Palin Says Obama Wants To Return To Racial Discrimination ‘That Took Place Before The Civil War’
Sean Hannity brought Sarah Palin on his Fox News show yesterday to continue his discussion from the night before over the biggest non-story of the week — a video of President Obama from his days at Harvard Law School.
But during their discussion, Palin opened up a new front in her attack of President Obama, apparently suggesting America’s first black president wants to return to the days “before the Civil War”:
"Now, it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand that that gravity, that mistake, took place before the Civil War and why the Civil War had to really start changing America. What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin."
The “different classes” system Palin seems to be referring to is perhaps better known as slavery.
The entire conversation is based on the mischaracterization of Derrick Bell, a pioneer in legal scholarly work. Bell was the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, and the video that Hannity insists is a scandal shows Barack Obama, then a student, speaking at a rally in support of Professor Bell. Students and faculty were protesting to urge Harvard to hire more minority faculty.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2
Sean Hannity brought Sarah Palin on his Fox News show yesterday to continue his discussion from the night before over the biggest non-story of the week — a video of President Obama from his days at Harvard Law School.
But during their discussion, Palin opened up a new front in her attack of President Obama, apparently suggesting America’s first black president wants to return to the days “before the Civil War”:
"Now, it has taken all these years for many Americans to understand that that gravity, that mistake, took place before the Civil War and why the Civil War had to really start changing America. What Barack Obama seems to want to do is go back to before those days when we were in different classes based on income, based on color of skin."
The “different classes” system Palin seems to be referring to is perhaps better known as slavery.
The entire conversation is based on the mischaracterization of Derrick Bell, a pioneer in legal scholarly work. Bell was the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, and the video that Hannity insists is a scandal shows Barack Obama, then a student, speaking at a rally in support of Professor Bell. Students and faculty were protesting to urge Harvard to hire more minority faculty.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2
I don't even...
All I got that I look forward to Stephen Colbert's take.
eta: heyyyy my friend Sanjiv is one of the top commenters in there! Hi Sanjiv!
Edited at 2012-03-09 08:39 pm (UTC)
recap: Sarah Palin spews nonsense.
DING. done.
Hahaha, this dumbass. I legit facepalmed.
Palin... just...
Alan Rickman is always for the win.
Also, oh hi! Nice to see you around here. :)
My kingdom for the GIF of that little girl giving spectacular side-eye.
Kinda off topic but so shit of this shit today after debating with someone who thinks that the Boers in South Africa are more oppressed than Black Africans and why everyone is focusing on Kony and not those evil savage South Africans. I hated that I felt like I downplay those killings but the fuckery that went on.
What is up with White people and their twisted desire to be the oppressed sometimes? It's not funsies to be a part of an actually marginalized group.
I may or may not have been waiting for the perfect WTF story to use this gifI was impressed by her dedication, but depressed by the fact that this was necessary.
This... I can't.