“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once,” the reality star said of growing up in pre-Civil-Rights-era Louisiana. “Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field ... They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’ — not a word!”
Robertson continued, “Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”
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What the hell is offensive about THAT statement??? He was mererly expressing his personal experiences. If that was ALL he said, its just a tempest in a teapot.
This phony-baloney outrage only serves to HELP us. Not hurt us.
To take such a statement and try pathetically and lamely to gin that up into RACISM is the sort of schtick that Al Shaprton and MSNBC might try.
He made no comparative statement. He said that the people he observed were happy - not happier.
To twist his statements about his personal observations, in which he did NOT attempt to make any comparative declaration about anybodies state of mind or happiness with respect to any other time in history, is nothing short of lying.
The author of the article throws is “Jim Crow”, Phil didn’t. Phil just happened to grow up during that time, and commented on his common experiences and situation with the black of that region at that time. He NEVER said, nor did he imply, that anybody was happier then than now - he only said they were happy (and godly).
But they will make this a tempest in a teapot just because they can.
If they go after him on that statement it will backfire on them the statement is harmless.