It probably is. Figures.
But how've you been, sista? Haven't seen you around in a month of Sundays!
Posted on 12/30/2004 5:16:08 PM PST by hope
Black Caucus Warns Harry Reid The Congressional Black Caucus has told Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., that he crossed the line earlier this month when he called Justice Clarence Thomas "an embarrassment to the Supreme Court." Sen. Reid delivered the personal insult to Thomas during a Dec. 5 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," after host Tim Russert asked him whether he thought the lone black justice was qualified to head the court. "I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court," Reid said, before adding: "I think that his opinions are poorly written. I just don't think that he's done a good job as a Supreme Court justice." With the announcement that the Black Caucus had reprimanded Reid for his attack on Justice Thomas, Rep. Watt becomes the first Democrat to publicly acknowledge that the senator's remarks were racially offensive. Listen to Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter, 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays, WWRL-AM 1600, simulcast on the Web at wwrl1600.com/mainframe.html.
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"We wrote a letter to Sen. Reid cautioning him about his comments," incoming CBC Chairman Mel Watt, D-N.C., told radio host Steve Malzberg, who was filling in Wednesday on Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" show. "I think all of us ought to focus more on substance and less on stereotypes and caricatures," Watt said.
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"I should be expecting similar statements from the CBC about ...Aaron MacGruder?"
It'll never happen...liberal whites think he's hip. Must be that Condi thing.
It probably is. Figures.
But how've you been, sista? Haven't seen you around in a month of Sundays!
(However - what if someone thought he was? How is that racist? If I thought someones opinions were poorly written, how exactly is that about race?)
Because a lot of bigots believe that blacks are inferior. It's a stereotype, an assumption that Reed, by not mentioning any example (especially since most people assume he never read any of CT's opinions) falls for head first. Another reason is that for a good percentage of Supreme Court decisions that lean Conservative are written by CT (the other judges elected to let him write them for good reason, one assumes).
The reason Reed dislikes CT is politics. Even in that vein, he could have criticized Scalia. He didn't. He instead decided to pick on the black guy.
Reid is an embarrassment to Nevada.
Now when the opposition to the dems nominate a bright and well qualified person who happens to be a minority they show their true colors by calling them stupid and unqualified...You can't get anymore racist than that.
Harry Reid
It took them almost a month to come out with the most unapologetic "apology" I've seen since Dan Rather "apologized" to George Bush for using forged memos to smear him. This is about nothing but the CBC telling conservatives to "quit 'cher bitchin'."
Ok, I'm starting to see why you (and others) think he's a racist. But I'm just deeply uncomfortable with calling anyone that based on what we think he was thinking, or based on what we think motivated him. It's the same kind of logic that goes into hate crime legislation, which so many of us are against.
Having said all that, I do understand why you'd think he's racist. I'm just not prepared to say it myself.
I won't argue your point much. But after the way they treated Thomas during his confirmation hearings, something must be up.
If they were fully secure with their base, they would never give him the respect of defending him, especially at the expense of beating up a fairly reliable Dem.
You have great insight. The "Black" political "Sea Change" is now in progress and well underway. Look for the Pubbies to get about 20% of the "Black" vote in 2006.
As the "Black" vote shifts, the Democrat Party will become a permanent "minority" political party. The winds of change are blowing, and you are very perceptive in picking up the tide of the future. The only folks that don't get it are the Democrats. Liberals and the MSM. Mel Watt may be a left-wing, liberal Democrat, but he is not either a fool or an idiot. He sees the handwriting on the wall. I'm sure if you cornered him in private, he would wish that Jesse Jackson, John Conyers, Maxine Waters, Julian Bond would crawl back into the black holes they emerged from.
Translation - "Don't do that!!!!" (Hey...keep it up)
I agree.
Now when the opposition to the dems nominate a bright and well qualified person who happens to be a minority they show their true colors by calling them stupid and unqualified...You can't get anymore racist than that.
Well... what if the Dem truly beleived he was unqualified? I can bet you can find someone most Dems would consider "bright and well qualified", who is staunchly pro-choice. Now, many GOP Senators would consider him (based on his stance on abortion alone) "unqualified" for many positions. Would that make those Senators racist, if the candidate in question happened to be African-American?
Liars.
They did no such thing.
This is cover cuz their constituents are p1ssed.
Yep...that's how Reid's comments struck me. Poorly written?? The Supremes have brilliant clerks do the actual writing--they put down what the Justices think; I bet Judge Thomas has 20 points in IQ over Reid...
A rock would have 20 more IQ points than Reid. Reid strikes me as someone falling off the left end of the bell curve.
One more thing - Cynthia McKinney is back.
She will be a member, and I think they are very concerned about that on a national level.
Not only do they fear Clarence Thomas for his race, but they fear him because he is a man of God and a conservative. Such is bigotry.
That's what I was thinking also.:)
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