[LA Woman3]

At the Kingwood event, White said: “We need as our governor somebody who is a servant, not a career politician who’s acting as if they’re in control and they’re the master."

He used similar language in a speech to the Texas Farm Bureau.

“If a governor ever acts like he owns positions on state boards and commissions, and appointees are expected to serve his personal re-election agenda, then surely it is time to find a new governor,” he said. “We need a governor who understands that he should serve as a humble servant rather than a demanding master,” White said.

And at the Texas Democratic Convention he accepted the nomination for governor by stating: “In Rick Perry’s Texas state boards and agencies are pressured from the top to serve those who help the Governor’s re-election. In our Texas government will be the servant, not the master, and our customers will be ordinary Texans.

Robert Ashley, who hosts a popular radio talk show targeted at black audiences, attended the meeting and said he was not bothered by the remark.

“I could understand what Bill White was saying. He was speaking the language of the community,” Ashley said.

Ashley said that among black voters, there is a perception that the governor -- and Republicans in general -- would rather dictate than be humble servants.

“That characteristic of the governor, to some extent, rings true,” he said. Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, a black Republican who backs Perry, countered that White's comments were "simply ignorant and offensive." "Pandering to an all-black audience by inserting race into this political campaign should be offensive to not only us African-Americans, but all Texans," Williams said in a written statement.

[Ann Archy]

Democrats OWN the BLACK SLAVERY MARKET! They are the PLANTATION OWNERS!

[LA Woman3]

Bill White damage control since he didn't meet with Obama.

[Farmer Dean]

Increasingly more desperate Dems letting their inner douchebags slip out.

[Michael Barnes]

Oh for pete's sake; enough with the damn sensibilities already.

One thing that irks me to this day are the mind numb that look at me like I am wrong when I talk about master/slave configurations in clusters...ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!

[Paladin2]

Bill Whitey is a cracker!

[Repeal The 17th]

I grow weary of all of this political correctness.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It sounds like a reasonable enough figure of speech, but got to watch those thin skinned black people, they might think it’s racist. And slavery was banned when?

[no dems]

...the former Houston mayor’s aides were quick to point out that “servant leadership,” in a biblical sense, has been a campaign theme that White has pushed before many audiences.
Yeah; of course. Talking about "servants" and "masters" to a Black audience always causes one to think of it in a "Biblical sense" only. (/S)

[JLAGRAYFOX]

I can’t get excited about this. Why? Because Bill White is gonna take a serious butt whipping from his fellow Texans on November 2, 2010. Hello, Governor Rick Perry!!!

[sourcery]

From now on, no conservative should ever, under any circumstances, refer to this slimeball as anything other than “Bill Whitey, the Race-Baiting Honky Donkey”

[TribalPrincess2U]

That’s what they’re good at. Racial divide.

I see bazillions of racial couples, racial friends, racial relatives, along with many other mixed races in Texas for it to be a racist state.

White is just another glob of snot that needs wiped off.

[TribalPrincess2U]

http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/

[Mike Darancette]

Rick Perry is calling on Bill White to apologize for telling a black audience in Dallas that he wanted to be a “servant” leader, while the incumbent governor wanted to be “treated as master.”

How's that Obama post racialism thing working out?

[healy61]

Today, I am calling on Rick Perry to start campaigning like he might want the job. It doesn’t sound like he wants to win and that he wants to b*t*h about something.

[a fool in paradise]

Bill White is a lying scumbag. He NEVER ran Houston as a humble servant. He REPEATEDLY said things like “I DARE YOU TO STOP ME”.

F’him.

[exit82]

The irony of a man surnamed “White” talking in slave terms to a black audience is monumental.

[CPT Clay]

Code words no doubt.