Michael Steele welcomes all to GOP with "fried chicken and potato salad"? Actually, it's worse than that.
By bluegal Thursday Jul 16, 2009 5:45am
Much has been made today in the blogs of the first few moments of Michael Steele illustrating once again his death wish for his career and his party.
Steele's new motto for the GOP is apparently "Y'all Come," and when an audience member offered to "bring the [undecipherable picnic item]", Steele rejoined with "I'll bring the fried chicken and potato salad."
Just how tone deaf on issues of race does one have to be to be both African American and GOP Chairman? At least that much. Wow.
But there's more. The topic his questioner posed, a generic query regarding "inclusion," Steele read to mean primarily racial inclusion. The blogger asking did not announce himself as a GLBT blogger, but clearly inclusion can mean all kinds of folks, and Steele in his answer included "orientation" as part of the GOP big tent, and cited Reagan (don't they all) as a model of inclusivity in the "Y'all Come" Republican mentality. Really.
Somehow The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and other front-liners in the fight against AIDS don't see Reagan's inclusive legacy the way Steele does.
And perhaps we should ask the other chairmen of the GOP, Rush Limbaugh, James Dobson, and Newt "gay and secular fascism" Gingrich how they feel about "Y'all come." Ahem.
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... white enough to please his buddies in the GOP. He never will be.
... black enough to attract African-American voters, but thinks 'black' is flinging about terms like 'bling-bling' and 'homeboy' or eating fried chicken & potato salad.
...chose Steele because of his skin color, just as they believe everyone who voted for Obama did. Their constituency is in general so dumb and/or racist that skin color is all they can see. Accomplishments and abilities are merely unjust results of Affirmative Action to them.
WSJ, Aug. 1, 2008
"Sen. Obama drew cringes on a campaign stop in Adel, Iowa, in July 2007, when he asked a crowd of farmers: "Anybody gone into a Whole Foods lately and seen what they charge for arugula?" The upscale supermarket specializing in organic food doesn't have a single store in Iowa.
Lately, Sen. Obama is more careful. On a campaign stop in Lebanon, Mo., on Wednesday, Sen. Obama visited with voters at Bell's Diner and promptly announced "Well, I've had lunch today but I'm thinking maybe there is some pie."
He settled on fried chicken and told the crowd he's become a junk-food lover. "The healthy people, we'll give them the breasts," he told the waitress. "I'll eat the wings."
Republicans are so culturally ignorant that they believed to black folk any black person will do.
He forgot the watermelon.
Micheal Steele knows fucking well that the Republican Party from the 1850's are the progressive Democrats of today. Republicans are masters at finding minorities completely willing to emasculate themselves.
Steele's humor is the self-deprecating joke that demonstrates to his white superiors that he knows his place.
Not only a minstrel and an uncle tom, but the anti-Obama caricature. There are still parts of this country where the only interaction with (and perception) of Blacks is what is seen on Cops, MTV, and the "news." Every single time this GOP house-boy opens his mouth about adding a 'hip hop' makeover, serving fried chicken, etc., he marginalizes Obama as an anomaly, and shits on everyone who faced firehoses and dogs for him to get there.
If he wants to be THE MAN at the GOP, then he needs to start with just BEING a fucking MAN!
Reslugs platform is Racism and hate.
Did Steele have his fingers crossed behind his back as he was saying this nonsense?
"Y'all come". That goes right along with the carpetbaggers promise to post Civil War blacks of "20 acres and a mule". Oh, you can work the land, we'll just steal it back with a foreclosure and make tenant farmers (indentured slavery) out of you.
There is no inclusion in the Republican Party. They are the Confederacy party, and Michael Steel is their Uncle Tom. And any person of color who believes Republicans are still the party of Lincoln is seriously deluded.
