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Cigar
08-12-2013, 09:55 AM
Republicans show, time and time again, they regard racism as SOP

Newark Mayor Corey Booker’s (D) Republican opponent in the New Jersey Senate race said over the weekend that he was “not apologizing” and “not backing off” after a staffer sent a racially-charged tweet.

During a televised debate last week, Republican Senate candidate Steve Lonegan’s Twitter account posted a message (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/cory-booker-steve-lonegan-new-jersey-senate-95378.html?hp=l9) that said, “just leaked — Cory Booker’s foreign policy debate prep notes.”

Included with the tweet, was a map of the predominately African-American city of Newark and the words “West Africa, Guyana, Portugal, Brazil” and “Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, plus Bangladesh and Trinidad.”

Speaking at a cookout on Saturday, Lonegan insisted (http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/08/lonegan_says_tweet_about_cory_booker_was_not_inten ded_to_be_racist.html#incart_river) that there was “no racist intent at all.”

“There’s no racism in my campaign, and there never will be,” he said. “My policies are to support all Americans and provide an economic environment where everyone can prosper, regardless of skin color.”

“I’m not apologizing, I’m not backing off, I’m not making excuses, and I’m not going to be intimidated by these people,” he remarked. “I think Americans are sick and tired of the race card being used everyday and every time there’s an argument you’re a racist. That’s not the case. There was no such intent.”


read: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/12/bookers-opponent-not-apologizing-and-not-backing-off-racist-tweet/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


Obviously ... EVERYONE thinks of West Africa, Guyana, Portugal, Brazil” and “Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, plus Bangladesh and Trinidad ... when they think of Newark New Jersey. :rollseyes:

Nothing to see here folks ... just your wild imagination .... yet again. :rollseyes:

Mister D
08-12-2013, 10:05 AM
Actually, that's a pretty good description of Newark's ethnic enclaves. BTW, Portuguese people are from Europe and there ia a large Portuguese community in Newark. It's one of the few safe neighborhoods. Go figure. :afro:

Kalkin
08-12-2013, 10:06 AM
What's racist about that?

Cigar
08-12-2013, 10:26 AM
Brilliant ... just keep on doing what you're doing ... please. :thumbsup:

Mister D
08-12-2013, 10:26 AM
What's racist about that?

Nothing. This is a good illustration of just how irresponsible and, quite frankly, stupid some progressives are.

Mister D
08-12-2013, 10:27 AM
Brilliant ... just keep on doing what you're doing ... please. :thumbsup:

Putting you in your place. No problem.

Mister D
08-12-2013, 10:29 AM
It's only a matter of time white Americans come to terms with the fact that there is no appeasing these people. Everything is racist.

The Sage of Main Street
08-12-2013, 11:32 AM
The race card is a Joker. That hand folded a long time ago. Now it is only played in academentia and by the ruling class's lawn jockeys. Since before the Civil War, this has been all orchestrated by the plutocracy. Attacking the middle from the bottom up so it will be distracted from the primary attack made from the top down.

Cigar
08-12-2013, 11:35 AM
Putting you in your place. No problem.

What better place to be ... than when your Candidate keeps winning. :dancing:

Mister D
08-12-2013, 11:39 AM
Their candidate won too! Si se puede, morons. :laugh:

3518

Cigar
08-12-2013, 12:27 PM
Their candidate won too! Si se puede, morons. :laugh:

3518

There's point you're trying to make? :huh:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6LMsoRiz4uA/SvR3F7x37eI/AAAAAAAAASs/BA1WzWnQ0EQ/s400/unemployment-line.jpg

Cigar
08-12-2013, 12:27 PM
GOP’s rodeo of racism blows up
It’s been quite a week for anti-Obama racism. At the Missouri State Fair Sunday, rodeo fans cheered to see a “clown” in an Obama mask get run down by a bull. On Friday in Florida the president faced a gaggle of protesters on the way to address a disabled veterans’ group; one carried a sign reading “Kenyan Go Home.” Three days earlier, Arizonans protested Obama’s visit by singing “Bye Bye Black Sheep.” One man mocked him by calling him “47 percent Negro;” another held a sign that read, “Impeach the Half-White Muslim!”

