'Duck Dynasty' Star Phil Robertson Also Under Fire for African-American Statements

Yahoo News ^ | 12-19-13 | Suzy Byrne

[cincinnati65]

Phil Robertson's anti-gay comments aren't the only part of his interview with GQ causing controversy.

The 67-year-old "Duck Dynasty" star was suspended by A&E Wednesday for calling homosexuality sinful — and putting gay people in same category as terrorists. While those quotes quickly went viral, it wasn't his only brow-raising statement in the interview; he also implied that African Americans were happier living under Jim Crow laws.

[Dick Bachert]

Gee, I know a number of BLACK folks. Can’t say I know any AFRICAN AMERICANS!

Me? I’m a German/Irish/English American (aka “honkey” or “white bread” or whatever disparaging names the black racists out there call us).

[Old Yeller]

NAACP, ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, and on and on.

[Osage Orange]

Interesting...

Good post......

[Osage Orange]

Heck...you could work for the NAACP!!

[combat_boots]

Song of the South is great storytelling

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Welcome to Obama’s America where Free Speach no longer exists. If you say anything good about Sarah Palin, or anything bad about Homosexuals you can lose your job. say all the good you want about perverts and Islamic people and its OK—call Sarah Palin any name in the book and its OK (within reason) but—NEVER defend what it says in the Bible! What was that? Man laying with man is an Abomination in the eyes of God? How do you get around that? Burn the Bible. FYI The Koran says the same thing.

[bigtoona]

I read a statistic that black households had a higher percentage of married parents than whites (pre-welfare)

[re_nortex]

Before welfare there were actual black families. Not so many children born out of wedlock and the men were husbands and fathers.

I'm well over 70 and remember both worlds. My youth was spent up north but since we had family in the South, I well recall what it was like in the 1950s when we'd head down to Dixie to visit with our kin.

Up north, the blacks (then called Negroes in that era) always seemed to be simmering with resentment with a perpetual chip on the shoulder. Even then, I could see the precursor of the thug culture taking shape, leading to the hateful knock-out "game" of black gangs against an innocent white today.

In the South, yes even in spite of the Jim Crow laws, what were known as the "colored folks" (not much different from the "people of color" terminology of today) had strong family values, ran prosperous businesses, attended church regularly and were evidently happy as they interacted with whites. Good manners were the rule of the day with "sir" and "ma'am" part of the natural vocabulary, both black and white.

I think the longtime historic absence of labor unions (a largely Yankee invention) in the South contributed to the racial harmony. Far worse than any Jim Crow law, unionism breeds hatred ownership and employees. And to this day, the South is the region where freedom and liberty are rule as this map so clearly illustrates:

And kudos to those northern states that have come aboard with what the South has known all along: Unionism is slavery.

[re_nortex]

Yes, I guess when my mind was full of mush in the 1960s, I had a brief flirtation with liberalism and thus joined the NAACP. I was raised right with a good Christian Conservative upbringing. Although I was just under voting age in 1960, I did campaign for Richard Nixon against JFK. Then I went off the rails for a couple of years and bought into the "New Frontier" claptrap of that era.

My eye-opening experience with the NAACP actually was the impetus to seek God's forgiveness for the evil I associated with -- and almost became. By 1964, I was back on the right path and proudly cast my first ever presidential vote for Barry Goldwater.

Yes, he went left in later years, but the Goldwater of 1964 was a solid Conservative with real American values. I can only imagine what America would be like today if he became president.

And since this thread deals with the South, the map below vividly illustrates just how the core of Dixieland was leading the way by making the right choice in '64:

[Graybeard58]

You know, it would be a good idea if those protesting these liberal speakers and their agenda carried a duck call and blew it whenever the liberals start spewing their trash.

A great idea. I'm not a duck hunter but may buy a Robertson duck call, just for that purpose.

[SoFloFreeper]

So the “gay bashing” lie failed, so now the “racist” lie is attempted.

[Tennessee Conservative]

Wow! There were only 400,000 something this morning when I “liked” the page. It’s really moving on up.

[ZULU]

Its IMPORTANT VERY IMPORTANT that we stick by Phil through ALL of this!!!

[cripplecreek]

I think its a rural thing pretty much everywhere. I know there were a lot of rural blacks where I lived in northern Michigan back in the early 90s.

They were a whole different breed than urban blacks. Hunters, fishermen, farmers, welders, loggers etc.

[Kickass Conservative]

Phil’s Grandson is a Mulatto, just like Obama.

I was waiting for this...

[Kickass Conservative]

You forgot the Sarc Tag, I hope.

Phil was working beside them in the Fields, not sitting on a Horse with a Shotgun slung over his shoulder watching the Back folk sweat.

Are you sure you logged onto the right Website?

[Nifster]

Nothing he said implies anything about Jim Crow laws. He talked about how he grew up poor and worked the fields with his black fellow workers. He was at one with them because economically they all came from the same place.

How they heck does that have ANYTHING to do with Jim Crow laws????

[Kickass Conservative]

Make that BLACK Folk...

[ctdonath2]

Ya know...how about hanging duck calls from car rear-view mirrors? Cheap, unobtrusive, publicly visible.