I blogged about this two days ago and I must say that Michael Steele is the GOP's Joe Biden. The guy is an IDIOT. Blacks will not flock to the Republican Party on his behalf. He's fighting a futile battle on that front. Just as John McCain picked Sarah Palin to appeal to women voters, the RNC picked this idiot to show that they want to make history too, especially since Barack Obama became the first African American president. The problem is,if you continue to have racist people like Rush Limbaugh, Jeff Sessions, Michelle Bachmann, Pat Buchanan and others as "leaders" of the party, then African Americans like myself, won't take the GOP seriously.
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com
I would not equate Steele with Biden.
seriously......not hard to imagine why nothing gets done in government. too many people living the soap opera
it blows me away that some people cant see that palin and steele were weak ass attempts at appeasment and wafer thin strategies to sway ignorant people.....look we got women and minorities too.
theres your transparency in government
then we all have to get sick watching them try to justify their
moronic decisions. get a backbone and a platform and stand up straight......waving the flag and shouting jesus aint gonna do it.
It's a horribly bad analogy.
Biden isn't a self hating sellout who is willing to sink to subterranean depths to gain any favor from a group of people who have no respect from him due to the color of his skin.
Also, Steele shows signs of being very insecure, especially when the name of Obama is spoken.
Biden doesn't have those issues... at all. Biden's a bit of a gaff machine, but he isn't morally bankrupt.
Apparently a group of Republicans, headed by Mark Sanford and John Ensign, are initiating a class-action suit against Steele for co-opting their line, which they claim is their copyrighted material that they bought directly from the late Henry Hyde.
Ha! One man's Big Tent is another man's "whorehouse". This is interesting to watch.
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But we got us some bashing ta do!
So should we instead go out and buy a Harley? I don't even know how to ride one of those things.
80-90 MPG
Do I get a sidecar for my dog and will he need a helmet? ;)
Really, they should consider building a better muffler.
This how a black man's mind erodes when he spents his entire adult life putting on masks to hide his true thoughts because he's afraid he may offend someone. The bigots are too ignorant to understand that Steele is playing them.
I think that Steele is really that socially obtuse, and that willing to bow down to those he considers his betters.
Think about it, would you be willing to make yourself a Pariah to your own people over something you didn't really believe?
Steele is too stupid to play anything. I kept waiting for him to ask someone to bring the watermelon.
... the GOP's cult mentality, the answer would be yes, because you've subscribed to the idea that you can only be validated by the people in power - who happen to be rich, white, Christian guys.
...he just hopes that the Conservatives do. Btw, histrorically speaking certain blacks have lived this out of body, master appeasing nonsense since the very early days of slavery for the slaveowners old shoes, coats, food scraps, etc. This isn't new.
I was briefly a remember of the Black Republicans years back, and attended black and Young Republican meetings.
I went to as many as I could stomach. The more I saw, the more I was certain that republicans want black people be weak and subservient to their white masters.
The republicans are all about making money, and seem to take a special delight in making that money on the suffering of others... especially if they're skin happens to be brown.
They appoint 'Uncle Tom' talking heads in an effort to lure blacks to their side, and then, as many have said already, attempt to emasculate them, if they haven't been emasculated already.
Make no mistake, part of the method behind their madness, is founded in racism.
Republicans also delight in keeping people ignorant, fearful, and angry.
Truly sickening, no matter how you look at it.
Lincoln would be violently ill if he saw what depths his party has sunk to. I'm talking 'Exorcist' pea soup projectile puke, ill.
this whole country has sunk to.
I am violnetly ill observing the U$A these days.
To be fair I don't think the Republicans want just black people to be subservient to their white masters, they want EVERYBODY to be subservient to their white masters.
I am not a black person but it seems to me the republicans are insulting the black population by thinking they aren't smart enough to see what they are doing to them.
I hit "submit" too soon. I meant to also say that when the republicans chose Palin, that was an insult to all women because Palin is not representative of all women and she certainly was not a Ms. Clinton.
No chitlin's?
Than I won't show up!
What an asshole!!! I hope he and the other minorities who are part of the Rethug's make a lot of cash. It would be truly horrible to sell your soul for pennies.
