Eleven US Politicians who made Racist Remarks:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:You missed one of the Biggest Racist presidents of all..Abe Lincoln:

As cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press Abraham Lincoln said: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

Wordslinger wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:You missed one of the Biggest Racist presidents of all..Abe Lincoln:

As cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press Abraham Lincoln said: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

I'm lost -- does this mean you adore or hate Lincoln?  Besides, despite whatever he said prior to signing the Emancipation Proclamation doesn't matter a whit.

The facts are, Lincoln ended slavery -- whether he really liked African Americans or not.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:You missed one of the Biggest Racist presidents of all..Abe Lincoln:

As cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press Abraham Lincoln said: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

I'm lost -- does this mean you adore or hate Lincoln?  Besides, despite whatever he said prior to signing the Emancipation Proclamation doesn't matter a whit.

The facts are, Lincoln ended slavery -- whether he really liked African Americans or not.

I see in this case ignore the facts...

Reality

Wordslinger wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:You missed one of the Biggest Racist presidents of all..Abe Lincoln:

As cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press Abraham Lincoln said: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

I'm lost -- does this mean you adore or hate Lincoln?  Besides, despite whatever he said prior to signing the Emancipation Proclamation doesn't matter a whit.

The facts are, Lincoln ended slavery -- whether he really liked African Americans or not.

I see in this case ignore the facts...

Reality

OK you've succeeded in confusing us.  Just which facts do you think we're ignoring?  Are you disputing that Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation?  And nobody here has yet disputed your quote that showed that Lincoln was at one time a racist.  Here's something you rednecks really need to learn -- people grow.  George Washington was a self-seeking, arrogant rich guy who cared less about freedom and the plight of the "average" American pioneer.  But after he became president (and was still among the richest men in the former British colony) he no longer had to care about not being socially accepted by British leaders because he had no "royal" relations, and he really became vitally interested in making America work for everyone.  He was a rich prick in the beginning who eventually became a socially conscious American leader.

Lincoln also traveled a road of discovery.

Now bigmouth, just what "facts" have we ignored in our comment to your remarks showing Lincoln was a racist?

And by the way, wasn't Lincoln a republican?

My dad was a Jew.  He worked on a movie starring John Wayne -- a white supremacist who vocally expressed his distaste for anyone not a white protestant.  The film took a year to finish.  At the end of it, Duke and Kiva were very good friends.

People change -- even racists.  The truth is, racism is based on ignorance and suspicion.  O'Reilly himself was dumbfounded to discover that the people in a black New York neighborhood restaurant behaved just like the white folks across town.

People like O'Reilly and Sean Hannity feed off of pumping up the hatred and fears of people who feel threatened by anyone who doesn't think the way they do, on everything.  It's the same trough that feeds Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and even Charles Krauthammer.

Reality.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

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TEOTWAWKI wrote:You missed one of the Biggest Racist presidents of all..Abe Lincoln:

As cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press Abraham Lincoln said: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

I'm lost -- does this mean you adore or hate Lincoln?  Besides, despite whatever he said prior to signing the Emancipation Proclamation doesn't matter a whit.

The facts are, Lincoln ended slavery -- whether he really liked African Americans or not.

I see in this case ignore the facts...

Reality

OK you've succeeded in confusing us.  Just which facts do you think we're ignoring?  Are you disputing that Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation?  And nobody here has yet disputed your quote that showed that Lincoln was at one time a racist.  Here's something you rednecks really need to learn -- people grow.  George Washington was a self-seeking, arrogant rich guy who cared less about freedom and the plight of the "average" American pioneer.  But after he became president (and was still among the richest men in the former British colony) he no longer had to care about not being socially accepted by British leaders because he had no "royal" relations, and he really became vitally interested in making America work for everyone.  He was a rich prick in the beginning who eventually became a socially conscious American leader.

Lincoln also traveled a road of discovery.

Now bigmouth, just what "facts" have we ignored in our comment to your remarks showing Lincoln was a racist?

And by the way, wasn't Lincoln a republican?

My dad was a Jew.  He worked on a movie starring John Wayne -- a white supremacist who vocally expressed his distaste for anyone not a white protestant.  The film took a year to finish.  At the end of it, Duke and Kiva were very good friends.

People change -- even racists.  The truth is, racism is based on ignorance and suspicion.  O'Reilly himself was dumbfounded to discover that the people in a black New York neighborhood restaurant behaved just like the white folks across town.

People like O'Reilly and Sean Hannity feed off of pumping up the hatred and fears of people who feel threatened by anyone who doesn't think the way they do, on everything.  It's the same trough that feeds Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and even Charles Krauthammer.

