Posted on 06/05/2015 4:38:28 PM PDT by 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.
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ROFL
Possibly Admiral Hyman Rickover’s only mistake; accepting Jimmy Carter into the Program.
This sad excuse for an ex-president is embarrassing. He is only slightly "not as bad" as Barak Hussein to have relinquished the title of "worst U.S. president ever."
And he can't make the distinction of "real" inferiority as opposed to celebrating "superiority."
If one can document proven inferiority, there is no shame on noticing it.
Whether it's genetic, environmental, cultural or "other' is a totally different subject.
But it certainly is real!
I wonder how he knows how all Americans feel?
Is he God?
Jimmah is projecting his own bigotry on others as usual.
I lived in Manhattan mostly 81-88 as my home base
I’m better for the experience
Got on well with even lib Jews
But especially Bay Ridge Italians and upstate quasi rednecks and boho Israelis
Irish cops saved my butt once at at 57th and 6th Ave at Christmas rush hour when me and a UC detective came to blows over traffic altercation
I liked it. Got acclimated
As a single guy women there liked my height accent and manners
They would approach me at bars. They all thought I was from Texas. Lol
Mississippi
Life was good
It would be hard now with big family
Tks for kind words
I’m a Staten Island Italian whose parents came straight from Bay Ridge lol.
they can be good and bad. got beat up by enough of my own to know. finally took up boxing and that stopped.
too many wanna be gangsters and tough guys still. hopefully that’s changing.
whoever votes democrat confirms their mental capacity
meanwhile, it’s nice to see jimmah confirming he’s a racist
Revisionist oatmeal! Go back a bit and politicians in this country have been known to beat an opponent with a cane or better yet challenge them to a duel. Bringing back dueling between congressman would, at a minimum, provide good theater, and possibly make them more polite, to paraphrase Heinlein.
Insignificance causes insanity in narcissists...
Caitlyn’s tough to beat, James : howbout a species re-orientation?
Where did Jimma say “White” Americans?
The same Jimmeh who let the Shah be overthrown
I wonder if Jimmuh realizes Asians are minorities.
Why would any whites feel superior to them? They do very well.
It seems Asians are the minority liberals don’t want to talk about.
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I really don’t obsess about being white nor do I obsess about minorities. Only Democrats and other leftists see everything through a racial prism.
Nope.
It’s Black People clinging to their inferiority complex.
Fact is, they can do just as much as the next guy or maybe better but, their thinking limits them.
You have to order your mind, spirit and body, which your soul will then support.
Rickover later disavowed any knowledge of Mister Peanut.
I couldn’t care less about what Carter thinks. The old man is a fool and once he is finally gone, he will not be missed.
Hey Jimma, speak for yourself you Racist Cracker.
“Carter’s foreign policy centered around a promise to make human rights a central concern in the United States’ relations with other countries.”
That quote is from Carter’s bio on this site: http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-carter-9240013#southern-politician
What Carter failed & still fails to understand is that being a ‘humanist or a humanitarian’ is relative, and has a pre-requisite of using one’s brain to project forward & take an educated guess on how matters will develop should you support a fundamentalist muslim cleric with a trackrecord of agitation, inciting hatred, spreading lies, and being a clear megalomanic to realize a very personal ambition to rule.
Now, i would personally accept Carter made a dire mistake in supporting Khomeini, due to his own ignorance.
But the fact that Carter kept absolutely silent when his ‘holy man khomeini’ was killing innocent people on masse in iran, shows Carter’s true character & is/was in direct contradiction of his ‘humanitarian ideal.’
Moreover, to date he has not only not acknowlwdged that he made a grave mistake, but continues to peddle the same line elsewhere with islamists.
The above, IMO, show that being a peanut farmer is not enough to take on the leadership of a key superpower on the global scene.
Regardless of a section of iranians protesting within iran at the time, khomeini & his thugs would have NEVER assumed power had they not had support from Mr Carter. That’s Carter’s true legacy, not to mention that he turned geopolitics in that region upside down and for worse.
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