Why did Perry's Family buy the grounds with those etched words?

[wowimthere]

He may not be a racist but it does call into question a whole family's judgment. That he left it on the rock, painted over it (faintly), turned it this way or that, that so many years have gone by with some dumb rock taking up attention and space on the property has the unintended consequences of creating the perception that Perry is insensitive, that he plays to racists in his state and that he certainly doesn't look presidential. His presidential aspirations have gone soggy to drenched because like most of the Right wing politicians and Republican candidates running for the highest office in the land, he's "cocky on stupidity". Stupidity is the name of the game for Perry. His base may eat it up but the rest of the country is looking at him as if... he's just "Dust in the wind".

[rfranklin]

1. Because it was no big deal...that was what black people were called..

No one back then would have thought twice about it.

[Marnie]

3. As bad as it sounds, you are correct.

I grew up in Wichita Falls, and my family was all southern.

Racist attitudes and words were just part of normal every day conversation.

It's not like other parts of the country were not racist and are not still racists.

Let's get over the past, please.

There are problems enough in the present. And Rick Perry in the present is a problem. His racists past is only an issue if it is his present as well.

[Paladin]

12. Perry Doesn't Deserve Any Slack On This.

And this sure as hell isn't a forum where he ought to be offered any. Against somebody as stupid and dangerous as Perry, you use every single weapon at your disposal, or you deserve what you get.

And I was born and grew up in Texas, and the "N word" was never, ever allowed to be uttered in my home from the time I was a young child in the 1950's. This "normal every day conversation" argument doesn't cut it with me, nor with lot of other southern kids who were properly raised.

[yardwork]

8. Back then? 1983? (when he says they painted it over). 1990s? (when other people say it was there)

This is extreme even for racists, imo.

[uppityperson]

2. Question should not be why did they buy the property but why they left that rock there so long

Maybe they liked the place, could afford it, whatever. It doesn't matter why they bought the property but what DOES matter is why they left that rock like that for so long. To only change it when politically needed.

[ChandlerJr]

4. Because Perry and his old man were Democrats back then?

Why do 62,000 people live in Coon Rapids Mn? Are they all racists?



sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

[yardwork]

9. Fail. That reference is clearly to raccoons.

[MH1]

14. But just the same, 'n-word-head' could also simply be a reference to ...

oh wait ...

[Kingofalldems]

11. Hmm. Strangely familiar.

Oh yeah, I hear republicans using that meme.

[lunatica]

5. He didn't need that rock to make him look unpresidential

He's creepy to me. He makes my skin crawl with his swaggering.

[wowimthere]

6. Just because that's how it is doesn't mean it isn't offensive. People should no better when it

comes to insensitivity. People watch dogs maul each other for money. It's still inhumane. I wish people would stop making excuses for racism just because it was accepted once upon a time. Say it's not practical, it's antithetical to good sense today then we can get past it today. To say that this is just the way it was means absolutely nothing to me because if something is offensive in the past then it's just as offensive today. There is nothing that says "Happy" talk when I hear racial slurs.

[sammytko]

7. They didn't buy it, they leased it for hunting

It wasn't theirs. But they should have gotten rid of it years ago.

[Honeycombe8]

10. They say they did. Others say they didn't. Hope a picture turns up. nt

[lunatica]

13. Because they didn't care. It was only insulting to Blacks. So what?

Being indifferent to a group of people is also racist. Maybe not overtly racist, but as they say hate is not the opposite of love. Indifference is.