Reality.

Racism is a tool for both sides to use however it profits them...Bundy's  a racist so now we can drone him to death and nobody will care...Yet 2 black guys ready to die protecting Bundy say he isn't but MSM is whiping up the usual dull crowd...sad

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TEOTWAWKI wrote:You missed one of the Biggest Racist presidents of all..Abe Lincoln:

As cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press Abraham Lincoln said: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

I'm lost -- does this mean you adore or hate Lincoln?  Besides, despite whatever he said prior to signing the Emancipation Proclamation doesn't matter a whit.

The facts are, Lincoln ended slavery -- whether he really liked African Americans or not.

I see in this case ignore the facts...

Reality

OK you've succeeded in confusing us.  Just which facts do you think we're ignoring?  Are you disputing that Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation?  And nobody here has yet disputed your quote that showed that Lincoln was at one time a racist.  Here's something you rednecks really need to learn -- people grow.  George Washington was a self-seeking, arrogant rich guy who cared less about freedom and the plight of the "average" American pioneer.  But after he became president (and was still among the richest men in the former British colony) he no longer had to care about not being socially accepted by British leaders because he had no "royal" relations, and he really became vitally interested in making America work for everyone.  He was a rich prick in the beginning who eventually became a socially conscious American leader.

Lincoln also traveled a road of discovery.

Now bigmouth, just what "facts" have we ignored in our comment to your remarks showing Lincoln was a racist?

And by the way, wasn't Lincoln a republican?

My dad was a Jew.  He worked on a movie starring John Wayne -- a white supremacist who vocally expressed his distaste for anyone not a white protestant.  The film took a year to finish.  At the end of it, Duke and Kiva were very good friends.

People change -- even racists.  The truth is, racism is based on ignorance and suspicion.  O'Reilly himself was dumbfounded to discover that the people in a black New York neighborhood restaurant behaved just like the white folks across town.

People like O'Reilly and Sean Hannity feed off of pumping up the hatred and fears of people who feel threatened by anyone who doesn't think the way they do, on everything.  It's the same trough that feeds Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and even Charles Krauthammer.

Reality.

Racism is a tool for both sides to use however it profits them...Bundy's  a racist so now we can drone him to death and nobody will care...Yet 2 black guys ready to die protecting Bundy say he isn't but MSM is whiping up the usual dull crowd...sad

To tell you the truth, once you have Bundy's own racist words praising slavery's positive effect on black families, the words of two Black Americans about Bundy's racism are irrelevant.  The issue is Bundy's own statement, not how anyone else, black or white, perceives the man.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:

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Wordslinger wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:You missed one of the Biggest Racist presidents of all..Abe Lincoln:

As cited in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln," Roy Basler, ed. 1953 New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press Abraham Lincoln said: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."

I'm lost -- does this mean you adore or hate Lincoln?  Besides, despite whatever he said prior to signing the Emancipation Proclamation doesn't matter a whit.

The facts are, Lincoln ended slavery -- whether he really liked African Americans or not.

I see in this case ignore the facts...

Reality

OK you've succeeded in confusing us.  Just which facts do you think we're ignoring?  Are you disputing that Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation?  And nobody here has yet disputed your quote that showed that Lincoln was at one time a racist.  Here's something you rednecks really need to learn -- people grow.  George Washington was a self-seeking, arrogant rich guy who cared less about freedom and the plight of the "average" American pioneer.  But after he became president (and was still among the richest men in the former British colony) he no longer had to care about not being socially accepted by British leaders because he had no "royal" relations, and he really became vitally interested in making America work for everyone.  He was a rich prick in the beginning who eventually became a socially conscious American leader.

Lincoln also traveled a road of discovery.

Now bigmouth, just what "facts" have we ignored in our comment to your remarks showing Lincoln was a racist?

And by the way, wasn't Lincoln a republican?

My dad was a Jew.  He worked on a movie starring John Wayne -- a white supremacist who vocally expressed his distaste for anyone not a white protestant.  The film took a year to finish.  At the end of it, Duke and Kiva were very good friends.

People change -- even racists.  The truth is, racism is based on ignorance and suspicion.  O'Reilly himself was dumbfounded to discover that the people in a black New York neighborhood restaurant behaved just like the white folks across town.

People like O'Reilly and Sean Hannity feed off of pumping up the hatred and fears of people who feel threatened by anyone who doesn't think the way they do, on everything.  It's the same trough that feeds Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and even Charles Krauthammer.

Reality.

