What NOT to Say to “Those People”
[Utah State] Sen. Chris Buttars was a no-show Tuesday for a meeting with leaders of the Salt Lake branch of the NAACP…after saying of a bill he opposed, “This baby is black. . . . It’s a dark, ugly thing”
Open mouth, insert foot. Better yet, just swallow your whole damned leg:
The organization also blasted Buttars for telling The Salt Lake Tribune on Monday that he has become a target of a “hate lynch mob” because of e-mails he has received condemning his remarks.
“The man knows nothing about what a lynch mob is,” said Edward Lewis Jr., the former regional president of the NAACP, holding an article about a lynching in 1925 in Price. “It’s an insult for the man to say he’s being lynched when we know what real lynchings are.”
Buttars was baffled by the reaction.
“Lynch mob is a Western term. You wouldn’t find one person in 10,000 in Utah that thinks that’s a racist term,” Buttars said in a phone interview Tuesday evening. “That’s not a racial term in my opinion. How do I know what words I’m supposed to use in front of those people?”
Emphasis added. Jackassery abundantly supplied.
I’m fully against government censorship — but the rebuke this nitwit is catching is actually an example of the political market at work. People are really pissed because this guy can’t learn when to grab his can of “shutthefuckup” and apologize.
But don’t you fret, there is plenty of stupid to go around:
Lewis, holding a picture of his grandson, Edward Lewis IV, said he was disappointed that Buttars didn’t show up, “because I wanted to deal with him face-to-face.”
“There is a gap between what you perceive your children are versus our children. . . . I dare Senator Buttars to refer to my black grandson as something ugly,” said Lewis. “He wouldn’t have said it if I had been standing there. He wouldn’t have said this is a black, ugly baby.”
Well, while I too doubt the fair-skinned Senator from magic underpants land had the cojones to tell Mr. Lewis that his grandson is ugly, just because the kid is black does not mean he’s beautiful, empirically speaking.
When will people learn that to end racism, we have to see ugly babies for what they are, regardless of the color of their skin or the content of their diapers. I contend that Mr. Lewis’ grand-baby could be just as ugly as any white baby in the nation.
To say otherwise is just plain racist.
Filed under: Politics is Personal, Profiles in Governance, Mock the Vote, Daily Rant
Feb 20th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Oh, hamburgers! Golly, I didn’t mean to offend anyone, honest. Mom’s gonna be real sore at me when she hears about this.
Feb 20th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
hey there you free speech phony, yeah right…YOU!!!and pull your pants up!!
you are a hypocrite liar who publicly preaches free speech (except when it is something with which you disagree)but who really hates open discourse.
let’s see how stupid you people really are: (rules of the truly stupid souless morons):
1. anyone who might say, “hey, you have a black mark on your {record}{shirt} {soul}” is a racist devil to be destroyed.
If i say “that black mark on your record is one ugly baby” I should have my gonads removed by a team of man hating lesbian trasgendered half elf midgets with a speech impediment.
Pay attention to which media outlets are pumping up this story. These are the enemies of free speech.
2. Only black people can use the word “lynched”, even if they live in Lynchberg, Tenn. or Lynchberg, Va. And they should be fired if they aren’t black. All whites who are named Lynch must be sent to a concentration camp run by …. you get the idea.
3. If i say “white lie” I am a racist who must be destroyed, unless I am a homo, woman, oriental, indio, or….anything besides a white male.
This reminds me of the lynching of Don Imus. And that was concocted to discipline the talk show host roster to not speak ill of Hillary.
Feb 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
Um.
I said he was a moron. I didn’t say he didn’t have a “right” to say what he said. And, if you notice, I also pointed out that there were ignorant comments on both sides of this issue.
I think, as a politician, he should know better what to say so as not to offend. Whether or not the NAACP was correct in their reaction is irrelevant. From a practical and political perspective, a mea culpa was in order from the get-go. But instead he kept saying stupid shit. This was my point.
I don’t know enough about the guy to say whether or not he’s a racist — nor did I so much as imply that he was. And I really don’t care.
I always find it interesting — and comical, really — that white people get so up in arms when some person finds himself in hot water because he touched on a sensitive issue. Free Speech is about not being harassed by the government for saying what’s on your mind — not everyone nodding their head in agreement with you.
Free Speech goes both ways - person A says something. Person B says “Say what?!?! Screw you!” And person/media outlet C says “Look at these idiots.”
Such is the beauty of America.
And one more thing: chill the hell out, white boy.
Feb 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I like truth spreader’s enumeration of relevant minority groups: “homo, woman, oriental, indio.” The last time I saw someone referred to as an “indio” was when eating American-style Mexican food at restaurant called “El Indio,” which featured a big mural of what was supposed to be some kind of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cheiftan. That was a pretty intense gold and parrot -feather outfit he was wearing.
Oh, and by the way, “Homo Indio” would make a great band name. They could open for Pansy Division.