... that the 'I'll bring the {undecipherable}' was someone saying just that: "I'll bring the watermelon!" - a slap in the face to Steele, who is so dumb he doesn't get he's being laughed at.
I saw the video (Huffington Post I think)and I'm pretty sure a guy off camera said, "I'll bring the collard greens" to which Steele added the fried chicken remark.
And depending on the ethnicity of who said it, Steele's response isn't necessarily that big a deal.
AMEN!
He think he's a player: Mr. Big Stuff. Sad.
OK, Steele. Connecting the Republican Party with the abolition of slavery is at least technically true, but connecting the GOP with the Constitution and Bill of Rights is completely bogus. The party didn't even exist at the time those documents were written.
Yeah, I did wonder WTF he was going on about there. I bet if you told most Americans they were written after the Civil War they would believe you (if they even knew what they were.)
That's some crack.
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/histories/otherness/i...
It's really fun watching the Reslugs kill their own criminal party.
though. Glad I won't be around to find out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0DK1dl8eRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXxDEAuI2zc
What is the significance of the "fried chicken and potato salad" expression? I'm not from the US (and English isn't my first language either), so I don't understand the context.
It is a stereo type as in Black people like fried chicken and potato salad. He was stereo typing blacks.
. . . Latte Sipping Liberals . . . etc, etc
More my preference:
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I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.
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... Fuzzy Zoeller stepped in the same pile in 1997, when he remarked that, should Tiger Woods win his first Master's tournament, that he wouldn't serve 'fried chicken and collard greens.'
And chitlins. I have a black best friend and he is a vegetarian because of chitlins.
When I grew up in the south, fried chicken and potato salad were the only thing we ever took on a picnic. My mother could make both and that were so damned good they were fantastic. I never made the association of that meal and black people. We also often took a watermellon with us too. Later as I was older I began to hear the association and representation but as a little girl all fried chicken and potato salad meant to me was a great tasty meal.
Same with me in Texas.
But mustard potato salad, not that nasty mayo crap.
I use some mayo but more mustard. Also chop up onions and sweet pickles for it. Plus some chopped up boiled eggs. And of course in the south, you must sprinkle some paprika on top.
(Jesus, I am making myself crave fried chicken and potato salad right now)
I have to admit now days I'm more partial to polska kielbasa with plenty of hot mustard, saurkraut, horseradish, German potato salad, dark rye bread washed down with Beck's Dark
And then for the evening entertainment, invading Poland.
Though I prefer sweet red peppers to the pickle.
it takes 5 minutes if you know what you are doing. An egg, some olive oil, a touch of lemon... not that nasty sh*t they sell in the US as "mayo" which would get you killed in certain parts of the world if you served that...
With a touch of dill or tarragon that makes for some of the best potato salad ever ;-)
Joe’s Herb & Spice Mayo
10 oz. sesame oil, divided
1 whole egg
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
¼ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. sugar
¾ tsp. dried dill weed
½ tsp. Hungarian sweet paprika
¼ tsp. powdered thyme
¼ tsp. ground celery seed
1 Tbs. prepared Dusseldorf mustard
1 Tbs. tarragon white wine vinegar
½ Tbs. lemon juice
Add egg to 6 oz. of oil in small container. Emulsify with high speed wand mixer. Gradually add remaining oil while mixing.
Add all other ingredients, stir to blend, then mix thoroughly with wand mixer.
Refrigerate overnight to firm consistency and infuse flavors.
Not really a type of stereo, but a stereotype, meaning, assiging certain charcateristics to a whole group of people, as if they were all the same, often in a disrespectful manner.
(the ESL teacher strikes)
I know what a stereotype is. =) It was that I didn't know what the "fried chicken and potato salad" stereotype was.
just like me, and a whole lot of other white folks.
Really, this is such an ambiguous reference it hardly qualifies as a stereotype. I can't believe a story was made out of this.
