OriginalShroom
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The media would be exploding if a Republican ever nominated a White man who said blacks should be removed from the voting process because they won't vote for a white man.
All hell would be breaking loose if these comments, directed about blacks, had been uttered by a White nominee.
In fact James Watt had to resign his post as President Reagan's Secretary of Interior when he said about a coal-leasing panel: "I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent."
Mel Watt: Majority of whites won't vote for black candidate | The Daily Caller
President Obamas pick to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency once said that a majority of white voters would never vote for a black candidate and that they should be excluded from the democratic process.
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There would be a substantial majority of white voters who would say that under no circumstances would they vote for an African American candidate, Watt said Oct. 14, 2005 during a Washington hearing held by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act.
The Voting Rights Act should be expanded to adjust districts to take [racially motivated voting] into account, Watts said.
Such voters need to be factored out of the equation, Watt said, because Ive got no use for them in the democratic process.
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In 2004, progressive independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader claimed that Watt hurled a racial epithet at him during Naders meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, which urged Nader to suspend his campaign and support John Kerry.
Nader alleged in a letter that Watt said, Youre just another arrogant white man telling us what we can do its all about your ego another fking arrogant white man. Nader demanded an apology from Watt.
All hell would be breaking loose if these comments, directed about blacks, had been uttered by a White nominee.
In fact James Watt had to resign his post as President Reagan's Secretary of Interior when he said about a coal-leasing panel: "I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent."