U.S. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, Republican from Kansas, "told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a 'great white hope' to help stop the political agenda of the Democratic party and President Barack Obama," writes the Topeca Capital-Journal.
"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope," Jenkins said to the crowd. "I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington."
White meaning a leader with white skin to stop the political agenda of an African American president of the US.
She mentioned three "great young Republican minds in Washington."
All three are white!
The Topeca Journal explains the origin of the term "great white hope:"
The phrase "great white hope" is frequently tied to racist attitudes permeating the United States when heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson fought in the early 1900s. Reaction to the first black man to reign as champion was intense enough to build support for a campaign to find a white fighter capable of reclaiming the title from Johnson.
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Did you realize that the writer of the play you mentioned, Howard Sackler, was surprised that anyone thought about racism. In his words, he intended to show "the destiny of a man pitted against society. It's a metaphor of struggle between man and the outside world."
That's exactly what most conservatives are thinking right now. It's us against the world.
Wanting the great white hope does not mean we're looking for a white man. It means we're looking for someone who won't make this country any more socialist than it already is. It means we want someone who understands that we cannot keep running the government at a deficit, that businesses are important and must be encouraged. That the majority of Americans don't want socialized health care (although many need assistance figuring out how to pay their bills, including insurance).
Yeah...
Alan Keys
J.C. Watts
Michael Steele
Modern politics and modern references to boxing metaphores always seem to migrate to a "Rocky" reference. They forget that in the original movie, Rocky lost the fight. Still I would welcome any good Republican candidate who could "go the distance."
Christopher B., I didn't see in any of the articles about this gaffe where she suggested she was thinking in terms of "Rocky".
I believe she meant exactly what she said. Maybe she's hoping Limbaugh will run... He appears the typical consumptive Anglo politician of old.
WE DO NOT LIKE OBAMA's policies and his communist friends! GET IT???
I do agree, anyone who would use a dumb phrase like the "Great White Hope"
is definitely unaware of our political correctness focus. Can we chalk it up to some sort of reaction to those who scream "Black Power"?
Both are insulting.
Please. Is that all you've got?
Alan Keyes is unelectable. JC Watts is a lobbyist. Michael Steele makes lost all credibility when he genuflected to the big druggie. There is no significant minority representation in the Republican party.
You do realize that practice is at the root of Republican Fiscal policies, right?
Look back over the past century and each time a Republican President and Congress were in charge of leading the nation, they borrowed against the future to pay for their wars of the present.
Republicans are the Masters of Double-speak. They claim one thing while doing the complete opposite.
Remember 'Blue Skies Initiative' meant removal of major environmental policies which unfortunately lead to the skies turning even more grey.
The candidates I refuse to vote for are those who value politics over people, who ignore national crises in favor of the latest photo-op, or who demean their constituents and defame their opponents. In other words, I won't vote for a Republican.
Know what? So do I. I do not want socialism, or loss of my personal freedoms.
From your profile page.....Colleges:
University of Pittsburgh, University of Houston, Houston Baptist, Moody Bible College, plus lots of community colleges (PA, MI, TX, FL)
Now we have 2 of them yeeech!
Hmm, maybe Palin's "death panel" wasn't so far off base. hmmm
But, on a happier note: Hey, homegirl! Houston-born and -raised here!
Please provide proof these issues actually exist in reality.
What personal freedoms have you lost under this 8 month old administration? Somehow you and those of your Party confuse compassion and social responsibility with Socialism. Perhaps you should examine the definition before applying the label ?
The only reason conservatives believe so strongly in the "death panel" lie is that they would gladly "pull the plug on grandma" if they would somehow benefit and if they were sure they could get away with it. They can't imagine anyone caring whether the old bat lives or dies!
One of the main principles is to "keep them dependent".
You must be a Republican, even your icon has closed orifices. Now all you have to do is close your eyes and squeeze.
I'm sure you'd rather have the government wither on the vine, so you'd have to rely on the NRA to protect you from terrorist attack and on the kindness of your GOP fellows should you lose your health, your home, and/or your job.
