John Edwards talks smack about blacks
Robin Boyd wondered last night when the Race-Hustling Reverends (or the “Justice Brothers” as Rush Limbaugh calls them) will start jumping all over John Edwards for this statement on MTV yesterday:
The idea that we’re going to keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating – pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African American male population in America – they’re all gonna be in prison or dead.
Here’s the MTV vid:
Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Liberal racists have got to go!
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Justice Brothers audio:
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Won’t hear a thing about this from any of them. Because Edwards is a Democrat, after all, and everyone knows the ONLY racists in the world are all of us evil Republicans.
Makes me livid that these people continue to perpetuate that myth and no one every calls them on it.
I wonder if the Jerk Brother$ ever read this book?
American history shows it has been the Dimocrap party that has tried their hardest to keep “People of color” from voting and as second class citizens.
Of course, they really are not concerned with truth, just the almighty dollar.
No such thing.
It is fitting his stage is the flag of the rising sun. He just kamikazed himself.
That sucks, he’s going to have to liquidate a lot of the wealth he made putting doctors out of business from his funds that are heavily invested in high-risk mortgages to pay off Al and Jesse for their indulgence on this one!
If he’s paying $400.00 for that funny looking surf board haircut I hope a portion of it goe’s for the hair implants he’s going to need in a year.
Wow, I guess Silky’s White House run is now over.
THIS IS WHY THE VOTING AGE SHOULD BE SET BACK TO AT LEAST 21 YRS.
Watch the heads nod as this tripe spews out of this idiot’s mouth!
No! Hair spray boy it does not start with the President of the United States. It starts with the family unit. Stop the out of wedlock births. Having the children growing up in a two parent home is the foundation which to build on love, discipline, ect. Also throwing more money into the education bottomless pit does nothing except raise taxes. Hair spary boy 1+1= if its tought in the inner city or outside is always 2. Cat is still spelled C-A-T in the inner city or outside the inner city. These Two America you spew Hair Spary Boy is plain B-U-L-L-S-%-*-T. The only two Americas I know of are North America and South America. As for the race baiters if the name does not end with an (R) after it, there will be no shouting, etc. . I can’t believe he hair spray boy ever won trials… GRRRRRRRRR
Bingo.
You won’t hear much about this outside of the usual truthful channels.
Johns Edwards’ mouth is moving but all I hear is Senator Gravel. Video Here
Not according to the “Reverend” Jessie Jackson. Did you see his interview on O’Reilly Last night? Bill threw that question at him and he just danced around it saying that fixing family values in the Black community wont’ fix the problem of criminal behavior and school drop outs. Why blacks in this country are not in an uproar over Jackson and Sharpton is beyond me. They are holding the black community back and doing them a great injustice.
My prediction is that they will only come out in defense of him to try to clearify what he was trying to say and reiterate that his points are accurate.
Can you say, “delusional”, boys and girls? Sure, I knew you could.
The unnerving aspect of this video is the young “skulls full of mush” nodding in complete agreement and rapidly taking down notes as if this were some deep truth uttered from a messiah. They haven’t a clue about life yet. Unfortunately in todays world when the lessons come it will probably too late for many of these young bloomers.
What did he say?
What I find so ironic about Democrats is that if I really, really hated black people – and wanted to do everything I could to keep them beaten, stagnant and poor – I’d do exactly what the Democrat Party prescribes for them:
- I’d discourage them from undertaking any kind of honest evaluation of the home-grown, self-destructive things that hold them back, like 70% births to unwed mothers, high rates of teen pregnancy, staggering drop-out rates from school, and young men joining gangs as ersatz father figures.
I’d encourage them to look to the past not as a guidepost, but a hitching-post. I’d help them to point their fingers at others and blame them for everything that “keeps them down”: Whitey, “The Man,” “structural racism,” the “Legacy of Slavery” – anyone and anything but themselves.
- I’d foster nanny-state government programs to destroy their families, corrode their self-respect and self-reliance, and keep them bitter and dependent upon the government (i.e., me): welfare, affirmative action, race-based quotas in school admissions.
- I’d promote a class of Quisling “leaders” among them like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and Julian Bond and Kweisi Mfume, Marion Barry and William Jefferson – who would encourage them not only to blame others for why they can never seem to get ahead, but that it’s also OK to break the law to “get ahead.”
