Racial Slurs OK during campaign say Black Dems

Quote:

Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is a conservative Republican.
Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election in Maryland include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an "Uncle Tom" and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel on a liberal Web log.
Operatives for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) also obtained a copy of his credit report -- the only Republican candidate so targeted.
But black Democrats say there is nothing wrong with "pointing out the obvious."
"There is a difference between pointing out the obvious and calling someone names," said a campaign spokesman for Kweisi Mfume, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
State Sen. Lisa A. Gladden, a black Baltimore Democrat, said she does not expect her party to pull any punches, including racial jabs at Mr. Steele, in the race to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes.
"Party trumps race, especially on the national level," she said. "If you are bold enough to run, you have to take whatever the voters are going to give you. It's democracy, perhaps at its worse, but it is democracy."
Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black.
"Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community," she said. "His politics are not in the best interest of the masses of black people."

source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20051101-104932-4054r.htm

It's a bit of an insult to Rosa Park's memory that leaders of the Black community and Black Democrats today support some of the same degrading racial tactics she fought against 30 years ago.

Got me Cyclo. However I do find this quite humorous.

Apparently, those who seem to want to run for public office these days do not have the education or ability to debate issues. So then only thing a stupid person can do is call someone names.

Apparently, these democrats in MD have reached this very low point and should be ignored by the mainstream.

woiyo wrote:

Got me Cyclo. However I do find this quite humorous.

Apparently, those who seem to want to run for public office these days do not have the education or ability to debate issues. So then only thing a stupid person can do is call someone names.

Apparently, these democrats in MD have reached this very low point and should be ignored by the mainstream.

Yeah, there's that possibility. Then there's the possibility that the republican candidate IS a clarence-thomas-boolickin-hankyheaded-sellout-uncle-tom -coon. There's all kinds of possibilities.

Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black.
"Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community," she said.

First, consider the source. Second, carefully read the article and notice how the most inflammatory things that are attributed to people are not in quotes. Example:

Quote:

Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black.
"Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community," she said.

What she actually is quoted as saying is not as inflammatory as what the author asserts she said. Not that it means that there wasn't some black on black racism during the race -- I don't know enough about it to say -- but this article was clearly written in such a way as to provoke exactly the outrage expressed by the poster.

But black Democrats say there is nothing wrong with "pointing out the obvious."
"There is a difference between pointing out the obvious and calling someone names," said a campaign spokesman for Kweisi Mfume, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Quote:

Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black.
"Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community," she said.

What she actually is quoted as saying is not as inflammatory as what the author asserts she said. Not that it means that there wasn't some black on black racism during the race -- I don't know enough about it to say -- but this article was clearly written in such a way as to provoke exactly the outrage expressed by the poster.