2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIs Bill de Blasio a racist and should Hillary reject his endorsement?
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Bill de Blasio is a racist but Hillary should not reject his endorsement. | |
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Bill de Blasio is not a racist. | |
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jfern
(5,204 posts)I don't think she even rejected Grand Dragon Will Quigg's endorsement.
Bernie rejected endorsements from Martin Shkreli and Jesse Ventura.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)firebrand80
(2,760 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)Let's ask his AA wife and their two beautiful bi-racial children.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)I've used the CPT joke before, so I certainly can't be mad at anyone else for using it or call them a racist.
TM99
(8,352 posts)which is he made a racist comment. She doesn't have to dismiss his endorsement but he should apologize.
I am bi-racial, and my mother would never have used AA slang around her in-laws and neither would my very white partner do it around mine. It would simply be inappropriate.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)What people do in private with their family is one thing. What major politicians can get away with is something else.
TM99
(8,352 posts)older and raised in a Southern state. What I called being appropriate was simply called being polite when I was a boy.
When I was a teen, yes, my cousins and I called each other 'niggers' all the time. My dad even called me 'one big smart nigger' but they were all black. My mother, even in the privacy of our home, never would have and never did use that word even in jest as slang.
I don't care if he is married to an AA and has bi-racial kids, using AA slang in public as a joke as a white dude was inappropriate. In that moment, it was racist. All he has to do is just say, sorry, fucked up. Is it really that hard?
Vattel
(9,289 posts)GeorgiaPeanuts
(2,353 posts)Not racist but told a racist joke that wasn't even funny
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)You can't push poll if you give an honest option.
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)Hopefully Bernie's campaign will join them. Please, Bernie, go there.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)deliver the attack.
chascarrillo
(3,897 posts)Why do you want to defend that?
libtodeath
(2,888 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)But politically it was a bonehead move. By definition, the candidate's name and the phrase "colored people" appearing in the same news story, even if it is just to explain a bad joke, is not helpful to the campaign.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)dinkytron
(568 posts)a mixed race family.