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| Racist Rep Corrine Brown Rips Bush Admin over Haiti | |
| 2004-02-26 | |
| Caught via Instapundit MIAMI - U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown verbally attacked a top Bush administration official during a briefing on the Haiti crisis Wednesday, calling the President’s policy on the beleaguered nation "racist" and his representatives "a bunch of white men." Time for you to resign, beeatch! Her outburst was directed at Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega during a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. Noriega, a Mexican-American, is the State Department’s top official for Latin America. "I think it was an emotional response of her frustration with the administration," said David Simon, a spokesman for the Jacksonville Democrat. He noted that Brown, who is black, is "very passionate about Haiti." "And a loud mouthed racist idiot. Can you imagine how hard it is to come out here and try and spin this shit?" Brown sat directly across the table from Noriega and yelled into a microphone. Her comments sent a hush over the hourlong meeting, which was attended by about 30 people, including several members of Congress and Bush administration officials. Noriega later told Brown: "As a Mexican-American, I deeply resent being called a racist and branded a white man," according to three participants. Brown then told him "you all look alike to me," the participants said. nice.... During the meeting, Brown criticized the administration’s response to the escalating violence in Haiti, where rebels opposing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s government have seized control of large parts of the country. After her comments about white men, Noriega said he would "relay that to (Secretary of State) Colin Powell and (national security adviser) Condoleezza Rice the next time I run into them," participants said. Powell and Rice are black. OUCH! A State department spokesman did not return a phone message. U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach, who organized the meeting, called the comments "disappointing."
Foley could’ve done better than that. Apparently he needs Cuban votes? Brown has criticized the detention of Haitian migrants fleeing their country and the freezing of millions of dollars in aid over flawed 2000 legislative elections in the impoverished Caribbean nation. In a statement Wednesday, she made parallels to the disputed 2000 election in Florida. "It simply mystifies me how President Bush, a president who was selected by the Supreme Court under more than questionable circumstances (in my district alone 27,000 votes were thrown out), is telling another country that their elections were not fair and that they are therefore undeserving of aid or international recognition," Brown said. What an ass Participants at the meeting included eight members of Florida’s congressional delegation, U.S. Reps. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., and Maxine Waters, D-Calif.; John Maisto, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and Adolfo Franco, an assistant administrator with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Rep. Brown needs to feel the full weight of outrage that Trent Lott and several others have suffered for far less and less deliberate comments. Time to turn up the heat on Corrine. I’m sure the Dems will take the lead on this (/sarcasm) | |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #13 Corrine represents a sizable chunk of the Haitian population of S. Florida. Perhaps more importantly her son's Florida Senate seat is near 60%(?) Haitian and he wants Corrine's seat when she retires or goes to the quiet place. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-26 4:35:00 PM |
| #12 Bomb-a-rama: what's with this "Mexican-American" crap? Is the guy Mexican? Or is he an American? The truth is that whatever the press calls Roger Noriega, when he heads south of the border, they think of him as a gringo. Skin color has nothing to do with it - a gringo is a gringo is a gringo - Americans simply don't act like Latin Americans. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-2-26 3:15:51 PM |
| #11 There's one issue I have with this report - what's with this "Mexican-American" crap? Is the guy Mexican? Or is he an American? Is someone African, or American? Asian? Or American? People (and the press) need to dump this shit; it gets tiring hearing it over and over. Here's a clue: when I go overseas to other countries and the people hear me speak, they have always asked me if I was American, and never hyphenated it with my ancestry. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-2-26 2:12:02 PM |
| #10 Would someone refresh my memory? I can't seem to recall where supporting non-United States governments, including the use of military intervention when there's no physical threat to the United States, is located in the Consitution. I want to re-read it before I comment on what this mental midget said at this "informative" meeting. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-2-26 1:59:10 PM |
| #9 yelled into a microphone I hope that microphone was connected to a tape recorder... |
| Posted by: snellenr 2004-2-26 12:27:16 PM |
| #8 He noted that Brown, who is black, is "very passionate about Haiti." Methinks it has much to do with a Marxist propping up a Marxist and his government as to do with race. I wonder which card Brown, who is member of the Democratic Socialists of America, would have played had the discussion been about her buddy Fidel and basic human rights of the Cuban people? |
| Posted by: GK 2004-2-26 11:29:40 AM |
| #7 I wonder why the Cubans & Haitians don't land in Mexico and slip across the border in an orderly fashion with the rest of our illegals. Must be that the mules don't accept the gourde (HTG) or the Cuban peso (CUP). Ya think? /sarcasm |
| Posted by: .com 2004-2-26 11:07:19 AM |
| #6 Well, so far no calls for her to resign from any of her colleagues, and no calls to censure her. Must be a delay on the news wire. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-2-26 10:47:27 AM |
| #5 not quite the same, Byrd (the WV Senator) did repent for being in the KKK Uh, yeah. He repented so much he still uses the term "nigger" freely enough that he let it slip out on TV. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-26 10:19:33 AM |
| #4 She's just looking to increase the size of the black vote. In a way, it's no different from Hispanic representatives trying to increase the size of the Hispanic vote by calling efforts to restrict illegal immigration racist. The main difference is that it's a lot more difficult for Haitians to make their way across a large body of water than it is for Latin Americans to come across the Rio Grande. Thankfully, even the voting blocs themselves feel the pain (in terms of lower wages) from illegal immigrants. Eventually, this will become such a vote-loser that no politician will bring up open borders in an attempt to pander to ethnic blocs. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-2-26 9:56:19 AM |
| #3 Brown then told him "you all look alike to me," the participants said. The fact that a Black member of Congress can get away with being a blatant racist without so much as word from her colleagues is a testimony to the depths the Democrats have sunk, as well as the hypocrisy and vacuum of leadership in the Black community. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-2-26 9:56:18 AM |
| #2 not quite the same, Byrd (the WV Senator) did repent for being in the KKK (although he repented more contritely for airline deregulation). I doubt Rep. Brown will repent or apologize or even be critized by her party. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-2-26 9:47:56 AM |
| #1 Being a Democrat means never being called a racist, no matter how big of a racist ass you are. Brown, Byrd -- same crap, different bags. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-26 9:43:39 AM |