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Sen. Barbara Boxer, accused of race politics today during the EPW hearing
While most people were paying attention to Day 4 of Sonia Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearings, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) was grabbing the attention of all those watching the Environment and Public Works hearing this morning.
It got very testy. Boxer was speaking to panelist Harry C. Alford, the president & CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. They first started talking about where he lived, which led to Boxer telling him, "Let me talk to you, this is friendly." That didn't last too long.
Boxer then quoted a NAACP resolution that passed and put it in the record.
Alford: "What does that mean?"
Boxer: "Sir, we're going to put that in the record..." Alford: "What does that mean, though? The NAACP has a resolution, what does that mean?"
Boxer: "Sir, they could say the same thing about what do you mean..."
Alford: "I've got documentation."
Boxer: "Sir, they passed it. They passed it. Now, also, if that isn't interesting you to we'll quote John Grant, who is the CEO of 100 Black Men of Atlanta." [She goes on to read quote.]
Alford: "Madam Chair, that is condescending to me. I'm the National Black Chamber of Commerce and you're trying to put up some other black group to pit against me."
Boxer: "If this gentlemen were here he would be proud that he was being quoted."
Alford: "He should have been invited!"
Boxer: "...just as he would be proud.." Alford: "It is condescending to me."
Boxer: "...he's proud, I'm sure, that I am quoting him."
Alford: "All that's condescending, and I don't like it. It's racial. I don't like it. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that!"
Boxer: "... offense at the fact that I would quote ...?" Alford: "You're quoting some other black man. Why don't you quote some other Asian ... or ... you are being racial here. And I think you're getting to a path here that's going to explode."
Boxer reviews what she had been doing and then mentions that "there is definitely differing opinions in the black community. Just as there are in my community."
Alford: "You're speaking on behalf of the black community?"
Boxer: "No. I am putting in the record a statement by the NAACP."
Alford: "Why?"
Boxer: "Because I think it is quite relevant."
Alford: "... Why are you doing the Colored People Association study with the Black Chamber of Commerce?"
Boxer: "I am trying to show the diversity of support that we have."
Alford: "Diversity?"
Boxer: "And I will go ahead and do one more diversity of support..." Eventually Alford declares, "We are referring to the experts regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-educated veteran of the United States Army that I must contend with some other black group and put aside everything else in here -- this has nothing to do with the NAACP and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We're talking energy and that road the chair went down, I think, is god-awful."
CA should be really proud to have both Boxer and Pelosi. Great Americans I tell ya.
lol Pelosi and Boxer the elite liberals that really love and care for the poor black/ethnic people lol shaken head.
The Far Left are dangerous racist in this country. They are for suppression of thought and independent ideals. They try to suppress free speech and choice. You must choose what they say or live in fear of being the outsider, the oreo, the traitor…a shame to your race. They continually label people, promote reverse discrimination under the guise of an owed social justice. At least Mr. Alford is an independent thinker and a Patriot. The Far Left hate Patriots also…gets in the way of all their Marxist/Socialist agendas they are striving for.
If anyone can upload the video it would be greatly appreciated!
ALFORD:It was pure race. It was like down there in Mississippi, back in the bad old days, when one Black preacher would rise up against the big boss, he'd go find another black preach to fight against that black preacher. Yeah, it is — it was ugly. And she jumped — she opened up a pit, a mud pit that I wasn't going to jump into.
ALFORD: She loves poor black folks and she loves black folks in their place. She does not love — you take Condoleezza Rice, who I would love my grandchildren to emulate and the way she treated Condoleezza Rice during her confirmation hearings was just terrible.
One thing liberals hate is a INTELLIGENT BLACK MAN!
CA should be really proud to have both Boxer and Pelosi. Great Americans I tell ya.
Don't forget Dianne Feinstein, her famous quote:
Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.
And my response would be
Is due to the force of your large, saggy *ss?
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