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May 16, 2012

Rev. Sharpton Responds to Rick Perry ‘Niggerhead’ Story

   
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*Reverend Al Sharpton has released a statement regarding the Washington Post story about GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry’s hosting of friends, supporters and fellow lawmakers at his family’s secluded West Texas hunting camp named “Niggerhead”:

“The Washington Post story revealing that Texas Governor Rick Perry hunted and hosted lawmakers at a hunting camp called Niggerhead is alarming and displays a new height in racial insensitivity in national politics.  Mr. Perry should immediately fully explain how he could have gone to a ranch and hunted that is named after such an obvious racist term or he should withdrawl from the race. He is either blindly insensitive or hopelessly unaware of where he spends his time. Either way it makes one wonder if he is ready for prime time and certainly whether he is ready for the White House. – Reverend Al Sharpton, President National Action Network”

Read the Washington Post story HERE.

 

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  1. babycakes says:

    I agree with Rev Sharpton 100%. I knew there was something about Gov Rick Perry I did not like just his demeanor screams clioset racist IMO.

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  2. bartholomew says:

    We have been forewarned early on that Rick Perry is dangerous going so far as to call him “w” on steroids. Yet in still, he is the darling of the G.O.P. race, or at least he was a moment ago.

    Do we have such short memories that we would even entertain someone like Rick Perry for anymore than a job cleaning toilets because he is full of ……….

    “w” moved into a so-called recently desegregated community in Dallas. If you know anything about the south, if a place was just recently desegregated, it is still clear that only whites are allowed there. Even now and possibly for a long time to come.

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  3. Reds says:

    “The word written by others long ago is insensitive and offensive. That is why the Perrys took quick action to cover and obscure it,” spokesman Ray Sullivan said in a statement.

    The question is what’s their definition of “quick?”

    The Post said that as recently as this summer the word was still faintly visible under a coat of white paint and cited several witnesses as saying it was clearly visible at different points in the 1980s and 1990s.

    “The Perrys did not own, name or control the property, they simply rented hunting rights to 1,000 acres of the ranch.”

    So they finally fessing up. The name was not too offensive for them to continue leasing the property and using it to entertain fellow cracka lawmakers:
    “The 1,070-acre parcel of land, used for hunting and fishing retreats, was the venue of getaways hosted for years by Perry, who entertained fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters there as he launched his political career.”

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