I don’t think it is going to help Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal become president to do a cameo appearance on next season’s Duck Dynsaty program. People of color and decent white people simply won’t tolerate a candidate who winks and nods at the behavior of Phil Robertson.
In the interview, [Robertson] also said that in his Louisiana youth he picked cotton with African-Americans and never saw “the mistreatment of any black person. Not once.”
“We’re going across the field…. They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’ — not a word!” Robertson told the magazine.
Mr. Robertson was born in 1946, which means he was already 18 years old when the Civil Rights Act passed, and nineteen when the Voting Rights Act passed. The Justice Department is still investigating the murders of five black men who died in the Louisiana of Robertson’s youth.
Then there’s the younger generation who have exactly no time for someone who sidles up to deranged homophobia.
Well, Nixon did appear on “Laugh-in” to say, “Sock it to me!”
Maybe Jindal’s hoping for a “Duck, come to me!”, moment!
So, since they look like Bergdahl’s father they look like terrorists – and Jindal is in with them.
Well, then Jindal must be ………… (pick a Republican theme)
….yet, but the day’s still young…..
How embarrassing. Between Jindal and Rubio, it’s almost impossible to pick which is the most desperate and/or the biggest loser.
The only way Jindal becomes POTUS is if the Palin/Jindal ticket wins and Sarah gets bored and quits six months in. IOW — only in Jindal’s dreams.
Ummm…maybe they didn’t say anything because there was a white person among them.
A reverse Eddie Murphy bit in the making:
It’ll be his jump the duck moment.
Mr. Non-aware of discrimination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Robertson
As an athlete in high school, Robertson was all-state in football, baseball, and track, which afforded him the opportunity to attend Louisiana Tech in Ruston on a football scholarship in the late 1960s.[9] At Tech, he played first-string quarterback for the Bulldogs, ahead of Pro Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw,[ (snip) Robertson was a year ahead of Bradshaw, and was the starter for two seasons in 1966 and 1967, and chose not to play in 1968.
http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2011/08/louisiana-state-university-lsu-football.html
Forty years ago, LSU would field its last team of all-white players before finally integrating in 1972 by playing Mike Williams (who they had signed in 1971).
Unless my math just went crazy 1966 and 1967 were before 1972. And you might wonder why our man Phil didn’t think it odd that none of his best bud black co-workers actually made the team he was Q-backing. Or apparently not much onto the campus.
I mean shoot!! Who wants to go to one of the flagship football colleges in Lousiana and actually get a chance to go to the pros? Why we’uns got singing and happy dancin’ to do!!
Full disclosure: since I don’t watch television, I have never seen Duck Dynasty, nor do I read about them, and only occasionally I see pictures of some guys that remind me a bit of ZZ Top, that are called “Duck Dynasty”.
But what Robertson said may well be true.
Considering my full disclosure, the comparison may not be valid, but it reminds me of Levon Helm, who as you probably know grew up in a dirt farmer family in Arkansas near the Mississippi border. Those white guys used to take a risk THEMSELVES in associating with black musicians, even in private, but they certainly got along fine with them.
That’s the origin of white people such as Elvis and Carl Perkins singing such music, and it provides much for thought which would be nourishing to the American brain if such thought actually took place.
But getting back to DD, though, even if it is true, the main point is, it’s irrelevant.
It reminds me of a Paulista friend who told me that he used to pass by the John Birch Society library all the time when he lived in Tallahassee. Apparently it was a little place and when he walked past it was always closed. So from that — plus the fact that he studiously avoids finding out anything about the actual John Birch Society — he concludes that all the talk about the JBS doing anything harmful must be grossly exaggerated and that all the sources portraying them in a bad light must be left-wing propaganda. In his mind the JBS is just a little storefront library that was never open.
Maybe that’s the paradigm here. Think about things in a series of images and avoid the real issues and you too can be a Paulista.
… provides much FOOD for thought …