Jeff Sessions appears to refer to celebrated Black scholar as 'some criminal'

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/jeff-sessions-henry-louis-gates/index.html

Alabama US Senate candidate and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared to refer to Henry Louis Gates Jr., a celebrated Black Harvard University scholar, as "some criminal" in a New York Times Magazine article published Tuesday.

Gates had been wrongfully arrested by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, police officer in 2009 as he tried to enter his own home. After the incident, then-President Barack Obama invited Gates and the arresting officer to the White House for a "beer summit."

Sessions appeared to cite that meeting as a reason that morale among law enforcement had dropped during Obama's presidency.
"The police had been demoralized. There was all the Obama -- there's a riot, and he has a beer at the White House with some criminal, to listen to him," Sessions said, appearing to refer to the 2009 meeting. "Wasn't having a beer with the police officers. So we said, 'We're on your side. We've got your back, you got our thanks.' "

[marmar]

1. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, the antebellum elf said that?

Least surprising thing I'll read today.

[Solly Mack]

2. Groveling POS. Racist lickspittle.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. A former AG fucked this one up that way? Trump sure does hire the best...

You just can't find nastier assholes.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. WTF?! Does he know ANYTHING about it?!

Or is he one of those extreme racists who feels assaulted by the photons that bounce off the skin of an African American and into his eyes?

[BlueIdaho]

5. Somehow Sessions has calculated that being a bigger racist

Is his key to the election? That relic should be pulled down with the rest of the confederate memorials.

[ret5hd]

8. Well, technically I guess, it's the lack of photons.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. I saw your reply to me!

You accidentally replied to the wrong person, but it's cool.

Well, nobody is actually THAT dark. (Good reply, though.)

[RockRaven]

6. That works for a Repuke majority in AL.

He knows his target audience...

[moondust]

7. P.G.T. Beauregard was a Confederate general.

That could potentially be a liability for a political candidate in the current environment.

[GulfCoast66]

9. In Alabama? No way.

[moondust]

11. Well...

Mississippi is changing their flag. That was unthinkable not too long ago. Richmond mayor invokes emergency powers to remove Confederate statues from city including Stonewall Jackson.

Hello Bama? The times they are a-changin'.