Posted on 10/03/2011 12:00:27 PM PDT by roses of sharon
Even as Texas Governor Rick Perry downplays the story of a racist epithet painted on a rock outside a property that he co-leased, black Republicans are not giving him the benefit of the doubt. First came GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who said yesterday that Perry handled the episode in a “very insensitive” way.
And in an interview with TIME on Monday morning, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele also scolded Perry. “It’s very troubling on some many levels, for so many reasons,” Steele said. Steele said questions over when and how clearly the rock had been painted over miss the point:
So I’m going to lease lease a property.....Do you paint over the rock? Or do you just remove the damn thing altogether? So, I’m sorry–my attitude is just remove the rock. That is the ultimate statement for me. Just get rid of the rock. Unless the thing is a damn boulder.
Steele stopped short, however, of impugning Perry personally. “I am not ascribing anything to anyone’s motives or decisions,” he said. He added, however, that he agrees with Cain’s criticism: “I think Herman Cain was right. It does lead one to feel that there was a level of insensitivity about how this would be perceived by the larger community. I’m not just talking about black folks, I’m talking about all folks. You would think that even in the 1980s that there would still be some sense of, ‘Do we really want this on our property? Even though we’re leasing it, still, do you really want that there? And just painting over it?”
At that, Steele, who believes the Republican Party needs to make amends with black voters for its “Southern Strategy,” simply sighed with exasperation.
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LOL nice try.
You are smoking something if you think you can change human nature. There is NO WAY of ever creating a perfect political party because we humans are all flawed. Good luck and let me know when you have created your utopia with enough pure members to win an election.
Just where did you get that idea?
Sounds very reasonable. This area is desolate wilderness ~ you'd probably die of thirst if we set you down out there and left you to figure out how to walk back to town.
While Perry and his dad were doing the right thing Obama was smoking crack cocaine!
But the land was called that, wasn't it? It wasn't just a random slur on a rock, like graffiti, it was the name of the land, no?
—You are smoking something if you think you can change human nature. There is NO WAY of ever creating a perfect political party because we humans are all flawed. Good luck and let me know when you have created your utopia with enough pure members to win an election.—
Would you have said that to John Adams if you had been alive at that time?
But you miss my point. I’m not trying to change human nature. Rather, I’m putting my faith in God, not the US governemnt in any form voted on by the current electorate. They’ve proven their nature over and over. I’ve made my choice and disconnected as much as is reasonable now, and prepared to disconnect more as the need arises. I’m now fully prepared to go completely off the grid if necessary. If it is to be it is up to me, and the solution to our current problem is outside of mans hands. The problem is too big. WAY too big. We are headed for a hard landing, almost certainly by next summer at the latest, no matter which human being, living or dead, we choose to attempt to lead us out of it.
But these threads are very interesting.
So, calling someone insensitive is the same as using the race card? LOL. no wonder Perry is losing ground.
Great line! Very true, and puts the whole thing in perspective. :-)
BTW, the Leftwingtards had already fallen for the idea that Perry's campaign was over when he told me I was HEARTLESS.
Stupid batarde that he is the man imagines i don't care ~ but I do care ~which is why you can see that I am defending him on this thread, among others. Doesn't mean I want him as President ~ but there could be a place for him in a Cain administration (for example).
Now, Perry owes me one ~ actually two since I came up with two really, really important items for him (1) He was the Texas governor who executed the guy who killed that blackman by dragging him by a chain on a pickup truck, and (2) While he and his dad were painting over that rock with the offensive word/name Obama was busy wasting his by smoking crack cocaine!
The contrast is inescapable ~ Perry was avenging a black man and Perry was removing insulting words that cause black people pain. Obama was behaving in a manner that can only bring shame to black people.
To Wit: If there's a blackness contest going on, Perry is black enough and Obama isn't.
Just for the record, the rock in question is HUGE. I’d say it’s probably 6’ wide and 4 or 5’ tall....who knows how far it is in the ground...and probably a foot thick or so.
It’s not just some little small thing.....
I’d guess after the past couple of days that the rock has been buried....at least that’s what I’d do.
It’s pandering and it makes you look weak.
Steele is such an idiot.
I am starting to wonder what Nigger Rock would go for on eBay.
Cain was on Hannity a minute ago and Cain didn’t help things much with that interview. Can’t say he was a shocked, surprised or hoodwinked today.
That’s really too bad. Hopefully, somebody will post it. Unlike Cain I really don’t want to make a decision until I have actually read what he said.
"... And since Governor Perry has been going there for years to hunt, I think that shows a lack of sensitivity for a long time of not taking that word off of that rock and RENAME the place".
Herman Cain is claiming that N***Head was the NAME of the acreage. So which is it? The NAME of the acreage, or a random graffiti on a rock at the entrance?
Perry turned the rock over. The State Owned media is looking under rocks. Which is better?
Perhaps the owner of the Niggerrock should put a building around it and sell admission to view it.
I guess he could blow it into a couple of million pieces, bag them and sell them to gift shops.
Mount those rock chips on to gold and that ‘bling’ would sell like the dickens.
This entire subject is silly. The lib media planted it, Cain watered it instead of killing it and now that buffoon Steele fertilizes it.
Silly, silly and just plain stupid.
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