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phantom power

(25,966 posts)
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 04:15 PM Feb 2014

Gun lobbyist Larry Pratt: U.S. blacks need ‘attitude’ lessons from ‘happy’ Africans

Wow. Just.... wow.

Conservative gun lobbyist Larry Pratt recommended during a recent radio broadcast that U.S. blacks could get a better “attitude” if they paid attention to “Africans from Africa” who he said were more “happy.”

On the Gun Owner’s News Hour show last month, American Thinker writer Selwyn Duke told Pratt, who is the executive director of Gun Owners of America, in a shocked tone that he had discovered that the best Catholic priests were from Africa.

“Africa! Intelligent Men with PhDs,” Duke noted.

“And generally the African from Africa is a very pro-American person, a very happy person,” Pratt opined. “I know several. And they always just happy with a joke, pleasant smile on their face. And they clearly don’t identify with the surliness that’s all too frequently the attitude of their fellow African-Americans here.”

“And they’re very conservative politically,” he continued. “The country of Ghana, it’s still illegal to commit an abortion, it’s illegal to be a homosexual. Very conservative social laws and very free market oriented as well.”

Duke agreed and pointed out that the types of Africans that could afford to come to the U.S. were of “a better stripe.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/04/gun-lobbyist-larry-pratt-u-s-blacks-need-attitude-lessons-from-happy-africans/
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Gun lobbyist Larry Pratt: U.S. blacks need ‘attitude’ lessons from ‘happy’ Africans (Original Post) phantom power Feb 2014 OP
Mr. Pratt should just move to Ghana. Love it or Leave it, you asswipe. nt NYC_SKP Feb 2014 #1
How dare you question Mr. Pratt's faith???? joeybee12 Feb 2014 #2
Some of my best friends are African! Iggo Feb 2014 #3
I'd be happier too cvoogt Feb 2014 #4
When conservatives say "happy Africans" it is dog-whistle for this: phantom power Feb 2014 #5
yeah cvoogt Feb 2014 #6
Ghana's State Owned Enterprises are a significant part of their economy. Warren Stupidity Feb 2014 #7
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
2. How dare you question Mr. Pratt's faith????
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 04:24 PM
Feb 2014

I mean, that is the same type of reasoning the d-bag on Duck Dynasty used, although it was happy blacks before welfare, and everyone (everyone as dumb as a sack of rocks, like the Wasilia Hillbilly) came to his defense, so I assume Mr. Pratt shall be defended as well!

cvoogt

(949 posts)
4. I'd be happier too
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 04:32 PM
Feb 2014

If I were that far away from Mr. Pratt. I don't know what attitude he's even talking about. But if you happen to belong to a community that is routinely frisked for no reason, disadvantaged for no other reason that the color of your skin, etc., I think it would be natural to not be blissfully unaware, but still the African American community has taken so much in stride and with dignity, too.

cvoogt

(949 posts)
6. yeah
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 05:44 PM
Feb 2014

and interesting he mentioned Ghana since it's the first African nation to throw off the colonial yoke and legacy of slavery. Ethiopia's a bit of a special case since they never fully succumbed.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
7. Ghana's State Owned Enterprises are a significant part of their economy.
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 06:06 PM
Feb 2014

Part of its decades long socialist heritage under Kwame Nkrumah. He did get the homophobia and other idiocy right.

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