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Rev. Sharpton Responds to Rick Perry ‘Niggerhead’ Story[Calls on Perry to withdrawl from race]
Eurweb ^ | October 2, 2011 | Al Sharpton

Posted on 10/02/2011 1:19:35 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

“The Washington Post story revealing that Texas Governor Rick Perry hunted and hosted lawmakers at a hunting camp called Niggerhead is alarming and displays a new height in racial insensitivity in national politics. Mr. Perry should immediately fully explain how he could have gone to a ranch and hunted that is named after such an obvious racist term or he should withdrawl from the race. He is either blindly insensitive or hopelessly unaware of where he spends his time. Either way it makes one wonder if he is ready for prime time and certainly whether he is ready for the White House. – Reverend Al Sharpton, President National Action Network”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; macaca; perry; racebaiting; racism; sharpton; withdrawl; withoutdrawl
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Al needs to look around Twitter and see what black people were calling Justice Thomas last week over the Troy Davis case.

One person repeatedly called Thomas “porch monkey.” (Whatever that is, never heard of it, but assume it something racist.)

I wondered if it would be okay to call President Obama a “porch monkey,” since I disagreed with many of his political decisions.

No answer.


101 posted on 10/02/2011 2:17:07 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
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To: bikerman

Remember, you can’t say niggardly either.


102 posted on 10/02/2011 2:17:42 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: jersey117

WTH are you even talking about?

Where is the link that supports your assertion of Cain’s affirmative action stance?


103 posted on 10/02/2011 2:18:24 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Texan

Brazilian nuts were also known by the name, “Niggertoe”


104 posted on 10/02/2011 2:18:32 PM PDT by Gator113 (Palin 2012, period.....)
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To: jersey117
A lot would depend on just when it was painted over. Perry says it was painted over in 1983 or 1984.

Perry was a Dem and House Rep in 1984, so its possible that it was painted over shortly after that. The thing that is odd is:

In several English-speaking countries, Niggerhead or nigger head is a mostly no longer current name for several things thought to resemble a black person ("nigger")'s head.

The term was once widely used for all sorts of things, including products such as soap and chewing tobacco, but most often for geographic features such as hills and rocks. In the U.S., more than hundred "Niggerheads" and other place names now considered racially offensive were changed in 1962 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, but many local names remained unchanged.[1]

If most of these places names were changed in 1962, why didn't the Perry's change the name then, instead of waiting 20+ years? When did it become offensive to them?

105 posted on 10/02/2011 2:19:59 PM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

To be fair, remember the vicious brawls that took place in 1999-2000 before George W. Bush strode forward out of the cloud of dust. Then Republicans all became lovey-dovey and threw their cheerleading to Bush. It was needed, too, with the very narrow win Bush got.

I think we have better caliber people this time around (especially if Sarah Palin is willing to fill a vacuum, should Cain not grow as hoped).


106 posted on 10/02/2011 2:20:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Gator113

Very true.


107 posted on 10/02/2011 2:20:39 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Netizen

If it was private and not on any map, there wouldn’t be any compulsory reason — besides Perry was still a Rat???


108 posted on 10/02/2011 2:22:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: normy
I wouldn't say raicebaiting but doing his part to get Romney elected.

I would say it is Amanbyocht doing her very best to get Cain to say things that will give certain people something to complain about rather than focusing on the very issues and enemies that are destroying our Country.....namely, her messiah, Obamao.

.....and we fall for it every time.

109 posted on 10/02/2011 2:22:58 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Clara Lou

I am series about this hole thing.


110 posted on 10/02/2011 2:23:02 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Netizen
I meant to remove this:

If most of these places names were changed in 1962, why didn't the Perry's change the name then, instead of waiting 20+ years? When did it become offensive to them?

Since they didn't own or lease the property from 1962. I mean to ask why they didn't just get rid of the rock after all these years since the name is STILL visible under the paint? Break it up and get rid of it.

111 posted on 10/02/2011 2:23:31 PM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: Netizen

“If most of these places names were changed in 1962, why didn’t the Perry’s change the name then, instead of waiting 20+ years? When did it become offensive to them?”

Perry’s family didn’t own the land. They LEASED it from the owner in the 80’s.


112 posted on 10/02/2011 2:24:00 PM PDT by Raebie (WS)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Where is your seminary degree, Reverend Sharpton?
113 posted on 10/02/2011 2:24:07 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Clara Lou

“Bob, Bob, Bob...I see that you don’t read much, either. There’s a lot of that here at FR. I also see that you confuse your dreams with reality.”

Pretty insightful comment there...keep that brain of yours working.


114 posted on 10/02/2011 2:24:59 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: Reagan Man

Cain is counting on 1/3 of the black vote (his projection) if he’s the GOP nominee. His criticism of “Niggerhead” was to validate himself for that projected vote.


115 posted on 10/02/2011 2:25:33 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: Raebie

Right I already addressed that.


116 posted on 10/02/2011 2:25:33 PM PDT by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: luvbach1

Those ought to stay and the literature not be bowdlerized, as a documentation of archaic usage (like the older thees and thous of Shakespearean times). At least America has no official literature and language police, unlike places like France where they are too clever by half in their insistence on plausible Frenchisms when rendering words that were invented in the English speaking world.


117 posted on 10/02/2011 2:27:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Is that what Larry Sinclair gave Obama?


118 posted on 10/02/2011 2:27:32 PM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Just an observation: been very little lightning around here lately. Think the mods are sitting back and watching people out themselves as closet pubs.

I do think there is a zot storm coming...

/not directed to anyone in particular, and definitely not to the OP.


119 posted on 10/02/2011 2:28:50 PM PDT by piytar (The Obama Depression. Say it early, say it often. Why? Because it's TRUE.)
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