Edwards Predicts Doom for African-American Males ("they'll all be in prison or dead")

FoxNews ^ | 9/28/07 | staff

[teddyballgame]

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said if he wasn’t elected president, the population of African-American males is likely to either wind up in prison or dead.

At an MTV/MySpace.com forum Thursday, Edwards responded to a question about inner-city kids partaking in violence by saying there was no “silver bullet” to fight the problem.

“We start with the president of the United States saying to America, ‘we cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

[wardaddy]

They’re all going to be in prison or dead

and somehow whites must save them....poor blacks , they have no mind and no control over their actions.

only whitey and his guilt can save them

more soft bigotry.....blacks have free effin will same as anyone...if they screw up their culture, it's their fault and they can fix it

[floriduh voter]

He’s asking for federal campaign funds. He’s running out of dough. His wife looks road weary too. But, his hair still looks fabulous!

[eleni121]

Limo lawyer Edwards said if he wasn’t elected president, the population of African-American males is likely to either wind up in prison or dead.

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For sure if he or any Dem is elected.

In their insane desire to bureacratize the world and control humanity with their socialist schemes, Dems have managed to destroy may people’s lives, black or white.

[xzins]

What racist comments by Edwards.

He thinks all black males are in prison or doomed to a violent death.

If the President were to say that, they hand him his head on a platter.

[glock rocks]

‘we cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

So... as a taxpayer, I like prisons. Prisons - good. Predators on the street - bad.

Gawd, it must be heartwrenching to be a liberal. So? ...

[Bogtrotter52]

I have not watched the video yet, just read the article. Please tell me he mentioned how we must “adress the root causes of the problem”. LOL! That is always amusing. Well, if he did not do it this time you can be sure that he has, or that he will at some point. Gotta keep up “they are victims” line going.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Did you see the thread about this from Thursday night?

[ByDesign]

The Breck Girl always manages to astound, don’t he?

He’s gonna be the Lyndon LaRouche of the new millenium.

[xzins]

Nope. You have a link?

[WakeUpAndVote]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903273/posts

[xzins]

Thanks, WUAV.

It is amazing that he said it, but he’ll get a media pass.

A conservative is out of his/her mind to ever get involved in any discussion of race anyplace.

[ripley]

another member of the democrat/communist party proves his superb understanding of the plight of the black man in the racist, segregationist, hateful, bigoted united states.
(what brilliance, what insightfulness, what wide-ranging understanding, what all-encompassing knowledge...)

sarcasm off.

[eaglestar]

I was hearing this on talk radio yesterday and you won’t believe the liberal spin on this. Edwards was directing those comments to George W. Bush and what he is currently doing to African Americans. Now that’s spin.

[cardinal4]

Now that Hitlery is going to give all babies $ 5,000 when they are born,

What? I havent heard this..

[RatsDawg]

Where is Media Matters!

[RatsDawg]

So they mean by the end of Bush’s term all young African Americans will be in jail? If the left is right, then Bush has a long way to go. Can they really be this dis-honest!

This is sick, this goes up there with HSUillarys Plantation remark last year. Remember that?

[Cinnamon]

roflmao that is a classic.

[Cinnamon]

the Dim candidates are sounding like 3rd World politicos more and more. Socialism is seeping from every pore of their disgusting being.

[L.N. Smithee]

“We start with the president of the United States saying to America, ‘we cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

Oh, gawd. And O'Reilly's the racist?

[pleikumud]

He may be right, since black males commit half of all violent crimes in the United States, including killing each other over drugs. Who is to blame? Not whitey, not society, not income inequality, but black parents.