Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot

Jewish World Review ^ | June 1, 2006 | Julia Gorin

[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.

[M. Espinola]

Carter also sold out the Shah knowing damn well raving 7th century Shi'ite Islamic madmen would seize Iran huge oil reserves - for the purpose of expanding global jihad.

[Sabramerican]

Has anyone read the entire piece?

The point is that there was this story. Was it true? Who knows?

At first instance it would seem that the saintly Nobel Prize winner, builder of homes -ignore lover of all of America's enemies- would never have said any such thing.

BUT

History proves he did use racism against Blacks in his campaigns so his using "N" might have happened. And with his "strange" attitude towards Israel maybe he used KIKE too.

Bottom line is that in his views towards Israel he fits those who would use the term Kike.

It doesn't matter whether he used it, he shares the bigotry with those who would.

The piece is a condemnation of what Carter does and what he says today not what he might have said in that bar.

[cyborg]

Jimmuh is ten times worse than Toon.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Fake, but accurate.

[gogogodzilla]

Yeah... I've been telling myself the same thing for the last year or so.

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Democrats acting like Islamists, Communists, and Nazis.

And Republicans acting like Democrats.

[eddie willers]

Actually, that would probably be typical white Georgian language in 1975

Kiss my ass.

[eddie willers]

I think that there's a matter of sematics involved here, because I was born and have lived most of my life in the South and I've never heard a Southerner use the perjorative "kike". I've only heard it on Hollywood movies like "Porky's". And the perjorative "nigger" would get you a good spanking as a child because only trash talked like that. "Colored" was the name I first heard (see NAACP), and "black" or "Afro-American" came in during the 1960s. Jimmuh is despicable beyond words and quite possibly our worst president, but I really don't believe even ol' Jimmuh would cut loose and talk trash in a New York state cafe.

On my mama's grave, I swear every word you said is true.

Kike?.....not a chance.

[xJones]

Actually, that would probably be typical white Georgian language in 1975. I knew a white guy from Louisiana in the early 90's, and he talked the same way, as if it was perfectly normal and everyone did it.

You knew one white guy from Louisiana that said "kike" and "nigger", and you assume he was a typical Southerner. The perjorative "nigger" was trash talk, and if he used the perjorative "kike" he must learned from Yankees.

And BTW, narby, you can kiss my ass after you finish kissing eddie's.

[narby]

A little testy guys?

I don't know how old you are, but I suggest that you pay attention that I used the words "probably" and "1975". People's attitudes change with time, and if you're old enough to remember those days I suggest that you're wearing rose colored glasses.

If I'm wrong, then it was probably because by 1975 things had changed. Perhaps I should have said 1960. My family came from Ga. a long time ago, so I'm not totally ignorant about Southerners.

Ideas of what's right and wrong change. The word "colored", when spoken by a white person today is considered impolite. Yet that was the "polite" word back then. What it wasn't was the common word used by virtually everybody, at one time or another, before it became a virtual cardinal sin to use it.

That's the major difference. The "N" word, while impolite back then, just wasn't a big deal with anyone. Claiming otherwise is historical revisionism.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"Do you mean that George McGovern wasn't reason enough?"

I wasn't old enough to vote in '72, and in those days I was a liberal high school/college student like many in that era. Carter "converted" me, so to speak. He was the wake-up call.

[eddie willers]

I don't know how old you are

Born at Emory Hospital near Atlanta in 1952 and the only time I had my mouth washed out with soap was when I said "nigger" in front of my mother at age 5.

My family came from Ga. a long time ago, so I'm not totally ignorant about Southerners.

Says something about your family....that's all.

[RWGuy]

I think the important part of the story is that Carter has a miserable record in standing up for American security interests.

He was bad while President, and gotten worse since. He seems like on a mission to redeem himself by proving that American foreign policy is wrong and that he was on the right track while President.

Unfortunately for him, history will show that he was a dunce President and that Reagan is the hero of the 20th Century.

[M. Espinola]

"Unfortunately for him, history will show that he was a dunce President and that Reagan is the hero of the 20th Century."

Bingo! Right on target.

[television is just wrong]

All of you need to buy the book, "The Real Jimmy Carter."

He just keeps reinventing himself.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

All of you need to buy the book, "The Real Jimmy Carter."

Thanks for the tip.

All of me will buy that book ; )

[kcvl]

I find Carter to be a disgrace in every other way, but I don't buy this. As a former governor of a Southern state, he should be quite sensitive regarding the use of such language.

Like Bill Clinton was?! I know for a fact that Bill Clinton talked like that!

[BobS]

The 'N-word" has outlasted it's impression around here. It's old. I'm your local white dude. Black dudes are marrying white women. White dudes are drooling a river over very attractive black sweethearts. Chatsworth, CA gets very quiet at night for some unknown reason.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

I know for a fact that Bill Clinton talked like that!

I don't doubt it for a second.

But please, give us details!

[Zack Nguyen]

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...

I don't care for Jimmy Carter or his new book, but printing a story heard second hand is irresponsible. Especially a story of this nature.

[kcvl]

The details are nothing that you haven't heard before. Just wait until Hillary runs for President if you want to hear a filthy mouth (not that it will be reported). She is worse than Bill Clinton!