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Activists Want DNC Member Who Spoke Of ‘Colored People’ To Step Down
dailycaller.com ^ | 4/4/2018 | David Krayden

Posted on 04/04/2018 10:34:39 AM PDT by rktman

Black activists aren’t satisfied with Florida Democratic National Committee (DNC) member John Parker’s explanation that he meant to say “people of color” but used the expression “colored people” instead. They want him to resign.

Parker told Politico that he was trying to say “people of color” but didn’t get it right. Parker’s own wife has joined the chorus of African-Americans and Democratic officials who say the DNC committeeman from Duval County, Florida, needs to step aside.

Parker made the remarks on Jan. 22 while speaking at a party meeting in Jacksonville and apologized after the initial uproar from those present at the Burrito Gallery restaurant, where he was holding forth.

“Why would you still think that ‘colored’ was cool? Because to me it’s a Jim Crow terminology and it’s unacceptable,” Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks told First Coast News.

Some in the black community say Parker’s choice of words represent a pattern.

At the now infamous Burrito meeting, his critics claim he also bemoaned the affects of racial integration while others accuse him of using the description “mayor’s mammy” and calling the Working People Caucus the “Poor Black People Working Caucus.”

When first challenged for his colored people remarks, Parker told Politico that it was all a misunderstanding.

“I misspoke and used the term colored people when I meant people of color,” Parker said. He also denied allegations that he had used pejorative terms for blacks in the past, insisting the comments “did not happen.”

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To: rktman

I avoid the term, “African-American”, because most Blacks here today have no real ties or connections to Africa, and they are generations removed from any African ancestry they might have.


61 posted on 04/04/2018 11:34:19 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: beelzepug
Thanks, Louie. Great song.

From another one of his greats, Black and Blue:

I'm white, inside
that don't help my case;

'Cause I can't hide
what is on my face...

62 posted on 04/04/2018 11:34:26 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ClearCase_guy; All

