Jimmy Carter: White Americans cling to ‘feelings of superiority’ toward minorities

Wahington Times ^ | 6/5/15 | http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/5/jimmy-carter-americans-cling-feelings-superiority-/

[Impala64ssa]

Former President Jimmy Carter told AARP Bulletin during a recent interview that many Americans hold “feelings of superiority” toward minorities. Mr. Carter spoke on a range of subjects with the magazine, including campaign spending and lobbyists, but he made a point to say that the U.S. still is lacking in terms of safeguarding civil rights.

“The recent publicity about mistreatment of black people in the judicial and police realm has been a reminder that the dreams of the civil rights movement have not been realized. […] Many Americans still have racist tendencies or feelings of superiority to people of color,” Mr. Carter told AARP Bulletin, The Hill reported Thursday.

The former president added that the politics of the 1970s have changed in such a way that he would not get the level Republican support he enjoyed as the 39th president.

“There was harmony among congressmen when I was there, and I got just as much support from Republicans as I did from Democrats. I can’t imagine myself as a successful candidate today,” Mr. Carter said, The Hill reported.

[Impala64ssa]

The same Jimmah Carter who ran for gov in GA in the 50's on a platform of promising White people they will never have to worry about their kids being in the same schools as Blacks as long as he was governor. Oh, but, like Robert "Sheets" Byrd, he "evolved". BULLSH!T! If he had his way, all those Habitat for Humanity houses he built would have covenants and deed restrictions forbidding their sale to Blacks, Jews or other, as they were called then, undesirables.

[SandRat]

NOPE!!!!!

ONLY TO yOU.

[dp0622]

I didn’t know that. figures. someone let me know when he dies. that will be the next time he’s relevant for a day.
we do owe him a thanks for being so awful Reagan was able to beat him and save the country.

[mountainlion]

Jimmy your feelings of superiority as a politician do represent the general population. I realize you have a head as big as all outdoors so what you say means little to the general public.

[vpintheak]

Project much you sad old leftist?

[Fungi]

Get lost RAT.

[SaveFerris]

I have no use for the words of a man who laid a wreath at the grave of one of the most successful islamic terrorists in the world.

[Dagnabitt]

Come on Father Time and the actuarial tables! - What are you waiting for?

[doc1019]

Great points! ;-)

[JPG]

[TigersEye]

You’re projecting, Jimmuh, I have never had any such feelings.

[Iron Munro]

Typical democrat - He transfers his own personal feelings to others.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
— James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

[tommix2]

What a shallow man.

[Norm Lenhart]

Jimmy, One does not need to apply race to look at Baltalujia, Chicago, Newark or South Central LA to feel superior regardless of what color they are.
It’s no different than a cat being orders of magnitude higher on the food chain than a flea. The Blackest of educated Americans is far superior to the whitest human garbage in all ways. And vice versa.

Culture Jimmy. Not color.

[LonePalm]

Jimmah is forgotten but not gone.

My father always said that he was a good individual that should never, ever have been Governor of Georgia, much less President of the United States.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Da Coyote]

Shove it up your obamahole, Jimmuh.

[usconservative]

The only reason Jimmy "liver pills" Carter feels safe to speak up and make a jackass out of himself is because finally, someone's come along that's a worse President than he was.

Feeling "superior" are you Mr. Carter???

[Falcon4.0]

It's not "Race" Jimmy.
It's "Culture".
One culture still scratches the Earth with sticks.
While other cultures feeds the World.
And the culture that feeds the World is, or was, a "Melting Pot" of Races from all over the World who brought "Skills" and "Ambition" to the culture to make it greater.

[erod]

Funny, I’m a minority and I don’t feel that way.

[gaijin]

Jimmuh made a BIG deal about carrying his own luggage —later it turned out the luggage was EMPTY and he would routinely hand them to the secret service when no cameras were around.

The luggage was a PROP.

THEN:

In his climb up the political ladder he would sometimes DRIVE a short distance out of town, then charter a jet and fly BACK, where he arranged to meet reporters “because of his busy schedule”, the better to appear The Big Cheese.

HE IS A PHONY.