Repbulicans support Personal Accountabilty, Freedom to be what you want IF you study/work hard, freedom from government interference,
Bigoted eyes will see/accept only what they choose, Bigots are on both side, and that includes the liberals/progressives. Sad and Disappointing.
Odd history? I doubt that when talking about insurrection and Nazi support.
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”
"Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it."
Bigots openly support other bigots eagerly as long as "everybody else is doing it". When its not so popular, a lot of sheets go missing off laundry lines. Liberals don' play 'dat.
Speaking of bigots... How many minorities attend these tea parties you keep bragging about? How many do you invite? How many do you depict in those pictures of yours? How many do you see doing the shout-down at these town hall meetings? How diverse is Limbaugh or Beck's staff?
And please actually answer at least two questions or don't answer at all. Obfuscation makes my d***ks itch.
Should any Government Forcibly take away someones liberty ....... ?
"Each individual adult is responsible for making decisions freely about their desired lifestyle without state interference," the Court determined. "Private conduct is allowed unless it constitutes a real danger or causes damage to property or the rights of others."
Perhaps this is an issue both Liberals and Conservatives can rally around?
Do not conservatives continually call for less intrusive government?
Are they not in favor of reducing the high cost of crime and punishment?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/gop-rep-behind-great-whit_n_272589.html
With the breaking of this story, it is apparent that you know nothing.
Let me give some great democrats :
Rev. Wright- pure rot gut racist- Jew hater.
Jesse Jerk-son, Hymie town. Ran for president as democrat.
Al Sharp-ton, a complete evil race monger- Tawana- lie- This Democrat racist louse, ran for president as a democrat- 9 bodies lay at the feet of this vile Democrat.
Robert Byrd, former KKK MEMBER.
Savo, keep playing the race card, Obama being challenged because he is black- keep it up. Independent minds are fed-up with the liberal racism- no one is buying it.
I have been to tea parties- town-halls, and the people attending are just nice and fair hardworking Americans- The same people who told the*** WHITE** Clinton's to shove their government health-care the same place they are telling Obama to put it.
Savo, I have met blacks who said no to Clinton-care are they Racist.
Keep it up!!--Please.
Tell me: Micky D., would you have said the same thing of all those parents and kids holding up signs and shouting epithets and throwing garbage at Elizabeth Eckford? I'm sure they told themselves they were.
After the truth broke about Bonnie Sweeten, Susan Smith, Charles Stuart, Tanya Dacri and Ashley Todd, I've decided to believe that people like you are incapable of either telling the truth or taking responsibility for their crimes.
We'll both keep our hands over our ears, our heads in the sand, and our butts in the proper position for such attitudes.
That's known as the "Limbaugh" position. He's always encouraging his numerous zombie supporters to bend over and grab their ankles. Makes it difficult to keep their hands over their ears though.
We out number them so far now they can't steal the elections.
Hurrah for US!
We outnumbered them during both Bush elections, but it was so close they were able to steal the elections.
There is solid documentation on the how, now, but since it is history. . . .
We can just celebrate our new U. S. A.
Spencer, playing the they hate me because I'm a black president crap is not working and it is dispicable, but normal behaviour for the democrat race card Kings.
America is not a racist country, Spencer, Obama proved that point-, but keep playing racism card- millions of good white people voted for OBAMA-and they do not want to be called racist- now- by a bunch of incompetent democrats in power who are failing and as usual blaming it on Racist Americans--- PATHETIC!!!
Why the guns?
Why the swastikas?
Why do you see 99.999% Anglo faces filled with rage at these meetings? Where was the outrage and protests in the streets when Bush signed away our rights to privacy?
Why the threats of death to our President and his family..
...and why no outrage on that absolute definition of a United States traitor, that blatant display of Anglo-terrorism?
Why the overwhelming support for a man who threw a Black man off his television show for asking if he were a racist, then publicly calling our President one? One who stated our healthcare system was "a joke" until the Black President said the exact same thing, and then all of a sudden, our system was "great". WHY?!
No one is "playing the race card". Most who use that phrase are simply trying to deflect the fact that there is a race problem.
