Posted on 09/16/2009 1:14:08 PM PDT by pissant
The media should investigate the racial views of conservative activists like the ones who descended on Washington last weekend, one liberal congresswoman said Wednesday.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said that it's not enough for African-Americans to levy allegations of racism against the right-leaning protesters, and that the media must look into their views.
"I want those people talked to; I want them interviewed," Waters told the liberal Bill Press Radio show in a podcast. "I want journalists to be all over those rallies and the marches with the birthers and the teabaggers."
"What I'm looking for is the very people who carry the signs who are referring to the policies in very, very strange ways like 'Obamacare' and 'Barry Obamacare with Kennedy,'" she said. "What I've been interested in is hearing from those people that everybody's referring to -- everybody on the Mall, in the rally."
Tens of thousands of conservative activists took to the National Mall last weekend to protest the Obama administration, specifically its stance on healthcare reform. Examples of incendiary rhetoric touching on racial overtones from some protesters have emerged on blogs in the days since the rally.
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Some our servants need to EXTRACTED out of congress by the scruff of their necks if necessary.
somebody needs to tell maxine the race card expired last november.......that trick won’t work anymore.
Maxine’s level of hatred is hard to match by other race baiters. She literally spews hate and venom toward conservatives.
Another amateur proctologist.
If so, you, Maxine and those in your district are the most ardent racists in the country, and that is where any investigation should start.!!!!
I was posting a suggestion for what to say to the reporters interviewing the Tea Partiers.
Maxine, dearie, you are the top of the list of whom I think of when I think of how much I disrespect a black person.
I lived in Los Angeles many years ago, and you have not improved one single thing for your “constituents”.
You and Mayor Bradley triggered the riots that got Reginald Denny beaten nearly to death.
You held up funding for Katrina victims until you got “$1000 each for your constituents” funded into that bill. Where did that money go? Did all the voting residents in your district get a check for $1000???
Why isn’t Watts rebuilt- over 33 years later???
Because no insurance company will write a policy for folls who would rather burn down the companies who serve them instead of getting an education and getting a job.
You have been the Representative in Congress for a great number of years for that district, and it is worse then when you got first elected.
Come and interview me, you hag. Just you try it !!
yeah, probe all 1.7 million of them (according to University of Indiana computer extrapolation today on Limbaugh show).
hehe
Aunt Esther is the one who needs investigated. I wonder how many underage hookers from El Salvador she’s helped smuggle into the country.
Maybe they could even agree on a headcount.
While you're at it, ask Barry, Charley and Maxine some REAL questions.
Some more of the “get in their faces” crowd is heard from.
Headline - Waters DEMANDS investigations into racist teabaggers.
What? What did I say?
Ha, I was teasing. To Maxine, pretty much everything is racist.
Waters’ political rhetoric is often demagogic. In 2001 she depicted the retiring moderate Republican Mayor of Los Angeles, Richard Riordan, as a “plantation owner.” On another occasion, while addressing the allegedly pervasive problem of police brutality against African Americans, Waters said that she had never seen Los Angeles police officers abuse “little white boys.”
During the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the infamous 1992 Rodney King trial, Waters described the violence (in which 58 people were killed) as “a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice.” She held “economic, social, cultural and political” factors responsible for the disorder.[1] She dismissed the mass black looting of Korean-owned stores by saying: “There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes…. They are not crooks.” Chanting the radical slogan “No justice, no peace,” she attributed the rioters’ underlying rage to the federal government’s allegedly longstanding “neglect” of America’s inner cities.[2]
Waters further asserted that racial injustice was rampant in America. She claimed that the L.A. tumult could rightly be called a “rebellion” or “insurrection,” but not a riot. “Riot implies to me wild, crazed, uncalled-for actions,” she explained, “and I’m not so sure that’s quite appropriate for what took place in Los Angeles.”[3] It was “unfortunate,” she said, “that “it takes things like this rebellion to wake people up.”[4]
Waters co-sponsored Rep. John Conyers’ bill calling for reparations for slavery to be paid to African Americans.
Waters blames illicit drugs for the rampant crime that plagues her congressional district, and she has blamed the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the presence of those drugs. In the 1980s she accused the CIA of selling crack in black neighborhoods. However, the San Jose Mercury-News eventually retracted the story on which Waters had based her allegations for lack of evidence. Undeterred, Waters told the Los Angeles Times in 1997: “It doesn’t matter whether the CIA delivered the kilo of cocaine themselves or turned their back on it to let somebody else do it. They’re guilty just the same.”
Waters has traveled several times to Cuba, where she praised dictator Fidel Castro and called for an end to the U.S. trade embargo against the Castro government. In a letter to Castro (quoted during an October 2, 1998 newscast on Radio Havana), she wrote that Castro had a perfect right to grant “political asylum” to U.S. citizens fleeing “political persecution.”
Thus the term "Racer".
You can't call them servants! That's RACIST!
Racist? Well, does a black politician who supports Obama who openly says “He looks like me” qualify as racist? Nah, we all know that charges of racism are nothing more than disguised political opportunism.
Let’s stop letting the charge of “racist” sting us. It’s rendered meaningless is this contemporary political environment.
I WOULD NOT EVEN WITH YOURS!!!
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