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Posted on 10/03/2011 12:00:27 PM PDT by roses of sharon
Even as Texas Governor Rick Perry downplays the story of a racist epithet painted on a rock outside a property that he co-leased, black Republicans are not giving him the benefit of the doubt. First came GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who said yesterday that Perry handled the episode in a “very insensitive” way.
And in an interview with TIME on Monday morning, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele also scolded Perry. “It’s very troubling on some many levels, for so many reasons,” Steele said. Steele said questions over when and how clearly the rock had been painted over miss the point:
So I’m going to lease lease a property.....Do you paint over the rock? Or do you just remove the damn thing altogether? So, I’m sorry–my attitude is just remove the rock. That is the ultimate statement for me. Just get rid of the rock. Unless the thing is a damn boulder.
Steele stopped short, however, of impugning Perry personally. “I am not ascribing anything to anyone’s motives or decisions,” he said. He added, however, that he agrees with Cain’s criticism: “I think Herman Cain was right. It does lead one to feel that there was a level of insensitivity about how this would be perceived by the larger community. I’m not just talking about black folks, I’m talking about all folks. You would think that even in the 1980s that there would still be some sense of, ‘Do we really want this on our property? Even though we’re leasing it, still, do you really want that there? And just painting over it?”
At that, Steele, who believes the Republican Party needs to make amends with black voters for its “Southern Strategy,” simply sighed with exasperation.
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...
You think that Cain and Steele would investigate better. Both are looking now like they shoot from the hip.
I wouldn’t blame Perry for restoring the boulder to its historical status at this point, saying that it’s like Huckleberry Finn, a work of a bygone day that reminds us of its commonplaces that are shocking now. Maybe put a little plaque on the rock commenting on it.
whoever said it was right ..The Stupid Party ...
all of them... just a bunch of f’n idiots, no discipline, no brains, no thinking before they speak ... my god
No, he did not. It was never “his property”. Sheesh.
I hope the author is not surprised that a RINO has a problem with Perry. I’m not a Perry fan, but it sure looks like the RINOs and the media are piling on.
If the facts had been as Cain had believed, that wouldn’t have been wrong to criticize, any more than criticizing calling Italians spics and wops. Cain didn’t get the facts right and he unwittingly fed the sharpie Sharptons of the world.
As far as I know, Cain is not a slave and is responsible for the words that come out of his mouth.
I watched him use the word "insensitive" multiple times.
Any use of the word "insensitive" is political correctness.
Herman Cain should be ashamed. And you too.
My feelings exactly!! And Cain can take a hike - he has not done one thing FOR American but him$elf and $tockholders and he wants to lead this country. He must feel somehow he is entitled by throwing his hat in the ring.
Hey Cain - what’s going on in your mind - thinking about a beer submit in the WH and invite Perry? What about those loans your bro is giving out again - we can’t hear you.
Very disappointed in Cain and Steele.
They should have LAUGHED the question off....
AS I posted on another thread...
Suppose you are a Professional Politician...
And someone offers to lease you some land...
And the name of this land is called "Niggerhead"...
Shouldn't some kinda ALARM BELL have gone off in Rick Perry's mind? As in, "No thanks, I'll look for land elsewhere."
Just sayin'
Well at least they didn’t lynch the rock.....
Think about the outrage over that.
did he have this rock displayed on his property or not?
no.
It was not his property and he did not put it there.
(I heard Perry pooped his pants 58 years ago.)
GFY Steele.
Herman Cain doesn't have much experience at this level and he got played.
He hasn't struck out, not yet, but one or two more of these and, like Bachmann, he's a fallen star.
Michael Steele, otoh, was, is, and always will be, a fool.
Agreed.
That’s true, it’s not the “sensitivity” alley we want America to be going down, because that puts it hostage to any malcontent regardless of reason. “Niggerhead” isn’t “appropriate” today. “Nigger” always was a pejorative upon the objective word “Negro.” The reason that Mark Twain peppered his work so with the word was to rouse the disgust of his readers at large at a rightfully disgusting situation. People are creations of God, made by God in God’s image in a way that no animal is, and we indirectly slander God by tossing around inappropriate epithets about people, even evil people.
Perry could put this to bed real fast.
This incident happened in the 80’s when Perry was a democrat. It didn’t seem to be a problem back then. So when he was a dimrat, it was perfectly fine.
What crap! He just did, immedieately before saying this, then he did it agian afterward.
Now I'm not saying Steele is a race baiting moron, but for him to say this could easily be seen as an indicator that he is a race baitning moron.
"When asked last week, Perry said the word on the rock is an “offensive name that has no place in the modern world.”"
He gave written statements about what happened last week, too.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rick-perry-familys-hunting-camp-still-known-to-many-by-old-racially-charged-name/2011/10/01/gIQAOhY5DL_story.html
It wasn’t his property? I thought his father bought it. Is the story changing now?
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