Thursday, May 18th, 2006...5:57 am
Olbermann on Monday
I waited after I saw a transcript to post this, since I wanted to make sure I heard right. Keith Olbermann had on his show Col. Jack Jacobs, one of the ubiquitous retired military experts that find employment on our various cable news networks.
The subject came up of how exactly the national guard plan will be implimented. Col. Jacobs pointed out that there will probably be a call for volunteers. And he said something that I found disturbing:
Secondly, it’s very interesting, if we’re going to go out there and recruit people to go down and assist the Border Patrol through volunteerism and you’ll get quite a few of them. These will be people who are unemployed or underemployed, as I mentioned before. The large proportion of those people are not European white people. They’re going to be—they’re going to be, many of them, immigrants themselves, they’ll be people of color and so on, and so out of proportion to their numbers in the National Guard, you’re going to have Hispanic-Americans and black-Americans on the border and that may cause a problem. The good news is we’re probably not going to give them guns, they’re only going to be an—in administrative jobs and they‘re not going to be face-to-face with the illegal immigrants.
So, Col. Jacobs, what exactly do you mean by this? Are we “safer” if we only issue guns to white folks? Are blacks and Hispanics less loyal, less patriotic and less likely to follow orders?
Shh…don’t tell Col. Jacobs how many Hispanics are already in the Border Patrol. And they are issued guns too.
17 Comments
May 18th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Wow,
I guess the 41 Hispanic Congressional Medal of Honor winners could not be trusted. If I ever meet this man in the streets I am going to put a world of hurt on him. Is this guy an idiot who does he think works in Border Patrol only nice corn fed kids from Iowa? Hispanic, Black, white reservists are all very professional. I can see now why this guy left as a Colonel, and did not make it to the next rank.
May 18th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
According to Molly Ivins, the military has done more for peacefully improving race relations then anything else.
But it did not help with this guy.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Lizzy,
Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle “Mexican”?
You just got finished slamming me for “imposing beliefs” on you for the exact same sort of deduction.
I guess it’s a one way street here.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
It’s funny that this sort of, once removed, suggestion makes the post but the Dem who is overtly racist at the link below gets nary a mention. More hipocracy methinks…
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060513/NEWS02/605130365&SearchID=73244627604496
May 18th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
Well, the Alabama Democratic party is unfortunately, still has a significant number of racists. Not a big suprise. There are counties there where no matter what your views, you register Democrat or there is no chance for you to vote for the sheriff. Ask the guy who he voted for last time for president…I’m willing to bet that he didn’t vote straight ticket on that one.
I know the State Chairman there, and he is not exactly happy that this guy is running as a Democrat. By the way, the Republicans had a Senate candidate out there a few years ago who said that the abolition of slavery contradicted the Bible.
May 18th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
I never heard of that. Can you provide a link? Since were one-upping, the historic home of the KKK is the Dem party as you are probably aware. The reason for this is that there was once a Republican President who freed all the slaves. AND, AND, AND, the first black pres will be Republican. We are still deciding if it will be Condi or Powell.
May 18th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
The internet is weird. I found this while trying to locate a website regarding the temporarily implemented student tracking program created in the late 90s.
It looks at people’s bias regarding immigration. Pretty interesting.
May 18th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
I think you are all jumping the gun. We dont know what party this Colonel represents. What we do know is that he is an idiot. Every party has idiots Republicans have David Duke, and Strom. Democrats have Wallace, and whatever guy from Alabama you are talking about. You cant control everyone in your organization, just like the military cant control everyone that puts on a uniform. That does not mean that if a racist is in the military that the military is racist. It means that the person is freaking idiot.
May 19th, 2006 at 1:18 am
Something else that is insulting– the idea that the only reason why they expect to meet their goal is because they can find enough people to volunteer (means you don’t get paid) who are unemployed or underemployed.
I guess he is worrying up front that they won’t find enough volunteers who consider a call to volunteer on behalf of their country to be worth anything at all.
Just an observation, I can see why the whole race issue is insulting, but even if you took the racial part out of it, the comment he made would still be insulting.
As for the racist in Alabama, yeah, they are all over down there. I’ve been there. Segregation was only really broken about a generation ago (and in some places, the ghosts of segregation are still a bit more than ghosts), and there are still plenty of people there who wish it would come back. But don’t blame it on the Democrats– the real reason why the Republicans have taken over Congress is that the solidly conservative Democratic south has become the solidly conservative Republican south. Attitudes haven’t changed, just party affiliation in regard to high office (Senate, Congress, Governor and President). This has allowed the Republicans to gain the upper hand despite the fact that states that used to be Republican bastions (such as Vermont, New Jersey, Illinois and California) have moved to the Democrats. Interestingly enough, of the 20 states that Al Gore won when he lost the close 2000 Presidential election, twelve of them were carried by Republican Gerald Ford when he lost the close 1976 election. So much of the nation has actually become more Democratic, but the south has made the difference here, being an entire region that has changed parties, as opposed to individual or small groups of states.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:32 am
eli,
I reject your assertion that the south is racist. I’ve spent quite a bit of time there and have never seen ANYONE at ANY time so much as look at a person of another race funny. If anything they take pride in being the “Cradle of Civil Rights”.
Ruben, you forgot to mention former KKK Grand Wizard, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the most senior Dem senator.
May 19th, 2006 at 2:36 am
…and Dem Gov George Wallace who stood in the school house door to bar the entry of black students.
May 19th, 2006 at 5:59 am
Morg-
Come on! The most ridiculous moment, for me, of the last Republican convention was when Rod Paige blamed “segregationist Democrats” for all the problems in the black community, when his own party has counted on those formerly segregationist Democrats becoming Republicans so that they can carry the South. Yes, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace and Trent Lott started as segregationist Democrats, but what did they later become?
May 19th, 2006 at 6:06 am
Yeah…Byrd was in the Klan 60 years ago, in the mean time, Lott and George Allen still have ties to segregationist and pro-confederate organizations. This is the silliest sort of straw-man argument. You can do better than this, Morg.
May 20th, 2006 at 4:14 am
Ted,
You seem to be claiming that racism is a thing of the past for Democrats.
I have already highlighted Larry Darby to you. How about Ray Nagen, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan?
May 20th, 2006 at 7:07 am
One more thing, which party advocates racism as public policy? You guessed it, Democrats.
May 21st, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Sorry all I was at a wedding in Tennessee. Morg you have been drinking the Rush Limbaugh kool aid. It does not matter what you say and who in the past was in the KKK in the end the when the racists vote for a party in the last twenty years they have voted Republican.
As for your great anectdotal history of your time in the South, let me remind you, and this maybe tough for an officer to understand, that you are neither omnipresent nor omniscient. You must have not been aware Mr.Byrd being dragged behind a truck in Texas for being black. Lets not forget the suburb of New Orleans that did not allow the largely black refugees to escape through their largely white town after Katrina. Morg you are not a racist, and a majority of the Republican party is not racist but it is in my opinion that the Republican at times tries to appeal to the racist base.
May 22nd, 2006 at 2:57 am
ruben,
You’re a nice guy and I like you, but you should read my posts. First of all, I was enlisted for the full 8.5 years in the SEAL Teams. Secondly, You are absolutely wrong about the racist thing. It is a much bigger problem in the Democrat party. See my last two posts on this topic.
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