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Pelosi stumbles in race remark
Politico.com ^ | 2-5-10 | Glenn Thrush

Posted on 02/05/2010 1:55:18 PM PST by Justaham

Talking about race is still a perilous business in American politics, even if you have a four-decade record of civil rights activism

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), appearing before the Democratic National Committee winter meeting this morning, was illustrating the diversity of the Democratic party by painting the touching scene of FDR's final train ride from Georgia to Hyde Park. Then she stumbled.

"There were farmers and black Americans, whatever the name was in those days, Afric- uh -- large numbers of African-Americans, poor people, middle class people, everyone. . . they lined the tracks to pay their respects," Pelosi told an audience at the Capitol Hilton.

Pelosi haters, and there are plenty of them, are likely to compare the remark to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's private comment that President Obama didn't speak in "Negro" dialect.

In fact, her gaffe couldn't have been more different.

Reid was privately using anachronistic, offensive language he'd never use in public, thinking his comments would never see the light of the day.

Pelosi, it appears, got into trouble for the opposite reason: She was trying to come up with the most PC way of describing African-Americans in a public forum -- in hopes of offending no one -- and wound up with a very un-PC quote that is likely to cause at least some offense.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: blackhistory; blacks; gaffe; pelosi
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1 posted on 02/05/2010 1:55:18 PM PST by Justaham
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To: Justaham

She’s a Democrat, so its okay to be racist.


2 posted on 02/05/2010 1:57:00 PM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Justaham

Actually, it seems to me, that her problem was she could not use whatever term she would have used in private, because she thought it might be offensive.


3 posted on 02/05/2010 1:57:49 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Justaham

Back in that day, here in GA, none of those words would have applied. Negro would have been the word and with no disrespect meant or taken. What a bunch of tools.

Like I told a black friend, “You’re Rick, nothing else. And damn big enough if I am in trouble I want you there.”


4 posted on 02/05/2010 1:58:54 PM PST by doodad
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To: Justaham

Pelosi giving a history lesson is scary. Were they pole vaulting in their “oshgoshes” to get a better view, Nancy? You crazy!


5 posted on 02/05/2010 1:59:00 PM PST by mancini
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To: Justaham
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She is truly a stu-pid person.

How the heck does someone like that get elected to Congress — let alone end up in a leadership position>

6 posted on 02/05/2010 2:00:22 PM PST by Touch Not the Cat
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To: Justaham

Whatever the name was in those days.....LOL!!!!!


7 posted on 02/05/2010 2:02:32 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Justaham
What's an "African-American"? Really, what is it?

I really despise that term.

8 posted on 02/05/2010 2:04:30 PM PST by raybbr
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To: GeronL

Did you see how she was afraid to say “Cracker”?


9 posted on 02/05/2010 2:05:42 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Justaham
As I have stated many times, Democrats are racist.
They spend their entire life thinking about race and making “Civil Rights” laws to cover this up. They have become so Politically Correct they cannot relax at any gathering that includes African Americans. Sometimes they slip up, like Nancy did here and Reid did in 08 and Byrd did in 2000 and on and on and on. The big difference is, the MSM was able to cover for them up until recently.
10 posted on 02/05/2010 2:07:21 PM PST by Tupelo
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To: Justaham

Ok, the new official name for black is whatever ?

Ok, all you whatever people - vote for Pelosi ! Selfless, tireless worker for the rights and dignity and equality of whatever people !

Such a sweet gal. Poor thing. It’s wike da whowew wowd came cwashing down... cant fink stwait...


11 posted on 02/05/2010 2:08:51 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: raybbr

I agree. Maybe an American of African decent? An American of Hispanic decent? Or God forbid, simply an American.

Gunner


12 posted on 02/05/2010 2:09:09 PM PST by weps4ret (Where is John Galt?)
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To: muawiyah

as a matter of fact we need to force those cracker companies to call their product something else.


13 posted on 02/05/2010 2:09:12 PM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Justaham
To be honest, I don't see how this is even remotely racist. So she fumbled around until she came up with the "proper" PC term, so what?

Really people, we're making waaaaay too big a deal over this and the Harry Reid comment...especially when you consider that nothing Reid said was factually wrong! We're starting to sound just the CommieLib 'Rats, which is dangerous. They have enough for us to go after without making mountains out of PC molehills.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

14 posted on 02/05/2010 2:13:27 PM PST by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? Go to www.myspace.com/rockfromtheright)
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To: Justaham

Gee guys, give poor Nancy a break. Who can remember what the name of the people formerly known as Negro is today! I mean really. Quick, what is the name of that stadium where the Super Bowl is going to played Sunday? Hmmmm, come on now think! Joe Robbie? Bzzzzz Sorry. Pro Player? Bzzzzz. Nope. Dolphins? Bzzzzzz Naaa. Land Shark? Bzzzzz Wrongo. Give up? So do I.


15 posted on 02/05/2010 2:19:40 PM PST by mc5cents
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To: Ann Archy
So, what's right? (from Hair -- NSFW)
16 posted on 02/05/2010 2:23:38 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Justaham
even if you have a four-decade record of civil rights activism

In my experience, anyone with a four decade record of civil rights activism is simply milking the race industry.
17 posted on 02/05/2010 2:25:57 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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To: GeronL

It’s obviously required that they be dumb as a rock


18 posted on 02/05/2010 2:26:02 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: freedumb2003

Nancy, ask Senator Byrd what he called Black people back then. He was there. Sheets and all.


19 posted on 02/05/2010 2:26:47 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Justaham
There were farmers and black Americans, whatever the name was in those days

But no Japanese Americans, because they had all been interred in concentration camps.
20 posted on 02/05/2010 2:28:05 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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