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First black Miss Alabama says can't help but feel Dallas shooter was a 'martyr'
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Posted on 07/11/2016 6:11:15 AM PDT by TigerClaws

First black Miss Alabama says can't help but feel Dallas shooter was a 'martyr'

Kent Faulk | kfaulk@al.com By Kent Faulk | kfaulk@al.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on July 10, 2016 at 5:59 PM, updated July 10, 2016 at 11:33 PM

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Kalyn Chapman James, the first African American to hold the Miss Alabama title, posted a tearful video on her Facebook page Sunday that says she doesn't want to "feel this way" but she finds it hard to be sad for the Dallas police officers and "can't help but feeling like the shooter was a martyr."

She later clarified her thoughts and expressed her condolences to the families of the slain officers in a statement to AL.com.

James, who was Miss Alabama in 1993 and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and is now a TV host living in Miami. She is a native of Mobile.

She posted the more than two-minute Facebook Live video on her Facebook page Sunday afternoon. She was in a car and stated she had just left church.

"I don't want to feel this way" James states in the video. "I don't feel sad for the officers who lost their lives ... I know that's not really my heart. I value human life. And I want to feel sad for them but I can't help but feeling like the shooter was a martyr," she says in the video.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: blackracism; copkillers; dallas; micahjohnson; obama
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To: TigerClaws

Wonder why she thinks someone cares what she thinks she’s a nobody of importance.


21 posted on 07/11/2016 6:24:56 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: TigerClaws

Bunch of stupid people chiming in on her FB page.


22 posted on 07/11/2016 6:25:46 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Disgraceful !


23 posted on 07/11/2016 6:25:50 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: al baby; vette6387; flat; unkus; SkyPilot; Lumper20; MinuteGal; Albion Wilde; Liz; HarleyLady27; ...

Brainless loser would be my title for this person.


24 posted on 07/11/2016 6:26:21 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: TigerClaws

That’s Miss Alabama? Are you kidding me? She must have some hidden charms.


25 posted on 07/11/2016 6:26:40 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: TigerClaws

she obviously doesn’t know what “martyr” means.


26 posted on 07/11/2016 6:27:10 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: TigerClaws
First black Miss Alabama says can't help but feel Dallas shooter was a 'martyr'

I can't help feeling that the first black miss Alabama got her title as a result of racial quotas/affirmative action rather than any merit she obviously doesn't posses.

27 posted on 07/11/2016 6:27:30 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: TigerClaws

This has to violate her title agreement.


28 posted on 07/11/2016 6:27:45 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The irony is that the police officers were not “uninvolved”. Actually they were involved with PROTECTING BLM protestors.


29 posted on 07/11/2016 6:27:56 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: crusty old prospector

[It was from 1993.]

The Miss America Pageant system should strip this chick’s name from the history books. They do it for professional athletes. They should do it for professional beauty queens.


30 posted on 07/11/2016 6:28:34 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: KC_Conspirator
was Miss Alabama in 1993 and attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and is now a TV host living in Miami
31 posted on 07/11/2016 6:29:07 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
In other words, she got a panicked call from her agent in which the agent called her a complete idiot and asked her if she wanted to lose her crown and never get an endorsement deal, record contract or movie deal again.

Correct. If I were the committee, I would be filing to take that crown away.

32 posted on 07/11/2016 6:29:29 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Genoa

Ah, duh. ty


33 posted on 07/11/2016 6:30:02 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: TigerClaws
Someone so conflicted should have simply kept her mouth shut.

Better to hold your tongue and have people think you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

34 posted on 07/11/2016 6:31:11 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Blue on Black, match on a fire)
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To: TigerClaws

been waiting for this crap.Especially after CNN’s trying to say the explosive take out of the scum bag was too much force.

Miss Alabama and CNN cause me to frigen gag


35 posted on 07/11/2016 6:31:36 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: TigerClaws

Take her crown at least


36 posted on 07/11/2016 6:31:44 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: TigerClaws

I wonder if she thinks this guys is a ‘martyr’ also:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/07/10/black-lives-matter-activist-breaks-into-cops-house-threatens-officers-wife-and-children-shot-dead/


37 posted on 07/11/2016 6:33:23 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: TigerClaws

She can’t resist opening her mouth and removing all doubt.


38 posted on 07/11/2016 6:36:13 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: TigerClaws

I have a strong suspicion that everyday blacks, even the ones that I deal with amicably everyday in my 50% minority City, which happens to be Mobile, feel this way. If I were totally honest I would say a belief not a suspicion. But somehow, so far, we generally get along with each other. But we also live in an “armed society is a polite society” part of the country.


39 posted on 07/11/2016 6:41:53 AM PDT by suthener
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To: TigerClaws

I have a strong suspicion that everyday blacks, even the ones that I deal with amicably everyday in my 50% minority City, which happens to be Mobile, feel this way. If I were totally honest I would say a belief not a suspicion. But somehow, so far, we generally get along with each other. But we also live in an “armed society is a polite society” part of the country.


40 posted on 07/11/2016 6:41:56 AM PDT by suthener
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