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During a tense floor debate in the Illinois Legislature over a proposed education reform bill, Democratic state Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia argued “all” the minority lawmakers were Democrats. When Republicans strongly objected, she mockingly referred to a Republican colleague as only “half” a black person.

“Listen to me, minorities! I’m over here, because we’re all over on this side, right?  What you’ll also find—“ LaVia began before being interrupted by Republicans.

“Wait, we have a half! We have a half,” she added, referring to state Rep. John Anthony, a black Republican.

state Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (YouTube)

That’s when state Rep. Dennis Reboletti (R) rose and scolded the Democrat for using such divisive and insulting language.

“Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe what the distinguished lady from Aurora just did,” he said. “When I represent 108,000, it’s a very diverse group. It’s not one monolith, not one particular demographic or background — it’s 108,000 people of all different backgrounds! So I don’t think that’s very fair, representative, what you did. That’s terrible!”

State Rep. Dennis Reboletti (YouTube)

LaVia then “apologized” and claimed lawmakers are there “for children, not an association, not a hidden agenda.”

“I apologize from the bottom of my heart, you know I’m not that type of person,” she added.

Watch the exchange here: (dont know how to embed)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JCVhmURFjE

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/10/thats-terrible-gop-rep-goes-off-on-dem-colleague-after-she-makes-stunning-racial-comment/



Just imagine if this were a republican saying that to a democrat. The media would have a field day, actually more like a month. 24/7 they would be running stories about this, talking about Republicans racial divide... blah blah blah. And this isnt the first time the racist democratic party has exposed their roots recently, they have said similar things to lawmakers such as Tim Scott, Alan West, Mila Love, etc.


 

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lol



This is how Democrats and so-called progressives view blacks, as a commodity to be held by their party for the purposes of gaining power. She wields them as a political cudgel towards the Repubs.

I'll never understand how the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and segregation became the champion of the modern day black American. And they are even allowed to besmirch blacks who choose to leave the Democratic plantation in favor of self reliance and individual freedoms without being called racist. Democrats are often given a pass. If a Repub had said this would not only be on VGcharts in a forum the NAACP, ACLU, CBC, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al would all be calling for his/her head. But let a Democrat say it and its not worth the time or is somehow acceptable.

Larry Elder posted a great article today that I feel is apropos to this topic and highlights one the greatest con jobs to have ever been perpetrated on an entire group of human beings.

http://www.elderstatement.com/2014/04/the-true-history-of-race-and-democratic.html?spref=tw



Why do some people care so much about skin color?



-CraZed- said:
This is how Democrats and so-called progressives view blacks, as a commodity to be held by their party for the purposes of gaining power. She wields them as a political cudgel towards the Repubs.

I'll never understand how the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and segregation became the champion of the modern day black American. And they are even allowed to besmirch blacks who choose to leave the Democratic plantation in favor of self reliance and individual freedoms without being called racist. Democrats are often given a pass. If a Repub had said this would not only be on VGcharts in a forum the NAACP, ACLU, CBC, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al would all be calling for his/her head. But let a Democrat say it and its not worth the time or is somehow acceptable.

Larry Elder posted a great article today that I feel is apropos to this topic and highlights one the greatest con jobs to have ever been perpetrated on an entire group of human beings.

http://www.elderstatement.com/2014/04/the-true-history-of-race-and-democratic.html?spref=tw

Democrats, Republicans and every other political party that has ever existed.  And not just blacks, but any categorical subset that votes.  You know this, but it's hard to see the forest for the trees for many.



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Darth Tigris said:
-CraZed- said:
This is how Democrats and so-called progressives view blacks, as a commodity to be held by their party for the purposes of gaining power. She wields them as a political cudgel towards the Repubs.

I'll never understand how the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and segregation became the champion of the modern day black American. And they are even allowed to besmirch blacks who choose to leave the Democratic plantation in favor of self reliance and individual freedoms without being called racist. Democrats are often given a pass. If a Repub had said this would not only be on VGcharts in a forum the NAACP, ACLU, CBC, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al would all be calling for his/her head. But let a Democrat say it and its not worth the time or is somehow acceptable.