Also on Sunday, the same day as the Missouri State Fair incident, ABC’s “This Week” hosted the birther-in-chief, Donald Trump, who was fresh from a visit to the right wing Family Leadership Summit in Iowa and a golf outing with GOP House Speaker John Boehner. When Jon Karl asked him “you don’t still question was born in the United States, do you?” Trump let loose his tiresome birther spew. “I have no idea,” Trump replied. “Was there a birth certificate? You tell me. You know, some people say that was not his birth certificate. I’m saying I don’t know. Nobody knows and you don’t know either, Jonathan.”

With Republicans like Boehner and Iowa’s Family Leader embracing Trump as a loyal and treasured party figure, and mainstream media figures like Karl treating him like a legitimate newsmaker, it’s clear that the party, and some of the media, learned nothing from its 2012 drubbing. Reince Priebus’s infamous “autopsy” has itself gone wherever it is that fraudulent ideas go to die. Calling for more “inclusion,” the report didn’t outline policy change but rather better communication strategies to avoid repelling young voters, women, African Americans and Latinos. “Our policies are sound, but I think in many ways the way we communicate can be a real problem,” Priebus said in March.

But now they’ve given up even on changing the way they communicate.

It’s not just Trump; one candidate after another in Iowa demonized Obama, and/or his electoral coalition. Rep. Steve King, he of the “calves the size of cantaloupes” remark, told the audience to ignore guidelines on what churches can do politically and “go ahead and defy the IRS.” King is said to be mulling his own 2016 presidential run; we can only dream. Sen. Ted Cruz got big ovations for advocating the repeal of not just Obamacare but the IRS.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/12/gop%E2%80%99s_rodeo_of_racism_blows_up/

Mister D
08-12-2013, 12:32 PM
There's point you're trying to make? :huh:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6LMsoRiz4uA/SvR3F7x37eI/AAAAAAAAASs/BA1WzWnQ0EQ/s400/unemployment-line.jpg

The black unemployment rate is much higher than the white. In fact, it's the highest of all! Si se puede, morons. :laugh:

Mister D
08-12-2013, 12:32 PM
Ah, he abandons the OP and tries to chnage the subject. Typical.

Cigar
08-12-2013, 12:33 PM
The black unemployment rate is much higher than the white. In fact, it's the highest of all! Si se puede, morons. :laugh:

Ok ... so are you hiring any Black People?

If this is a problem for YOU ... what's YOUR plan?

Cigar
08-12-2013, 12:35 PM
Ah, he abandons the OP and tries to chnage the subject. Typical.

Answering questions directly from you and no one else, and asking you to respond to them and no one else.

Your move sport

Mister D
08-12-2013, 12:37 PM
Ok ... so are you hiring any Black People?

If this is a problem for YOU ... what's YOUR plan?

No, what's Obama's plan is what you need to ask. Amnesty for millions of your competitors? :smiley_ROFLMAO:Si se puede, morons!

Mister D
08-12-2013, 12:38 PM
So, Cigar, have you given up on trying to find the racism in your OP?

Cigar
08-12-2013, 12:49 PM
So, Cigar, have you given up on trying to find the racism in your OP?

I've given up trying to find the tweet that Steve Lonegan has nothing to apologize for ... :tongue:

Mister D
08-12-2013, 01:14 PM
Another dopey Cigar thread dismissed.

Common
08-12-2013, 02:38 PM
Actually, that's a pretty good description of Newark's ethnic enclaves. BTW, Portuguese people are from Europe and there ia a large Portuguese community in Newark. It's one of the few safe neighborhoods. Go figure. :afro:


The portuguese section of Newark is called the Ironbound section. You cant get in our out of the Ironbound without crossing rail tracks. Its all called Down Neck. Before the portuguese started comin in early 70s the area of down neck they are in was all Italians and had been an italian neighborhood forever.
My mother was raised Down Neck

Mister D
08-12-2013, 02:39 PM
The portuguese section of Newark is called the Ironbound section. You cant get in our out of the Ironbound without crossing rail tracks. Its all called Down Neck. Before the portuguese started comin in early 70s the area of down neck they are in was all Italians and had been an italian neighborhood forever.
My mother was raised Down Neck


My mom is from Jersey City. Dad is from Bayonne.