Brazen Bigots


The place: a city in Texas

The setting: a city council hearing on a local construction project

The chair: the wife of a powerful white Republican Congressman

What happened? Black residents of the city were told to their faces they should leave the hearing. A black labor leader who argued that the project would bring in good jobs was told by the chair, “Those workers look like you; they don’t look like me.”

I think we all know that if this happened, it would be the end of the political careers of the Congressman and his wife; that the national media storm would swamp all other news for weeks, making the Trent Lott story look puny by comparison; that the GOP’s national leadership would be compelled to offer one groveling apology after another; that liberals would raise this as a talking point in discussions of every issue, no matter how unrelated, for the rest of our natural lives.

Yet, that’s exactly what happened in Detroit, (H/T) only the races and parties were reversed:

Speakers advocating for the deal were taunted by the crowd and cut short by Council President Monica Conyers [the wife of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers], who presided over the hearing like an angry bulldog; whites were advised by the citizens to, “Go home.”

Opponents were allowed to rant and ramble on uninterrupted about “those people” who want to steal Detroit’s assets and profit from the city’s labors.

A pitiful Teamster official who practically crawled to the table on his knees expressing profuse respect for this disrespectful body was battered by both the crowd and the council.

When he dared suggest that an improved Cobo Center would create more good-paying jobs for union workers, Conyers reminded him, “Those workers look like you; they don’t look like me.”

Desperate, he invoked President Barack Obama’s message of unity and was angrily warned, “Don’t you say his name here.”

Meanwhile, back in Washington, her husband is pursuing his own vendetta against people who don’t look like him as he prepares to question Karl Rove :

[O]n Monday, lawyers for Bush and President Obama reached a deal that will allow Rove to be deposed by the Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Rep. John Conyers, Michigan Democrat.

“We’re closing in on Rove,” Conyers was overheard saying by two people just off the House floor last year. “Someone’s got to kick his ass.”

Democratic leaders in Congress should be pressed to answer the questions: do they approve of Monica Conyers’ open racism? And if John Conyers can’t or won’t denounce his wife’s open bigotry in a powerful government position, how can they continue to employ him as the chairman of a powerful commitee, one that oversees among other things the equal enforcement of the law?


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I think another question should be asked of John Conyers

scipio62 (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 5:59PM EST (link)

Is he going after Rove and Miers because they don’t look like him? It is a legitimate question that should be asked of Mr. Conyers. I mean, it would be important to know if Conyers is actually one of those cowards on discussing race that AG Holder mentioned.

A just war leads to a just peace and freedom. An unjust peace leads to death.

Cross-posted at Scipio the Metalcon.

 

Obama couldn't be elected as Mayor of Detroit...

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 6:16PM EST (link)

… because he’s half-white

WARNING: SARCASM/JOKE (shame these have to be added for the brainless)

Why isn’t the NAAWP mounting demonstrations???? Oh… wait…. that’s right…. one doesn’t (COULDN’T) exist…..

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

 

This is a bad omen

NickDeringer (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 6:18PM EST (link)

Contrary to the airy rhetoric declaring Obama the great uniter, I think people John Conyers, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters and the like will see the Obama era as an opportunity to get even with white America. This will not breed racial harmony,especially when you have Robert Reich saydin that we can be giving infrastructures jobs to all those “white construction” workers.

Not good…

Good point on Reich

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 6:41PM EST (link)

I’d forgotten that one already.

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

Add this to Obama's snub of Brown and it gets scary

NickDeringer (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 6:49PM EST (link)

What happened to the post-racial president? If Obama doesn’t get a handle on this we may see racial tensions like we haven’t seen since the 60s.

 
 
 

most people don't read too good

Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 6:37PM EST (link)

any video? We need to make Mrs. Conyers famous. BTW, why would Bush agree to let Rove testify to a lunatic?

Molon Labe!

Rove is no idiot.

roscopico (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 7:07PM EST (link)

He’ll be just fine.

Full stop.

Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier…

well, he is the only one

Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 8:17PM EST (link)

we are not doing just fine with these lunatics in office.

Molon Labe!

 
 
 

I am reminded of Romans 2:1

Cheetah772 (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 6:40PM EST (link)

Romans 2:1, “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself, for thou that judgest doest the same things.”

To be sure, this verse is speaking of self-righteous and religious people, I think in this case, the verse can be applied here.

This demonstrates how far America has fallen from the grace of God. I only hope I don’t live long enough to see the final result of God’s judgement on America.

This isn’t going off track here, my point is that it’s a symptom of a larger problem.

Daniel 2:20 And he [God] changeth the times and seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.

 

Why Obama snubbed Brown

NickDeringer (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 6:56PM EST (link)

This is troubling, but not surprising.

