Steele: White Republicans are scared of me

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[meyer]

Any idiot that plays the race card needs to go. Period.

This guy's a disgrace to the Republican party. "Big tent", my butt - You don't win elections by presenting a facade of inclusion. You win elections by sticking to conservative principals.

the party will NEVER get a penny from me as long as they are "liberal-lite". I donate to candidates that I like. Only.

[Landru]

HA!!!

That's the one, alright. LOL
Should've know: It had to be you. LOL
Thanks...oh, & this time I saved that sucker to my HD. ;^)

[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t understand the context of “and I’m on your side” applied to the “afraid OF you” interpretation.

People who are literally afraid of blacks aren’t afraid because the blacks disagree with them about issues, they are afraid that the black is going to mug or kill them.

In the realm of politics, the big fear whites have with blacks is that the white will say something “wrong”, and get accused of racism.

I simply cannot believe that, at the political meetings Steele attends, there are republicans who are physically afraid of him — he’s not that scary a guy to begin with, and we’ve long since got past where educated people are generically afraid of blacks — even though they might well be afraid of blacks in CONTEXT, like walking down a street at night. Remember that Jesse Jackson said HE was afraid of seeing black people on the street at night, so that seems a non-racist, well-founded fear.

Anyway, that’s my interpretation. Maybe the point is that his statement makes no sense, and I’m trying to put it in a context that would make sense, but maybe he was just being ignorant.

Maybe he can’t believe that people don’t like what he’s doing, so he’s projecting that they are just “afraid of black people”. In which case, that’s a really good reason to remove him as RNC chair.

We are having a real problem finding a person to take the RNC chair that actually works well. First Martinez, now Steele. Maybe now that McDonnell has won his election, we could get Ed Gillespie. :-)

[ichabod1]

I object. I object. Mr. Speaker, I object. Mr. Speaker, parliamentary inquiry. I object.

[firebrand]

What you say has some validity, I think. In our dealings with unsaved or unsophisticated American black people, we are almost always "saying something wrong." More so in the past than now, I find. Many now understand this problem and sense when the white person is well-meaning and let the gaffe or whatever slide.

I'm still not convinced that is what Steele and his intervewer meant. The conversation veered off into dangerous territory as soon as the interviewer made that remark, and I think Steele was caught off-guard and didn't know WHAT to say. Being interviewed on television is stressful enough without people trapping you into embarrassing situations where you're darned if you do and darned if you don't.

My sympathies remain with Steele in this extremely difficult job.

[ichabod1]

You know what that reminds me of? It reminds me of Howard “The Scream” Dean saying he was going to attract white southern redneck crackers with the stars and bars and nascar.

[ichabod1]

I liked it when Ed was RNC chair.