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big_dog

(4,144 posts)
Thu Apr 10, 2014, 06:03 PM Apr 2014

Mississippi GOP Senate Candidate: ‘I Ain’t Paying Taxes’ For Slavery ‘Reparations’

Source: The Raw Story


A Republican Party U.S. Senate candidate from Mississippi hit a snag on Thursday when remarks emerged of him mocking African-Americans and Latinos. A 2006 radio broadcast with Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) that was highlighted by The Wall Street Journal begins by announcing that “nobody like taxes — except the Democrats.”

“If they pass reparations and my taxes go up, I ain’t paying taxes,” McDaniel says. “How you going to make me pay for something I had nothing to do with? How you going to do that to me?”
“Why don’t we all immigrate south, let’s go to Mexico. You know, a dollar bill can buy a mansion in Mexico.” he continues, then asking his co-host to translate, “Do you have a sister?”

“What about mamacita?” McDaniel asks. “I think it basically means — and again, I’m an English-speaking Anglo, I have no idea what it means actually. But I’ve said it a few times, just for fun. And I think it basically means, ‘Hey, hot mama. You’re a fine looking young thing.’”
McDaniel goes on to complain about activists who had said that a Sony advertisement for a white video game system was racially charged because it featured a white wrestler holding down a black wrestler.

“There’s a white woman, and she’s holding down a black woman,” he says. “The world’s gone nuts. Listen to this. Minority groups in California screaming that the image is racist. ‘San Francisco politician Tom LeLand says ‘It’s racially charged, unnecessary and clearly offensive to our community.’” “Well, she wasn’t holding down a gay guy,” McDaniel quips. Noel Fritsch, a spokesperson for McDaniel, told The Wall Street Journal that the radio clip was a distraction by the “liberal press.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/10/mississippi-gop-senate-candidate-i-aint-paying-taxes-for-slavery-reparations/

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Mississippi GOP Senate Candidate: ‘I Ain’t Paying Taxes’ For Slavery ‘Reparations’ (Original Post) big_dog Apr 2014 OP
Sounds like a drunken Rob Ford rant. louis-t Apr 2014 #1
I absolutely despise the republican's...they are hateful, racist assholes.. movonne Apr 2014 #2
May have been leaked to boost Repug votes down there from what I've been reading lately re: MS !!! lunasun Apr 2014 #3
I'm OK with letting him work it off on a chain gang. Hoyt Apr 2014 #4
+1 sakabatou Apr 2014 #6
I really did laugh out loud...+1000 Tom Ripley Apr 2014 #9
Wall Street banker fraud graegoyle Apr 2014 #5
Well, that's the politics of the deep south. nt aaaaaa5a Apr 2014 #7
Wow . . . Brigid Apr 2014 #8

graegoyle

(532 posts)
5. Wall Street banker fraud
Thu Apr 10, 2014, 06:49 PM
Apr 2014

Very few were responsible for that; can we get our taxes back for that bail-out?

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