Posted on 03/20/2009 1:00:55 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ATLANTA (AP) — Two dozen black lawmakers angrily stalked out of the Georgia House on Friday amid claims a decision by white Republican leaders to delay passage of a resolution honoring President Barack Obama had racist overtones.
House Speaker Glenn Richardson said the proposal to make Obama an honorary member of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus required some changes to its language and sent it to a committee. Supporters, including black lawmakers, claimed the move was a snub to the nation's first black president.
"It drips with racism," said state Rep. Al Williams, a Democrat. "I call it just like it is."
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He’s not black. He’s half black and white.
Thus that disqualifies him.
“It drips with racism,” said state Rep. Al Williams.”
I have to agree with Al Williams. Honoring him just because he is black is racist!
Whats that you say?
Al meant that not honoring him just because he is black is racist???
Huh, weird!
I thought Geraldo said he was hispanic.
The action, not the reaction, is what is racist. Just having a “Georgia Legislative Black Caucus” is racist.
America’s first affirmative action president has crashed the bus!
imagine a “Georgia Legislative White Caucus”
Nope, that would be racist.
Georgia doesn’t “honor” communists. And the only racists are the Obama supporters.
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus' obsession with race reeks of racism. I just call it like it is.
And these racist commucrats have the nerve to "wonder" why Repubs would object?
Of course, the fact that there is such a thing as the "Georgia Black Caucus" doesn't enter their minds as being racist, itself. Noooo. But I'm just curious, can't these fools simply read in whomever they want to their private little club? Why do they even need to have the rest of the legislature vote on it?
Obama might not be the 1st “Black” President:
If they stormed out it sounds like a great time to get something done about making sure the presidential candidates are eligible.
What, exactly, has he DONE that is “honor-able”? (Unless you like the idea of “Soviet Amerikanistan”/s He’s just being recognized for having a higher melanin content than the typical American President. The Republicans should be screaming that this is a racist Dim proposal, but they’ll probably wind up apologizing and offering to undergo “re-education”/s
6% black, 44% arab and 50% white. He has more in common with al-zawahiri than Dr. King.
Fixed it.
A whole lot of people - many Republicans among them - worked awfully hard to get rid of just that, not too many years ago.
black calling the pot kettle
Don’t let the door hit you in the butt
Agree to the resolution, if all the “black caucus” members will join in a bi-partisan law to require that all candidates on the next presidential ballot present certified long form birth certificates to prove their Constitutional Natural born status.
For yucks, add wording to the current resolution that says he can be an honorary member as soon as a certificed birth certificate shows up on the Governors desk from the Hawaiian Governor.
That’s two dozen lawmakers this state does not need, period.
Unless there is a Georgia Legislative White Caucus or a Georgia Legislative Asian Caucus, I find the the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus to have racist overtones!
Whining race-baiters boggle befuddled brains.
Race baiting is alive and well in Georgia!
Uh, any black caucus is by definition “racist”.
Funny...just the other day he was Irish.
He’s a homosexual. IT is the land of opportunity. Because they behave like jacka$$es, we all must be controled like jacka$$es. This is the perfect population for dictatorship and government oppression rational, all of us paying for a few jacka$$es motivated by the government thus.
We do not have to yield to bullies.
If the president’s name now were McCain, Palin, Romney, Reagan, Bush etc and GA Republicans tried to enact such a resolution, who here thinks Dems in that state would not block it??
This group of Nimrod Inner City Ghetto Race Mobsters need to open their minds and eyes to the real world. They are self serving public menaces.
Good for them
All of the Black Caucasus are racist to their core by their very nature.
This is exactly the outcome the "Black Caucus" wanted. They wanted to claim a big 'ole diss so as to once again play the victim.
No member of a racial caucus would support a "white" politician that has been President only two months as having an "unimpeachable" reputation, and certainly not in the case of Obama with all the shenanigans he has been up to.
The obvious fact is essentially no politician could pass the "unimpeachable reputation for integrity" threshhold so this is, again, all a dog-and-pony show.
A caucus shuckin’ and jivin’ ... been going on for decades, too.
It is racism, which is exactly why they wrote the bill. The Democrats are race pimps.
I call it just like it is.
As a Georgian I would consider agreeing to some kind of obama resolution RIGHT AFTER they pass a resolution declaring George Bush the best American president the world has ever seen and ever will see.
for the record, I don’t Bush was the best but obama is sure making me long for the presidency of George Bush.
So far, obama is winning the award as “worst president ever in the history of the U.S.”
And Jimmy Carter is probably second to obama. Woodrow Wilson, not so great either.
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