieu courage. I can’t imagine living in the deep deep south; Texas is challenging enough.
11Whenever a Democrat speaks the truth, Republicans and racists lose their shit. So to speak.
12It’s racist to mention racism, just like it’s class warfare to mention that 85 people have more money than 50% of humanity and those numbers keep getting more skewed all the time.
Speaking of which, did y’all know that the number of Billionaires in the world has doubled since 2009 (yes, during the biggest financial slowdown since the Great Depression) and that it would take the richest man in the world 220 years to spend his money at the rate of $1,000,000 a DAY?
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/29/oxfam-report-220-years-richest-man-spend-wealth
I can’t imagine what they want with that much money, but they got it and they sure as hell gon’ keep it.
13Calm down, folks! With Republicans, racism is just like sex.
14You can DO it… but don’t TALK about it!
Truth hurts the republicans all the time.
15Any apology should be for saying the truth so meekly.
16@Ralph Wiggam: +1
17According to Ben Stein, Obama is the most racist president in the history of this nation. Even more racist than 12 other presidents that actually owned slaves at some point in their lives. She needs to apologize to her constituents for being so wrong about the history of racism.
18http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/ben-stein-calls-obama-most-racist
“Now if Landrieu does apologize, I’m going to call her office and make biological sounds into the phone.”
Damn, I do love your style.
19I hope Landrieu does not apologize. I just looked at her Twitter feed; she’s tweeted nothing about it.
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