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Starbucks and Croissants eatin' Progressives . . sprouts munchin' hippies
on and on and on
I love fried chicken and potato salad, especially with Cajun Sunshine or Louisiana Hot Sauce. It keeps well in the cooler and you can eat the chicken cold or hot.
It is a perfect pic-a-nic food.
(and so is watermelon, especially the vodka-injected kind)
When I was a kid there was nothing better than waking up on a Sunday morning and smelling fried chicken cooking, because that meant soon we would be heading out somewhere for a picnic. Those were some of the highlights of my childhood.
I learned to fry chicken the way my mom did and I still use her cast iron skillet to do it.
Maybe you can share the recipe in an open thread (unless it's a family secret). I love fried chicken, but don't like going to KFC. I feel guilty about those poor (de-beaked) factory-farmed chickens my PETA friend always e-mails me about. Sob. The odd time I do go, I feel like a murderer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n14BrxWoxYA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p64spJY0cO8
Thanks everyone to explaining the context. I wasn't aware of it.
This is all simply too painful to watch.
Clueless, hopeless, pathetic....simply sad.
I'm no fan of Michael Steele either, but as Cenk from the Young Turks discovers, the person who asked him the question says that he'll bring the "collard greens" which one could argue was an invitation to a stereotyped conversation like the one that occured. I agree that either way you look at it Steele is not doing the republicans any favors. Hope he keeps it up!
Face, meet palm. Palm, this is face.
i wonder if michael steele wears timmi hilln*****?
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Americans in general still consume double to triple what any one needs to be healthy while billions starve. We're the worlds parasites.
Harley riding parasites?
I think it's important to be critical of our lifestyle.
You can't advance if you don't.
If all 6.5 billion people lived like Americans (and Canadians), we'd need 5 planet Earths to sustain it. Think about that.
And everyone does want to live the American dream, they see in the movies, so I fear much worse is yet to come.
There is no doubt that Michael Steele is clueless, but he was making a satirical joke, as bad as it was. It was like Spike Lee calling Tommy Hillfinger "Tommy Hill-N-Word" in his film bamboolzed. Spike Lee was making a political jab at the fact that African American culture as been replaced with marketing gimmicks. Though Spike Lee's observation was more profound, I think that Michael Steele was attempting to point out that these kinds of stereotypes are outdated and a thing of the past. Judging by his tone, he was being sarcastic and knows about the stereotype and was playing on it.
I hate to defend Steeley DAAAAMN, the one who wanted to make the GOP the party of hip hop, the one who bowed down to all-powerful Rush Limbaugh, and the one who flip flopped on gay marriage, but if we spin his words or take them out of context, than we are no better than Fox News.
When I read the quote, I was outraged. When I watched it, I still laughed and thought it was silly (like your father trying to be hip), but I know what he was trying to do (at least I hope he was trying to do satire).
Woody Hayes said he HATED Michigan and no one knee jerked. America is all about opposing teams-sides . . or tribes in this day and age.
I know sarcasm and his tone and delivery makes me think otherwise. If it was sarcasm... it wasn't good sarcasm.
The way Steele said it made it seem like he was trying hard to augment the stereotype.
I also think that Steele was trying to appease the white folks in the audience who he perceived as being uncomfortable with him(being a black man). White bigots continually require reassurance that a minority isn't what they preconceive them to be. Steele knows what he's doing.
I would have been better satire if he had said something like tofu burgers and wheat grass.
Or perhaps bologna sandwiches and potato chips (both can be rather bland, run-of-the-mill kind of foods, which best displays what the Randy Nincompoop Congregation has become).
I'm always randy.
Thanks for that post, Dylan. Nice to know somebody gets it.
I just like to deride Steele because he's a putz, and GOP. Good enough for me.
but I don't read too much into the fried chicken remark. After all, that is often what one eats at a picnic. Now if he'd said "I'll bring the fried chicken and watermelon" that would have been different.
