Rep. Charlie Rangel Calls President Bush A Southern Racist
Can’t we just get along?
The NY Sun reports: “Comparing President Bush to the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner whose resistance to the civil rights movement became synonymous with Southern racism, Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday of the president: “George Bush is our Bull Connor.”
Mr. Rangel’s metaphoric linkage of Mr. Bush to the late Theophilus “Bull” Connor - who in 1963 turned fire hoses and attack dogs on blacks, including Martin Luther King Jr., demonstrating in favor of equal rights - met with wild applause and cheering at a Congressional Black Caucus town hall meeting, part of the organization’s 35th Annual Legislative Conference.
Wild applause. Congressional Black Caucus. Elected officals. Public representatives.
SisterToldjah appropriately declares:
“Mr. Rangel should be ashamed of himself. It’s stupid statements like that which do nothing to bring the black and white community respectively closer together. Thank you, Mr. Rangel, for doing your part to keep America divided.”
PoliticalTeen has video audio.
(and a brief bio on Connor)
Open Post at Cao’s Blog
UPDATE:
Rep. Charlie Rangel: “I Wanted To Get People
Distracted To Understandâ€Â
September 23rd, 2005 at 6:58 pm
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