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Dan Rather Apologizes for 'Watermelons' Comment (He really meant to say 'Fried Chicken')
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| March 10, 2010
| Goeffrey Dickens
Posted on 03/10/2010 11:29:24 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet
Won’t wash, Rather. You simply reaffirm that Liberals are racist. Always have been.
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:54:15 AM PST
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: TChris
Sorry Dan all your apologies won’t conceal that you be a racist!!
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:54:17 AM PST
by
kenmcg
(uicl)
To: Zakeet; Buckhead
But anyone who knows me personally or knows my professional career would know that race was not on my mind. I beg to differ.
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:55:30 AM PST
by
TankerKC
(Law Enforcement IS Big Government.)
To: Argus
What did he originally say? I’ve been looking but can’t find.
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:55:43 AM PST
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: TChris
I'm sorry people took offense.
Translation: I'm sorry that some people are so deeply racist that they would consider an innocent Texas expression about watermelons to be a racist comment. These people should be ashamed of themselves.
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:56:23 AM PST
by
Deo volente
(January 19, 2010...the Second American Revolution begins, right where it all started!)
To: Argus
But anyone who knows me personally or knows my professional career would know that race was not on my mind. Reporting on the injustices of race was part of the reason I became a reporter. I grew up in segregated Texas on the same side of the tracks as the African American community. At the time, enlightened people called them Negros. Many people called them much worse. When I covered the Civil Rights movement, I saw sheer hatred in ways that still haunt and shock me. For doing my small part in reporting on the South in the 1960s, I was called a traitor to my roots and other names not fit for print. I was threatened with death by people Somebody wake me when he's done typing...
The lady doth protest too much.
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:57:33 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Argus
what does watermelons have to do with Obama? He was raised in whitelandia by his white mother. BTW how did he magically develop that “black” accent?
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:57:42 AM PST
by
hecht
To: freespirited; CatDancer
As much as I hate to give Dan a pass, I, too, don’t care much for the speech police. Additionally, people seem to be so easily ready to take offense.
Maybe when the weather warms up a bit he can join Biden and Obama in the rose garden for a beer— or some watermelon whine.
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:57:43 AM PST
by
green pastures
(Cynicism-- it's not just for breakfast anymore...)
To: Argus
Tone deaf as always, huh Dan?
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:58:35 AM PST
by
TChris
("Hello", the politician lied.)
To: hecht
Steve Dunham was a very bitter child because he felt ostracized by blacks and whites as he grew up.
He couldn’t “appear white”, so he overcompensated and spent his life hating whitey.
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posted on
03/10/2010 11:59:50 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: TankerKC
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posted on
03/10/2010 12:01:15 PM PST
by
Buckhead
To: Pessimist
Well, if that isnt the pot calling the kettle black!”
RACIST!
To: Buckhead
Good one. We have Billy to thank, 'cuz that is 100% authentic.
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posted on
03/10/2010 12:05:36 PM PST
by
TankerKC
(Law Enforcement IS Big Government.)
To: green pastures
To: Argus
Two-Fer
(Even has an Asian theme to throw Tom Hanks into the mix:)
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posted on
03/10/2010 12:07:10 PM PST
by
libertarian27
(Land of the FEE, home of the SHAMED)
To: Argus
He really meant fried chicken AND watermelon.
To: TankerKC; Buckhead
Nice to see you two FReeper legends here.
RD
To: reagandemocrat
Ah, good ol’ Tom T...
:-)
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posted on
03/10/2010 12:19:43 PM PST
by
green pastures
(Cynicism-- it's not just for breakfast anymore...)
To: VRWCmember
I moved to TX 8 years ago from (what I now realize to be) a very racist and hateful part of CA. You know, the part with people in it. Many of the folks around me in CA were quiet and vehement about their racist beliefs and you would never know until an unguarded moment what really dwelled in them folks' hearts. Of course, they never rubbed elbows with black people, except for Steve, the mainframe guy (example), and had no valid reason to hold the beliefs they did, as they were based on ignorance rather than real world experience.
Anyway, having been raised in that environment, and having no real experience with black folks either save for that Ice-T video with the girl shaking her butt, I was entirely unprepared the day I saw a black guy at the side of the road selling watermelons from his pickup. I did a double take, burned a 180, and went back to get a closer look at this rarified specimen. Turns out he is a small farmer in the area. He sells what he grows, and at that point in the season, it was watermelon for sale. He works hard. I restrained myself for asking for a photo of him in front of his truck, (because that would have been awesome!) but I really did open my mind and learn something that day: Liberals from CA are close minded pricks!.
This occured on the road to Bryan, about 40 miles south, almost to highway 290. Apparently he is still there.
To: I Buried My Guns
I have no doubt that farmers sell their produce on the side of the road. In fact, I have seen folks do that out of the bed of their pickup trucks - especially in southern Texas. But I have never heard that expression as Dan Rather put it.
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