Larry Elder posted a great article today that I feel is apropos to this topic and highlights one the greatest con jobs to have ever been perpetrated on an entire group of human beings.

http://www.elderstatement.com/2014/04/the-true-history-of-race-and-democratic.html?spref=tw

Democrats, Republicans and every other political party that has ever existed.  And not just blacks, but any categorical subset that votes.  You know this, but it's hard to see the forest for the trees for many.


Well, not so much Republicans, if only because they don't really have any small categorial subsets to their own.      

Not that it actually makes it any better, since they'd just do the same if they had some groups.

Well Cubans maybe.

 

It's funny (well sad) too, because said groups never actually get anything.

The Women's pay gap is in the news again,  Democrats are suddenly talking about closing it... why?   Elections.

 

Really, all the OP shows to me is that racism is more prevelent then people think, and by focusing on specific groups, and the more outwordly racist, all it does is foster an ability for one to ignore their own racist thoughts and actions. 



Great, now the whole everyone's racist towards blacks thing is going to last even longer. Thanks a lot. 

Doesn't matter how good it's getting, it only takes one comment like this.  And it's a government official.  They should know better.



Darth Tigris said:
-CraZed- said:
This is how Democrats and so-called progressives view blacks, as a commodity to be held by their party for the purposes of gaining power. She wields them as a political cudgel towards the Repubs.

I'll never understand how the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and segregation became the champion of the modern day black American. And they are even allowed to besmirch blacks who choose to leave the Democratic plantation in favor of self reliance and individual freedoms without being called racist. Democrats are often given a pass. If a Repub had said this would not only be on VGcharts in a forum the NAACP, ACLU, CBC, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, et al would all be calling for his/her head. But let a Democrat say it and its not worth the time or is somehow acceptable.

Larry Elder posted a great article today that I feel is apropos to this topic and highlights one the greatest con jobs to have ever been perpetrated on an entire group of human beings.

http://www.elderstatement.com/2014/04/the-true-history-of-race-and-democratic.html?spref=tw

Democrats, Republicans and every other political party that has ever existed.  And not just blacks, but any categorical subset that votes.  You know this, but it's hard to see the forest for the trees for many.

Are there "racists" in both parties? Sure there are. I can see the many trees. But it is the policies that the Democratic party as a whole and its silent undercurrent of racism and racialism that I am referring to. Everything comes down to race for them. If you oppose the POTUS on policy, you're a racist. If feel that race based preferences are wrong, you're a racist. If you are against a bloated in-efficient government that taxes everything and many times more than once, you're a racist. If you oppose statutory minimum wages (which often hurt black employment), you’re a racist. If you are for school choice (which has allowed disenfranchised inner city black youth to attend better schools) and against powerful teachers unions, you are a racist.

It is the obvious double standards that exist and how when a Repub says something like this they are (and rightly so) excoriated and trumpeted out of their office or place of work etc. While Democrats are given a pass because they are for big government where the entitlements and welfare flow. Never mind that the policies they support public schools, welfare, abortion, gun control, amnesty (I'll leave out the past policies of Jim Crow, Poll-Taxes, etc. etc. as that is in the link of my original post), all have had or are having a negative impact on blacks in this country, not to mention the many others who subscribe to their redistribution policies.

Democrats in charge (I know some great Democrats and I often scratch my head at them when they often don't even agree with a lot of their own party's policies) have done their level best and have largely succeeded in creating division, envy, discontentment and fostered outright hatred between the many in this country. Divide and conquer so to speak.

Then you have prominent (and in my humble opinion some of the smartest intelligent human beings we have in this country, regardless of race) black men and women in Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Tim Scott, Mia Love, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Herman Caine, Alan West, Alan Keyes, Michael Steele, J.C Watts have all been called some of the most vile names by Democrats both black and white because they chose not to toe the line and be a part of the monolith that is black liberalism/progressivism.



Republicans and Democrats are idiots, politics is a scam and people who blindly follow it in hopes that a party will fix their lives are very naive.

Businesses have discovered how to stay profitable with less employees so the job market will never improve and no matter which party is in office the %1 will still run the country and we'll continue to be corporate slaves.



Subtle racism less offensive than using derogatory terms. Racism of any type should be seen as a hate crime and punished to the full extent of the law.