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| Alabama state representative launches into race-fueled rant |
| 2013-03-28 |
| [DAILYCALLER] In Alabama, no state politician, Republican or Democrat, would ever question gun rights, given the state's conservative leanings and rural setting. But Democratic Alabama State Rep. Joseph Mitchell of Mobile, Ala. has a curious take on why his constituents in his majority African-American district should appreciate their Second Amendment rights. In emails sent from Mitchell's official state legislature account obtained by the blog Yellow Hammer Politics and published Wednesday morning, Mitchell had a heated exchange with a constituent identified as Eddie Maxwell and provided his own defense of the Second Amendment. Mitchell contended that the self-defense argument behind the Second Amendment was never used to protect his "folk" from "slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed, imported criminal-minded kin folk." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 The sad thing is that the Alabama State Representative doesn't realize that Democratic gun control kept African Americans as victims. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-03-28 15:02 |
| #12 Besoeker, are you in the neighborhood or did you go to Carson Long? That is a great statue in the center of town. And a great place for Memorial Day. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-03-28 11:37 |
| #11 NS: Winning a war has consequences. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-28 10:44 |
| #10 That's kid stuff. Watch the mayor of bankrupt Harrisburg light off on the residents of neighboring Perry County. For context, Perry County is on the other side of Blue Mountain, placing it squarely in Appalachia in contrast to the Quaker sophisticates in Dauphin County. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2013-03-28 10:26 |
| #9 (Sigh) There ARE idiots in Alabama. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-03-28 10:13 |
| #8 Alec Baldwin's doppleganger. Actually a pretty lame tyrade - snaggletooth is I guess the money shot; but hey good enough for government work eh? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-03-28 09:28 |
| #7 Me to Alabama legislators. "Keep on keepin' it classy, y'all." |
| Posted by: rammer 2013-03-28 08:37 |
| #6 Owning you half-brother, half-sister, or child wasn't commaon but did happen. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2013-03-28 08:16 |
| #5 I'm having trouble connecting 'slave-holding' with 'kin folk' though. Think of dear Thomas Jefferson and his lovely slave mistress, Eric...and their recently acknowledged descendants, cousins of the very proud, white Jeffersons. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-03-28 04:54 |
| #4 The politician became everything he hated. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2013-03-28 01:36 |
| #3 A tragic waste of obviously diminished synaptic resources on both ends. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-03-28 01:29 |
| #2 Wow! Tried to cut and paste his long rant sentence into this comment box and even the Rantburg Algorythym would not allow those words in the comment section! |
| Posted by: George Clunk4883 2013-03-28 00:27 |
| #1 I suggest Rep. Mitchell read Condolezza Rice's autobiography, where she describes how her father patrolled the streets of Birmingham with a shotgun to defend the blacks there from more bombings. I'm having trouble connecting 'slave-holding' with 'kin folk' though. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2013-03-28 00:09 |