Conyers: You Have Too Many White People Helping The Haitians!!

Progressives and race baiters always reveal their true colors in the end. It doesn't matter so much whether or not the Haitian people are helped. One must have the correct number of black people doing it, or the effort is illegitimate. Remind me, again, who are the true racists in the end?

Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) has called on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to demote the official coordinating Haiti relief efforts for not having enough minority staffers.

“I was alarmed and chagrined to learn that none of the approximately dozen staff he brought with him were African American,” Conyers wrote in the letter. “This is so serious an error in judgment that it warrants his immediate demotion to a subordinate position at AID.”

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[keeskennis]

It sounds like Aparthaiti to me.

[Mrs. Peperium]

John is married to Monica. Who is headed off to jail for corruption this March. She was once the head of the Detroit City Council. From the Detroit News:

March 01. 2009
Nolan Finley
Commentary: Elect a crazy council, get crazy results

Nowhere is Michigan's brain drain on greater display than in the Detroit City Council chambers.
My hopes for Detroit's future faded as I watched the tape of last Tuesday's council meeting, the one that considered the Cobo Center expansion deal.
It was a tragic circus, a festival of ignorance that confirmed the No. 1 obstacle to Detroit's progress is the bargain basement leaders that city voters elect. The black nationalism that is now the dominant ideology of the council was on proud display, both at the table and in the audience.
Speakers advocating for the deal were taunted by the crowd and cut short by Council President Monica Conyers, who presided over the hearing like an angry bulldog; whites were advised by the citizens to, "Go home."
Opponents were allowed to rant and ramble on uninterrupted about "those people" who want to steal Detroit's assets and profit from the city's labors.
A pitiful Teamster official who practically crawled to the table on his knees expressing profuse respect for this disrespectful body was battered by both the crowd and the council.
When he dared suggest that an improved Cobo Center would create more good-paying jobs for union workers, Conyers reminded him, "Those workers look like you; they don't look like me."
Desperate, he invoked President Barack Obama's message of unity and was angrily warned, "Don't yousay his name here."
Juxtapose the place and the faces and imagine a white Livonia City Council treating a black union representative with such overt racial hostility. The Justice Department would swoop down like a hawk, and the Rev. Al Sharpton would clog Five Mile Road with protesters.
But in Detroit, dealing with the council's bigotry is part of the cost of doing business. As is dealing with its incompetence. (I'll pause here and excuse from that indictment Sheila Cockrel and Brenda Jones, who supported the Cobo deal, as did Kwame Kenyatta, who although he's an avowed nationalist, most often votes in the city's best interests.)
Emmet Moten, the developer who just opened the Fort Shelby Hotel downtown, was at the meeting and found it appalling. Moten went to Lansing in 1983 on behalf of Mayor Coleman Young to successfully lobby for a regional tax to support Cobo.
"And now we're saying, 'We don't want your money,'" Moten says. "If Coleman were alive today, he'd be outraged. It hurts, it really hurts."
Now, Moten says, "we Detroiters gotta be outraged."
Outraged enough to go to the polls in November and elect a brighter, more responsible council. Moten and others I talked with this week are encouraged that mayoral primary voters picked Dave Bing and Ken Cockrel Jr., the two most rational candidates on the ballot.
The test now will be whether it's those primary voters or the angry council crowd who represent the real Detroit.
As Moten notes, "You can't fix this for us. We have to fix it ourselves."
Nobody can help Detroit if voters again elect a City Council composed of separatists, clueless dowagers and the apparently insane.

[Ed Anger]

Perhaps we need to bring in Lani Guinier, to quota queen herself, to establish a list of racial quotas for this.

Oh, and stop calling them "progressives" even though they make everything progressively worse. That's a spin to mislead the public. Call them what they are: screaming liberals. Or, call them what I do: Free Radicals (which as any doctor will tell you, are harmful...)

[Delataire]

Interesting reading:

http://cofcc.org/2010/02/botswana-daily-paper-asks-what-if-their-were-no-white-people/

[Neo]

does anybody who happens to have a building on top of them or an empty stomach, really give a hoot what color the person giving them aid really is ? Shoot, they would take aid from extraterrestial aliens. And if you wouldn’t, you deserve your fate.

As for Conyers, he is part of the problem … nuf said.

[Jeff]

wait a minute ... 12 staffers ... How many women ? How many Hispanics or Asians ? How many wheelchair bound ? How many are left handed ? What if he had an African American conservative among them ? Not "really" black, right ? How many homosexuals ? How many married vs single ? How many are taller (or shorter) than the national average ? How many are overweight (or underweight) ? How many with glasses or contacts ?

I think I see another GOP pickup in the future ...

[SacTownMan]

Come on Ed it's much easier to just call em trolls!!

[Hard Right]

Speaking of racism and groundless attacks...

Black Debater From ‘Race and Conservatism’ Event Defends O’Keefe, Slams Blumenthal

http://bigjournalism.com/ncppr/2010/02/04/black-debater-from-race-and-conservatism-event-says-okeefe-voiced-personal-support-for-me-and-my-positions/

Trolls hardest hit by news...

[Anon]

I guess the liberal's ultimate dream would be to forcibly remake everything in the country...schools, neighborhoods, businesses...in a way that exactly replicated the demographics of the U.S... and things would be re allocated after every census.

Although of course there would be exceptions for the gerrymandered minority Congressional districts.

Conyers is a racist just like his criminal racist wife, this should not be news to anyone.,

[time to rise up]

My experience is that a lot of African Americans (I don't say all) don't give a flying fig about other blacks who aren't African American—ask Africans and West Indians about that. So what's Conyers's point? If the hands helping Haitians aren't African American ones then the help is not legitimate? What a maroon (deepest depths of moron) that man is! Does he think the Haitians, naked, hungry, thirsty, injured, sick are going to look at the color of the person giving aid? Perhaps Conyers ought to leave the USofA for a little bit and find out what people in distress really think.

[SacTownMan]

Damn Whitey, always keeping the bro's down!!

[beverly]

Who's STOPPING the blacks from helping the Haitians? Why don't they get off their fat butts and do something, instead of whining about Whitey all the time? They should be embarrassed at their own lame-ass participation.

[Ertdfg]

When I'm starving and dying of thirst, I don't care what color the person bringing me food and water is.

As long as they aren't Irish, I'll accept their help.

*kidding, I'm fine with the Irish, its the Scandis that I hate*

*Really? I have to do another one? I don't know or have an opinion on Scandinavia, don't ask me about Uzbekistan*

*because I don't know where it is*