Comments | _themaninblack_: Racist? Why you axin'?

_themaninblack_

Racist? Why you axin'?

Jul 31, 2006 15:46

With a name like Mitt, what do you expect?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/31/romney.racialremark.ap/index.html

Read the original story here:

Comments 2

martemom August 1 2006, 02:26:12 UTC

"He was unaware that some people find the term objectionable and he's sorry if anyone's offended,"
MY ASS.

I love trying to read that story out loud. Too bad it's racist or I'd read it to my kids. I don't want to have to use the above quote in their defense one day. :P

shimmerdance August 1 2006, 17:14:22 UTC

I absolutely LOVED song of the south as a kid. I read that book over and over again. It is definitely a slice of the unenlightned past. But these political apologies are NOT apologies. I'm sorry if anyone was offended????? OMG. How about, "I am deeply sorry that, in my ignorance, I used a term that is offensive to many people." Or possibly, "It grieves me deeply to have caused pain for so many people by using a term that is offensive. I had no knowledge of its shameful history as a racist epithet, and I deeply regret my ignorance." Have some ovaries and deliver a realy apology, man.

Now I'm annoyed.

xoxo