Posted on 06/05/2015 12:34:08 PM PDT by markomalley
Former President Jimmy Carter criticized Americans, saying a great number still have "feelings of superiority to people of color."
The 90-year-old Carter told AARP in an interview that recent stories about "mistreatment of black people in the judicial and police realm has been a reminder that the dreams of the civil rights movement have not been realized."
."Many Americans still have racist tendencies or feelings of superiority to people of color," the 39th president said.
Carter, who remains in the public eye via his humanitarian efforts and opinions on Israel and Palestinians, also criticized the influence money has in politics — comparing campaign spending now to when he launched his presidential campaign in 1976.
"I don't think anybody now can hope to be the nominee of the Democratic or Republican Party if they can't raise like a quarter of a billion dollars," Carter said. "This massive infusion of money automatically polarizes our country."
"When hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent tearing down the reputation of an opponent in order to get elected, animosity and negativism carries on into Washington," he added.
So does Carter think he could run for president today and win?
"There was harmony among congressmen when I was there, and I got just as much support from Republicans as I did from Democrats," he said.
No, Jimmy, it’s white LIBERALS that have a superiority complex when it comes to minorities.
Somehow, they just aren’t capable of succeeding without your enlightened help, right?
In the eyes of Jimmy Carter, then, being an American is the same thing as having lightly pigmented skin... although to extend his confused metaphor, being an American might include olive-colored skin from some Mediterranean people (Italian, Greek, Jewish) but not others (Spanish, now categorized as Hispanic), and probably not Arab, who are technically lightly pigmented, sometimes, but definitely a minority, most of the time. According to Carter, minorities are not Americans, though.
Hard to believe someone this stupid was elected to anything. *sigh*
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Carter passed John Adams today as the fourth longest lived President. He’s behind Bush Sr., Reagan and Ford.
two months ‘from the timber’?
I feel superior to anyone who hates this country.
I know ... you are!!!
So according to Jimmy Carter minorities can’t be Americans. Riiiiight. The moron should just disappear.
I think Jimmuh was worried that the rabbit was superior to him.
Why do I feel like this arse will outlive me?
That is a very racist statement in itself.
I always took "American" as being someone who prized the Constitution, and honored our history. This could be someone who just recently stepped off the boat and wanted to be a contributing member of this Country (legally). Those are Americans. President Peanut is saying "Americans" are by definition white-skinned. That is a very racist attitude. He should don his White Sheets and get out of here.
Hey Jimmah: res ipsa loquitur
As much as you may not want to admit it, Jimmeh ... you’re as elitist as they come and YOU’RE one of the ones that think ordinary Americans aren’t good enough to even be CONSIDERED as a minority.
What jimmah and moslems will never see ... America ‘sing’ your opening ‘prayer’
-—someone this stupid? wait? what? You talking about Jimmah or the Grand Kenyan? Yellow Dog dimokrats will vote for anything.
white supremacy has been on this earth for thousands of years, that being said, who do you think that shaped our worlds civilization, and giving worldly contributions in medicine and technology?....the man holding a spear in the congo, Jimmy?
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