"Why was I raped?" "Why were you wearing a short skirt?"
Show me why these things are in fact all in our heads. Give me a reasonable explanation why there is even a smidgen of a chance we're wrong.
//Wyoming Cat, because Racism is headed by only the dominant race and their minions// If you make judgements about a person or group of people based solely on their actual or perceived race or ethnicity, you're a racist. period. Your own race or ethnicity is irrelevant.
On the other hand, the "dominant race" does usually "head" racisim, in that it is they who usually perpetrate the kinds of atrocities such as the ones Billie Holliday sang about.
WHY does she keep lying and then disappearing when asked to show proof of her statements? Is that the definition of "troll'?
Seriously, WHO is paying this chick to do this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/19/why-fox-news-wont-fire-gl_n_262861.html?page=4
The GOP (Guardians Of Poop) is unbelievably and, apparently, blind.
And provide the same to their parents, so they will be able to take care of the little ones.
And give their parents good jobs, so they can feed, clothe, and house their children.
And give teenagers and preteens comprehensive sex education so they can make responsible choices and so prevent the acts you so despise.
But you want it both ways. You want teens to be taught nothing regarding sex (except at home, where Mom and Dad are usually unwilling, unable, or unequipped to do so), and don't want them to be provided the means to prevent pregnancy. What choice does that leave? They're not going to abstain just because you think they will, or because you want them to. Raging hormones are what they are.
Of course, no one has ever accused the Right of being logical.
How about the responsible choice of abstaining until they have the life suppor skills and income they need? 12-14-16- year old girls need to be taught that spreading their legs is not ego enhancing, they are being used and degraded. I do not want my grandaughters to become "sluts" because "it feels good" and "everyone else" is doing it.
Other generations have postponed "immediate gratification" for a higher reward, a sign of intelligence. Those who refuse to can live with their own consequences.
Nora: Excellent! Then I suggest you do so!
Jeannie B: What may we put you down for, ma'am?
Nora: Nothing, madam.
Catt: Ah, you wish to remain anonymous.
Nora: I wish to be left alone, Miss! That is what I wish! I don't make myself merry and I cannot afford to make idle people merry. I have been forced to support the establishments I have mentioned through taxation and God knows they cost more than they're worth. Those who are badly off must go there.
Jeannie B: Many would rather die than go there.
Nora: Then they had better do it quickly and decrease the surplus population.
The civil rights movement defined both parties, while southern dems opposed civil rights, it was the dem party who pushed them. The Racist dems left the party to join the Republican party. As Neo Nazi David Duke said "The Republican party more represents my philosophy'
So, parties do change now, don't they?
Catt, the race card play is over- days of democrat evil race monger lies are over.
Sharptopn. Jerk-son, black panther democrats, rev.Wright, Farrakhan, Pelosi, Rangel, Obama and Michelle keep claiming it no one buys it anymore, unless they are liberal race hustlers. Keep it up, please. America is not a racist country, Catt, and the people know it.--68 years ago!
In particular, http://www.undercoverlawyer.com/forum/topic.php?id=684. That's mine. I believed racism was pretty much a dead deal, too. I was very thoroughly corrected and educated. 68 years ago/ yesterday. The only thing that's changed is the regular usage of the N-word in public.
It's nice to imagine an America that is truly color-blind. We're not anywhere near that yet; just look at the Gates incident. Does anyone really believe he would have been arrested if he were white? And a law-abiding citizen can still be pulled over and cited for DWB.
Rude, inner-city public-option-schools are a disgrace, who prevents these poor kids from going to a better school Racist Republicans who want school choice or Democrats who refuse to let these kids escape your liberal public school plantations.
Rude, again keep playing the evil white people race card-. You liberals are making utter fools of yourselves. Rev.Wright is the face of your liberal party.
Sickness and madness is where they come from and this is more attention than they deserve.
The Thompson sextuplets were born May 8, 1997. The McCaughey's, Nov. 19, 1997. What did this nation do for each set, when and why? Who continues to get attention and support, who lives in ignored poverty?
