http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20051101-104932-4054r.htm

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""Party trumps race, especially on the national level," she said. "If you are bold enough to run, you have to take whatever the voters are going to give you. It's democracy, perhaps at its worse, but it is democracy." Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black. "Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community," she said. "His politics are not in the best interest of the masses of black people." During the 2002 campaign, Democratic supporters pelted Mr. Steele with Oreo cookies during a gubernatorial debate at Morgan State University in Baltimore. In 2001, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. called Mr. Steele an "Uncle Tom," when Mr. Steele headed the state Republican Party. Mr. Miller, Prince George's County Democrat, later apologized for the remark. "That's not racial. If they call him the "N' word, that's racial," Mrs. Marriott said. "Just because he's black, everything bad you say about him isn't racial.""

So if a black runs for office in NC can right wingers through watermelon slices and fried chicken wings at the candidate?

11/2/2005 2:07:47 PM

hahaha...calling him Uncle Tom and throwing Oreo cookies isn't racial, but calling him a nigger would be.

They should've asked her about the meaning of the Uncle Tom comment or the Oreo cookies, because I'm having a hard time seeing how it's not racist. Does Democrat != racist, no matter what?

11/2/2005 2:15:12 PM

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""That's not racial. If they call him the "N' word, that's racial," Mrs. Marriott said. "Just because he's black, everything bad you say about him isn't racial.""

But isn't the whole issue based on his race? Damn.

11/2/2005 2:16:37 PM

throwing Oreos =/= throwing chicken

your whole argument is flawed now that i look at it again

[Edited on November 2, 2005 at 2:19 PM. Reason : `]

11/2/2005 2:17:42 PM

IM VOTING FOR HIM CUZ HE'S THE SAME COLOR AS ME AND HE'LL DO WHAT IS IN MY BEST INTEREST...LOOKING AT HIS ACTUAL POLITICS BE DAMNED.

i think the idea that you have to do whats best for ppl of ur skin color is pretty racist in and of itself. can we just cut this damn category bullshit already.

[Edited on November 2, 2005 at 2:39 PM. Reason : .]

11/2/2005 2:38:11 PM

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"throwing Oreos =/= throwing chicken your whole argument is flawed now that i look at it again"

Right, because throwing oreos is, in essence, a racial slur while throwing chicken is simply perpetuating a sterotype. My arguement is flawed because I didn't think of something to throw that was demeaning enough.

11/2/2005 3:00:42 PM

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"i think the idea that you have to do whats best for ppl of ur skin color is pretty racist in and of itself."

Oh, so true!

Ms. Mariott certainly personified the 'ideals' of racism and prejudice when she said that Steele is bad because "he is different."

11/2/2005 8:37:50 PM

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"Does Democrat != racist, no matter what?"

The double standard. When it comes to blacks: Another black making the comment != racist no matter what.

[Edited on November 3, 2005 at 8:50 AM. Reason : -]

11/3/2005 8:49:31 AM

Yes, blacks in Maryland think blacks are inferior. Goddamit, why do you have to display your idiotism in every thread?

11/3/2005 9:02:40 AM