Posted on 02/26/2004 9:11:17 AM PST by brothers4thID
Thursday, Feb. 26; 11:47am
Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) is refusing to apologize for explosive comments she uttered Wednesday at a closed-door meeting in which she charged that President Bush is employing a racist policy toward Haiti.
In a telephone interview with HOH on Wednesday night, Brown confirmed that she told Bush official Roger Noriega that the Haitian people are in desperate straits “because of all you white men” who have under-funded relief programs.
Sources in the room for the Florida delegation meeting told HOH that Noriega, who is Mexican-American, took great offense at the comment. Some people in the room felt that Brown’s comment was also directed at Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), a Cuban-American, who had been helping Noriega brief the delegation on the situation in Haiti.
“Do I look white to you?” Noriega asked. “Does Lincoln look white to you?”
According to a source in the room, Brown shot back: “You guys all look the same.”
Asked whether she said that, Brown told HOH, “Yeah, I did. I wasn’t speaking of color. I’m speaking of policy. I’m speaking of racist policy. Racist policy!”
Brown then added: “They’re always trying to get assistance for the Cuban people, but no assistance for the Haitian people.”
When pressed on how Noriega responded to her, Brown said, “He said he was Mexican. I wasn’t even talking about Lincoln or what’s the other one’s name?”
Brown was apparently referring to freshman Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Lincoln’s brother.
The Congresswoman stressed that she was targeting her rage at Noriega and his deputies from the State Department.
“They were all white men,” she said. “Well, he says he’s not a white man. Whatever. He’s says he’s Mexican-American. I wasn’t questioning who he was. I was saying, 'You’re all alike. And your racist policy is all alike. You’re anti-Haitian people.'”
One Republican who attended the meeting charged that Brown’s own comments are racist: “Is this the Democrats’ new way of reaching out to Latino Americans?”
The confrontation comes at a delicate time in the Haitian crisis. Bush has declared that Haitians trying to make it to America by sea will be turned away.
After the Capitol Hill meeting, Brown joined a delegation of Congressional Black Caucus members who headed to the White House Wednesday night to meet with Bush and voice concerns that the refugees are being turned away only because they are of African descent.
“The American policy toward Haiti is racist,” said Brown. “If the Cubans make it to the shore, it’s OK. But Haitians — not one” is welcomed in.
Noting the political unrest in Haiti right now, Brown added, “They are going to be slaughtered unless we intervene.”
Here's the thread of a man fired from Southwest Airlines for using the word "monkey" in front of blacks at a Christmas party:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078864/posts
One of the aggrieved employees just happens to be the brother of a Texas State Senator.
That's fine. I am one white man that is done apologizing too. The disease of "progressive" political correctness has turned things around to such a degree that someone with other than white skin can say whatever outrageous asinine racist thing they choose, and have no fear of being censured for it. It is way beyond time for that dynamic to end.
As a dwindling majority in this country, and a decided minority globally, whites have nothing whatsoever to apologize for. And only after whites stop apologizing will racists like Corrine Brown, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the La Raza hispanics, etc., etc., etc., be held to a standard that will force their becoming circumspect about uttering idiotic racist comments.
This person is total scum. Jennifer Carroll has accomplished more and could accomplish more for African Americans than Mrs. Brown could even think about. And, yet, she wasn't elected. Why? Because she is a conservative Republican.
It just goes to show how African Americans have sold themselves out to the big-government, white liberals.
Pathetic.
There are many reasons, not just this most recent racist incident by her, why Brown is a disgrace to the House and a disgrace to the human race.
Congressman Billybob
Who is "They"? Does she mean they're going to slaughter one another?
If so why doesn't she take her black butt over to Haiti and separate her homeboys? I was impressed by how much the rebel leader resembled and had similar mannerisms of Densil Washington. Surely not a tyrant or butcher?
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Brown Rips Into Bush Administration Official
Miami Herald.com ^ | 2/25/04 | Ken Thomas/AP
Posted on 02/25/2004 6:14:57 PM CST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
MIAMI - U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown verbally attacked a top Bush administration official during a briefing on the Haiti crisis Wednesday, calling the President's policy on the beleaguered nation "racist" and his representatives "a bunch of white men."
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