Racism is a tool for both sides to use however it profits them...Bundy's  a racist so now we can drone him to death and nobody will care...Yet 2 black guys ready to die protecting Bundy say he isn't but MSM is whiping up the usual dull crowd...sad

To tell you the truth, once you have Bundy's own racist words praising slavery's positive effect on black families, the words of two Black Americans about Bundy's racism are irrelevant.  The issue is Bundy's own statement, not how anyone else, black or white, perceives the man.

That wasn't what he said and you know it but your distortion of it serves your purpose well...I think it is quite obvious just as your black soldier was bonded with a white soldier due to a common enemy, slavery but mostly the after effects of it drove black people together. With evil racist democrats like the KKK tormenting them.. They had a common enemy and if wasn't for the NRA forming to teach Black people to shoot and protect themselves how many more would have died....yes welfare did what Jim Crow and democrat violence couldn't do ..destroyed the black family unit.

Wordslinger wrote:The source is ATT-Yahoo.com news; from a Bill Maher comment about Cliven Bundy, and republicans associating themselves with known racists.

Here are the democrats who have made overt racist statements:

Harry Truman, President
Robert Byrd, D, W. Va
Harry Reid, D, Sen. Nevada


And here are the republicans:

Joe Maturo, R, Mayor, East Haven, Conn.
Larry Taylor, R. State sen., Texas
Richard Nixon, R. President
Jake Knotts, R. So. Caro. State Sen.
Ralph Arza, R. Fl. St. Sen.
George Allen, R. Sen. Va.
John McCain, R.  Sen Az.
Rick Santorum, R. Former Sen. Pa.

Source:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/26/bill-maher-cliven-bundy_n_5218439.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

It's unlikely this list is complete.  American racism is far more prevalent than suggested here.  African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Poles, Italians, Catholics, gays, union organizers, the unemployed, scientists, women's rights leaders and everyone who gets food stamps or welfare aid, have all felt the bite.  

In the "greatest country ever" mutual respect for different skin colors, religious affiliations, or points of view is as abysmally absent now as it was at the time of the so-called founding fathers -- who, created a government expressly for white men who owned property.  In other words, we're a country created by the white protestant rich, for the rich and of the rich.

American racism is the most destructive social element in our country today.  And so far, it looks like the republicans have taken absolute leadership of this malevolent political force.

You have the mainstream republican party (Jeb Bush, Chris Christy, Mitt Romney, et al.) vs. the Tea Party, the Evangelical Christian Leadership, and the Dixiecrats.  It's a circle-jerk of utter chaotic dysfunction, filled to the brim with various forms of racism.

The truth is, it's almost impossible to avoid some form of racism in our country today.  And its at the top of the list why we are failing in almost every major catagory -- economic, international politics, educationally, and in cutting the costs of healthcare and making it accessible to all Americans.

Why can't we all just get along?

Reality.

Markle wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:The source is ATT-Yahoo.com news; from a Bill Maher comment about Cliven Bundy, and republicans associating themselves with known racists.

Here are the democrats who have made overt racist statements:

Harry Truman, President
Robert Byrd, D, W. Va
Harry Reid, D, Sen. Nevada


And here are the republicans:

Joe Maturo, R, Mayor, East Haven, Conn.
Larry Taylor, R. State sen., Texas
Richard Nixon, R. President
Jake Knotts, R. So. Caro. State Sen.
Ralph Arza, R. Fl. St. Sen.
George Allen, R. Sen. Va.
John McCain, R.  Sen Az.
Rick Santorum, R. Former Sen. Pa.

Source:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/26/bill-maher-cliven-bundy_n_5218439.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

It's unlikely this list is complete.  American racism is far more prevalent than suggested here.  African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Poles, Italians, Catholics, gays, union organizers, the unemployed, scientists, women's rights leaders and everyone who gets food stamps or welfare aid, have all felt the bite.  

In the "greatest country ever" mutual respect for different skin colors, religious affiliations, or points of view is as abysmally absent now as it was at the time of the so-called founding fathers -- who, created a government expressly for white men who owned property.  In other words, we're a country created by the white protestant rich, for the rich and of the rich.

American racism is the most destructive social element in our country today.  And so far, it looks like the republicans have taken absolute leadership of this malevolent political force.

You have the mainstream republican party (Jeb Bush, Chris Christy, Mitt Romney, et al.) vs. the Tea Party, the Evangelical Christian Leadership, and the Dixiecrats.  It's a circle-jerk of utter chaotic dysfunction, filled to the brim with various forms of racism.

