Black Republican Vies to Become Next J.C. Watts

Fox News ^ | 08/04/03 | Jonathan Serrie

[bedolido]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.

[RightWhale]

I believe there are folks dying out there for somebody who's willing to take a stand.

Dying of what? Old age?

[laweeks]

Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Queasy Perfume call your office.

[bedolido]

ping! (Not a Just Damn Ping... just thought you might wanna see this)

[mhking]

Black conservative ping

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[MEG33]

That expression is common in the south.I am dyin' to win the election or I'm dyin' to see who the nominee is.It's used in Texas,too.

[PhiKapMom]

Hope he gets elected -- we could use a lot more J.C. Watts' in Congress!

[rdb3]

IR == 'ON';

[Redleg Duke]

He is talking about our troops in Iraq, genius!

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Robinson said he thinks he is exactly the right candidate to answer the needs of North Carolina's 5th Congressional District, and to become only the second black Republican to have served in the U.S. House of Representatives."

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DJ, check out this sentence in a Fox News story on Vernon Robinson. This is the kind of ignorance that we can put to rest once and for all if Vernon Robinson and a few other black Republicans are elected to the House and Herman Cain to the Senate in 2004. As your FR homepage can attest, there have been dozens of black Republican Congressmen, including several from North Carolina (one of whom served as late as 1897---I think his last name was White). And as recently as 1997, there was Congressman Gary Franks from CT. Who does the fact-checking for Fox News, anyhow?

[areafiftyone]

verrrrry interesting!

[RightWhale]

our troops in Iraq

Possibly. Context of domestic moral issues doesn't quite match this interpretation.

[Gil4]

Not talking about troops in Iraq, and please play nicely.

[Redleg Duke]

Oh, in other words, not agreeing with you is "not playing nicely"!

Quite interesting.

[Gil4]

You wrote "He is talking about our troops in Iraq, genius!" If you had just written, "He is talking about our troops in Iraq" that would have been fine. (I would have disagreed, but it would have been a civil dialog.)

[MEG33]

Post 6 explains the expression."I'm fixing to" is another expression you may not be familiar with."Y'all come back" confuses some newcomers,too!It doesn't literally mean come back now..I'll be happy to interpret.

[stand watie]

!!!!!!!

J C Watts for VP!

free dixie,sw

[StriperSniper]

I saw the video piece this article is written from, I like him.

Now as for that headline, it smacks of tokenism. I was suprised to see it was FoxNews. : (

[MEG33]

Sarcasm exists...Haven't you ever used it..hmmm?

[RightWhale]

it smacks of tokenism

Yes, it does, even to my not particularly enlightened sensibilities.