During World War Two, President Barack Obama’s grandfather Stanley Dunham (who was white) served as a supply sergeant with the U.S. Army Air Forces. He crossed the English Channel six weeks after D-Day with the 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Company and went on to service “airfields…in places such as Brucheville, Cricqueville, St.-Jean-de-Daye, Peray, Clastres, Juvincourt and Saint-Dizier.” Back at home, the president’s grandmother Madelyn (who was white) worked “the night shift as a supervisor on the B-29 bomber assembly line at the Boeing plant” in Wichita, Kansas.
But the only thing you really need to know about the president and his family is that he’s black and his father was Kenyan.
Likewise, Tammy Duckworth’s father (who was white) served in the U.S. Marines in World War Two. According to Duckworth, his family has been in the country since before independence from England and she is a member of Daughters of the American Revolution.
But the only thing you need to know about Tammy Duckworth is that she’s Asian and her mother is from Thailand.
Senator Mark Kirk was a Naval reservist who served stateside during Operation Iraqi Freedom and as a intelligence officer during the war with Serbia in the late 1990’s. He has lied about both, saying that he was the only member of Congress to serve in the Persian Gulf War and falsely claiming to have been recognized as Intelligence Officer of the Year during the conflict in the Balkans.
But the only thing you need to know about Mark Kirk is that both his parents are white.
That’s why he can mock Duckworth’s father and all his American ancestors by doubting in a debate that her “parents came all the way from Thailand to fight alongside George Washington.”
Unlike Mark Kirk, who lied about serving in Iraq, Tammy Duckworth lost her legs there when the “UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter she was co-piloting was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.”
It doesn’t really matter what your parents or grandparents did to serve this country, and it doesn’t matter how many limbs you’ve lost serving in our armed forces, if you have a non-white parent, those contributions are obliterated.
Tammy Duckworth was born in Bangkok. Maybe she can show you the long-form birth certificate.
She’ll be a U.S. Senator come January.
Come January, Senator Mark Kirk will be a private citizen, just like Donald Trump.
Beautiful post – thank you.
Next he’ll claim she lied about losing her legs. Reality doesn’t matter to these self-entitled white guys.
Jesus! You had to turn it into a racist attack on white people!
Yea, I don’t have a leg to stand on…
Support the Troops… NOT!
Just like how Saxby Chambliss shamelessly & ruthlessly slagged multiple amputee war hero Max Cleland (and sadly, Chambliss won) by saying he supported Osama Bin Laden, so goes deplorable Kirk.
But, don’t forget: IOKIYAR. At least, that’s how these deplorable humans behave… time after time after time after time…. and their deplorable constituents agree with it and vote for these scum.
scum GOP constituents who go right on supporting and voting for disgusting pieces of shit like Kirk.
INOK to decent folks.
Don’t forget the media that enables scum like this. Kirk is portrayed by them as a “moderate.” He’s not. He has a long record of hate and awfulness if people would care to look. Which makes Human Rights Campaign’s endorsement all the more puzzling. Why they have to act like the GOP cares about their supposed agenda, I have no idea.
They do it from time to time. They in fact supported Al D’Mato over Chuck Schumer during Schumer’s first senate run. They really aren’t under any illusions that the republicans could be less onerous for the cause, but the long term goal is to actually take these issues out of the political realm so that it doesn’t make such a huge difference whether a Republican or Democrat is in charge. So from time to time they endorse Republicans who haven’t been hopelessly hostile. The problem is, of course, that HRC is an advocacy organization, not a political one, so the endorsement doesn’t mean anything. HRC can’t deliver LGBT voters or campaign volunteers and they know it. I don’t even think they do voter drives.
The Trump effect in action. Say whatever your puny racist brain can come up with, insult someone whose military and public service records speak for themselves, and then act like you just burned her like a pro.
Big fat loser on all counts. Kirk needs to apologize, if he hasn’t been shamed enough already, and then depart public service for the rest of his pathetic life.
Remember when Senator Kirk called out Trump for his racist statements on the campaign trail?
So long ago, morally speaking.
He’s basically spent the whole campaign attacking her military service and her time at the VA. It’s been a disgusting campaign
I remember when Joe Walsh (during a WTTW debate?) accused her of “running away” from something. She cut him down with “Sorry, Mr. Walsh, I can’t run away. I lost my legs in the service of my country.”
Walsh and Kirk, both slugs.
So far, she’s the only Democrat I’m voting for, so we agree on someone.
New video from Vote Vets also works nicely against Kirk’s garbage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw6TvBlKNGQ
It’s all about how immigrants fight this country’s wars.
There is even a stanza in the “Hamilton” song “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)” about how immigrants get the job done.
Don’t just take it out on Kirk. Make it good for Grassley. Make it good for John McCain.
Get three more women in the US Senate.
Don’t forget Toomey! We can make it four more Democratic women in the U.S. senate.
Kirk’s gonna lose.