Before the House voted along party lines to condemn President Trump for his racist tweets and rhetoric about four congresswomen of color, a white Republican lawmaker made the outlandish claim that he is a “person of color” because he’s white.
::looks in an atlas for Smartassland::
Why is there currently no map showing Kelly’s 16th District boundaries?
Wow, you sure got us good. Libz status: definitely owned
Since none of us is transparent we are all people of color but when the phrase colored people is used, we all know who it is meant to be about, but nice try Kelly.
“Has anybody ever told you to go back to your country?” Newhauser asked.
“Yeah they have actually. With a name like Mike Kelly you can’t be from any place else but Ireland.’”
I hate to perpetuate a stereotype, but I’m pretty sure you can be from Boston.
Also no one told him to go back to your country.
Just when you think these people can’t get any more moronic, they do.
It’s not that they’re getting more moronic, it’s just that they are presenting more symptoms.
Wikipedia:
“Prior to redistricting on March 19, 2018, the 16th congressional district was located in the southeastern part of the state, just west of Philadelphia. Previously, northwestern Pennsylvania was represented by the 3rd congressional district. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania redrew the district in February 2018 after ruling the previous map violated the state constitution due to partisan [gerrymandering] What was the 16th district was modified to become the [eleventh district], and the old [third district] likewise became the 16th, for the 2018 elections and representation thereafter.”
“Yeah they have actually. With a name like Mike Kelly you can’t be from any place else but Ireland.’”
The surname is one of the most prevalent surnames in Ireland. It is also very common in Galloway, and the Isle of Man.[4] The name O’Kelly, Kelly, Kelley, Kellie and the Gaelic form O’Ceallaigh, is the most common surname in Ireland. There are approximately half a million people worldwide who bear this name. Up until the 10th century surnames were not used in Ireland. The name O’Kelly did not spring from a single source, but arose independently in several areas in Ireland, also in Scotland and the Isle of Man and in England. In other areas, notably in Cornwall, Isle of Man and probably in Antrim, the name Kelly arose from Celli, meaning man of the woods.[5]
No Mike, you’re not white.
You’re melanin-challenged.
They shouldn’t have asked him to go back to his own country, They should’ve begged him to go back.
Kelly- Irish, not quite Anglo-Saxon since they were part of the Norman conquest.
I’ll bet he thinks it’s clever to say “You already did” when someone asks if he or she can ask him a question. It just makes you sound like a bratty-ass 9-year-old. I’d think a chronological adult would be embarrassed to say such a thing.
Or, worse, SHS.
Being a person of Irish heritage I’d like to know when we became Anglo-Saxon?
Oh, and fuck the English.
Ummm…technically, WHITE is the ABSENCE OF COLOR (whereas COLOR represents the wavelengths of light NOT absorbed by the surface you are observing.)
WHITE = NO wavelengths absorbed.
BLACK = ALL wavelengths absorbed.
Trust a Republican to not understand science…
Also, RACE is a social construct, not an actual physical difference. We can after all, interbreed.
We are all Homo Sapiens.
White male privilege on maximum display.
Clueless, entitled ass.
This reminds me of Obama noting that John Boehner was “a person of color. Although not a color that appears in the natural world.”
Good times. [sigh]
Oh, yeah, Rep. Kelly. That’ll cut down on the charges of Republicans being racist.
No one is going to pull a fast one on you! And at least your head is already in your home country - your ass.