is upset over allegations that Senator Jeff Sessions called a black attorney “boy” 30 years ago.
Posted on 11/19/2016 12:28:19 PM PST by Trump20162020
Donald Trump’s choice of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, III for U.S. Attorney General is deeply disturbing. Our nation does not need an Attorney General with a history of hostility toward civil rights law, as well as disdain for voting rights activists overseeing civil rights and voting rights enforcement.
Sessions was considered too racist to be a federal judge in the 1980’s. At that time, he was the second nominee in fifty years to be rejected by a U.S. Senate committee. At a critical time in our history when voting rights are in jeopardy and voter suppression has become a principal electoral tool of a major political party, Jeff Sessions is the opposite of what we need to lead the Justice Department.
The United States Senate should reject the nomination of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General and prevent him from attempting to drag our great nation backwards to the 1860’s.
Looks like Jabba the Hutt in drag
A lot of people aren’t even hating “black causes” per se but the hateful group identity politics that they have been coaxed into and had pressed upon them by white lefties who are as white as polar bears. They didn’t have to be particularly odious, no more than the next fellow, until that happened.
Could it be that Sessions had a few rude words for THAT phenomenon. I hope he is mercilessly hard on it today. Please no more “BLMs” that would be hard put to do more to try to say that black lives don’t matter.
Yup
Sen. Bob Byrd was unavailable for comment.
That’s what I heard!
So this is a surprise???
PS..If your Governor, a Democrat, was George Wallace, you have nothing to stand on in this matter. Have a nice day, a$$holes.
RINO’s would withdraw the nomination to keep the peace and to “reach across the aisle” to show good will to these POS Democrats. Trump should tell these malcontents to go pound sand!
Meme to Dems: We won...you lost! Now go and pi$$ off!
My grandfather (born around 1890) was the inventor and patent holder of some significant things such as synthesized rubber and the use of freon for air conditioning - he had his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from CIT and set up a string of chemical plants across Illinois, Ohio and PA with hundreds of employees and associates. He was extremely knowledgeable in many subjects including government and politics.
He was in the habit of making racist comments that were slightly embarrassing back then (in the 60’s and 70’s) but would make your hair curl if you heard them nowadays.
I’m not defending it but times were different, norms were different.
I’m so tired of people dredging up things from the past and using them to judge by today’s standards and sensitivities.
It’s irrelevant that someone owned slaves 250 years ago and it’s irrelevant that someone made a racist comment 30 years ago.
When the Democrats were in control.
“Sessions was considered too racist to be a federal judge in the 1980’s. “
Yes and the perceived stain of that smear back in the 1980’s was new enough to work. It’s been so abused, misused and expected that it’s now as ubiquitous as hot dogs at a baseball game.
Too stupid to warrant a reply.
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Kind of like Republicans in Massachusetts. The Republicans are so out numbered in the legislature, they don’t have enough votes to demand a roll call vote. The Democrats could if they so desired, ram through everything on a voice vote.
I would love for Sessions to lead a charge to repeal all of the civil rights acts of the past 60 years. We don’t need them, in fact, they create divisions within a country and entitlements to those who they are supposed to benefit. Some of the acts which are outrageous and unfair except to a small group are the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, etc.
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