Phil has some obnoxious opinions and a folksy, obnoxious way of expressing them, but, hey, a rightwing Southern redneck with folksy ways, not news.
Robertson, who is about my age, never noticed any negative feelings about conditions in the South among his dark-skinned co-workers. He has a quaint, folksy way of expressing this:
“Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues,”A number of white folks sprang to Robertson's defense, including his friend Sarah Palin. So far as the record goes, none of them ever heard any black folks singin' the blues either.
Here is the entire quote:
ReplyDeleteI never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. 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!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.
What you have done in this post is to either call Robertson a liar, or that he is too stupid to accurately relate his own experience.
Why am I not surprised.
Liar. The old happy darkies routine.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 50s, those neighbors could not vote, were terrorized by the parish government (Plaquemines was the most notorious in the south) and were provided public schools far worse than white kids got. They sang the blues. That's where the blue came from.
Robertson is a flatout racist and a liar both. The perfecta.
Nonsense. You are insisting that the blacks were somehow substantially worse off than Robertson, who, it must be repeated, was the one who was there. That isn't to excuse Jim Crow, and I'll bet you can't find where Robertson did, either.
ReplyDeleteEven worse, you once again show you in particular, and progressives in general, simply cannot use the word "racist" correctly. Tell me, precisely, what Robertson said that qualifies in any way as racism.
To someone who isn't bound and determined to find what isn't there, Robertson is clearly saying that despite Jim Crow, the blacks that he knew and worked with were not self pitying, but instead carried themselves with great dignity.
Post government entitlements and the Great Society predations, the situation is far different, and in some ways, worse.
Turning that clear meaning into racism is axe grinding in its purest form. Just as with the Justine Sacco kerfuffle, progressives are showing themselves as the true McCarthyites.
(BTW, a couple of my recent comments seem to have gone missing.)