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Demovictory9

(32,321 posts)
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 06:36 PM Mar 2021

Indiana Rep. Jim Lucas faces calls to resign after shocking comments to black surgeon

Indiana Rep. Jim Lucas faces calls to resign after telling black surgeon slavery is a 'way of humanity' and asking whether he got 'minority scholarships' to go to college in shocking Facebook exchange



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9419713/Indiana-Rep-Jim-Lucas-faces-calls-resign-tense-exchange-black-surgeon.html


James Carson, based in Houston, Texas, had responded to a March 23 post made on Rep. Jim Lucas' (R-IN) Facebook page

Soon the two engaged in a tense debate, with Carson commenting on the origins of the Constitution

'The first slave owner in America was black, Blacks captured and sold blacks as slaves. Slavery is vile and repugnant, but has, and is tragically a way of humanity,' Lucas claimed

Lucas then turned his attention to how Carson was able to get through schooling to become a doctor

'Did you get any scholarships or financial assistance because of your skin color? Any minority scholarships?' the politician asked

He has a long history of making problematic comments on Facebook and was removed from two committees last year for his remarks

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Indiana Rep. Jim Lucas faces calls to resign after shocking comments to black surgeon (Original Post) Demovictory9 Mar 2021 OP
Ugh. catbyte Mar 2021 #1
WHAT THE FAWK IS WRONG WITH THESE DAMN PEOPLE??? a kennedy Mar 2021 #2
When has White Supremacy actually been dealt with by society? Caliman73 Mar 2021 #3
+1, they still think its OK to be white supremacist. Its been less than 90 days since their lord and uponit7771 Mar 2021 #4
What's on his simple mind? marble falls Mar 2021 #5
Kickin' with disgust! Faux pas Mar 2021 #6
he puts that out on some social media site? mnmoderatedem Mar 2021 #7

a kennedy

(29,462 posts)
2. WHAT THE FAWK IS WRONG WITH THESE DAMN PEOPLE???
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 06:44 PM
Mar 2021

I honestly thought we were past this sorta shit........DAMN.

Caliman73

(11,692 posts)
3. When has White Supremacy actually been dealt with by society?
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 06:56 PM
Mar 2021

This question is not point at you as an accusation. It is merely a question of the fact of the matter. We ended slavery after a bloody civil war, but when has the US actually dealt with the fact that the country was founded on the practice of White Supremacy, which enabled White people to enslave Black people for generations. Which enabled White people to push Native American groups off of their land. To dispossess "mongrel Mexicans" of their land for opposing slavery. Which enabled White people to exclude Chinese people for decades from immigration, to subjugate Filipinos and Guamanians, and Puerto Ricans, etc...

This jackass was trying to put this Black Doctor in his place by suggesting that the Doctor could not have gotten to his status by his own merits. That is White Supremacy. When all of the handouts, the benefit of the doubt, the ability to "just be" has been weighed so heavily to White people in American society, this ass has the gall to try to denigrate the accomplishments of this doctor.

We aren't past it because we have never dealt with it as a nation. We sweep it under the rug, maybe make some laws, maybe start some social programs (which conservatives try to dismantle almost immediately), and we tell ourselves that we are "getting over it". We first have to honestly admit that it is happening. All of us. And see the depths at which it is engrained in our society.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
4. +1, they still think its OK to be white supremacist. Its been less than 90 days since their lord and
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 06:58 PM
Mar 2021

... savior is gone

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