H-Rod’s strengths: Bill and being white
Posted by BrianAnytime Alabama makes it to the Drudge Report you know it can’t be for a good reason. And with that I give you Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner, a would be Barack Obama supporter who is tossing his support behind the former first lady for the basest of reasons.
“The question you have to put forth to yourself is that whether or not in this racist country a black man named Obama — when we are shooting at Osama — can win the presidency of the United States?” Turner said.
Turner said Clinton is the Democrat most likely to win in November “because of her husband and because of some other things, mainly because she’s white.”
Mr. Turner represents what is wrong with race relations in this country. At one time blacks were put at a disadvantage with the government’s blessing. Men and women fought terrible, occasionally bloody battles to gain equal treatment in our country. And for what? So that one of the beneficiaries of those struggles can himself attempt to hold back a man due to the color of his skin - not out of hatred of the man, but out of concern that others might view race through the same prism as he does. A generation of leaders took risks to try to attain positions and recognition once forcibly reserved for whites. Turner prefers to assume the battle (which has already been won) is unwinnable and that he should instead discriminate against a black man because of his skin tone. Shameful.
As one might imagine this is not Turner’s first such outburst. From a Birmingham News article in 2002:
“They,” Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner Jr. says of Perry County whites, “don’t want progress. They don’t believe that black people have sense enough to run government … In their world, they wish it was back in the 1940s or 1950s when, if a white man was walking down the street, you had to get off the sidewalk.
“They don’t believe we can walk together.”
Actually, it looks like it is Turner who doesn’t believe we can walk together.
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