EXHIBIT A: Claiming someone benefited from Affirmative Action is a slur:
Bluebear (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-18-11 07:19 PM
Original message
Obama's "good friend" Sen. Coburn calls him a welfare queen.
Responding to a man in Langley who asked if Obama "wants to destroy America," Coburn said the president is "very bright" and loves his country but has a political philosophy that is "goofy and wrong."
Obama's "intent is not to destroy, his intent is to create dependency because it worked so well for him," he said.
"As an African-American male," Coburn said, Obama received "tremendous advantage from a lot of these programs."
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=3...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1765654EXHIBIT B: Denying you want Affirmative Action is being a race traitor:
kwassa (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-03-07 04:48 PM
Response to Original message
6. Clarence Thomas has certain fundamental hypocrisies
He decries the culture of victimhood in black politics, yet he plays victim loud and long.
He tries to eliminate race as a yardstick, yet plays the race card up and down and around the block again.
and my favorite, from Eugene Robinson, a black columnist in the Washington Post,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
I believe in affirmative action, but I have to acknowledge there are arguments against it. One of the more cogent is the presence of Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Clarence Thomas is the ultimate affirmative action hire. He reminds me of Ward Connerly; now that he has benefited from AA, he wants to close the door behind him.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1966541Make up your minds, asshats. Is AA a stigma or not?
