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Old 09-28-2011, 11:59 AM
 
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“They’re aborigines, but they’re not Indians,” Beason replied.
That's it?? That's the remark that is so godawful? Sounds like he was attempting to sound "intellectual" and failed.

Wow, talk about a tempest in a teapot!

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Old 09-28-2011, 12:02 PM
 
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Read more: Ala. lawmaker sorry for 'aborigines' - Associated Press - POLITICO.com

The GOP just breeds racism.
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Whatever helps you get through the day without having to think.....

Reid apologizes for racial remarks about Obama during campaign - CNN
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Old 09-28-2011, 12:10 PM
 
Location: Northeast Texas
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Read more: Ala. lawmaker sorry for 'aborigines' - Associated Press - POLITICO.com

The GOP just breeds racism.
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Want me to give you a crap load list of democrats racism remarks?
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Old 09-28-2011, 12:14 PM
 
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He very might well be racist. But I called him an idiot because of his use of "aborigine". Aborigines = indigneous peoples. His attempt at a put down made him look even more idiotic
Point taken.
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Old 09-28-2011, 12:17 PM
 
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Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis."
-Senator Hillary Clinton

"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?"
-- Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers


"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."
-- Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent."
-Senator Joe Biden

Blacks and Hispanics are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write." -- Mike Wallace, CBS News
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Old 09-28-2011, 12:19 PM
 
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"You f*cking Jew b@stard." -- Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. This was revealed in "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" and has been verified by Paul Fray and three witnesses.

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes." -- Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002

"Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under his holy and righteous name." -- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, 1984

'Hymies.' 'Hymietown.' -- Jesse Jackson's description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail.

"Jews — that's J-E-W-S." -- Democratic state representative Bill McKinney on why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002
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Old 09-28-2011, 12:38 PM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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The guy isn't an idiot, he's a racist. They aren't the same thing.

Was in necessary? A strange and intriguing choice of words. What was unnecessary about expressing one's true feelings. Was it unnecessary because he revealed his true feelings. Frankly, I'm a glad that he did. I prefer to speak as they feel not rather than what they think is social acceptable. I want to know how people really think not the some facade that gives a cloak of acceptability.
Agreed.

And, he's a little bit of an idiot too, unless he knows something about African migration that the rest of us don't
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Old 09-28-2011, 12:56 PM
 
Location: West Coast
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Agreed. Could the man not have simply said, Black or African-American?
Just American is best. All hyphenated descriptions should end.
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Old 09-28-2011, 01:01 PM
 
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What's racist about aborigines? Don't you liberals know what it means? It's a common word used in Australia to describe the indigenous people of that country. The Senator got it wrong, the Native Americans are the aborigines, not the blacks.
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Old 09-28-2011, 01:19 PM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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What's racist about aborigines? Don't you liberals know what it means? It's a common word used in Australia to describe the indigenous people of that country. The Senator got it wrong, the Native Americans are the aborigines, not the blacks.
right, but shrieking 'racist' gets far more mileage than simply calling someone ignorant
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