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Apparently, Carson has guidance. If you are a poor country boy just trying to get elected
Democrat Byrd joined an organization who had absolutely no problem hanging a person of color to include someone who voluntarily served this country during WWII. That is who he is and that is who he will forever be. He cannot absolve himself of that organizations core beliefs anymore than can he bring its victims back to life.
OMG instate third or unlimited terms, I want clinton back now.
Anyways...
Im listening to a malcom X speech. Are you all familiar with the term House Negro? This guy is like super george carlin awesomeman.
I did. And I ask again...WHEN did the term Tar Baby go from the meaning ascribed in the Uncle Remus story to being a racist term that people like you use to justify your bigotry against an entire group of people?
OMG instate third or unlimited terms, I want clinton back now.
Anyways...
Im listening to a malcom X speech. Are you all familiar with the term House Negro? This guy is like super george carlin awesomeman.
Did you bother to read the article in its entirety?
there are 60 Republicans in the Tea Party Caucus:
I want to know which ones above wish to see lynchings come back, and I would like to see the evidence presented therein.
Mind you, no one will be able to do it. Because there isn't any. Because such a thing would be a massive scandal, and the Republican Party would kick them out.
And, in fact, Representative Carson is just spewing vile vitriol out of his a$$. I guess liberals got so used to spewing this kind of crap against George Bush they assumed they could do it to the Tea Partiers without ever getting called out on it.
Well, Carson, let me introduce you to Tea Party Member Representative West. You may find him a little less.... pacifist.
Ever hear of Brer Rabbit? Read the whole, "Brer Rabbit and The Tar Baby", story? Disney made a cartoon of it.
Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby - YouTube
This is just another case of Liberals totally misunderstanding historical context.
How about "known by some"...I'm well aware of where the term comes from (I was a toddler learning how to read at one point). Nonetheless, the phrase is still widely known to have racial connotations.
Every company is different, but they are all variations on the same base line and its all very structured
Lets say, you have to rank 100 employees in a stack. Top of the stack is the highest performing employees, bottom is the lowest (dragging their ass) performing employees. So the management team gets in a huddle and spends a day creating this stack. This stack has serious implications. In any pay for performance, the top ~20% of the employees will receive raises, while the bottom 5% (sometimes up to 20% depending on business conditions) will be placed in some version of corrective action. Also lay-offs, when necessary will come from the bottom of the stack. Now after all that, you have to identify the protected classes (a black woman as an example) in the stack and redistribute the stack so you don't have any protected classes in the bottom 20% and so that they are well represented in the top 20% of the stack.
This sort of thing goes on when determining pay, lay-offs, contract allocation, pretty much anything that has anything to do with differentiating employees or even companies bidding on a contract. It's huge and it's just the way business is done. The objective is to play it so ****ing safe that a protected class individual (or company owned by a protected class individual) doesn't have any reason to sue your company.
there are 60 Republicans in the Tea Party Caucus:
Sandy Adams, Florida
Robert Aderholt, Alabama
Todd Akin, Missouri
Rodney Alexander, Louisiana
Michele Bachmann, Minnesota, Chair
Roscoe Bartlett, Maryland
Joe Barton, Texas
Gus Bilirakis, Florida
Rob Bishop, Utah
Diane Black, Tennessee
Michael C. Burgess, Texas
Paul Broun, Georgia
Dan Burton, Indiana
John Carter, Texas
Bill Cassidy, Louisiana
Howard Coble, North Carolina
Mike Coffman, Colorado
Chip Cravaack, Minnesota
Ander Crenshaw, Florida
John Culberson, Texas
Jeff Duncan, South Carolina
Blake Farenthold, Texas
Stephen Fincher, Tennessee
John Fleming, Louisiana
Trent Franks, Arizona
Phil Gingrey, Georgia
Louie Gohmert, Texas
Vicky Hartzler, Missouri
Wally Herger, California
Tim Huelskamp, Kansas
Lynn Jenkins, Kansas
Steve King, Iowa
Doug Lamborn, Colorado
Jeff Landry, Louisiana
Blaine Luetkemeyer, Missouri
Kenny Marchant, Texas
Tom McClintock, California
David McKinley, West Virginia
Gary Miller, California
Mick Mulvaney, South Carolina
Randy Neugebauer, Texas
Rich Nugent, Florida
Steve Pearce, New Mexico
Mike Pence, Indiana
Ted Poe, Texas
Tom Price, Georgia
Denny Rehberg, Montana
Phil Roe, Tennessee
Dennis Ross, Florida
Ed Royce, California
Steve Scalise, Louisiana
Tim Scott, South Carolina
Pete Sessions, Texas
Adrian Smith, Nebraska
Lamar Smith, Texas
Cliff Stearns, Florida
Tim Walberg, Michigan
Joe Walsh, Illinois
Allen West, Florida
Lynn Westmoreland, Georgia
Joe Wilson, South Carolina
I want to know which ones above wish to see lynchings come back, and I would like to see the evidence presented therein.
