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Gee........... My ancestors used guns while in the Union Army to free his ancestors. They were, of course, "snaggle-toothed kin folk" who were a part of Grant's, then Sherman's army.
I wonder if the slaves could have freed themselves if it was not for these armed, "baby-raping, snaggle-toothed kin folk"? I think that modern blacks lose sight of the fact that poor farm boys, who had no slaves and never participated in the slave trade, sacrificed thier lives to free them, only to be met with hatred and derision 150 years later.
Yes. The state of Alabama didn't give a rats ass about the 15th amendment for years and the Alabama Constitution had highly racist elements for over a century. His anger at selective "Constitutionalists" is entirely understandable.
Regardless of his politics, Joseph Mitchell is an educated man who is capable of at least expressing his thoughts in a more coherent and grammatically correct manner.
A local paper interviewed him and he was unapologetic, so I doubt he will now claim his email was hacked as one TV station implied. More likely, he will blame painkillers or mental issues. He hasn't attended the legislature in a year, supposedly because his vehicle hasn't been modified to carry a wheelchair he needs due to a back injury.
Yes. The state of Alabama didn't give a rats ass about the 15th amendment for years and the Alabama Constitution had highly racist elements for over a century. His anger at selective "Constitutionalists" is entirely understandable.
It still does. Alabama and South Carolina have more "nullified laws" than any other states. They ban things like integration, interracial marriages and allow for HOAs to set up "whites only" language in home owner papers. All this stuff was of course nullified by the courts decades ago but the stuff is still on the books just waiting for the day the Republicans can appoint 4 more judges to the Supreme Court like Clarence Thomas. Hopefully that day will never come. In fact I hope the Republicans never appoint another judge. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/articl...NEWS/121109799
Rep. Mitchell: Hey man. Your folk never used all this sheit (sic) to protect my folk from your slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed (sic), imported criminal-minded kin folk.
Eddie Maxwell said he was "surprised at the racial tones" in Mitchell's responses.
He said the exchange was the first and only contact he's had with Mitchell, who has served in the state House since 1994.
"It just makes me more determined that we the people need to stay involved," Maxwell said in a telephone interview today. "It's up to us as citizens to watch our government."
Maxwell, a retired coal miner, said he'd heard from two state lawmakers who told him they regretted Mitchell's comments. One of them was state Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, who said in a Feb. 11 email to Maxwell that "this member hears you loud and clear."
"I just received this chain of emails and wanted to let you know that I am with you on the gun issue and am saddened by the tone of my colleagues email," Todd wrote, copying all members of the legislature, including Mitchell. "All of us have suffered from the racism of the past and I thank you for your civic and thoughtful response."
Maxwell said he hoped that legislative leaders would discipline Mitchell for his comments.
"I think (Mitchell) needs to be called in to face his actions. I think he at least needs to be questioned about it," he said.
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