Excuse me?

I suspect that this issue will be used to incite people and to inflame people, which is unfortunate. You'll have people from both sides, Republican and Democrat, who'll jump on him and jump off his bandwagon because they don't want to look as if they're coddling a racist. But as I said, I don't think his sentiments were expressed to be racist; I think he was praising a colleague at his 100th birthday party, his retirement party

He even mirrors another sentiment of mine

A Washington Post reporter who came to my district did an interview with me. In this interview, he told me, "Well, there are many in the black leadership who believe you're a sellout, you're an 'Uncle Tom.'" I said, "Look, I can handle that. This is America. They can believe what they want to believe. But you know, I believe there are some of those same people who I believe are race-hustling poverty pimps. I think they use race and poverty as an industry."

And now the old JC ain't there anymore...the "Uncle Tom" accusation hangs on Colin Powell.

Post #68,894 by bepatient 12/14/02 2:19:58 PM Reply	Excuse me? You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #68,896 by ben_tilly 12/14/02 2:29:35 PM Reply	rotfl "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]
Post #68,897 by mmoffitt 12/14/02 2:31:02 PM Reply	That was for you BP ;-)
Post #68,899 by mmoffitt 12/14/02 2:37:49 PM Reply	ya know, Watt is a fscking idiot. But, even he says.... I think anybody could interpret that his words were racist... Are we done w/this yet?
Post #68,905 by bepatient 12/14/02 4:32:44 PM Reply	He also says exactly what I've been saying. I suspect that this issue will be used to incite people and to inflame people, which is unfortunate. You'll have people from both sides, Republican and Democrat, who'll jump on him and jump off his bandwagon because they don't want to look as if they're coddling a racist. But as I said, I don't think his sentiments were expressed to be racist; I think he was praising a colleague at his 100th birthday party, his retirement party He even mirrors another sentiment of mine A Washington Post reporter who came to my district did an interview with me. In this interview, he told me, "Well, there are many in the black leadership who believe you're a sellout, you're an 'Uncle Tom.'" I said, "Look, I can handle that. This is America. They can believe what they want to believe. But you know, I believe there are some of those same people who I believe are race-hustling poverty pimps. I think they use race and poverty as an industry." And now the old JC ain't there anymore...the "Uncle Tom" accusation hangs on Colin Powell. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #68,911 by deSitter 12/14/02 7:25:49 PM Reply	One More Thing The supposedly liberal press ignored it until Internet gossip brought it to everyone's attention. The Internet clearly drove the large media interests. I think Drudge was pointed out as an early source. -drl
Post #68,946 by Ashton 12/15/02 2:55:40 AM Reply	Librul Press Corrects Strom Thurmond 32nd President of US (new thread) Created as new thread #68945 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=68945\|Librul Press Corrects Strom Thurmond 32nd President of US] When the rich assemble to concern themselves with the business of the poor, it is called Charity. When the poor assemble to concern themselves with the business of the rich, it is called Anarchy. -Paul Richards

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