Andre Carson speaks his mind
49Andre Carson speaks TRUTH
Andre Carson fed up, takes flack.
Andre Carson made a comment that applied to the Teabag Movement and the fact that they all want to bring back strange fruit (google). Plainly, he said that they want to see Black Americans hanging from trees. I'm sure that there are snobbish caucasian women out there that would give anything to go back in time, to where the movie "Help" is set, and be able to boss around a black woman and tell her that she could not have the privilege to even use the bathroom in her house. Were it legal, I bet everything I own on it that more than half of the politicians would have an inhouse Black Woman as a maid. People act as if Andre Carson has said something that is not obvious to the least educated eye, ears that could be bordering on deaf, and eye that could be almost blind. The mass majority of the participants in the Tea Bag Movement are gun slingin' racists.
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Apparently Carson's Democratic supporters were even upset with him for making the remark, but I am one who says "SPEAK TRUTH"! All one needs do is pay attention to the people who are a part of the Tea Bag Movement. Read the signs, listen to the remarks and statements made by the followers.
Carson is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and his remark came during an event in Florida. Carson said:
Some of the folks in Congress would love to see us as second class citizens. Some of them, in Congress right now of this Tea Party Movement would love to see you and me, I'm sorry Chairman, hanging on a tree.
GASP! So what? Carson said what millions have thought but nobody was strong enough to stand up and say. Carson took the initiative and harnessed the courage to be the catalyst for a movement of Truth! And that is exactly what he said in a statement to CBN (the home of the 700 Club):
I stand on the truth of what I spoke. My intentions weren't to hurt anyone or any group.
Tea Party supporters are saying that Carson is full of rhetoric, and quoting him when he said they all needed to come together with respect and honor and civility after Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters spat out my favorite quote for today:
"As far as I am concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to Hell."
Teabagging for Jesus? Really?
Seriously?
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Wow.... if you could put that in a piece of slam poetry... you would be my hero....
AntonOfTheNorth Level 4 Commenter 8 months ago
I share many of your concerns, from a slight distance (Canada), but as I just commented on another hub about the dangers of generalizations, I have to say so here too.
If American, I would be concerned about the state of American political rhetoric right now. Both sides are speaking of the other in general terms : (the tea-party is rascist, liberals are lazy, socialism is evil, christians are bad, muslims are bad, politicians are liars.. . .democrats are evil, republicans are evil. . .)
If this is way it must be, America is going to eat itself alive.
The rhetoric has to stop. Listening has to start. Neither side is doing this. Everyone posturing. No one is actually trying to create positive change. No one is listening.
It is disingenuous to have Carson say he had no intentions of hurting anyone or any group right after he labeled a group racist. How did he expect them to react? Sheer joy?
Do I think members of the Tea Party are racist? I'm sure some are. I'm equally sure that some democrats are. I know many liberals and socialists that are equally intolerant of christians and republicans.
I know many westerners who don't like muslims, or africans, or orientals, regardless of their political stripes.
I've even met some Americans who don't like America.
The longer it is more important to slag the opposition, the less likely it is that America will survive.
At this point, the troubles in the Middle East and Northern Africa are not so far off.
I hope for better. We're right next to you.
cheers