John Kelly, the White House Chief of Staff, insulted in racist fashion a female Black Member of Congress. And he got his facts wrong. Then went into self-righteous rant about how the country has gone to hell. "Women used to be sacred, life used to be sacred...not know", he said with disgust.
Well I'm disgusted - and Lawrence O'Donnell shows why. Kelly's racism is no accident - it is a self-indulgent relapse into the spiteful racism of the Boston Irish Catholic neighborhoods where he and O'Donnell grew up. Remember the crowds in south Boston who threw stones at school buses crying Black children.
We like to forget the racism of our youths. We grew up in Levittown, NY - a 100% white town financed with FHA and VA backing. We were not virulent - because we had no encounters with Black people. When we did talk about them as kids (including in high school in Brooklyn) we casually used terms like spear-chuckers and jungle bunnies. John Kelly knows what he is doing when he calls a Black woman an "empty barrel". among other offenses. - gwc
Well I'm disgusted - and Lawrence O'Donnell shows why. Kelly's racism is no accident - it is a self-indulgent relapse into the spiteful racism of the Boston Irish Catholic neighborhoods where he and O'Donnell grew up. Remember the crowds in south Boston who threw stones at school buses crying Black children.
We like to forget the racism of our youths. We grew up in Levittown, NY - a 100% white town financed with FHA and VA backing. We were not virulent - because we had no encounters with Black people. When we did talk about them as kids (including in high school in Brooklyn) we casually used terms like spear-chuckers and jungle bunnies. John Kelly knows what he is doing when he calls a Black woman an "empty barrel". among other offenses. - gwc
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