Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Media NY Times Says South is Full of Racist Ignoramuses, Again
Posted by PJ Tobia on Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM
“He’s going to tear up the [White House] rose bushes and plant a watermelon patch,” said James Halsey, chuckling... Glenn Reynolds, 74, a retired textile worker in Martinsdale, Va., and a former supervisor at a Goodyear plant: “God taught the children of Israel not to intermarry. You should be proud of what you are, and not intermarry.” “He’s neither-nor,” said Ricky Thompson, a pipe fitter who works at a factory north of Mobile, Ala., while standing in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store... “He’s other. It’s in the Bible. Come as one. Don’t create other breeds.”I haven’t really encountered much of this kind of rhetoric, well, maybe once or twice, but I can’t help but feel that The Times is just running another, “the South is full of racist redneck” stories. I’m from Philly and believe me, there are PLENTY of idiots there who say far worse things than the comments above. A story about them—and their low-I.Q. brethren in certain East Coast cities—might open some eyes and do more than confirm the self-satisfied smugness of Northeastern liberals.
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I haven’t really encountered much of this kind of rhetoric
Have you ever gone to Alabama and asked random people at a Wal-Mart if they'd support a black candidate?
Obviously they weren't walking down the street and tripped over 2 or 3 racist people, but I doubt it took them days to find the racist views they were looking for. And there were plently of stories (not necessarily in the Times) about racists in Philly and other parts of Pennsylvania during the Primary.
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"Have you ever gone to Alabama and asked random people at a Wal-Mart if they'd support a black candidate?"
Have you ever gone to Harlem and asked random people at the bodega if they'd support a white candidate?
For the answer, find the tape from the Howard Stern program.
The last video I saw of people calling Obama a terrorist took place in that Southern hamlet of Bethlehem, PA, in the heart of the Lehigh Valley.
Evil twin, who cares?
"The last video I saw of people calling Obama a terrorist took place in that Southern hamlet of Bethlehem, PA, in the heart of the Lehigh Valley."
Bethlehem is pretty rural and most of the "Obama is a terrorist" stuff that I saw from PA was from the western part of the state, (a place some refer to as Pennsyltucky.) I meant white people in the inner city, like south Philly or Yonkers, N.Y. Perhaps the Times and others have done this before, and I just missed it. I just recall during our last senate race the Times doing a coupla' pieces on how TN voters=racists
Were talking ratios here: Whats the ratio of people like that in Cheatham County, TN versus the ratio of folks in Kings County, NY? I know plenty of Italians that talk like that. But I would rather be in Bensonhurst than Ashland City if I were to beg to differ with my neighbors viewpoint on this topic.
