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Home Front: Politix
Rangel: Tea Party Is 'Same Group' Of 'White Crackers' Who Fought Civil Rights
2013-08-03
[LIVEWIRE.TALKINGPOINTSMEMO] In an interview with the Daily Beast published Friday, Rep. Charlie Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Rangel
Congressman-for-Life from Harlem, who became what 20 terms in Congress turns you into ...
 (D-NY) suggested Tea Partiers are the "same group" who fought for segregation during the Civil Rights movement.

"It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police. They didn't care about how they looked," Rangel said.
Bull Connor was a member of the Democratic National Committee. So were his German Shepherds...
Because of this, Rangel said the Tea Party could be defeated using the same tactics employed against Jim Crow.

"It was just fierce indifference to human life that caused America to say enough is enough. 'I don't want to see it and I am not a part of it.' What the hell! If you have to bomb little kids and send dogs out against human beings, give me a break," said Rangel.
Posted by:Fred

#14  I've had a home of record below the MD for decades. I don't believe I've ever heard that term in rural Georgia conversation. Can't remember the last time I heard the feared "n-word" either. Must be a northern, urban, New Yorker thing.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-03 17:57  

#13  White cracker, in the mouth of the honourable Congressman Rangel, is a double racial slur. He himself, however, is an extremely successful political idiot.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-08-03 16:57  

#12  Say that to my face you cowardly bitch.
Posted by: OldSpook   2013-08-03 16:20  

#11  "Tea Party Is 'Same Group' Of 'White Crackers' Who Fought Civil Rights"

Gee, Charlie, you mean like Democratic National Committeeman Bull Connor?

Wrong, Charlie - we're not DemoncRats. And you clowns wouldn't know a right - civil or otherwise - if it kicked you in the head ass.

Epic FAIL, you loud-mouthed loser.
Posted by: Barbara   2013-08-03 16:14  

#10  The so-called "White Crackers" who fought civil rights were Democrats Charlie. Get your history straight instead of revising it. Shame on you, you know better.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-08-03 16:14  

#9  White Cracker is racial slur. Is this acceptable as a new rule of political speech? There are other racial slurs that politicians avoid using due to being offensive to certain segments of society.

Is Mr Rangel opening that door? Inquiring amateur pundits would like to know.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2013-08-03 12:58  

#8  Not really a problem, as he is an "Hispanic Black" (His father, Ralph Rangel, was from Puerto Rico) and can, therefore, say stupid things without consideration of recrimination....

I am, btw, loving this latest evolution of hyphenated America and the enhanced possibilities of bringing the country together that it presents...! /sarc
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2013-08-03 11:10  

#7  Actually, he's all for the new socialist Plantation system where those who actually create value are 'relieved' of the products and resources of their labor for those up in the Plantation House and those who are so favored by the masters.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-08-03 09:46  

#6  Funny, he's the one arguing for slavery-by-debt remarkably similar to sharecropping, for the entire nation.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-08-03 09:37  

#5  But Charlie...The Tea Party is for smaller govt. and lower taxes. If they were successful you wouldn't have to cheat on your taxes anymore.
Posted by: OCCD   2013-08-03 08:52  

#4  How old is Rangel? He looks ancient.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-08-03 08:03  

#3  You want "fierce indifference to human life" ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-08-03 03:58  

#2  If you cannot argue against the Tea Party, then assault them with ad hominem attacks. Typical dem tactics. Real great way to lead the country.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-08-03 03:49  

#1  The Tea Party isn't they democrats.

Oh wait. Narrative... narrative...

Oh bollocks to this. Fuck you Rangel.
Posted by: DarthVader   2013-08-03 00:17  

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