And I thought ‘yard ape’ referred to the President strolling across the grass last night to give that lead balloon speech on live TV.
The woman serving as associate vice president for student services at Greenville (SC) Technical College “resigned” after multiple brain malfunctions in her job there. She’s “numb” and “shocked” that calling children evacuated from the worst natural disaster in our country’s history as “yard apes” — in two separate briefings last week — might be a teensy bit beyond the pale.
(IslandPacket.com):
“I’m just numb and in a state of shock,” Holcombe told The Associated Press. When asked if she meant the comment as a racial slur, she said: “Heavens, no.” [Yes, I call all little darkies yard apes – doesn’t everyone?]
A message left for school president Tom Barton was not immediately returned Wednesday. Barton said Tuesday that Holcombe had apologized in a separate meeting. He said the comments were reported to him by staff members who attended the meeting last Thursday. “We’re going to rectify the situation and make it very much known that we won’t ever tolerate that kind of situation – ever,” Barton said.
Barton said Holcombe, associate vice president for student services, made the comment at a briefing to inform college employees of their roles as Greenville Tech bused hurricane refugees from the Palmetto Expo Center for registration. “It’s even hard for me to repeat because I can’t imagine anybody that would make such an asinine statement,” Barton said.
“It was stated that ‘We will take these yellow buses and go pick up these yard apes.’ My God, how bad can bad get?”
…”It’s not like she just came to work,” he said. “She’s been here and she knows our philosophy and she knows the institution. I just can’t imagine why she did it.”
Holcombe said Wednesday she did not want to discuss the incident because she didn’t want “to add fuel to the fire,” but she said she looks forward to the day her side of the story can be told.
And what might that side of the story look like? This, my friends, is an example of someone that belongs with the knuckle-draggers in the White Power movement. May I direct her to the Stormfront message board, where she can mingle with this breed of apes…
“A local church here in our small town in Arkansas has decided to take in 198 of the refugee blacks from New Orleans. Now let me start off by saying there is not one single black in this town, and now they are bringing in 198 of these raping, murdering, thieving, blacks. What the he** can we do? Damn, i just starting buying our house here, and have only made 5 payments so far. I need advice please…..”
“Where the heck is the local Klan when ya need em ?!!”“Believe it or not, we called the local Klan about 2 weeks ago, and they actually admitted that they don’t do anything anymore, because they are broke….”
“If everyone in your town feels the same way. Just act like they aren’t there. Act like they’re invisible. Everybody. Do it long enough and the nature of the attention starved negro will come out in such ways to deserve arrest, but none will be able to blame Whitey.”
“Yea man, I know how you feel. The little town that I live in which is in Utah is 98% white at least, and now we have these blacks being moved here . Im not saying all of them, but the majority of them are low life druggie criminals who live off of welfare. I would also like to know what to do.”
and more…
“There can be no confusion as to what to do concerning these negro beasts, these savage rapists who defile our young with inhuman brutality, put them up against the wall and put a bullet in their head. If they were to even touch my daughter they would be decapitated and hung by the feet off the corner streetlight for all to see, we cannot give any quarter to these predators, violent savage beasts, thrust upon us, dispose of them like the trash they are.”
“White Community: Helping the Forgotten Victims of Katrina“
and more…
“In order to keep everybody here well informed and prepared on where all the negros be headed and endin’up as a result of bussing them around the country, I think it would be a good idea to have a thread listing just where they are being accepted…by stupid mayors and their ilk. I imagine it to be more widespread than we are being told and I don’t trust the local media outlets to be very eager to let us know about it, lest it result in racial discord. As far as I know there aren’t any here yet in NE PA.”
“So far none here in north Indiana, coons don’t like the cold. I’m buying some guns to prepare myself for them, I’m sure some will make it up here.”
“115 due to land in Tucson this morning! Time to print out my listing of the dangers these negroes will face in this area of the Sonoran Desert and infiltrate the leaflets in their Welcome Wagon handouts.”
“Unless these niggers get krystaaal and fried chicken, they will start rioting and raping whites. If they do get their demands, they will still rape and kill, just not riot as much.”
Cross-posted at Pam’s House Blend
And race and racism has “nothing to do with it” — stop the fucking world, I just want to get off. I am not a violent person, but these types of things/people/attitudes make me want to indulge my shadow.
I can only imagine how difficult this was to put together, Pam, and I thank you.
I know these cretins are out there — we just need to be reminded that these racists are not just the fringe. There are plenty of “upstanding citizens” among us that think these things, but they have the sense not to say them publicly. At least most of them.
