State Rep. Talmadge Heflin takes on "the white man's burden"

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/casey/2747708

State Rep. Talmadge Heflin has moved the concept of "the white man's burden" from the 19th to the 21st century.


Rudyard Kipling memorialized the term in an 1899 poem urging Americans to colonize the Philippines in the wake of the Spanish-American War, to fulfill our responsibility to civilize the world's "sullen peoples, half-devil and half-child."

Maybe, under the name of "nation building," that's what the Iraq war is about.

But Heflin has updated the concept. He's privatized it.

In asking a judge to authorize him and his wife to take a U.S.-born baby away from its African immigrant parents, who are so unenlightened as to want to keep their baby themselves, Heflin testified: "We all know the terrible problem that black male children have growing up into manhood without being in prison."

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racist bastard

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1. Sounds a bit like racial slavery to me.

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2. scarier still

"...It's just their word — and socioeconomics — against that of the parents.

And yet based on that they were able three weeks ago to get a judge to order a bailiff to seize the baby from his mother and turn him over to them without even hearing, until now, from the mother and father.

That is power."

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3. isn't this the same woman who...

said that public education was an idea spawned in hell? Let me go check...

No sorry...that was state rep debbie riddle:

"Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education, free medical care, free whatever? It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell. And it's cleverly disguised as having a tender heart, it's ripping the heart out of this country."