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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That may have been true more than half a century ago, but not now. Those days of ignorant bliss are long behind us, friend.
That said, I've never walked around with a chip on my shoulder, nor have I ever been the type to look for hints of racism in everything others say and do. As a consequence, I haven't been a magnet for that sort of thing for most of my life, either.
Anyway, I think I'm veering off the subject here. Talking about race and racism is tiresome for me to begin with.
I’m finding myself nodding in agreement at your posts on this thread. I don’t understand where the folks saying Cain played the race card are coming from, at all. And, I too hadn’t heard the Cain supported affirmative action. I requested proof/a link for confirmation of that statement... We’ll see if I get a response.
I do. Reagan's stance was in 1980 Perry's is in 2011.
Is that Sharpton now?! Wow, he has lost a lot of weight :0
Here is what Wiki says his position is
"...when folks hurl these sensational allegations about him they ought to be conscious of the time line. This appears to be from Perry’s Democrat days at a private family hunting camp called Niggerhead, probably from some geographical feature of dark rock. However it got its name, it’s not called Niggerhead any more; it’s now Paint Creek. I think this says a lot more about Democrat racial views than Perry’s own.
Can we focus on the issues, please? If Perry isn't worthy of the nomination, the reason shouldn't be where he went hunting 20+ years ago. Damn, people.
It seems I gave you a chance to prove you're not an idiot troll...there, I said it.
There was a thread here on FR about Cain and affirmative action. I know because they were referencing AA and I didn’t get right away what they meant until until I started reading through the thread.
Won't argue that.
I bet he hunted there with Senators Byrd and Gore senior.
Herman Cain on Education
No Child Left Behind has unfunded mandates
Q: [to Huntsman]: This week, the Obama administration announced that they would grant waivers to some failing public school systems that couldn't meet the standard of the No Child Left Behind program. If you were president, would you return to full enforcement of this Bush-era law?
HUNTSMAN: No Child Left Behind hasn't worked for this country. It ought to be done away with. We need to take education to the local level, where parents and local elected officials can determine the destiny of these schools. Nobody wants their schools to succeed more than local elected officials and their parents. We need choice. We need vouchers. We need more technology in the classroom.
Q: [to Cain]: Would you return to the full enforcement of NCLB?
CAIN: No. I believe in education starting at the local. No Child Left Behind had some faults. I don't believe in unfunded mandates. I believe that the federal government should be out of the business of trying to micromanage the education of our children. Source: Iowa Straw Poll 2011 GOP debate in Ames Iowa Aug 11, 2011
Expand school vouchers and charter schools
A critical component of improving education in our country is to decentralize the federal government's control over it. Children are best served when the teachers, parents and principals are making the day-to-day decisions, coupled with the leadership of local municipalities, school boards and states.
We can put kids first by offering school choice as a real option for educational competition. This means expanding school vouchers and charter schools. Such measures have proven time and time again to best serve the students, many of whom do not have the economic means of attending better schools.
Unbundling education means putting kids first. It means rewarding those teachers who enrich the lives of their students, and it means holding those accountable who do not. It means putting students before union interests, and it means keeping their development paramount. Unbundling education means offering parents choices for their children to create a truly competitive educational system. Source: Campaign website, www.hermancain.com/ "Issues" May 21, 2011
Vouchers in DC public schools made a better future for kids D.C. Mayor Williams in 2003 helped initiate a system to provide more than 1,000 vouchers per year to poor children in the failing public school system. The voucher system, called the "Opportunity Scholarship Program," allows students from financially troubled homes to attend private schools. Williams received the expected outrage and criticism from the teachers' unions, but he knows that education and doing all he can to provide a better future for D.C.'s children is more important than politics. Source: They Think You're Stupid, by Herman Cain, p. 41 Jun 14, 2005
As long as there are hillbillies there will be blissful ignoramuses. In the city or suburbs, every single solitary white person ought to know better.
Check out #171
Cool, I’d appreciate the link if you run across it. I’ll be looking myself anyway. :)
I guess it’s pretty useless trying to defend the three term governor of the most conservative state which created the most jobs during an economic downturn. What ever made me think he was the best candidate? Good luck with whatever second tier candidate you all end up with to go against obama’s billion dollars.
There would be a doggone good reason for conservatives to cheer the appearance of a Herman Cain. We’ve been fed so many damn lies about race, that the truth is like a drink of fresh water or a breath of fresh air. It’s liberals who have it backwards. Their black candidates embrace damned lies that are endemic among the black community and result in no end of plagues upon American society of all colors.
Oh, and IBTZ!
It depends on what you mean by the term 'affirmative action' When I ran in the 2004 Republican U.S. Senate primary in Georgia, the majority of my support came from white Georgians, not urban Atlanta's African-Americans. Those who supported my campaign and voted for me embraced my issue-based campaign.
What did the media always want to ask me about? My position on affirmative action. My standard answer was, "It depends on what you mean by the term 'affirmative action'." That usually caused blank stares from the reporters and allowed me to turn the focus back on the big issues.
In the real world, the individuals who usually rise to the top of their chosen professions and achieve their dreams are the most talented and hardest working. In the political world, success is too often determined by political tenure, timing and factors none of us can control, such as our race, ethnicity or sex. Source: Political column, THE New Voice, "Diversity Distraction" Jan 29, 2007
I oppose government-imposed hiring quotas
Though my positions on the political issues have wavered little throughout my life, I honestly did not realize I was a conservative until I began my campaign for US Senate. I am pro-life on the issue of abortion. I fully support the Second Amendment right to bear arms. I am opposed to a government-imposed quota system on hiring practices. I believe we must replace the out-of-date federal tax code, and I believe Congress must severely cut back on its wasteful spending. But I did not know the term conservative defined my belief system. Prior to initial consultations with my campaign consultants when I ran for US Senate in Georgia, no one had ever packaged my political views into a single term. Source: They Think You're Stupid, by Herman Cain, p. 21-26 Jun 14, 2005
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