Institutional racism rests at the heart of the left and black privilege.
Here we have an extensive, inclusive, list exposing the heart of the left’s institutional racism !! Bringing awareness to “Black Privileges” the same public way they point out other peoples “privileges” will help them realize what they have taken for granted and they are intentionally ignoring. Are they enjoying Western (white) style clothes, housing, education, language, society, culture, medical services, freedoms, cultural perks etc. ? Do they feel honored living in a country built by white people? Do they like the fact that every one lets it “slide” when they practice “white face” and bleach their skin and hair, wear blue contacts or dress like a white person in a suit and tie ?
* Blacks have the right to take pride in their race. Whites don’t.
* Blacks can never be racist. Whites are always racist, even if they don’t try to be.
* Blacks get to play the race card. Whites don’t.
* Blacks never have to feel guilty about being black. Whites are trained to feel guilty about being white.
* Blacks have the right to make blacks only organizations like the Black Student Union and the Congressional Black Caucus. Whites don’t.
* Blacks have the right to never take responsibility for their own actions. Anything bad which happens to a black person can be blamed on racism or white people. Whites have to take responsibility and apologize for their actions.
* Rich black people have a right to be rich. Rich white people don’t.
* Black people have the right to demonize white people. White people don’t have the right to demonize black people.
* Black people are excused when they are prejudiced against white people. White people are never excused for prejudice against black people.
* Black people are a “protected class.” White people are not.
* Violent crimes by whites on blacks are “hate crimes.” Violent crimes by blacks on whites are just regular crimes.
* Blacks have the right to affirmative action and minority set-asides. Whites have to earn their positions.
* Blacks have the right to support programs from the government. White people don’t.
* Blacks are “cool.” Whites are “rednecks.”
* Blacks have “civil rights”. Whites don’t.
* Blacks are in prison because of racism. Whites are in prison because they’re criminals. (OJ Simpson)
* Black jury members have the right to acquit criminals, if they’re black.
* Blacks have the right to put a halt to any policy, statement, symbol, statistic, outcome, word or expression they find offensive. Whites have no such rights.
* Blacks are morally superior to whites.
* “[Blacks] enjoy cultural cache around the world as victors over oppression and the hard reality of what that looks like at this point in world history. The music that they enjoy, the clothes that they wear, their very mannerisms carry a certain amount of gravitas.”
* Blacks can assign collective racial guilt to “you white folks.” White people cannot do the reverse because that would be racist.
* Blacks have “black culture.” Whites are not allowed to have white culture.
* African-American studies is a celebration of blackness and black culture. Whiteness studies is a demonization of white people and white culture.
* White people need to undergo diversity/sensitivity training. Black people don’t.
* “… any generalization–favorable or unfavorable–about any minority that someone does not like is by definition “racist” and deserves to be suppressed–as long as it is said by a white person. Black diversity consultants, in contrast, can parade, without a shred of empirical evidence, the grossest racial and ethnic stereotypes with virtual impunity.”
* It’s racist to point out racism by blacks. It’s never racist to point out racism by whites.
* Whites have to walk on eggshells around blacks. Blacks don’t give a [censored] what whites think.
* Blacks have the right to riot and commit violent acts in response to perceived grievances. White people have to obey the law at all times.
* Blacks have the right to never be portrayed as criminals or low-lifes in films or on TV. Bad guys on the screen must always be white.
* Blacks have the right to never be ridiculed, mocked, belittled or laughed at. Whites have no such right.
* Black criminals have the right to have their race censored in media reports.
* Facts which cause blacks embarrassment or cast them in a bad light must be suppressed. Facts which cause whites embarrassment or cast them in a bad light are reported as is.
* Blacks can silence and intimidate whites by calling them racist. Whites can’t silence and intimidate blacks because that would be racist.
* Forcing whitey to apologize shows black power and clout. Whites can never force blacks to apologize because that would constitute a lynching.
* Whites are held to a system of ‘sensitivity’ requirements that do not apply to blacks.
* “Whites are monitored, pestered, and punished for preposterous reasons–for a look, for an innocent word, for wearing a T-shirt, for expressing a plausible argument–but blacks can say almost anything with perfect impunity.”
* “In discussions of race between black people and white people the conscious black person is always right; is always the ultimate authority on questions having to do with race and racism; must always be regarded as the ‘injured party,’ or the oppressed. . . . [Whites] cannot possibly be expected to be objective about questions of race.”
* Blacks may work for explicitly racial goals but whites may not.
* Blacks are permitted to notice race. Whites are not.
* “It is quite acceptable for either party to explicitly go after the black, Hispanic, or even the Jewish vote. In fact both parties gain an indispensable moral authority by doing so. But it is absolutely verboten for either party, or any white candidate, to appeal to whites as a racial identity group. Racial identity is simply forbidden to whites in America and across the entire Western world. Black children today are hammered with the idea of racial identity and pride, yet racial pride in whites constitutes a grave evil. Say ‘I’m white and I’m proud’ and you are a Nazi.”
* A black person who punches a white person is a hero standing up to oppression. A white person who punches a black person is a racist.
* It can be publicly admitted that blacks are superior to whites in certain pursuits (i.e. basketball). It can never be publicly admitted that whites are superior to blacks in other pursuits (i.e. winning Nobel prizes in science).
* When blacks are overrepresented in a desirable field, it is due to their abilities. When whites are overrepresented in a desirable field, it is due to racism. When blacks are overrepresented in an undesirable field, it is due to racism. When whites are overrepresented in an undesirable field, it is their own fault.


63 posted on 04/04/2018 11:34:30 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: rktman

64 posted on 04/04/2018 11:41:51 AM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Mears

The Africans are showing him who is the boss.


65 posted on 04/04/2018 11:42:45 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: Verginius Rufus

As far as I know, ‘race’ on driver licenses are still listed as white, negro, etc.


66 posted on 04/04/2018 11:45:26 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: Mears

Because they will break the law, riot, block streets, attack innocents and the police any time they are angry.

See the book “Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry”


67 posted on 04/04/2018 11:58:04 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: rktman

if the blacks are upset over ‘colored people’ they need to talk to their hispanic allies, who insist on being called ‘colored people’ and ‘brown people’


68 posted on 04/04/2018 12:11:29 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Beagle8U
I wouldn't know. I have never seen a Filipino driver license.

My own driver license does not give the race.

69 posted on 04/04/2018 12:52:48 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: rktman

“Florida Democratic National Committee (DNC) member John Parker’s explanation that he meant to say “people of color” but used the expression “colored people” instead.”

No doubt this hapless leftist was thinking of the NAALCP (”colored people”) when he made the slip of tongue, which in the weird speech of the left is O.K. when that racist group is being discussed, but as a stand alone the phrase “colored people” is the death sentence because they have deemed it so. But “people of color”, which means exactly the same thing, is O.K. These people are so niggardly in the language that is permissible within the fever swamps of the left.


70 posted on 04/04/2018 12:54:30 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

The new drivers licenses don’t list the race on the front, but it is in the code on the back.


71 posted on 04/04/2018 1:06:13 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: rktman
semantics, feh...
72 posted on 04/04/2018 4:04:07 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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