More on Corrine Brown's statements (You all look the same)

Roll Call ^ | 2-26-2004 | Ed Henry

[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.”

[The Electrician]

Yes, she is. The response that she got was intended as a slap in her face, and can not be taken at face value as a claim for racial spoils or distinction. It's not unlike the way that I might respond to a leftie who would claim that I am an undeserving recipient of the benefit of "white privilege" - I would tell them that "the only group that has paid as much attention to racial distinctions and classifications as the Democrat party and other leftists is the Nazi party, and according to the Nazi party, I am not a member of the white race, so that should be good enough for you, too"...

[Spaminator]

Something happening you don't agree with? Blame it on racism and you are automatically on the right side of the issue.

[RightWingAtheist]

She looks like Jaime Foxx when he went in drag for the "Ugly Girl" skits on "In Living Color."

[Clintonfatigued]

What a dummy! For what it's worth, even Brown's fellow feminists and Black Caucus members have a low regard for her and don't take her seriously. She's a nobody.

[janetgreen]

THANK YOU for post #26. Political correctness is rampant here in invaded California.

[philetus]

Corrine Brown

# Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
# Voted NO on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
# Voted NO on banning human cloning, including medical research. (Jul 2001)
# Voted NO on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
# Voted NO on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
# Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
# Voted NO on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
# Recommended by EMILY's List of pro-choice women. (Apr 2001)

[Pharmboy]

LOL!! On the money ('cept Jaime was prettier).

[dagoofyfoot]

Heeeere's Corinne


Oh come now, nobody that ugly gets elected to public office...


you just pulled that picture off of the Fugly.com website didn't you?

[Pharmboy]

Her wig looks a bit...err...askew.

[txradioguy]

How do we know that the Rebelsaren't the ones in the right this time? It's not like Papa Doc or his son are leading the charge into Port-au-Prince. And Jean Bertrand Aristide is not exactly a saint either. He and his surrogates have commited numerous crimes against the people of Hati. If the President were to go into Hati, IMHO we'd suddenly see front page stories about Aristide's "atrocities" and candidates bad mouthing the President for trying to prop up a ruthless dictator.

[FireTrack]

How do we know that the Rebelsaren't the ones in the right this time?

We don't and I find it strange that the honorless sister Brown is so sure that we should be backing Mr. Aristide as well as the entire black caucus and brother Jessi too I bet.

Self interest before humanity perhaps? They're probably losing their asses on some Haitian investments.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Ms. Brown is a racist. You see folks, the majority of Americans could care less about Haiti. The facts are that the country has never been ruled effectively. Aristide is a criminal, period! I feel sorry for the poor people of Haiti and the Haitians that live in America in peace and work hard in south Florida so that Haitians may have a better life. They are are creative, hard working and industrious bunch! It really is a shame that the American Black Congressional Caucus is a pandering lot of morons. I hope the day will soon come when Black Americans finally wake up one morning and find that they have been had by their leaders and the Democrat Party. If they don't "get it" soon, they will continue to have half of their children fail to graduate from high school and will forever remain at the bottom of the economic/opportunity totem pole while Hispancis and Asians leave them in the dust. My Black friends, all you need to do is take a good look at the history of Haiti and you will see yourselves in the mirror! Get real and change, or just remain static and wilt!

[jonsie]

ping

[ClintonBeGone]

It's only going to help with the Cubans. The GOP couldn't buy this type of good PR.

[aruanan]

The Congresswoman stressed that she was targeting her rage at Noriega and his deputies from the State Department.

Her rage. Puh-lease. If its supposed cause didn't have the possibility of advancing her career, she'd have kept quiet. Congress needs a Brownectomy.

[Chris Talk]

While Ms Brown is doing something that would cause any Republican to be driven from office in disgrace...

I found it a bit comical that the Diaz-Balarts, who are of aristocratic French and Spanish descent, thus entirely of European descent, thus purely white... as Cubans can get affirmative action and preference [not that they need it or ever have in fact availed themselves of it]...

And Noriega, as likewise being of Spanish descent, thus European and white... likewise...

Whereas, as many as 30% of so-called "white," English-speaking Americans, who thus are denied ANY affirmative action or civil rights, are in fact partly of American Indian or African American descent!!!

What is fair about THIS?