- I’d demand that they tar and feather any “race traitors,” “Oreos,” “Uncle Toms” and “Aunt Jemimas” among them like Clarence Thomas, Larry Elder, John McWhorter, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice.
- I’d promote a monopolistic system of “public education” to keep them trapped in blackboard jungle inner city schools. I’d fight desperately against things like school vouchers that might let them escape.
- Finally, as a cherry on top, I’d promote a system of “Social Security” with a qualifying age for benefits high enough to exceed their average life expectancy – but I’d still demand they contribute their “fair share.”
And then I’d laugh my white ass off when they reflexively give me 90+% of their votes every election.
Question for John-Boy…
How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the plantation
after they’ve seen Paree’?
Do not believe for one second that Edward doesn’t know exactly what’s he is doing.
His following in NC is zilch.
Guess he’s hanging on Hillary’s coattails to get the VP spot.
In addition, he could care a rat’s arse about the “poor downtrodden” blacks.
He just wants them to hire him for future lawsuits.
Watch him join the likes of Big Al and Mush Mouth Jackson down the road.
That’s an ignorant rant. More African Americans are in college than in prison. “We can not build enough prisons to solve this problem” part is outright racist!!!!!!!!!!!!
Might I coin a new phrase here:
John Edwards is playing the ‘Black Vote’ Card.
I think the time is right for conservatives to reach out to the Black community. They can’t be happy being characterized that way.
I’ve always been tempted to question Edwards’s legal immigration status on Earth given some of his crazy actions. With a comment like that, though, I’m not even sure he’s from our solar system. What is he thinking?
The funny part is that no matter what context you give to this, the underlying assumptions are bankrupt.
If we continue the present course ALL black males will be dead or incarcerated?
What about all the vast majority of black males who are living honest, decent, productive lives?
Edwards assumes that the “MAN” bogeyman will grab the educated, the decent, the hard working, the church going or all of the above blacks and throw them in jail or kill them… or he alternatively (or concurrently) assumes that all black males have this propensity for violence and a culture of death and imprisonment that is inevitable.
I think Edwards tried to play “the MAN is gonna beat you down” card and muffed it up in a fit of hyperbole.
That is what he gets for being a intellectually dishonest, race card playing fluff piece.
Edwards did better than Obama would of, because Obama isn’t black in the classic American description of the word. He counts as black in any diversity calc, but he has to ask his wife what it all means…
By the way, Bill Cosby has been hammered for way less than that
Jonh makes three assumptions here:
1) Black kids are incapable of NOT being criminals unless they are educated out of it by a White Man (oh, what a Burden).
2) All “inner city kids” (which is who the girl is asking about) are black (which is who he winds up talking about).
3) The entirety of the “young African American population of America” lives in the “inner city” or “poor rural areas.” Why else would he say that we were’t going to have a yAAp in America and then only concentrate his remarks on the inner city? I realize that her question was about inner city kids, but he broadened the answer to cover the entire yAAp in America and then just talked about the inner city.
Correct me if I’m wrong but Edwards seems to belive that all blacks in America live in the inner city and are criminal by nature.
A rational alternative to unfair and unjust incarceration: instead of conventional jail time, have these so-called unjustly-convicted criminals do their time in Silky’s 28,000 square foot mansion. Now, that’s a good alternative to building prisons, and goes a long way in solving the Johnny’s problem with “two America’s”.
Maybe this guy’s a visionary after all.
arg MM!!! The one time you have a post that fits my expertise and I only have time for one post!!! so I guess I have to write a lot here
So here’s what I gathered his position to be:
1) Stop building prisons–okay we’ll do that, then you can complain about prison overcrowding.
2)Improve the educational system–teacher incentives, eh? that’s fine, but how do you judge success? It can’t be through standardized testing, since you’ve rejected No Child Left Behind and said it teaches to the test. So what’s your measure? Some how I get the feeling that it’ll have to do with experience?
3) Universal health care–how will this help?
4) Universal early education–that’s right, indoctrinate them from as early as possible. I don’t have a problem with Head Start per say, but the evaluations on the effectiveness of the program suffer from serious selection bias problems.
5) Change the drug code–so if you sell crack to children it’s less of an offense?
6) make an education system that’s fair for the inner cities –Guess what? Half the problem is bad parenting from people who don’t know how to raise children. And who’s going to fix the problem? The teachers union? HAH! Vouchers may not be the sole answer, but at least it’s a start. But wait, you’re against those.
