Posted on 04/15/2008 5:37:52 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Agreed. Best post in this thread. I hate paranoia as much as the next guy (or boy?...ha ha) but his reference to Obama (who is in his late 40s) warrants a public apology. I imagine half the posters on this thread would defend the Congressmen and “characterize” his comments if he instead labeled Obama “monkeyboy”.
“Boy” is a loaded term when used on a 46 year old black man whom Davis is only a couple years older than.
In Malcolm X’s autobiography he recalled how a old black man in his 60’s working on a train was called by any white person “boy”. It is a demeaning and racist term when used on an adult black man and it is indefensible.
Kentucky deserves better representation, and the GOP needs this idiot’s comments like a hole in the foot. He needs to get gone, for being stupid if not for being a racist.
The fact that Rep. Davis revealed his own bungling incompetence while trying to speak about Obama’s incompetence is just too ironic for words.
50 posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:06:47 AM by allmendream
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Thank you very much!
I wonder how many posters would defend the comments of a Democrat Representative who called Clarence Thomas “boy”; as in “that boy shouldn’t be anywhere near the Supreme Court bench.”.
How many would deny that it was a racist term in those circumstances?
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