Posted on 06/01/2006 10:14:41 AM PDT by Sabramerican
Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot
By Julia Gorin
Jimmy Carter has been called everything from a humanitarian, to a crack pot, to the ultimate pacifist. But a look into his past reveals a shoe that fits better than all of these.
It's a story told to me by an acquaintance from Watertown, NY, a place situated way upstate, well north of Syracuse. The acquaintance had heard it from two barflies who were there the night in 1975 that Jimmy Carter passed through town in his first New York appearance during the "250-day 1975 portion of the presidential campaign," as Carter had called it.
The story goes that after giving a speech at the Holiday Inn, Carter stopped by the Rebel Room Tavern, a bar that once existed near the old Woolworth building and catered to southern servicemen based near by. Not knowing that an employee from the local paper was present, Carter joked around with the locals and, as two of those locals related the story to my friend, "every other word out of his mouth was 'nigger' or 'kike.'" But styling itself after The New York Times, the paper didn't print undignified information about candidates it was friendly toward, and the potentially damaging tidbit never made it into print.
At least that's how the story goes.
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That's a big claim for a feller with no link.
I can't stand Clintoon either but facts IS facts.
Too few blacks today realize the War Between the States was more a war between Republican's, who wanted to free the slaves and Southern Democrats who did not.
They are woefully unaware of the events that took place after that war that turned those states into Democratic strongholds and led to very poor treatment of blacks for many generations and the welfare state situation we all viewed during Katrina.
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