Posted on 06/01/2006 10:14:41 AM PDT by Sabramerican
Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot
By Julia Gorin
Jimmy Carter has been called everything from a humanitarian, to a crack pot, to the ultimate pacifist. But a look into his past reveals a shoe that fits better than all of these.
It's a story told to me by an acquaintance from Watertown, NY, a place situated way upstate, well north of Syracuse. The acquaintance had heard it from two barflies who were there the night in 1975 that Jimmy Carter passed through town in his first New York appearance during the "250-day 1975 portion of the presidential campaign," as Carter had called it.
The story goes that after giving a speech at the Holiday Inn, Carter stopped by the Rebel Room Tavern, a bar that once existed near the old Woolworth building and catered to southern servicemen based near by. Not knowing that an employee from the local paper was present, Carter joked around with the locals and, as two of those locals related the story to my friend, "every other word out of his mouth was 'nigger' or 'kike.'" But styling itself after The New York Times, the paper didn't print undignified information about candidates it was friendly toward, and the potentially damaging tidbit never made it into print.
At least that's how the story goes.
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Interesting.
In contrast. The Texas newspapers and the LA Times printed a front page photo of then campaigning Gerald Ford standing front of the Alamo in San Antonio and sticking a tamale (with the corn shuck still on it!) in his mouth!!! Of course he appeared idiotic to all in the southwest U.S. I have always wondered who handed Ford that tamale wiht the photographer ready to snap. I was travelling in LA when it came out on the front page and remember announcing to my wife how Ford had just lost Texas by biting into the corn shuck (which he did so very narrowly). It seems had the NY MSM been similarly complete in its reporting about Carter's truely ugly photo moments, we might not be cleaning up Carter's droppimngs all over the world today.
Yep, and Trudeau and Carter loved each other, they were probably bum-buddies. Hell with 'em both.
Passing on third party rumors allegedly told by two drunks, one dead and one missing? Pretty low.
The story comes across as believable to most of us because that fits our perception of ol' Jimmah. It also fits with the expected attitudes of a white man from rural Georgia who was born in 1924. He grew up in an era and area where the Klan had a lot of influence and was widely accepted. This does not guarantee his own personal philosophy by any means, but it certainly makes it unsurprising if he did end up racist and anti-Semitic.
I doubt it. What credence could His Irrelevancy get, and from whom?
I would not dismiss this. Over the years I have met a few folks in "high places" and more than once I have been shocked at their language in private. As far as using the "N" word my experience is that it seems to come out of the mouth of people you'd least expect it from. I can count a couple of friends I've had over the years that both one day just floored me with the vitrol they had for people that are black. Which is something I just don't understand and sadly that was the end of our friendship.
There are probably more stories that contradict this one. With Carter being a Sunday School teacher and a volunteer at Habitat for Humanity makes me find this story hard to believe.
look at 'jimma' in south america the past few years...
Wouldn't give that post much credence.
"Passing on third party rumors allegedly told by two drunks, one dead and one missing? Pretty low."
I think Carter is a goofy dork, but I agree with your comment.
You must be living a charmed life to have no more serious concerns than His Irrelevancy's antics. Congratulations.
why?
As if they were relevant.
self-ping
"...that would probably be typical white Georgian language in 1975. I knew a white guy from Louisiana in the early 90's, and he talked the same way, as if it was perfectly normal and everyone did it."
I have to point out that the South by no means has a monopoly on this sort of thing. Not to mention, there are plenty of good not-racist people in the South who in no way deserve this reputation. When I lived in GA, I very rarely encountered this sort of thing. But when I moved north I encountered quite a few people who were terribly racist and spoke to me in such a way as indicated that they thought I would be on the same page as them simply because I had just been living in the south. It left me with quite a resentment against this popular but not necessarily fair image of the south. I'm sure that the reality includes some decent people and some not so decent people in all areas of the country, but I never did come to like it in my new location and thankfully was able to move again at a later time.
You may or may not believe the worst about him, but to ignore that he is a propagandist for the enemy, ranging from Chavez to Castro to Hamas, hell, every single enemy of the United States, is beyond absurd.
Tokyo Rose was less guilty then this former President.
Those who knew LBJ say that he could hardly speak a sentence without the word f@ck.
Whenever he gave a press conference his aides would be cringing in the background, scared to death that LBJ would let loose with a stream of profanity.
Words like "nigger" and "kike" would have rolled off his tongue as easy as sweet potato pie.
I suspect that many Southern gentlemen of that era probably used that type of language without a giving it a second thought - including Mr. Carter.
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