Posted on 09/28/2007 12:11:32 PM PDT by arbooz
Asked about what he could do about "inner-city kids partaking in violence" at the MTV/MySpace Forum yesterday, Democratic candidate John Edwards offered an apocalyptic prediction for young black males:
“We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”
Hyperbole much? Despite popular misperception and those who find it a convenient talking point to illustrate inescapable racism, there are more young African-American men in college than in prison. In 2005, according to the Census Bureau, there were 864,000 black men in college. According to Justice Department statistics, there were 802,000 in federal and state prisons and jails; between the ages of 18 and 24, however, black men in college outnumber those incarcerated by 4 to 1.
Why? Is he going to exterminate them?
Freudian slip? The Democrats will achieve this through abortion. Just ask Margaret Sanger.
Is he kidding?
Well what do you know. Another liberal showing off his racism.
Wow...you know if a Republican had said that, the press would be labelling him as racist.
No, he’s going to bore them to death!
MV
The Great White Father has spoken, and for the second act he will smite the white devils and allow the children of color to run free and happy. Liberalism for white libs in a nutshell
if they havent already destroyed the family unit through welfare
question is, where is he placing the blame?
He’s got a lot of ‘splainin to do.
Hey Mr. Edwards........tell them to stop breaking the law and they won’t go to prison. It’s up to them but you sure opened a can of worms. 70%+ of black kids don’t have fathers living at home.
Or... you know... they could actually quit breaking laws...
Wait... I forgot.
There are no guilty people in prison. What was I smoking just now?
Look out Obama, he’s about to send his hitwife after you.
“tell them to stop breaking the law and they won’t go to prison. It’s up to them but you sure opened a can of worms. 70%+ of black kids don’t have fathers living at home.”
Of course you know that’s somehow whitey’s fault.
Planned Parenthood. They have been doing it since the group was formed.
Good one!
LOL
Boy if I were an American of African heritage would I be pi$$ed if I heard this from a POTUS candidate!
Just ask Margaret Sanger.
Margaret Sanger is dead and she never advocated nay type of genocide. No, I don’t want any links to anything linking back to blackgenocide.org or Tonya L. Green. I read Sanger’s junk myself. While she was a stupid, misguided liberal, she was probably less racist than most in her day.
I’m not defending Sanger, just facts.
I read about this yesterday on FR- but no one had gotten ahold of the transcript yet- I was sure it must have been mis-quoted.
Yet another lesson for me- NEVER underestimate the idiocy of the liberal mindset..
Despite that...this is unbelievable
Like most leftists, he’s a racist.
It never ceases to maze that the American black population continues to support the country’s most racist politicians. They must be masochistic in nature.
Inexperienced hair dressers perhaps?
i’m having a tough time doing the math.
“Hyperbole much?” Great line.
It was a black girl that asked the question.
She was nodding her head so much during his pathetic answer she should change her name to Bob-ette.
Seriously, she was eating up his BS like a green bottle fly at a bull auction.
Sounds like something Bill O’Reilly would say.
BlackGenocide.org
By the way, there re more African-American males in college than in prison.
That's just plain maccaca.
Edwards is not paying attention. Pretty soon we're not going to have a young male or female population of any color in America.
....qualifying her for a job in the First Consort's office if Her Thighness becomes POTUS.
He is a racist piece of crap.
He is a racist piece of crap.
That’s your happening mama, Michelle Obama-Jama!
Has anyone seen this gal smile yet? Boy, is she serious!
“she never advocated any type of genocide”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
Not unless you consider unborn children as human.
And
(From the article)
Her thoughts on human development were also laden with racism:
“It is said that a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, there is also no conscious sexual control. The lower down in the scale of human development we go the less sexual control we find. It is said that the aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets.”
I'd like to think that is a good thing. But knowing the socialist cr** they teach in most colleges, I'm not so sure.
Red headline up on Drudge now...
Yeah, he’s a piece of crap, but his hair looks really, really nice.
Every now and then, I find myself smoking some Logic. Some people tend not to like that.
>>>Despite popular misperception and those who find it a convenient talking point to illustrate inescapable racism, there are more young African-American men in college than in prison.
Oh no worries. Socialized medicine will solve that.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
It is designed to eliminate *disparities*.
Well it is a fact that white people are all racist, so he might be on to something....
(/sarcasm)
If Bill O'Rielly's statement was racist, then this one is too. Wonder if CNN will pick up on it ?
Edwards is probably concerned that he won’t have servants for his palatial estate.
“Her thoughts on human development were also laden with racism:”
And, sadly, were common opinions of the time.
I never said she didn’t actively promote abortion, for which she should be rightly condemned. She did not advocate any genocide, though.
End the “war on drugs” and outlaw the democrat party. That would eliminate 98% of the problems blacks are presently experiencing in America.
Hold your breath until they do and see how long you survive. ; )
That is SERIOUSLY funny and a totally adequate description of the war on drugs and the prison industrial state surrounding it.
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