At the Forsyth County Government Center in Winston-Salem, Jodie Brunstetter made some downright racist comments in regards to Senator Peter Brunstetter's anti-gay amendment:
"The reason my husband wrote Amendment 1 was because the Caucasian race is diminishing and we need to uh, reproduce."
Wow. Just wow. It's almost unbelievable to hear someone say such a horribly bigoted thing publicly and without any qualms. Naturally her husband is trying to do damage control and this source shares all the details. In the below video a witness says on camera that the wife of the senator stated that the Constitution was made by whites and that gays essentially shouldn't get married because the white race is "diminishing."
When asked about it, Sen. Brunstetter said the following:
"I know my wife does not think like that. She got very flustered (she is not a political person) and then someone came up to her and started shooting questions at her. She noticed later that there was someone video taping without her knowledge."
But he's full of it because within seconds of being confronted the wife of the senator acknowledged that she was being filmed. It was long after her acknowledgment of being filmed when she was actually confronted about her racial comments. So good try, Senator Peter Brunstetter of North Carolina. This anti-gay marriage initiative is further proof of the far-right's bigotry. Certainly not all conservatives feel this way, but the extremely far-right individuals like Jodie and Peter Brunstetter make a horrible name for everyone who stands on their side of the political spectrum. If you stand behind the inequality of homosexuals, that's bad enough, but to equate it to a racial issue is just plain nuts.
What's sad is that after this woman said the horribly bigoted things she said, she almost refused to admit it when she was on camera. She knew she was in the wrong. She knew what she said was terrible, and she said it thinking it wouldn't come back on her. She admitted to saying "caucasian" but she refused to acknowledge that "race" was an issue. What's refreshing is that the cameraman and the woman accompanying him treated this woman with kindness and dignity. They even offered to fetch her a cold water because she claimed to be suffering from a "heat stroke."
Sadly, when you "wiki" Peter Brunstetter, this gaffe is already highlighted on his short page. His wife's mouth may have ruined his career.
North Carolinians would be wise to avoid this bill, especially if they're not white.
Crime analyst and profiler Chelsea Hoffman can be found on The Huffington Post, Chelsea Hoffman: Case to Case and many other outlets. Follow @TheRealChelseaH on Twitter or click here to contact Chelsea directly.
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Also Gay people often will get a surrogate to carry children for them... and the kicker... not all gay people are, gasp should I say it...... White...
I don't really know who you are, but no you're not one of the "usual suspects."
I don't know if I'm a 'usual suspect' or not!
Heh, probably not, everyone thinks (knows) I'm just the wackjob somewhere in the middle of liberal and conservative. I keep getting 'Are you a conservative or not?!!!' mail. I am, dammit!
Well, that's MUCH better than having a gay child!
DOLTS.
She probably wouldn't pass basic brother even if I taught her....
Democrats and Republicans: Parties of Racism and Anti-Worker Attacks
While President Obama revs up his re-election campaign, working people, immigrant and U.S. born alike, should never forget that he came into office pushing bailouts for Wall Street. The result? More foreclosures, cutbacks and layoffs. To this day, the great majority are being asked to bleed more on behalf of greater profits for a small group of capitalists. Obama during his whole term has continued to advocate tax breaks for businesses and budget cuts for workers. This great advocate of bipartisan compromise has repeatedly caved in to the demands for even more anti-worker pro-corporate policies coming from the Republican Party.
In turn, the whole Republican Party has been busy caving into its rabid Tea Party fringe, so that the whole government has been pulled to the right. The effects are not only economic but clearly social. The setting of joblessness and deprivation provokes more anti-immigrant scapegoating and other related effects. It has become controversial to make basic statements in favor of social justice for people of color, women, gays and other oppressed groups. It was no accident that it took Obama 25 days to register any sympathy with Trayvon Martin – and even those tepid remarks on race were a rarity, partly induced by his need to woo people of color back to the voting booth in November.
As with the Republicans, the heart of the Democratic Party, along with its money and power, belongs to wealthy capitalists. Capitalism by its nature must try to divide and conquer the working class, in order to maximize profits at the workers’ expense. Under the conditions of deep economic crisis of the past few years, the drives of the system to scapegoat immigrants, people of color, youth and “greedy union workers†for the problems of unemployment, inadequate health care and education, and poverty caused by the profit-making system itself, go into high gear.
Anti-immigrant chauvinism, racism and immiseration of the working class are features of capitalism at this time, not of any one given capitalist party or politician. Thus revolutionary socialists oppose voting for candidates of any capitalist party and champion instead an alternative strategy, based on the power of the working class to fight for its own interests. The working class can unite to beat back specific capitalist attacks. People of color, especially youth, will be key to developing a rising fightback. And revolutionary socialists will fight in every struggle to build as strong a movement as possible. We also believe that the only lasting solution is to get rid of capitalism altogether. Socialist revolution will put the working class in power and replace the current system based on production for private profit with a new society based on production to satisfy human needs.
Can Black, Latino and All Workers Unify?
The anti-immigrant drive comes in the context of growing attacks on workers and oppressed people, as just one part of the general assault on workers and poor. The murder of Trayvon Martin has focused attention on racist brutality against Black and Latino people by vigilantes as well as the police. Incarceration rates for young Black and Latino men are at record levels. Muslims are a tremendous target of profiling, as the recent NYPD scandal about the monitoring of student groups testifies. The poverty and unemployment statistics for people of color, especially youth, are staggering. Obviously there is a strong basis for common cause among people of color.
If the immigrant rights movement is to revive and become an effective fighting force, it must seize opportunities to unite with broader numbers of workers, especially Black workers who have been the prime victims of racism through this country’s history and who have a powerful and militant tradition. As well, Black workers who can already see through the divide-and-conquer scheme of the ruling class are in a good position to fight for united action with other victimized workers.
While the hostility to Blacks and Latinos by too many white workers and middle-class people is obvious, the system also encourages hostilities between Black and Latino people as well as hostilities between American-born and foreign-born, and so forth. Again, one agency for this is the Democratic Party, which often poses as the champions of oppressed people in contrast to the blatantly racist Republican right. But the Democrats’ main role is to effectively derail struggles for equality and justice that inevitably clash with the needs of capitalism and imperialism. Directly and indirectly, different sections of the working class are set up to fight with each other, nationally and internationally, while the capitalist bosses continue to benefit. It is probably most tragic when different groups of oppressed people are pushed to fight over a shrinking pie out of a desperation created by a system that no part of the working class can control.
The capitalist system fosters racism, national chauvinism and other poisons in order to divert the working class from understanding who its real enemies are. Only through forging a united fightback that also takes fighting racism seriously can such obstacles be overcome. Interracial and international working-class unity is a burning necessity. More white workers can also come to see the need for such unity, and there are anti-racist white workers and youth who already see it.
This does not mean that Blacks, Latinos and other national, ethnic and religious minorities have to wait for white workers to join the struggle. There are many instances where oppressed groups have indeed been forced to fight for their survival without much help from better-off white workers – and in isolation from each other as well. And these historic struggles, each of which came out of specific traditions and circumstances, accomplished a great deal in the past – and will enrich the struggles ahead.
At the same time there have been many examples of workers beginning to overcome these divisions and uniting in struggle. A common defense would be the most powerful way forward. The League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) has often advocated a perspective of a general strike against the capitalist attacks as the best way to build a united defense.
Source: http://www.lrp-cofi.org/statements/mayday2012.html