We monkeys always brought banana sandwiches. You can bring chicken?
My younger brother used to love banana sandwiches
With liverwurst
Maybe that explains his vegetarianism now.
living.
Substitute peanut butter for liverwurst and you's only be seeing him from behind in grainy tabloid photos taken at truck stop restrooms.
Sound's like great advice.
If one could understand it.
Canadians TAKE sandwiches on a picnic. Yes, we may be bland, but we take not bring.
hedonists . .
If someone suggested a picnic, I would say exactly what Steele said and I have said it many times. I don't know his childhood or anything but to some of us those two dishes are "a picnic". So I think I would give him a pass on that part.
Mash potatoes and Salad.
Do people even go on picnics anymore? I know I haven't in a really long time.
You bring something, but it has to be something that starts with one of your initials and you can't repeat yourself.
I would have to take Eggs and Kimpap (Korean sushi).
The republican party should cease to exist. We don't need Americans segregated by race into a white party and everyone else. If chairman Steele is a sign of true change in the party of southern bigots, I haven't noticed the change yet. I think it was just a "mistake", not self deprecation like most posters here think.
What no watermelon?
I can just picture william f buckley in a watermelon seed spitting contest.
The Party of Limbaugh, Duke, Dobson, Robertson, Falwell and Newt welcome gay and black Americans to the big tent.....bring your own rope.
Keep it rolling. With michael steele and the Lipstick-pig, and the fat turd limpballs and the hate mongers, vannity, bor, savage, she-man....they are headed for the sewage treatment plant faster than I had ever hoped before.
This guy is GREAT for the repug party. Keep him in the news. Same with all the other clowns. How fast the hard core repugs are changing their names to "libetarians" these days. Even they can't stand the representatives of this dying party.
Go steele......I'll be by for the fried chicken and potato salad....you clown.
Really, can he do any more damage to his credibility than this, as well as previous gaffes that he made?
Mr. Steele is only making a growing number of African-Americans think that he is nothing more that an "Uncle Tom" for the RNC. Republicans really don't want him there; he was chosen to be a counterbalance for their party in light of Barack Obama's success in the Democratic Party.
For many years, the GOP was seen as a "white man's party" with minorities and women only being of token value to them. Recent actions and words by republicans have only cemented that perception in people's minds.
Michael Steele may have meant well when he made his remarks, but clearly he didn't think about the context in which they may be taken.
Or just food Nazis?
The GOP is littered with dumb asses who have no grasp of history (or anything else for that matter). Steele boasts about how the US said "no" to slavery to spite the rest of the world doing it. They know that all they have to do is say it and the dumb rubes will nod their heads. Sorry, Steele. The US came late to the slavery abolition party you dumb ass. Republicans really make me sick. Every time they open their mouth they reveal their ignorance. They do absolutely nothing to advance civilization - in fact, they work against it. The party of Lincoln is dead. THAT party was quite liberal until they sold out to the Railroads and have been the party of the oligarchs ever since.
Is it me, or is Michael Steele the incarnation of Steve Carell's charater, Michael Scott in "The Office?"
Has anyone put his foot in his mouth as often while trying to say things that he thinks are "cool" and "with it?"
What a buffoon!
What an embarrassment!
Whatdaya mean the GOP is not inclusive? They let in old white people and young white people.
Let me see, a word comes to mind: Uncle Tom Steal? Flush Limbaugh? Sissy Satan Dobson? "The dick"? Newt? Leslie Graham? Biff Sessions? Boss Hog? "Thieves" is the word that comes to mind. You are known by the company you keep. As for dinner: Fuck You...
Besides: I like fish and chips
There, now that feels better.
Bubba Shrimp
Don't forget the:
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I am as liberal as it gets. I also live in the South, so I had no trouble understanding the questioner's response, which was,"I'll bring the collard greens." Steele's response, it seems clear to me, was a simple, jovial rejoinder to the "collard greens" statement. Chicken and potato salad is exactly what goes with collard greens for a delicious meal, no matter the diversity of the people involved. IN THIS ISOLATED CASE I don't see anything to get riled up about.
