Rangel: OK To Call Tea Party 'White Crackers'

by JASmius



Remember this racial slur from this past summer?  After last Tuesday's electoral beat-down, Representative Rangel wants us all to know how profusely "sorry" he is - and that he meant it as a term of "endearment".

Seriously:

Rangel replied that he thought "cracker" was "a term of endearment," adding that "with all of the feelings I have against these people who have been against justice, fair play, equality, and the freedoms as we know it, if I offended them by calling them a white cracker, for that I apologize."

Translation: He's insanely prejudiced and bigoted against white people, hates us with a fiery passion, and wants to use the power of the federal government to drill us into the ground, but if we were so mentally challenged as to interpret his racist insult as a racist insult, he's sorry we're that insipidly moronic.

But later in the interview, Rangel dismissed criticism of his comments as "ridiculous," and appeared to liken tea partyers to segregationists and terrorists.

In other words, he doubled down on his racist slander.

"A guy … in Congress calls mean-spirited people that bomb and kill people, set dogs on them, lynch people, and still refuse to believe that we’re suffering the pain from this — they can say that guy makes a lot of sense but he had no business calling us a white cracker," he said.

So much for the "twenty-two term congressman's" "apology".

This, of course, is why I am disinterested in proffered "apologies" from people I know to be enemies, and especially never seek them out.  In the latter instance, the tendered mea culpa will almost certainly be the product of political untenability rather than genuine contrition, and the former can only come from a perception of political gain to be had from a publicly conciliatory stance.  Even if Charlie Rangel had made any kind of serious effort to seem apologetic for his "white cracker" slur, I wouldn't buy it, and neither should any of you.

Fortunately, his black, oily heart (like his dyed-black, oily hair) wasn't in the effort.