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Landrieu on Obama: South Not Always 'Friendliest Place for African-Americans' (Here we go)
NBC News ^ | October 30, 2014 | Chuck Todd and Carrie Dann

Posted on 10/30/2014 4:54:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu said Thursday that the issue of race is a major reason that President Barack Obama has struggled politically in Southern states.

“I'll be very, very honest with you. The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans,” Landrieu told NBC News in an interview. “It's been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader."

Noting that the South is “more of a conservative place,” she added that women have also faced challenges in “presenting ourselves.”

The comment prompted a fiery response from Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, who called it "remarkably divisive."(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Louisiana; Campaign News; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: jindal; landrieu; louisiana; obama; racecard; racism; south
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I recently moved my family to Columbus, Georgia, and the race situation is one of the pleasant surprises of the move. I find that black and white people in this area are more polite and more relaxed around each other. I also find that the black urban ghetto sub-culture plays a much smaller role here.

Finally, I look around the room at my IT meetings, and I see 35% of the attendees are black, and NOT quota hirings. They know their stuff. Even in northern cities with a sizable black population, the percentages would be much lower. These are all solid engineering/management/IT positions. I DID see almost no Indians/Pakistanis, compared to other cities.

Now, my experience is limited in terms of area and time, but I can confidently say that whatever problems we have with treatment of races and relations between races are noticeably less than they are in the northern cities who deem fit to hector southerners on these topics.


21 posted on 10/30/2014 5:22:15 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

And this from one of the biggest plantation-owning (Louisiana) families in southern history. Huey long would be proud of her.


22 posted on 10/30/2014 5:22:18 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just another DemoKKKrat racist...


23 posted on 10/30/2014 5:22:36 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: optiguy
I wonder if she’s ever heard of Cicero Illinois.

Or East Haven, Connecticut.
24 posted on 10/30/2014 5:25:58 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I remember, right after Hurricane Katrina, this B^itch took to the cameras and literally said he "wanted to punch President George Bush!"

This was a sitting US Senator, vowing to physically attack the President because of an Act of God.

She is a petulant, childish, violent woman who doesn't have the dignity nor grace of a hippo.

25 posted on 10/30/2014 6:06:01 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Really?

Seems like we’re a fairly portable society.

Ain’t nothing stopping them from moving.

Seeks to me Chicago is fairly unfriendly to blacks, their health and lives.


26 posted on 10/30/2014 6:10:12 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stick a fork in her now.


27 posted on 10/30/2014 6:19:12 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: optiguy

Makes you wonder...


28 posted on 10/30/2014 7:43:25 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It was that way you stupid bitch because for almost one hundred years after The Civil War your party made it that way Ms. Landrieu.


29 posted on 10/30/2014 7:43:39 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: jmacusa

I’m guessing Kerry and Gore were also black.


30 posted on 10/30/2014 7:55:23 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mary Landrieu is a racist from a long tradition of racism.


31 posted on 10/30/2014 8:02:17 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

DIMs are mentally disturbed. These criminal losers should never be given positions or authority or power. Mainly, they should be foils for ridicule or shunned. In a number of cases they should be arrested and exiled. They are nefarious nabobs of negativism.


32 posted on 10/30/2014 8:11:54 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: Dr. Sivana

That has been my observation of the South versus the North, too.


33 posted on 10/30/2014 10:37:21 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

She be doin’ dat to get her base in N’yawlins to turn out and vote for her because she be dat nice, fat, white lady dat like da Prezdent and da white man he don’t fo sho; Lawd no.


34 posted on 10/31/2014 7:36:28 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Gore's father was a segregationist.
35 posted on 10/31/2014 2:58:19 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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