One of Jimmy Carter’s buddies gets an ugly moment in the limelight
Bookworm on Aug 18 2006 at 10:26 am | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Democrats
Jimmy Carter has come in for his share of deserved bashing for the heinous interview he gave in Der Spiegel. Now, one of Jimmy Carter’s employees is in the limelight for a bit of racist talk himself:
Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. improve its public image, said early Friday he was resigning from his position as head of an outside support group amid criticism for remarks seen as racially offensive.
Young, a former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador, was hired by Working Families for Wal-Mart in February.
“I think I was on the verge of becoming part of the controversy and I didn’t want to become a distraction from the main issues, so I thought I ought to step down,” he told The Associated Press.
Young, once a close associate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said his decision followed a report in the Los Angeles Sentinel, which he said was misread and misinterpreted.
In an interview with the weekly newspaper, Young was asked whether he was concerned that Wal-Mart causes smaller, mom-and-pop stores to close.
“Well, I think they should; they ran the ‘mom and pop’ stores out of my neighborhood,” the paper quoted Young as saying. “But you see, those are the people who have been overcharging us, selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they’ve ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it’s Arabs; very few black people own these stores.”
What the AP story doesn’t mention is that Jimmy Carter appointed Young as U.N. Ambassador. Apparently these two flocking birds stick together in their dislike of Jews. One could say, though, that Young is at least a purer “hater” than Carter, in that he steps out of mere anti-Semitism (and I do think Carter has revealed himself as a classic anti-Semite) and hates everybody.
By the way, I was surprised to learn from my mother that my father, the former Communist and, so far as I knew, life-long Democrat, recognized just how bad Carter was and voted for Reagan in 1980. You go, Daddy!
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Well….your Daddy wasn’t the only one! And bless ‘em all. The economic expansion Reagan began with the tax cuts is still on, with small dips here and there. “Have we actually learned the lesson? is the only real question.
I began voting Libertarian in 1976, convinced by my younger brother, and have done so ever since. It pained me not to add to RR’s landslide, but I’ve both registered and voted Libertarian for 30 years now….we need badly to move in that direction.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Congratulations on having one smart father.
Earl, as a Libertarian did you vote for Carter instead of Reagan?
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I have learned over the years that those who rail the loudest against racism and anti-semitism are often the most racist and antisemitic people themselves. Based upon conversations that I have had with such people, I think that they rationalize that such pronounements give them cover against what they themselves realize are their own deep-seated beliefs. I suspect that both Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young fall into that camp.
We’ve been told by the greatest thinkers of the day that Blacks can’t be racist because they have no power. Only white Europeans, predominantly men, who have destroyed the planet can be racist.
Goes to show what a great world of tiny little minds we live in.
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