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http://www.salon.com/2014/10/02/ted_nugent_unloads_on_african_american_%E2%80%9Cthugs%E2%80%9D_in_horribly_racist_column_about_ferguson/
Rocker, right-wing polemicist, and Republican campaigner Ted Nugent has launched yet another racist tirade, penning a column in which he assails Ferguson thugs and a purported plague of black violence and demands that African-Americans stop supporting liberal politicians.
Nugents latest racist outburst which comes after the entertainer called our first African-American president a subhuman mongrel and defended the South African apartheid system and the use of the n-word arrived in the form of his column for far-right website WorldNetDaily.
He begins his column by noting that a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri was recently shot as he investigated a break-in. (Officials have said that the shooting was unrelated to protests over the August shooting of unarmed black teen Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.) Nugent wonders why the media have made it a point not to describe the suspect or suspects the police are searching for, and then proceeds to draw his own conclusions about the suspects.
Based on crime stats in Ferguson and elsewhere, Nugent writes, it would be a safe bet to assume the two thugs the police are looking for are black males between the age of 15 and 25.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)What a jerk.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I'm sure that's what the writer intended to evoke.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)3rdwaydem
(277 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I would really like to see some close questioning of Republican candidates who appear with or take Mr. Nugent's endorsement (or the endorsement of any organization he might be a board member of). Does the candidate agree with Mr. Nugent's assessment? Where does the candidate disagree? If the candidate has strong reservations about Mr. Nugent's repeated inflammatory comments and appearances, why doesn't the candidate disassociate his campaign from Mr. Nugent and any of his organizations?
We want to get at the facts, don't we? Know where the candidates stand on the issues of the day? Keep an eye on who is bankrolling their campaigns? You know, public interest stuff like that.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)given the way the "Nuge" got out of serving in the military during Vietnam.
MADem
(135,425 posts)who take a coward's way out, rather than object to service forthrightly as a matter of conscience.
The miasma of month-old shit sticks to him, still.
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)According to Ted's own words, he did what he did not out of conscience but because going to Vietnam would have interfered with his rock and roll lifestyle.
Ted Nugent is extremely anti-substance. Doesn't smoke tobacco, drink alcohol or ingest illegal substances. Ya gotta wonder how he would have turned out if he'd had a couple beers and a joint every day during his formative years.
Initech
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