The truth is, it's almost impossible to avoid some form of racism in our country today.  And its at the top of the list why we are failing in almost every major catagory -- economic, international politics, educationally, and in cutting the costs of healthcare and making it accessible to all Americans.

Why can't we all just get along?

Reality.

Has to be in competition for on of the top three foolish posts from my good friend Wordslinger.

You must be really slowing down.  Hope the medication is helping.

Wordslinger wrote:The source is ATT-Yahoo.com news; from a Bill Maher comment about Cliven Bundy, and republicans associating themselves with known racists.

Here are the democrats who have made overt racist statements:

Harry Truman, President
Robert Byrd, D, W. Va
Harry Reid, D, Sen. Nevada


And here are the republicans:

Joe Maturo, R, Mayor, East Haven, Conn.
Larry Taylor, R. State sen., Texas
Richard Nixon, R. President
Jake Knotts, R. So. Caro. State Sen.
Ralph Arza, R. Fl. St. Sen.
George Allen, R. Sen. Va.
John McCain, R.  Sen Az.
Rick Santorum, R. Former Sen. Pa.

Source:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/26/bill-maher-cliven-bundy_n_5218439.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

It's unlikely this list is complete.  American racism is far more prevalent than suggested here.  African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Poles, Italians, Catholics, gays, union organizers, the unemployed, scientists, women's rights leaders and everyone who gets food stamps or welfare aid, have all felt the bite.  

In the "greatest country ever" mutual respect for different skin colors, religious affiliations, or points of view is as abysmally absent now as it was at the time of the so-called founding fathers -- who, created a government expressly for white men who owned property.  In other words, we're a country created by the white protestant rich, for the rich and of the rich.

American racism is the most destructive social element in our country today.  And so far, it looks like the republicans have taken absolute leadership of this malevolent political force.

You have the mainstream republican party (Jeb Bush, Chris Christy, Mitt Romney, et al.) vs. the Tea Party, the Evangelical Christian Leadership, and the Dixiecrats.  It's a circle-jerk of utter chaotic dysfunction, filled to the brim with various forms of racism.

The truth is, it's almost impossible to avoid some form of racism in our country today.  And its at the top of the list why we are failing in almost every major catagory -- economic, international politics, educationally, and in cutting the costs of healthcare and making it accessible to all Americans.

Why can't we all just get along?

Reality.

Markle wrote:

Wordslinger wrote:The source is ATT-Yahoo.com news; from a Bill Maher comment about Cliven Bundy, and republicans associating themselves with known racists.

Here are the democrats who have made overt racist statements:

Harry Truman, President
Robert Byrd, D, W. Va
Harry Reid, D, Sen. Nevada


And here are the republicans:

Joe Maturo, R, Mayor, East Haven, Conn.
Larry Taylor, R. State sen., Texas
Richard Nixon, R. President
Jake Knotts, R. So. Caro. State Sen.
Ralph Arza, R. Fl. St. Sen.
George Allen, R. Sen. Va.
John McCain, R.  Sen Az.
Rick Santorum, R. Former Sen. Pa.

Source:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/26/bill-maher-cliven-bundy_n_5218439.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

It's unlikely this list is complete.  American racism is far more prevalent than suggested here.  African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Poles, Italians, Catholics, gays, union organizers, the unemployed, scientists, women's rights leaders and everyone who gets food stamps or welfare aid, have all felt the bite.  

In the "greatest country ever" mutual respect for different skin colors, religious affiliations, or points of view is as abysmally absent now as it was at the time of the so-called founding fathers -- who, created a government expressly for white men who owned property.  In other words, we're a country created by the white protestant rich, for the rich and of the rich.

American racism is the most destructive social element in our country today.  And so far, it looks like the republicans have taken absolute leadership of this malevolent political force.

You have the mainstream republican party (Jeb Bush, Chris Christy, Mitt Romney, et al.) vs. the Tea Party, the Evangelical Christian Leadership, and the Dixiecrats.  It's a circle-jerk of utter chaotic dysfunction, filled to the brim with various forms of racism.

The truth is, it's almost impossible to avoid some form of racism in our country today.  And its at the top of the list why we are failing in almost every major catagory -- economic, international politics, educationally, and in cutting the costs of healthcare and making it accessible to all Americans.

Why can't we all just get along?

Reality.

You left these out for some reason.  Where would they be without racism?

President Barack Hussein Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rev. Al Sharpton, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Father Pflager, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr., King Samir Shabazz, Van Jones, Charlie Rangel, Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Andre Carson, Shirley Sherrod….

PACEDOG#1 wrote:Liberals..... You guys are all lip service