“Ya’ll look alike to me.”
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/8040153.htm
So, can we call for her resignation, a la Trent Lott?
It won’t happen. It’s called a double standard.
First off, it was a stupid thing to say, and an apology, at the very least, is in order.
Secondly, I very much doubt Trent Lott was done in by “PC” fanatics. He was done in to provide for Bill Frist’s continued grooming for Bigger and Better Things. Not that I miss him, but the fingerprints on the knife are Karl Rove’s.
Thoid, its kind of refreshing seeing someone offended at being called “white”.
“Listen, people. I’m not black but there’s been a whole lot of times I wished I could say I’m not white.”
(from Freak Out, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention)
Amen, brother. Amen.
Corrie Brown flipped her nut and said something stupid?
Hell, I’m shocked. After all, she’s been a paragon of sweet reason and sanity up until now.
How the heck did she reach a leadership position?
How does she keep getting re-elected? This isn’t the first time she’s shot off her mouth. She’s a bigot.
Does she represent a district with a lot of AfrAm’s? People who might be a bit miffed about how they were treated in 2000? Seeing your voter registration being used as toilet paper to benefit the Towers of Honky…yes, frankly, I think that would get on my nerves. I would be more likely to vote for someone more confrontational. Don’t approve, mind you, but I certainly understand.
It’s a good thing the attention is squarely it belongs – on “inappropriate” reactions to Bush’s assholery, rather than Bush’s assholery.
Anybody catch Noriega’s quote just before Brown’s gaffe? About resengint being branded a white man because he’s Mexican American?
I guess we’re all taking our lumps today.
What the fuck is the big deal?
“Mexican-American” is not a racial grouping. It’s a cultural one. Mexicans are goddamn white people.
Of course they don’t speak for all mexicans, but I just read that to my mexican co-workers, They want to know how exactly they are white?
I’m sure nothing will happen. Probably she will be reelected in a landslide.
>People who might be a bit miffed about how they were treated in 2000?
What, having their votes disqualified because they couldn’t punch 'em correctly? Failing the same standard that was applied to everyone else? Sheesh.
I do remember hearing that shortly after Castro took power, a lot of Cubans came to the United States. Cuba has its own race problems, with whites and blacks in conflict; the Cubans coming to the US were primarily white. Imagine their surprise on landing here and finding out they weren’t white, but Hispanic!
Ah, the wacky fun of racial identification.
Daniel
whaaa…the poor white people…how you’ve suffered. :rolleyes:
Who gives a shit? I think it’s pathetic when white people start grandstanding about shit like this as though it’s on a par with what’s been done to black people or brown people or light brown people or red peole or any other color people besides white.
White people are not an oppressed minority. White people are not fucking victims. There’s no story here and this woman has nothing to aopolgize for. I’m white and I don’t give a shit. When white people birtch about shit like this they just sound like spoiled thirteen year old girls who think that not getting a cell phone from their parents makes them victims of child abuse.
There are far, far, far more important things to worry about (like reuniting Crawford, Texas with it’s missing village idiot) than whether some lady said white people look alike. Some people just get off on being “offended.” They need to get a life.
She represents the Third Congressional District, which was cobbled together not too long ago. In includes a big chunk of downtown Jacksonville, then barely snakes across Clay county before spreading out on its way to Orlando. She was elected right after the cobbling. Take that as you will.
I consider her to have been an embarrassment to the state from the start. But I’m leaving in a few months, so I no longer care… 
Well, it was a pretty fucking thoughtless and stupid thing to say; not the sort of thing you expect from an elected official–although we’ve been hearing so much crap from elected officials over the past years that i’m starting to wonder whether we can actually say any more that such stupidity is unexpected.
As far as the race thing goes, it’s worth remembering that for much of US history, race classifications have differed in different parts of the United States. In much of the South, race was generally a rather bipolar category–you were either black or white. This was particularly the case up until the the third quarter of the twentieth century. In the south-west of the country, however, the racial categories were set up in a triangular fashion (black, white, Hispanic) that recognized the large number of people of Mexican and Spanish heritage.
Interestingly enough, as the person in the OP’s linked article found out, this often meant that Hispanics would find themselves referred to as “white” in parts of the US outside the southwest, and especially in the South. The historian Neil Foley discusses this issue in his excellent book, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berekely: University of California Press, 1997). Foley tells the tale of Santiago Tafolla, who left Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1848 and ended up in Charleston, South Carolina working as an overseer on a slave plantation. Tafolla had never been considered white while he was in New Mexico; unsurprising considering the US army was occupying the area after its recent war victory in the region. Yet in South Carolina, where the line between white and “not white” was drawn much differently, he found himself classified as a white.
I know that was over a century and a half ago, but i thought i was worth pointing out that some people and cultures draw racial distinctions in different ways than others. And, given that race itself is essentially without biological foundation, we shouldn’t be too surprised that the categories vary from place to place and person to person.
Still doesn’t mean it was a smart comment by the politician, though.
I was all set to point out that she was telling a Latino guy that all white people look alike and telling him he was white, which is pretty bizarre behavior.
That’s before I found out that this particular Grand Master of the Order of the Sun looks more pink than anything else.
Still a stupid statement, but it’s not surprising she didn’t think him Latino.
Daniel
Correction: given his photograph, it’s not surprising; given his name, it is.
Daniel
Elucidator, buddy, when did you fall off the beam?
You sound as nuts-out as those Reader and Diogenes idiots.
So sad.
You turn some stupid arrogand racist bullshit, said by a woman of color herself, to another person of color, no less, and try and spin it as if it’s a conservative plot of somesort, and… the best that I can say is…
Keep up the good work.
Nutjobs like you are what keep the conservative party alive (You really do sound that ‘out there’. Sorry pal)
Interesting. Your semi-literate response does not seem to correlate in any sensible way to your quoted portion of 'lucy’s post.
Perhaps you highlighted the wrong paragraph? Where is the part where he said that this woman’s comments were a “conservative plot?”