7)More probation officers-Fine, more people in government, just what we need. How about contracting it out and creating incentives for probation officers who prevent recidivism?
8)Help ex-offenders get jobs—Fine, but if a business is getting taxed out the wazoo, they”re not likely to take on a risky employee, even if they do get a tax credit.
9) Educate ex-offenders–explain to me why we shouldn’t do that while they’re in prison and are a captive audience?
No mention of reforming HUD or the Public Housing Administration (FYI it’s taken my company 5 years to acquire vacant, boarded up PHA property), no mention of increased police presence in high crime areas, no mention of vouchers, no mention of faith based after school programs (the only one’s that are in these areas), and no mention of incentivising CDBG or HOME funds to make sure that they’re used properly.
Kudos Mr Pony, you’ve solved nothing and made me spend a lot more to do it.
In response, I believe he’s talking about the African American MALE population.
The data seems to be conflicting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/us/27census.html?ref=us
Either way, I think we all should agree more of an effort must be made for African American men to be prepared and have the opportunity to succeed in college, should they wish to do so. If we do not, there becomes a greater opportunity that they might become caught up in other activites that could lead to trouble.
Sen. Edwards was overdramatic in his statement and did exagerate his claim. If it came across the wrong way, he should apologize and clarify what he meant. But for the most part, I felt he was simply saying that the path of all-too-many African American males in this country must be address in order to benefit society at large.
Edwards’ “southern-boy” upbringing started to show through. He was patronizing and dismissive of blacks. I’m surprised he didn’t use the “N” word.
A bit of history is needed here.
Civil War era black activist Fredrick Douglass was a Republican.
Republicans were the party that really made slavery illegal. Not the Democrats, the southern Democrats were in rebellion.
When Lincoln was elected, the south was overwhelmingly Democratic and he didn’t get a single electorial college vote from what became the Confederacy.
The Confederacy was born from the southern Democrats via succession. These Democrats became the political leaders of the Confederacy.
And through the 1960′s and early 70′s, it was the Republicans that championed civil rights for blacks, while the Democrats did everything they could to oppose civil rights.
It was Republicans, who in the early 20th Century pushed for Civil Rights for blacks by submitting legislation. The Republicans submitted over 30 civil rights bills in the decades before the 1960s. It was the Democrats that always killed them.
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was being considered in Congress, the vast majority of Republicans supported it, while Democrats, again, did everything in their power to kill it.
It took a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN Senator, Evertt Dirksen of Illinois, who was Senate Minority Leader, to orchestrate the strategy to DEFEAT the Democrat’s filibuster, preventing it having a vote. When it was voted, it was overwhelming passed in the House, but in the Senate, only one Republican voted against it, and so did all Sourthern Democrats.
Why blacks vote for the party that wanted to keep them enslaved, that worked unceasingly to oppose civil rights, and who invented “Jim Crow” and the KKK, I’ll never know. Are they so ignorant of history, that they accept these patronizing, insulting, remarks by Edwards without backlash?
Why aren’t they boiling mad?
I guess hell froze over, because I actually agree with John Edwards.
9/29/07 12:59pm
No mention of this anywhere on C.N.N.’s Front page, or even their Politics main page.
Scandals only happen when it’s a Republican involved.
If Fred Thompson had said the very same thing, they’d be attacking him in all phases of the press. Top of the hour newscasts, professional “activists” and “advocates” on every show denouncing the comments as rascist. Sunday shows would be devoting panel discussions to Republican rascism and the plight of poor,”unfortunate”, black youths that are rounded up in the streets for no reason and hearded into prison.
By Monday there would be marches, rallies and calls for Fred’s dropping out of the race for President.
Edwards? He was probably misquoted.
As I understand Edwards:
It is the judical system that is the reason that young, black men use drugs and commit crime. Heaven forbid that they would personally be responsible for their actions.
Whites use powder cocaine and blacks use crack?
The rich (anyone not living in the inner city) are a problem for the federal government and must be dealt with.
The health care industry (destroyed by Edwards and his type) are responsible for every evil that is not covered by whites or people trying to improve themselves.
The federal government can cure every problem. Except Katrina, terrorism, etc.
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Why? Just because they are Black?
That’s the Dem game plan, not ours.