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No, numbnuts. Japan and China. I'm assuming that's what you referring to, anyway.
I just trimmed my pubes!Leave a comment:
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Oh, I forgot, Russia isn't in Asia. Whoops you're right, being in Hong Knog and all, you'd know better.Originally posted by einhander View PostLeave a comment:
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Originally posted by mrsleeve View PostSo, in one one side of the coin, these types of racial commentary deserve no response in politics, but on the other, in entertainment, they need to supercede the news about the conflict and potential war brewing in Asia/Europe?Gov. Bryant, in a statement, said: “Those types of inflammatory statements don’t deserve a response.”
With all going on in Russia, sure looks like the Obama Administration is showing some of his flexibility and control of the media narrative as promised.Leave a comment:
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Right?Originally posted by BraveUlysses View Post
Jackson suggests welfare has been worse than slavery
BY MARKUS SCHMIDT Richmond Times-Dispatch | Updated 9 months ago
At a Juneteenth event in Newport News, E.W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, said slavery did not destroy black families, but government welfare programs launched in the 1960s caused them to deteriorate.
Speaking before a small crowd Wednesday at King-Lincoln Park, not too far from where the first African slaves entered the Colonies, Jackson referred to his great-grandparents, who were slaves and sharecroppers in Orange County.
“I am a direct descendent of slaves. My grandfather was born there to a father and a mother who had been slaves. And by the way, their family was more intact than the black family is today,” Jackson said.
“I’m telling you that slavery did not destroy the black family, even though it certainly was an attack on the black family. It made it difficult,” he said.
Juneteenth marks the day in June 1865 when enslaved blacks in Texas learned that the Civil War was over and that the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect.
Democrats began circulating a video of Jackson’s speech late Wednesday.
“The Cuccinelli-Jackson-Obenshain ticket cannot go a week without dividing and offending Virginians with their extreme rhetoric,” said Charniele Herring, chairman of the Virginia Democratic Party.
“This Republican ticket’s preoccupation with comparing things to slavery is insulting, as is E.W. Jackson’s dangerous suggestion that legislation in the 1960s was somehow worse for African-American families than slavery,” Herring said.
Jackson claims that new welfare programs created in the 1960s caused the deterioration of black families.
“The program that began to tell women, ‘You don’t need a man in the home, the government will take care of you,’ (and) that began to tell men, ‘You don’t need to be in the home, the government will take care of this woman and will take care of these children,’ ” he said.
Jackson was referring to the Food Stamp Act of 1964, which attempted to address the nation’s problem of hunger by providing another means-tested program for the poor, the disabled and single-parent households, in the form of food stamps.
“In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families,” Jackson said. “By now, by this time, we only have 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families with a married man and woman raising those children. It wasn’t slavery that did that, it was government that did that, trying to solve problems that only God can solve, and that only we as human beings can solve,” he said.
Shawn Utsey, chairman of the Department of African-American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, said Jackson may not have been far off the mark with his assessment of the relative impact of slavery on families, but that he was oversimplifying things for political purposes.
“There is some merit in what he was saying about the resilience of blacks during and after slavery,” Utsey said. “However, it is difficult to transpose a contemporary definition of a family unit back in time and apply it to a group of people for whom that definition didn’t exist.”
A mother and father and husband and wife were not a reality under slavery, Utsey said.
“So it’s suspect to take the definition of a family of today, a mother and father who are in a long-term relationship and raise children, and apply that retroactively to make an argument,” he said.
mschmidt@timesdispatch.com
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^You are reading it with the wrong eyes, He is saying everyone is becoming slaves to the government, and if you can't see that, your Stephen Colbert glasses are on too tight.Leave a comment:
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Why does it matter how "hard he works"? It has nothing to do with making outright racist statements.Originally posted by Farbin Kaiber View Post
Nor does it matter where I'm from (ps you're still a 'coastie').
It's not a screw up on phrasing when someone 'wonders out loud' about whether or not the descendents of slaves are better off now than they were during slavery.
He doubled down on it today so I guess you've got that going for you:
In a press conference Thursday, Bundy defended and repeated his comments but emphasized he was merely "wondering" whether African-Americans were better off as slaves.
"And that's a question I put before the world: Are they better, or were they better then? I'm not saying I thought they should be slaves, or I wasn't even saying they was (sic) better off; I'm wondering if they're better off," he said.
Bundy said he questions whether those living under government subsidies are living as slaves to the state, but denied he held racist views.
"I might not have a very big word base or vocabulary, I guess, but let me tell you something: When I say slavery, I mean slavery...Slavery is about when you take away choices from people, and where you have forced labor," he said. "You think that's what I'm about, America? If it is, you're sure wrong, because I don't believe in any type of that stuff."Leave a comment:
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It's OK, I wouldn't expect a Coastie to understand how people actually work in the heart of the country, you are digging too deeply into his limited vocabulary. I bet I could find 100 examples of Barack Obama screwing the pooch when it comes to phrasing.Originally posted by BraveUlysses View Post
And, it looks like clever editing, akin to the Breitbart/Shirley Sherrod debacle.
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That was a good one, made me laugh. It's much closer to a strawman than any of my comments, however.Originally posted by BraveUlysses View PostLeave a comment:
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