 

Here's hoping Karl Rove would go all *Ollie North* on Conyers' @$$. [nt]

Martin Knight (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 7:06PM EST (link)

scary...

toddworsham (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 7:06PM EST (link)

I guarantee that some of those white people who were at that meeting and witnessed that disgusting racist behavior now are slightly less “open minded” regarding those of the other race. Unfortunately ugly racist by any race against any other race ususally perpetuates the problem. We need to get to a point where its wrong to be racist to anyone not just a minority. No more discrimination against white-christian-rushlimbaugh listening-male-taxpayers!!!

**The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants**
–An OG American Patriot–

www.theotherworsham.blogspot.com

 

I guess after an Historical Presidential victory

Knightbrigade Thursday, March 5th at 7:38PM EST (link)

some segments of a particular demographic feel empowered to declare open season on the supposed villains who don’t look like them.

I wonder if they understand that said actions will only hurt their demographic in the long run.

What’s the old saying?
Paybacks a ………!!
because the “Two wrongs don’t make a right” …just isn’t enough sometimes.

“From MY cold dead hands”

 

She was just following Attorney General Eric Holders advice to have frank discussion on race…

General_Confusion (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 7:54PM EST (link)

Holder: US is nation of cowards on racial matters
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96E4E781&show_article=1

Well she was frank…you cowards.

 

Bigotry is like beauty, in the eye of the beholder

centrist46 (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 8:18PM EST (link)

So for Ms. Conyers to treat white people in the Detroit City Council chambers like whites have treated blacks in the past is obviously PAYBACK.

She is saying, “IT is out turn in the saddle so look out whitey.”

Meanwhile in DC her hubby picks on Rove because the Democrats really hate him. He ruined their chances in 2000, and then had the audacity to help John Kerry ruin their chances in 2004.

So Mr. Conyers thinks he is going punish Karl. BTW I refuse to call him honorable because his behavior in this matter shows he isn’t. Well I believe Karl Rove is so much smarter than Mr. Conyers, Mr. Conyers won’t know which way is up.

Michael Schindel

 

Not just whitey

djemi (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 8:28PM EST (link)

RE Surgeon General

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich, urged colleagues to oppose the nomination because Gupta lacks the “requisite experience” for the job.

Sounds to me as if the Conyers have got a problem with everybody.

“If I can’t shoot rabbits,then I can’t shoot fascist”
“With age, comes Wisdom, but only if you are paying Attention, son” my ‘Old Man’
RS Help files (h/t JLenardDetroit) Grassroots in Michigan
Moes Strategy

 

With this kind of leadership...

GuyInSD (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 8:32PM EST (link)

is there any reason to be surpised that the median house price in Detroit in December was $7500?

Detroit was once a great mecca for innovation and creating American dreams. What a shame to see it sink to this level.

 

I can't be the only one who heard...

Brian Simpson (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 9:48PM EST (link)

this:

“Don’t you say his name here.”

And think this:


| My RedState archive |
Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln

HOW DARE YOU SPEAK THE DARK LORD'S NAME!

Amy Miller (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 10:55PM EST (link)

I heart Bellatrix LeStrange…that is my dream role :o )

5′s for the Harry Potter reference :)

“I’m a conservative, I’m a textualist, I’m an originalist, but I’m not a nut.”
~Scalia, J.

 

Auhm...

Raven (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 10:59PM EST (link)

What?

“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36

 
 

John Conyers is a corrupt racist pig

Adjoran (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 10:24PM EST (link)

Why would you expect anything else of his wife?

or any of the other Radical Jackson/Sharpton/Wright clones...

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 10:55PM EST (link)

… that Race baited (Murtha style) their way to the Council …. the majority of these folks are out-and-out crooks that should be behind bars … yet Kwame is in TX …. There is NO JUSTICE in Detroit! other than the Obama style Redistributive and/or Civil Rights PAYBACK kind discussed here….

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (message) (Warning: Children Will Die!!)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

 
 

WHY???

Ben Howe (Diary) Thursday, March 5th at 11:03PM EST (link)

Why can this person say this? And why can she discriminate based on color? I thought there was a law against that.

Can we please just ban the discussion of race in any form from now on? I’m all for freedom of speech but I’m going out of my mind with the ridiculously over the top, racist, bigoted, victim mentality CRAP from minority groups.

The only reason race is such a “hot topic” still is that race profiteers like Al Sharpton have mutated MLK’s dream to such a degree that everyone sitting by a hair trigger WAITING for something that can be interpreted as racist against blacks.

It doesn’t hurt my feelings not one bit if someone doesn’t like white people, but dammit, the double standard is really starting to drive me nuts.

HOW CAN B.E.T. AND BLACK STARZ CHANNELS EVEN EXIST????

You can always find people to give you the answers that you think reinforce the facts you’ve already decided are true.