Discussion: Lawmaker Who Lamented 'Welfare Crazy Checks' Insists He's Not Racist

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Reminds me a bit of Monty Pythonā€¦

ā€œIā€™m not deadā€

ā€œHere, he says heā€™s not dead.ā€

You know, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, floats like a duck and it isnā€™t a witch, itā€™s probably a racist.

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Now here is a cracā€“man who just knows that some of his best friends are black.

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Racists never see their own racism.

Itā€™s even worse in Mississippiā€”because those racists also lack whatever it is that makes us human.

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queue the black friendā€¦

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and even the homosexual friends.

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It wasnā€™t the reporter who made him look like a fool. It was his barber.

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I donā€™t see any schools hurting," Alday (pictured on the right) said in an interview with the Clarion-Ledger highlighted by ThinkProgress. ā€œThe people are electing superintendents that donā€™t know anything about education.ā€

ā€œI come from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call ā€˜welfare crazy checks.ā€™ They donā€™t work,ā€ he continued.

Yes, saying every black in your town are getting food stamps and what you call crazy welfare checks and donā€™t work but there is nothing racial in those comments. You are a bigot that loves racist stereotypes but there is nothing racist about you except when you open your mouth.

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Heā€™s not racist, he says, because he did not know his comments would be included in the article by the reporter who interviewed him?!?

Today he should have just said ā€œIā€™m not racist, just stupid.ā€

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Surprised he didnā€™t say that 'When I was in the ER I had to wait because people on Obamcare were in line in front of me."

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OK he says his words were ā€œtaken out of contextā€ but how do you put words like that in context that makes them OK?

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That genie isnā€™t going back in the bottle.

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Clarion Star Ledger Assistant Managing Editor calling for this guy not to run for reelection this year, and so the slow drip beginsā€¦

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Kind of like hating on the government while sucking the lifeblood from the government.
Excluding himself, Rep. Gene Alday, hates everything about government, especially the free Cadillacs and lobster giveaways that the blacks get. But this isnā€™t about blacks or the government because those things live in his neighborhood. Got it.

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Its ok for white western ranchers to get welfare. If you are black, not so muchā€¦

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Well, at least now the black folks in his little town with their ā€œlittle civil rights walksā€ know how this asshole talks about them behind their back. Saying his comments weā€™re meant to be ā€œoff the recordā€ sure shouldnā€™t let him off the hook by any means. Maybe now heā€™ll be voted out, now that heā€™s let his true colors show through. Maybe his pandering days are coming to a close. He canā€™t bullshit his way out of this one.

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I think Thomas and Carson are booked this weekend, though.

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Look, I hardly ever even use the word ni**er anymore.

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One can never ā€œunringā€ the bell once it has tolledā€¦

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QuoteFix:

ā€œBut theyā€™re good people.
I donā€™t have anything against anybody.
Iā€™m a straight-up guy.
In my little town they had little civil rights walks and I was with them.
Iā€™m with everybody.
Except them shiftless n^ggers.ā€™ā€

Love to have access to Rep Aldayā€™s personal email account.

jw1

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