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Maxine Waters and the burden of the ‘strong black woman’
Washington Post ^ | August 24, 2017 | By Vanessa Williams

Posted on 08/25/2017 2:29:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone who doesn’t know that Rep. Maxine Waters is not to be trifled with has not been paying attention.

A few weeks ago, during a congressional hearing, the California Democrat silenced the U.S. treasury secretary and gave voice to legions of exasperated women by repeating the phrase, “Reclaiming my time.”

But Waters, 79, has not seemed shaken by the blowback. As she declared Tuesday night after receiving the social humanitarian award at BET’s Black Girls Rock ceremony, “I’m simply a strong black woman.”

Waters, in her speech Tuesday, indicated that she does understand the challenge of being a strong black woman. She told the crowd that her antidote for the “right-wing haters” who come after her is “the love and respect shown to me by black women.”

“I am you and you are me,” she said. “We have power. We have influence. We can do things that others have told us we can’t do.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: mad; maxinewaters; vanessawilliams
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1 posted on 08/25/2017 2:29:46 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She is NOT a “strong black woman”. She is just an idiot.


2 posted on 08/25/2017 2:32:14 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A steaming pile of covfefe.....


3 posted on 08/25/2017 2:32:22 PM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s talk about the burden of being a simple minded black woman.One filled with racial hatred.


4 posted on 08/25/2017 2:32:34 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maxine Waters and the burden of the “corrupt black congresswoman”. The only thing “strong” about Mad Maxine is the stench of her deep corruption!


5 posted on 08/25/2017 2:34:31 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maxine Waters was born in Kinloch, Missouri, one of the most corrupt and violent hells half acres on the planet.

No more than two hundred people live there and it is a haven for dope dealers, corrupt cops and politicians and the fugitives from justice.

Truly the lower GI tract of the St. Louis area.


6 posted on 08/25/2017 2:34:39 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Kim Jon Un. Entered the world stage Unopposed, led Unapologetically, died Unidentified.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Mad Max is an arrogant, ignorant, irritant.


7 posted on 08/25/2017 2:35:16 PM PDT by beelzepug (Anybody I attack may rest assured it's personal!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Maxine Waters and the burden of the ‘strong black woman’ and how as a simpleton she doesn’t have to carry this burden.” James Brown’s Wig is an imbecile who is a monument to the failure of affirmation action.


8 posted on 08/25/2017 2:35:27 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has she been charged yet for the controversy over her husband and the TARP funds?


9 posted on 08/25/2017 2:35:28 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Pray for our brave men and women in law enforcement)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Strong black woman? NOT!

She is a stupid arrogant shallow person getting millage out of playing the victim at the expense of those trying to get passed making everything be about dividing people by race and gender and coming together as a strong society that accepts all types.

10 posted on 08/25/2017 2:43:38 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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She’s a bossy b-itch who wants to socialize/nationalize everyone’s industry.

I loathe Stalinists. She denies personal liberty for Rat profit.


11 posted on 08/25/2017 2:48:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She is not a strong black woman and another black woman saying she is doesn’t make it so. Waters is a racist who uses the current PC climate of black special treatment to say the stupidest, racist and most nonsensical things. White conservative saying the same things she has, but changing the topic to Obama or Democrats, would never get away with it. That is not strength.


12 posted on 08/25/2017 2:51:39 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A strong black woman who has been in Congress as long as she has would have a pile of legislative accomplishments. What bills has she written, and how did she get them passed?


13 posted on 08/25/2017 2:53:08 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Strong? As in strong-smelling?


14 posted on 08/25/2017 2:54:09 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As with many ‘African - American ‘ politicians , once in power , she is corrupt to the core . They think it is their right to be corrupt , that there is nothing wrong wit it . Because , after all , some of her fellow African-American’s ancestors were slaves .

Project Veritas , here’s your next truth target


15 posted on 08/25/2017 2:55:09 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Strong Black Women has become code word for stupid ignorant leftwing ahole with race and gender pass. the political version of a “handicap” parking sticker


16 posted on 08/25/2017 2:57:03 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maxine and her James Brown wig are the Mothership of black woman dumb@ss stupidity.

If young black women are holding Maxine up as a role model, they will surely live lives of failure, dependency, poverty and ignorance.


17 posted on 08/25/2017 2:59:53 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Here’s one of her admirers....

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3580619/posts
Stuffing liquor bottles in her pants... on camera...


18 posted on 08/25/2017 3:01:50 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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Rep. Waters Charged On Three Counts

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/113309-house-ethics-committee-charges-waters-on-three-counts

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) Named One of the Most Corrupt Members of Congress

https://www.citizensforethics.org/press-release/maxine-waters-named-most-corrupt-member-of-congress/

Maxine Waters: From ‘Most Corrupt’ to Resistance Hero

http://www.thedailybeast.com/maxine-waters-from-most-corrupt-to-resistance-hero

More Corruption? Maxine Waters Caught Paying Hundreds of Thousands Dollars to Daughter

https://55krc.iheart.com/content/2017-04-19-more-corruption-maxine-waters-caught-paying-hundreds-of-thousands-dollars-to-daughter/


19 posted on 08/25/2017 3:04:35 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Innovative

Confused and mouthy is more like it.


20 posted on 08/25/2017 3:05:05 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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