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BLACK MINISTERS BLAST ELIZABETH WARREN’S APPARENT ABUSE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Just days after the Democratic Party committed to Elizabeth Warren’s floundering campaign for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, black ministers are attacking Warren’s perceived abuse of affirmative action policies to promote herself on the basis of dubious membership in a minority group, the Boston Globe reports. Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry remain unproven–and many other claims about her family have been proven false.
The Globe reports:
“It is within bounds to raise the question of whether or not a white woman used the minority card for her professional advantage,” said [Rev. Eugene F.] Rivers.
“Ancestry is not the issue,” Rivers added, saying that Warren’s handling of the controversy raises questions beyond her heritage. “Did you tell the truth? Because you marketed yourself as the good-guy, straight-shooting-populist, representing-poor-people candidate.”
“Affirmative action — that issue becomes important because it points to who you are,” added the Rev. Jeffrey Brown, executive director of the TenPoint Coalition, who pointed to an assertion that she is 1/32 Cherokee. “I’m thinking to myself, if I was 1/32 white, or of European descent, would I be able to put on an application that I was white? And if you look at a picture of me, you see what I’m talking about. The question is not a trivial one, or one that can just be dismissed as a Republican tactic. And I say this as someone who campaigned for Martha Coakley and I’m independent in terms of my political status.”
TooMuchTime
June 5th, 2012
Are these the same black ministers that are demanding a meeting with Obama? I wonder if the democrats are thinking that “their” blacks are starting to get uppity.
TooMuchTime
June 5th, 2012
There’s the 64,000 dollar question — that the democrats don’t want “their” minorities asking. This preacher had better watch out. Uppity blacks on the democrat plantation are likely to be singled out for re-education.
Bingo! We may be running with the ball, but that’s just because the socialists fumbled it.
He loses a bit of credibility with that one. And I’m wondering if this outburst is because these black ministers resent the whites using “their” methods to get “their” benefits.
sTevo
June 5th, 2012
I am a white guy with a job. Does that make me a minority?
I think yes.
Bad Brad
June 5th, 2012
TMT. The Repubs should use this opportunity to reach out.
Ever see this guy. He could facilitate it. He’s pretty handy with Billboards. He’s the guy who did the Martin Luther King was a Republican Billboard. His new one is spot on.
http://www.ragingelephants.org/
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Stirrin the B.S.
June 5th, 2012
This time she didn’t lie, but alas, to no avail:
http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/06/04/99897
jeckelmyhyde
June 5th, 2012
She most likely has handicap plates on her vehicles too.
A
June 5th, 2012
“using “their” methods to get “their” benefits.”
Eloquent use of vernacular TooMuchTime
Tim
June 5th, 2012
Yep, she took a slice of their pie.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
June 5th, 2012
“That’s *our* scam, yo! Keep your cracka-ass cracka hands off it, and your muthafucking war bonnet, too!”
danny p
June 5th, 2012
lizzy warren took an axe
gave its herstory forty whacks
Efficacy
June 5th, 2012
A basic case of the pot calling the kettle black.