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And Jimmah accuses OTHERS of racism! - Jimmy Carter and his "ethnic purity" remark »
Posted By pc25 3 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Jimmy Carter's lecture on "racism" earlier this week sent an intrepid reader back to the Time magazine archives for this story from April 1976, when Carter was running a presidential campaign that, shockingly, turned out to be successful:
The furor began when Carter was asked in Indianapolis to explain his recent statement that there was "nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained" in neighborhoods. Carter replied that he wholeheartedly supports open-housing laws that make it a crime to refuse to sell or rent a house or apartment on the grounds of race, color or creed. But he opposes Government programs "to inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration." Said he: "I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination."
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pc253 months, 1 week ago
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HATTIP to the astuteblogger
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mesodude3 months, 1 week ago
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Unfortunately for slow cons, Jimmy Carter never suggested that he was free of racism. You people, OTOH, are the ones who freak out at the mere idea that you could be racist while insisting that most black people are racist. If you're so tolerant, why are people fleeing the GOP and why are cons so desperate and ashamed of the GOP that you're now suddenly claiming to be "independents"?
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NoWayMan3 months, 1 week ago
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talk about desperate.
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above, all it says is that carter was in favor of housing discrimination based on race, he was against forcing different ethnicities into living with each other and its fine that ethnic groups choose to live near each other, which obvously is a natural inclination.
and you had to go back nearly 35 years to find this non-story?
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pc253 months, 1 week ago
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all it says is that carter was IN FAVOR OF HOUSING DiSCRIMINATION based on race.......
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sounds like racism to me...jimmy doesnt want certain people in his neighborhood does he
just a natural inclination i dont want "THOSE PEOPLE" in my neighborhood.
small wonder that when this story broke Obama and the Dems started to distance themselves from this moron.
desperate? it was desperate on Obama and the lefts part to roll out this guy and now its open mouth and insert rather large foot again.....Obamas typical MO.. they trot this guy out to lecture about racism and he made one of the most racist comments of all times
ETHNIC PURITY>>>>>>......
"I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination."
read ethnic purity......get out your brown shirts. off course after unleashing this guy during the week and letting his attack dog msm run with it all week, lets fan the flames of racial divide, Obama and the other dems now back off of the comments of the useful idiot Jimmy Carter.
Barack Obama and prominent Democrats have moved to distance themselves from ex-president Jimmy Carter’s insistence that racism was fueling opposition to the Obama administration.
“Are there people out there who don’t like me because of race? I’m sure there are,” Obama told CNN. “That’s not the overriding issue here.”
Other prominent Democrats echoed Obama’s statement.
“Listen, he’s the former president, and he’s entitled to his point of view,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). “I personally believe President Obama and his administration are focused on the issues, and I agree with that.”
“I don’t see this as a racial issue,” added Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). “There are a lot of people upset about how we on the Democratic side can engage like we have been, and there’s a lot of anger out there. So, I don’t see it as a racial issue.”
“I didn’t agree with it,” Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) said of Carter’s remarks.
sure lets run with it for a week, fan the flames, get whatever mileage we can from it........ohhhh its nor working out so well now as a matter of fact MSNBC and AP suggested that we shouldnt play the race card any longer its not working lets back off of it. Meanwhile the libs throw this useful idiot out there and oops "ETHNIC PURITY REMARKS" no wonder they started to distance themselvers from moron boy. -
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happydaze3 months, 1 week ago
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C'mon, you guys are really reaching and THIS is the best you can do?
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As I said in an earlier post, this reminds me of those movies where the person is trying to kill the monster or zombie or alien or whatever and the gun goes 'click' after you've emptied the gun of bullets. All that remains is a feeble attempt to stop it by throwing the gun at it.
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NormaJeane3 months, 1 week ago
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No one cared what Carter has to say when he was President. He was the face of failure and the worst POTUS ever. Who cares what this crazy old nut job has to say. Although. he is making lbs look bad, so I guess let the whako continue to babble. What an idiot.
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