He's a dorky republican. That's enough. Can't we have some fun? Dare I remind you of ... Dijongate?
Why's everybody hatin' on fried chicken and potato salad? White people eat those too. I'd eat it every day if I could.
Just after the founding of the USA, and Washington's presidency, there arose disputes about the nation's future course. This led to the formation of political parties (which had been thought to be dangerous and should be avoided).
Jefferson was a Republican, a party of country squires with large land holdings who often kept slaves.
Adams and Hamilton were Federalists who were more concerned with cities, banking, and industry.
Throughout history political parties have come and gone or morphed to different ideologies.
But to claim "Republicans is the party that freed the slaves" is to ignore the fact that the Republican party was founded on slave owenership.
Jefferson was in the Democratic-Republican party, claimed as the source of the Democratic party. At the time Jefferson was active, plantations were not so. There were rich farm-holders, but they tried to cut labor costs through indentured servitude, paying for someone's passage that they would work off. The trouble was in actuality many of the rich farm-holders got their workers in such high debt they couldn't work it off, and became in effect slaves. But these indentured servants tended to be Scotch-Irish who could run off and disappear into a new town. Something the later black slaves couldn't do. That's not to say slavery did not exist at all, Jefferson himself owned slaves, as did the other Founding Fathers, who eventually settled into opposing parties to Jefferson's. Jefferson is supposed to have had kids with one of his slaves Sally Hemmings.
Howevery slavery and Plantation ownership largely grew up together, but the owners were of an elite class, who saw themselves as more like the British noble class, while the average Southerner was poor and often unemployed, unless they bought a small family farm or business.
The Republican party started as an anti-slavery group, but like the Methodists and the Baptists (who were also anti-slavery at the national level), they soon split off and formed southern branches of their parties more willing to get along to go along. They had virtually nothing to do with Jefferson's original group.
And then when republican Grant was elected, republicans started abandoning Reconstruction and ignoring Jim Crow laws in the Democratic South.
It seems whenever they republicans were out of power they would rediscover the blacks to try to get back into power, but then turned around and ignored them once the power was achieved. But in the teens there was WWI to concentrate on winning, in the 20's a massive expansion of capital growth to try to manage, than in the 30's a Depression to recover from, than in the 40's WWII to concentrate on winning, and then the '50's the Cold War, and an attempt to return to a stultifying normalcy.
So even Democrats could be accused of using blacks to further their power, and then they would turn around and ignore them. Both parties were pushing incrementalism, not sweeping reform. So it was Martin Luther King and the whole Civil Rights movement that broke the log-jam. Democrats were the first to respond, even though they hadn't really done much since the passage of an anti-lynching law in I believe 1949 under Truman. That caused the conservatives in the Democratic party to bolt first to the Dixiecrats and than to the Republicans which started in the 50's, but steamrolled under Nixon's Southern Strategy.
Initially the parties weren't that far apart in idealism, although the Democrats tried to appeal to the common populace at least some. What really seperated them was regionalism, with both conservatives and liberals in both parties. But then around the late 60's the Democrats were pretty much taken over by the liberals which might've cost them at least in presidential elections, but not Congress until 1994. The Republicans have been taken over by conservatives and neo-conservatives around 1979. But that generally wasn't very attractive until they tapped Reagan. The Democrats moved back toward the center with Bill Clinton and the DLC, and since then we've had more of a see-saw, but liberalism has suffered. But with the present economic conditions being so severe, it might enjoy a renaissance.
with all your fancy words and them books, aren't you?
;-)
I always found fascinating that American political parties were essentially different from the rest of the parties in the world, in the sense that both the Dems and GOP sort of lack an identifiable ideological current for their members.
The Republican Party was born in a public meeting in a little white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854.
Why does it look like he's sittin' on the pot in a bathroom stall and everyone's in the bathroom stall with him?
