 George Pataki |
(You know, the guy running for president.)
Posted on 07/03/2015 6:27:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I owe an apology. On the eve of this Independence Day, I have a renewed sense of what this country stands for, and how I personally could help achieve it. The promise of equality and freedom is one that all of us have to work for, at all times. I know this as a survivor of the Japanese American internment, which each day drives me only to strive harder to help fulfill that promise for future generations.
I recently was asked by a reporter about Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent in the marriage equality cases, in which he wrote words that really got under my skin, by suggesting that the government cannot take away human dignity through slavery, or though internment. In my mind that suggested that this meant he felt the government therefore shouldn’t be held accountable, or should do nothing in the face of gross violations of dignity. When asked by a reporter about the opinion, I was still seething, and I referred to him as a “clown in blackface” to suggest that he had abdicated and abandoned his heritage.
This was not intended to be racist, but rather to evoke a history of racism in the theatrical arts. While I continue to vehemently disagree with Justice Thomas, the words I chose, said in the heat of anger, were not carefully considered.
I am reminded, especially on this July 4th holiday, that though we have the freedom to speak our minds, we must use that freedom judiciously. Each of us, as humans, have hot-button topics that can set-us off, and Justice Thomas had hit mine, that is clear. But my choice of words was regrettable, not because I do not believe Justice Thomas is deeply wrong, but because they were ad hominem and uncivil, and for that I am sorry.
I often ask fans to keep the level of discourse on this page and in comments high, and to remember that we all love this country and for what it stands for, even if we often disagree passionately about how to achieve those goals. I did not live up to my own high standards in this instance.
I hope all of you have a wonderful, safe and joyously free July 4t, the first where all married couples in the U.S. can enjoy the full liberties of matrimony equally. It is truly a blessing to be an American today.
Well, isn’t that what Roof did to the confederate flag?
All by himself?
Shatner doesn't remember there ever being anyone else on any set he was on.
There are gay things all over the place here, but it is not thrown offensively in our collective faces with demands of new rights. It is what it is and generally can be ignored here by us normal people.
Always nice to hear from a disgusting pervert.
Not.
“He survived an internment camp, I didn’t think that survival was one of the problems associated with the interment.”
How old was he when he was in an internment camp? Probably not more than 3 or 4. How much “survival” could he possibly remember?
The ingestion of feces is not smart.
It's raining men. ROTFL!
Besides, they being interned here in America, they weren’t in death camps.
as for the latter, the person saying that was probably referring to a relocation camp; if he really meant internment then his family's experience was owing to them being viewed as enemy.
Relocating citizens and people of Japanese descent probably saved some of them their lives. People along the west coast weren't taking kindly to what happened and what was widely believed could happen.
Taking the property of the relocated as apparently the government did was a crime IMO. I cannot believe that the crime has not been rectified.
It was war.. a war that we vowed to permanently destroy the enemy. Just imagine a 9/11 along with a wide belief that Islamists were set to invade across the Mexican border.. oh, wait, I mean this time with the discipline of an invading army. How would American Muslims be viewed by their fellow citizens?
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George Pataki |
(You know, the guy running for president.)
“I knoSu this as a survivor of the Japanese American internment......”
“Survivor”? He he tries to make it sound like these were the equivalent of Nazi death camps. Sorry, these were wrong but they were Club Med compared to Auschwitz.
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Talentless homo LIB hack. Apology not accepted, you racist degenerate.
You’re just a bigoted old racist, Mr. Sulu.
Takei says nothing about owing Clarence Thomas an apology. He just “owes an apology.” He is a typical leftist prig.
George. You suck.
Get it? You suck ROTFLMAO.
That photo looks about as genuine as that glossy red shit hot glued to the wall behind him
If Uncle George were white and straight, he’d be of just about as much interest outside the Trek fan community as his conn-deskmate Walter Koenig.
Uh, a Democrat President ordered his Internment.
I never figured that Mr. Sulu could be such a Prick.
I wonder though, why was his Rage against Justice Thomas and not Justice Scalia?
Put a cork in it, butt boy.
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