Posted on 08/03/2013 5:26:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I love how the words just casually roll off his tongue, as if he had been saying them all his life.
Which he has. But there is no such thing as black racism, don't you know? Using a racial epithet to describe one's political opponents is accepted behavior. Or at least it must be because the only people saying anything about it are those on the right.
But even at 83, dressed in a blue bow tie and crisp gray suit, Rangel is relentless toward those who he feels are slowing the forces of progress.
House Republicans? Have done more damage to American competitiveness than al Qaeda ever could. "What is happening is sabotage. Terrorists couldn't do a better job than the Republicans are doing."
The Tea Party? Defeat them the same way segregation was beaten. "It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police. They didn't care about how they looked. It was just fierce indifference to human life that caused America to say enough is enough. 'I don't want to see it and I am not a part of it.' What the hell! If you have to bomb little kids and send dogs out against human beings, give me a break."
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Does he mean "White Crackers" like his good friend and esteemed colleague Senator Robert C. Byrd, who led a 14-hour filibuster again the 1964 Civil Rights Act and who, in 2001, became the first and only white man ever to use the N-word on national TV?
Here is notorious tax cheat Charles "Tax cuts are a code word for racism" Rangel posing with his good friend and colleague, white cracker Robert C. Byrd for a 2007 Vanity Fair magazine cover.
Yeah, I guess we can all thank Rachel Jeantel for clarifying that for us.
I presume that it would be proper to refer to black people using George Wallace's pronunciation as "niggra", based on the same rule?
Rangel is just another upitty N____ , race baiter with a big mouth.
One would think that with all of the back taxes that Rangel owed that he would be all for the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) party.
The word “cracker” doesn’t offend me at all, as its just a childish retaliation for the n-word and has no meaning other than color. I, for one, am not ashamed of being white, nor do I have any guilt about the self-imposed plight of blacks. I have nothing to do with as I don’t discriminate, and I never owned any slaves.
The “old black males”, I.e. Rangel, Sharpton, Jackson, etc, seem to not be able to shake their glory days of marching arm in arm through Selma singing “we shall overcome”. Why they want to continue fighting a civil rights battle(s) that they’ve already won is ridiculous. Everything in America and every concession and advantage has been tilted their way. Yet these same hanger-on’ers get whipped out of shape if a southerner displays any pride in the southern tradition.
They claim diversity, yet can’t tear away from the one-size-fits-all plantation of the democrat party, and show very little initiative of surviving without government handouts.
The only things I think of when I hear “cracker”, is soup, and the old Atlanta baseball team from the 50’s.
Rangel is raciest because he said crackER instead of cracKA
No one expects anything better or different from him.
Rangel doing his part to help ease race tensions in the country. A true leader. A read inspiration. An honest gentleman. Someone thugs can look up to.
Didn’t DeeDee explain to us that “crackers” ain’t raciss?
I’d imagine when you get as old as Rangel that it must be depressing and frustrating to watch your people fall so far behind EVERY OTHER GROUP that lands here. As one of their “leaders” it doesn’t reflect well on him.
Think of how far many blacks have fallen during Rangel’s lifetime...
Damn! District gerrymandering gone wild.
Why would any normal person care what Charlie Rangel says. I do worry about him helping formulate policy and laws, not what dribbles out of his pie hole.
Then imagine being Charlie Rangel.
....but I repeat myself.
apologies to Mark Twain
If “Cracker” is ONE of the acceptable derogatory terms for “white person”, what is an acceptable derogatory term for “black person”?
You nailed it. The racialists hate their own so-called race (which is really nothing more than a group of physical characteristics and maybe some cultural characteristics resulting from free association with people who have similar physical characterstics).
So they want to stir up more hatred and animosity from people of other so-called races. They promote white-guilt/self-hatred and black-self-loathing.
When whites respond with stunts like white student organizations and white-only scholarships, it just plays into their hands. We cannot counter racism with racism.
We must keep switching the subject back to character and ideology. Conservatives do not care about a person’s so-called race. Liberals care about little else. The democrat party is just a coalition of many diverse, unrelated, disaffected groups. If their leaders cannot keep them stirred up and angry at outsiders (aka conservatives) then their anger will become directed at their own ineffective leaders.
And that is exactly what we all need.
monkey see monkey do
In Seattle its called a"Brown Bag"! Ooops!
He’s like the tribal warlords who profited by enslaving black people.
Censure and MoveOn.
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