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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGun lobbyist Larry Pratt: U.S. blacks need ‘attitude’ lessons from ‘happy’ Africans
Wow. Just.... wow.
On the Gun Owners 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 dont identify with the surliness thats all too frequently the attitude of their fellow African-Americans here.
And theyre very conservative politically, he continued. The country of Ghana, its still illegal to commit an abortion, its 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/
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)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!
Iggo
(47,563 posts)cvoogt
(949 posts)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.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)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)Part of its decades long socialist heritage under Kwame Nkrumah. He did get the homophobia and other idiocy right.