Posted on 08/27/2009 11:49:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Republican congresswoman from Kansas is issuing a great big apology for saying the GOP is searching for a "great white hope" to stop President Obama's policy agenda.
Rep. Lynn Jenkins "apologizes if her words have offended anyone," her spokesman, Mary Geiger, told The Associated Press. "That was not the intent in any way, shape or form."
During an Aug. 19 forum, Jenkins attempted to reassure the crowd that that the Republican Party has promising young leaders. "Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope," Jenkins, who is white, said. "I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington." Later, at an event at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Jenkins denied she was using racial terms. She said she meant only that the GOP needs "a bright light." "I was unaware of any negative connotation, and if I offended anybody, obviously, I apologize," Jenkins told the Lawrence Journal-World. The term originated in the early 20th century when whites upset that a black man, Jack Johnson, had become the heavyweight boxing champion pined for a "great white hope" to dethrone him.
A White House spokesman declined to comment ahead of Thursday's briefing in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where Obama is vacationing.
Obama, the nation's first African-American president, is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas.
I see the need for hope and CHANGE.
Yes we can!
She best be careful with the term “rope a dope” as well.
Just sayin' :)
The Great Black Dope?
That’s a silly question that I bet you already know the answer to.
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But it can't POSSIBLY be BIG enough for the race pimps, counterculture $hit-disturbers, and reflexive political opportunists.
A simple, concise clarification would have been more than sufficient.
Although the term “great white hope” emerged from the heavyweight class in the boxing world, it has morphed into a non-racial description of hope against desperate odds.
ahh...we have our successor to Teddy Kennedy for the “sounding drunk in front of a microphone” title
This was a stupid, inane statement that the corrupt MSM will use and cite endlessly as PROOF! that anyone who opposes Obama only does so because they are racists.
Stupid, stupid. That she didn't grasp this fact and actually said this is staggering.
another example of how sometimes conservatives are our own worst enemies...
Ditto.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
I don’t know of any hope but white hope. Are we to follow the leaders in Africa? The ugly truth is that there isn’t any alternative. I don’t see any black hope. Yes, I know that this isn’t politically correct, but facts are facts.
Well, my friend, I would follow Thomas Sowell or Armstrong Williams, or Clarence Thomas, or Walter Williams any day!
what about indian hope or some other asian hope? last time I checked, asians have higher iq than whites and asian economies are growing.
This insanity will continue until our people decide to stand up for themselves and stop apologizing. When the media or anybody else calls them out, they should tell them that if they have a problem with it, they can go to hell.
I like them too, but they are working within a white man’s system. Let’s face it, the Founding Fathers were all European white males. That is what I mean by White hope. How long do you think that these men would live in many of the African countries? I don’t hear Thomas, Armstrong, or Clarence advocating the political philosophy of the Zulus.
“Stupid, stupid. That she didn’t grasp this fact and actually said this is staggering.”
What’s staggering is that so many FReepers seem to just go along to get along with the poison of political correctness that has already almost destroyed our country.
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Bullseye.
Along with the poison of political correctness, don't forget its equally pathological cousin, the affliction of non-judgmentalism.
Sad to see on FR, though keep in mind, we are burdened with a number of not-so-crafty thespian conservatives.
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