More stupidity from the left - as if it ever ends

Published on September 28, 2005 By Island Dog In Politics

WASHINGTON - The Democratic National Committee yesterday refused to distance itself from Rep. Charles Rangel's comparison of President Bush to an infamous Southern segregationist, Theophilus "Bull" Connor, remarks the Republican National Committee identified as "hate speech" and urged the DNC to repudiate.

Speaking at a town hall meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus last week, Mr. Rangel - a Democrat who has represented Harlem for 35 years - lambasted the president's response to Hurricane Katrina, faulting him in particular for insensitivity toward blacks devastated by the storm. "George Bush is our Bull Connor," the congressman said to an appreciative audience, referring to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner who in 1963 turned fire hoses and attack dogs on blacks demonstrating in favor of equal rights.

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Island Dog

on Sep 28, 2005

Rush had a great response.

That's where the real racism is, folks, with a bunch of white liberal plantation owner elitists believing stories, rumors like this are true. Let me ask you a question. You're down there. You're reporting this, or maybe you're not reporting it. You're watching it on television, and you hear all this. You don't see it. You haven't seen one rape. You haven't seen video of a victim of a rape. You haven't seen video of a victim of a murder. You haven't seen a murder take place. You don't even have cameras inside the Superdome telling us what all we're seeing. We heard horror stories of all that was going on in there, but we didn't see any pictures of that. We just heard the stories and we saw these people streaming out of there after awhile. Somebody tells you all this is going on. How many white liberals do you think said, "I don't believe those people are capable of that?" How much doubt do you think there was on the part of white liberals? No, there was excitement, folks! I am telling you there was glee. There was happiness this was happening, because this allows them to continue to point the finger of racism at Bush and Republicans. "Yeah, they don't care. Republicans have set this circumstance up. Republicans have kept these people poor. It's understandable they would be acting this way in the Superdome. Bush has made them this way. The Republicans, conservatives, have made them this way all these years."

That's the underlying thought that allows this story to happen. That is the mind-set that allows it to happen. "Oh, yeah, these people are capable of this, but it's not their fault. They're frustrated after 60 years of being ignored, 60 years of being forgotten, 60 years of being discriminated against, and it's all the Republicans' fault. Who can blame them for acting this way?" That's the mind-set. That is the template that white elitist liberals have when they hear that this is going on, even though they haven't seen it. They've got no proof, have no pictures, but they believed it. You have to ask why. You have to ask why -- and I just did, and I'll tell you now you've got Rangel out there furthering all this, and yet it didn't happen, Chuck. There were no Bull Connor tactics being used in New Orleans, and of course the white liberals will look around and they'll believe all these stories because, yeah, the Republicans have led these people to this life of frustration and dismal gloom and doom. Well, the Democrats have been running this state 60 years. The Democrats been running that city for just as long, so I don't know where the curiosity is. Yes, I do. There isn't any. There isn't any curiosity at all. So...

"A spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, Amaya Smith, responded: 'I think the bigger issue here that the RNC is not addressing is that the president and his administration - that their policies made life harder for African-Americans. And not just African-Americans, but working Americans around the country as well.' When asked whether the [Democratic National] committee repudiated Mr. Rangel's comments or stood by them, Ms. Smith declined to comment, referring the Sun to her previous statement." Well, this previous statement kind of proves what I just said. "The bigger issue here is the RNC is not addressing that the president and his administration and their policies have made life harder for African-Americans." So you see what they did? Whatever it was that they did that we know now they didn't do, but whatever it was they did at the Superdome and the convention center, it's President Bush's fault. Their policies have driven them to this, folks. It's the underlying theory, and so the DNC refuses to repudiate Rangel. You tell me these people are not cracking up? You think they're not imploding? "Support for Mr. Rangel's comparison was explicit among Democratic leaders in New York City as the party's nominee for mayor, Fernando Ferrer, weighed in. 'George W. Bush and the conservative Republican policies he champions have consistently hurt working people throughout our country and our city.' Rev. Sharpton, also supported Mr. Rangel's Bush-as-Connor comparison. 'I think that the statement clearly says that if there is a person that is a symbol that many blacks organize around and organize against in this generation, it would be Bush - as it was with one generation and Connor,' Rev. Sharpton said. "In that sense I agree with him,' he said of Mr. Rangel. 'Clearly Bush has become that, especially after Katrina,' Rev. Sharpton said. 'We've gone from fire hoses to levees.'"

dharmagrl

on Sep 28, 2005

Rev. Sharpton said. 'We've gone from fire hoses to levees.'"

You know, Al should really STFU. He's nothing but a race and hate monger. he's doesn't actually DO anything but spearate and segregate; he makes the divide between black and white even bigger than it already is.

I don't agree with Rush on a lot of stuff, but I do agree with him on this.

bakerstreet

on Sep 28, 2005

If AL doesn't like the levees, he should go back and talk to the environmentalists that prevented the government from setting up a better system decades ago...

Moderateman

on Sep 28, 2005

the 3 greatest threats to any real understanding to race issues are NOT WHITE.

farrakhan.
Sharpton.
Jackson.

They should open up a law firm and call it hate whitey be us-n-shit.

these are the 3 biggest racist pigs in america.

Rightwinger

on Sep 28, 2005

And Rightwinger stands up and formally salutes dharmagirl.

these are the 3 biggest racist pigs in america.

He executes an about face and salutes Modman, too.

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