I'm well aware of where the term comes from (I was a toddler learning how to read at one point). Nonetheless, the phrase is still widely known to have racial connotations.
Are you asking Andre Carson because I'm pretty sure he's the one who made the claim and I'm also pretty sure he doesn't have an account here?bumpity bump bump
The only way to get people who don't want to be married to each other to get married is force unless you're arguing for huge structural changes in the black community, but then that goes far beyond marriage making conditions other than marriage the focus of your argument.
Are you asking Andre Carson because I'm pretty sure he's the one who made the claim and I'm also pretty sure he doesn't have an account here?
I neither defend him nor will agree to the false nature of his charge. The idea that it must be one or the other is both ridiculous and based in a denial of our own ignorance of the thoughts of people we don't know.I'm asking any who would rise to his defense rather than agreeing to the false nature of his charge.
Isn't about time we moved past such vile, angry bull****?
Oh wait, I can't say that about the esteemed Rep. Carson, to criticize him, since I am a white male and tea partier, is racist.
Just reading that filthy dung heaps rant makes my stomach churn in disgust.
I neither defend him nor will agree to the false nature of his charge. The idea that it must be one or the other is both ridiculous and based in a denial of our own ignorance of the thoughts of people we don't know.
he stated that he is aware of tea party members of congress who want to see black people hanging from trees. now, whether or not there are tea partiers in congress who want to see black people hanging from trees is a rather binary question; either they do, or they do not. We might as well run with the assumption that all democrats in congress secretly want to rape children as adopt the standard for Tea Partiers that you are suggesting.
The chances of a tea party member wanting blacks hanging from a tree is far less remote in the grand cosmic scheme of things.
Also, 'wanting blacks hanging from a tree' is an inflammatory statement that is not literal.
the "grand cosmic scheme of things"? really? you are debating from the "grand cosmic scheme of things"? why not just admit that the guy is a big-mouthed a--clown who prefers to campaign on race-baiting?
no, that's a very specific statement. you don't accuse someone of intent to commit murder unless you have some kind of evidence of their intent to commit murder.
Rep. Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana who serves as the CBC’s chief vote counter, said at a CBC event in Miami that some in Congress would “love to see us as second-class citizens” and “some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me ... hanging on a tree.”
I neither defend him nor will agree to the false nature of his charge. The idea that it must be one or the other is both ridiculous and based in a denial of our own ignorance of the thoughts of people we don't know.
What actions would those be?Are you saying that employers aren't responsible for their own actions?
So...for the record...liberals lose their ****ing minds when someone uses a vague term like "tar baby", but...meh...Im sure it was only just mild rheotic when he accused Tea Party republicans of wanting to lych blacks and see folks hanging fromt he trees. Certainly nothing to get spun up out.Theres the audio clip and someone elses podcast commentary, kind of a good one actually. After listening Im not sure if I take the statement as completely literal... thered be a little more fire in the room if that were true.
I would say that the remarks by the Dem Congresspeople were over the top and they should retract them and apologize. And at the same time, there is pretty strong evidence that the Tea Party counts a disproportionate number of racists on its dance card.
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