Yeah! What was that about.
The cat's all class, yano?
as do many on the left
Neighborhoods DO change sir. And nothing exemplifies this MORE than the Republican party of today. Sure, the Republican party was once upon a time, at its inception, a great party that did exactly what you stated... but it CHANGED! It actually changed 180 degrees back in the Nixon era! The Republican party of today is now the bigoted democrat party of Lincoln's time! You cannot wrap yourself around the delusional blanket that the GOP of today bears ANY resemblance to the party it was back then (without exposing the blatant hypocrisy that DOES define the GOP of today).
This man's perpetual references to race in his examples of how people wear their hats and now with the chicken and potato salad remark show me how tone death this man is. These are stereotypes put on the black populace for too long and do not show inclusiveness at all but racial bias and a peculiar way to carry his message. It is also odd to site Reagan for his inclusiveness because he had a strong bias against the Gay/Lesbian community. Mr. Steele needs to do some research and hire someone to write his speeches or if he does have a speech writer needs to FIRE HIM and hire someone else.
Mr. Steele is a very unaware person and a strange choice to head the GOP. He does seem to be on the Republicans recent trajectory though when it comes to race.
I understand where most are common from with comments by GOPers about "fried chicken", "potato salad", "watermelon" etc. But to me it's not a black meal it's a poor rural meal. I'm a city person have been my whole life but my Mom grew up on a farm for several years and fried chicken, potato salad, and watermelon was a common Sunday (2pm or so) dinner. I think the chicken (farm raised and butchered) was cooked the night before and warmed in the oven while everybody was at church, potato salad was easy to make but in their case the potatoes were bought and somebody brought a watermelon. Watermelon's great on a day when it's near 90'F and high humidity. It's a filling low workload meal.
At the same time I really doubt that's what most Republicans are thinking of when they mention fried chicken.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kc4EwD5hoA
He doesn't seem to know. He talks about the end of slavery in his speech, but maybe he doesn't beleive it. He's an absolute idiot, and a classic example of a member of a minority group who has either been sheltered from the effects of racism (in all its flagrant subtle forms) or is so enamored with being welcomed and accepted by the majority that he allows himself to take on the characteristics of the most vile members of the majority group. He and Clarence Thomas should compare notes.
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I don't blame him :-)
Look at a map of the red states. They're mostly Southern, and everyone, no matter what color, eats fried chicken and tater salad, unless their MD is standing at their elbow with a scalpel.
All of us, white, black, or whatever, eat watermelon. No exceptions. It's the only thing we have in our cuisine which has no cholesterol.
Steele was trying to be funny. I feel sorry for the man. He's our sole opportunity to have the GOP dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, and everyone's lined up to kick his teeth in.
This is no big deal. I don't see what all the fuss is about. This is one of the least offensive things I've heard him say. Much ado about nothing as far as I'm concerned.
Big deal. He was talking to a black kid and already said, "y'all come" with what I interpreted as an affected black colloquialism. Big deal. It was bad delivery, but I'm less worried about his tin ear than his stone heart.
And his rocks for brains.
Always have, always will.
Even thinking about it makes me long for my childhood and my family. We're all quite white, so the reference to liking fried chicken and potato salad being a black stereotype just doesn't register with me, and makes me think some might be just a wee bit too anxious to judge the meaning of such dubious references.
And besides, the real controversy of the quote is that he thinks the Pledge of Allegance is a part of the U.S. Constitution.
it reflects badly on the poster and on Amato for allowing this tripe to be posted. Where's the substance? When I want petty attacks I go to Fox News.
Actually that's all it took for him to join the republican party! He is a sorry attempt by the GOP to attempt to appeal to African Americans. Actually he's just pathetic! Next the Gop will tell him fido sit! and like old master he'll be glad to do it. I would have more respect for Steel if he has always been a republican but no! he was democrate that switch over hm...now I wonder why. What good job or position did the promise him!
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