You consistently blame and abuse Hispanics for the current economic problem, yet don't seem to see that there are no jobs because the large corporations, mostly headed by Anglos, are taking more and more of your jobs overseas so that you're left to fight for the sh*t jobs that didn't interest you before.
IF we are playing the so-called "race card", please remember who brought the deck to the party.
And how come you keep answering my questions with things that don't answer them?
NAFTA is not about exporting jobs is is about tarrifs and goods quotas.
Free trade is not bad by itself.
Our companies made a choice modernize and work with environmental and worker safety rules or build in other countries.
NAFTA
and Most Favored Nation Status for China allows the stuff to be imported free of import taxes
Your buddies the Conservatives say you should be grateful.
You get to buy all this stuff so cheap now
You have saved huge amounts of money
Free markets, ::::::::If NAFTA is so horrible to conservatives why didn't Bush, during his first 6 years reverse it?
He had both houses and the presidency.
//The Dems are all about holding people back, not helping them succeed// Not! Republicans hate Head Start, even though it's been proven that early-childhood education starts a child on the road to being more successful (for every $1 spent, we stand to get $4 back in taxes when they start paying them). Republicans are all about taking away people's jobs, then dismissing and demeaning them because they have no money.
Happy Now?
Naturally we won't hear about her gaff on Fox.
Oficially Republicans leave this stuff to the Talk Meisters, especially Hannity/Beck/Limbaugh
We all need to chill a bit. Again she could have meant this just as it came out. Who knows for sure? Democrats will take it at face value and republicans will make excuses. Both attitudes are stupid.
Fudge. I just agreed with another Republican. Where's that number for my shrink? He's supposed to give me pills for that!
But still, why would she use a phrase that's that dumb and insensitive. Is she so color blind that she did not notice Obama is not 100% white? I do not for one minute accept the notion that she is unaware of the president's skin color. it's embarrassing when you encounter talk that is this brainless. I suppose Biden has had his moments, but wow.
Is it really possible that jenkins is unaware of the cultural and historic baggage that is carried by the phrase "Great White Hope". Could she be not a bigot, but merely incredibly provincial and ignorant?
Could be......
This lady has a long way to go before she can hope to catch up with Michele Bachmann.
Don't tell us: tell them.
But thank you for the reminder-- I've gotta call my family in Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana and California and make sure they continue the petitions, calling FOX and writing to the remaining supporting ad companies. Then I've got to call my Hispanic friends and see how many of their family members can call, too. Probably not many of those, though....
Wait until the Conservative party nominates a black man, a man of color for the presidency-what then race cards- Oh, yeah the old democrat play an Uncle-Tom a traitor to the cause. Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin-2012 A person of color and a strong Woman- who is soooo HOT. This is going to be soooo FUN.
don't care how hot Palin is, since she is an incompetent quitter. Jindal might get the nomination someday, but if Palin is on the ticket again, goodbye white house.
NOW I see what you mean about "more than he deserves"...can't answer an intelligent question. Just wants to be a prick. Okay... he's henceforth ignored as far as I'm concerned.
Can't say you didn't warn me...
Chris, Sarah put that weasel Letterman into apologizing on national t.v. and making him look like the liberal jerk he is.
Chris, if it annoys you to think about a oh, sooo-hot, chick?- be-free to enjoy what you want- if plumbers butts is your thing- go for them- Don't ask- Don't tell is my motto!
But for a conservative to fight back, well, how dare you.
Chris the problem is also the fact that Liberals have no sense of humor-satire- they are always angry-hissy-fits when they do not get want they want.
To whom it may concern, I Micky d, do not think Chris is gay- I was joking.
"Is it really possible that jenkins is unaware of the cultural and historic baggage that is carried by the phrase "Great White Hope". Could she be not a bigot, but merely incredibly provincial and ignorant?
Could be......"
so no, I do not accuse this lady of being racist, but I do accuse her of stupidity and insensitivity.
I note that you continue to dodge my question, is it really essential for presidents to be "hot"? But that's okay, because I no longer care about your answer.