...O/T...I am so sick of this type thing;

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    Only a racist would say black people were happy picking cotton, drinking from separate fountains, sitting in the back of the bus, and getting their food at the rear entrances of restaurants.
     
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    after hearing about this and reading the opinions of people on the subject, i've come up with two very obvious conclusions: 1) there's some guy named Phil who has something to do with ducks, and 2) 95% of people have no idea what the First Amendment actually says.
     
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    ..."95%"?
     
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    ...^^^yup, and pretty much all religions have similar sort or references to the same "sins".
     
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    I have a great solution to all of this, going forward ALL interviewers should start off before asking a question by saying, "Sir/Mam, I'm about to ask you a question BUT........if your answer/opinion is going to be considered insensitive, offensive or controversial in anyway to anyone I'd rather you just lie".
     
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    ...^^^yeah, you never know when "The Word Police" is listening.
     
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    LMAO! That made my day!
     
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    who said anything about picking cotton or drinking from separate fountains or sitting on the back of the bus or getting their food at the rear entrances of restaurants???? Not Phil so don't put words or ideas in his mouth
     
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    I read the entire response & I didn't see that either. Did I miss something?
     
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    Robertson conjures a whimsically rosy image of the old South, remembering working alongside African Americans in the cotton fields: "They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!. . . Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues."

    See the quotes? That means he said it.
     
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    http://www.eurweb.com/2013/12/ae-pu...nishment-after-racist-and-homophobic-remarks/

    In the article, Robertson compared homosexuality to bestiality, and said that during his Louisiana childhood, he picked cotton with African-Americans before “entitlements” and “welfare” came along, and never saw “the mistreatment of any black person. Not once.”

    “Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers,” he told the magazine. “I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field…. They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”
     
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    and how does any of that make him a racist??? it doesn't, pure and simple.

    And that statement "Robertson conjures a whimsically rosy image of the old South, remembering working alongside African Americans in the cotton fields" is something the article wrote, not something he said... and even if he said it, he never said anywhere that he thinks anyone of any race or creed should be a slave or the back of the bus or anything like that. He was just saying that people during the pre-entitlement era (that entitlement bullshit that happens now) were happier, not happy about everything, but happier as a whole. and he's right. So, sorry, he isn't a racist.
     
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    No, you didn't. you didn't miss anything because he isn't a racist and mentioned nothing about drinking from separate fountains, sitting on the back of the bus, getting their food from the rear entrances of restaurants... He said people were happier back then, that was it. Are things better now, yeah, and I'm sure he would agree that some things are better... but people are NOT happier now in this entitlement bullshit era... not even close
     
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    Pre entitlement was segregated schools, separate water fountains, back of the bus, can't eat in the restaurants with white folk times.

    He said the black people were happy with that.

    What's common about both the bigoted statement about gays and the racist statement about black people is they're both anti civil rights.
     
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    Where did he say black people were happy with THAT? he said they were happy then, not that he was happy with those specific things.
     
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    Furthermore, the article that you referenced specifically said "A&E says it did not receive any complaints regarding his comments about African Americans" so where's the issue???
     
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    They were so happy they were singing!

    Just wow.

    Indefensible.
     
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