Clearly this woman doesn’t think she said anything wrong.
That’s the kicker, isn’t it? She doesn’t comment except to say she is shocked and numb and looks forward to when her side of the story can be told — fuck her.
The silent racism is the hardest to combat, I wish these scum-suckers were human enough to come out of anonymous-land, but they don’t do they?
Hey brinn..that’s been my sentiment for the last several years when I’m ranting to my sister about shit like this..that I can’t take it anymore, this kind of hatred-dangerous hatred and stupidity. My reoccuring refrain is usually either just shoot me or get me off this planet..not exactly constructive solutions to hearing about or dealing with racism I know.
Edgar Hollingsworth, 74, is lifted onto an ambulance gurney in front of his home in New Orleans, found unconscious and emaciated 16 days after Katrina.(photo: Bruce Chambers)
ok now, what color of skin is it that these mass, serial murders are? remind me now….oh yes now I remember..it is white!
had this “person” as his #2 candidate for “Worst Person In The World” last night. #1 was a guy who fired a woman who took off 5 unpaid days to care for her grandchild while their parents were stuck in New Orleans…
Excellent. If Olbermann can verify the stories, he could also publish the pics of the offenders. What the hell, a criminal by any other name?
Unf*ckingbelievable! What more can I say?!!
Sometimes I read things and my brain simply refuses to register them. There is always hope though! The black hole that exists in these people where their soul is supposed to be could always suck them inside out and into a different universe than the one I’m in.
The thing that boggles my mind is that, apparently, these people actually believe this nonsense. How can anyone be that stupid? Has anyone checked for lead in their drinking water?
The concern about interracial criminality is particularly detached from reality. Most criminals are the same race as their victims. Entire categories of violent crime — especially rape and unarmed assault — are chiefly committed by people personally known to the victim.
If we’re going to be entirely reality-based, it’s the people who are part of your ethnic group and closest to you personally who are most likely to kill you. But then, if we were going to be that reality based, the whole notion of default group affiliations would go out the window and people would start evaluating each other on the basis of their actions instead of irrelevancies like language and skin color.
I don’t believe in hell but, if there is one, may all of those racist bastards rot in it together.
I don’t either, but, y’know, we could be wrong.
I think we need an advance party to send ahead, just to, y’know, check things out.
Got any idea where we could find a few, um, “volunteers”?
Some days, it’s such a drag to not believe in hell…
😉
It’s not necessary to believe in the Xian hell to send these creeps to one — to quote Milton, “Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.”
Why are these poor displaced folks being bussed anywhere like that? How are they choosing these towns, by throwing a dart at a map?
Yeah, no rasism here, now shut up and move along<snark>. God this makes me sick and I just got over being ill. Must take vacation. Only two more weeks!
When people are displaced from their homes they lose more than their “physical” place. They lose their connections to roots and culture, to values and mores and norms and community. These determinants all have major impacts on health status.
We’d be seriously naive to think that any planning whatsoever went into identifying relocation areas, considering how they were treated during the crisis.
To send them so far from what is familiar, and to possibly face the sort of ignorance and hate that Pam has identified in her diary, is another cruelty these people will have to endure.
then if I call her a lawn jockey in white-face. “Heavens, no!”
She’s just shocking dumb, not numb.
There are times when I think we are absolutely nowhere.
This is one.
I guess that given the current social and political climate in this country, racists are no long afraid of showing their real stripes.
don’t think they are racist or even recognize that what they say is offensive. They think that their attitudes and words are ‘normal’ and that everybody knows that and feels the same way.
That seems even worse to me. I can’t imagine being so blind to the consequences of my actions and words.
it was just in time for the AISD school buses to be bringing the kids back from school — there was one bus that had a bunch of elementary aged kids and they were yelling out of the open windows at the top of their lungs “We love Austin, we love Austin!”
They were laughing and smiling and bouncing around, just like kids are supposed to do — I just wanted to scoop them all up.
for that great image — it makes a lovely counterpoint to this story.
Jeebus Effing Christ on a pogo stick!!!!
That is utterly disgusting.
at first I thought this was satire from the onion.
Not that it makes any difference, but do we know for a fact that Ms. Holcombe is white, or are we just assuming she is?
(is “yard apes” a slur commonly used by whites in S.C.? I’ve never heard the term before.)
In Kansas, where I grew up, yard apes was used to describe kids…ie: little one’s playing in the yard…there was no overt racism implied in the expression.
I cannot speak to the semantic of it’s meaning elsewhere. However, IMO, it was a poor choice of words.
Peace