http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/20/1372288/-Nevada-GOP-Lawmaker-We-Have-A-Black-President-At-What-Point-Do-We-Stop-Using-The-Race-Card?detail=email
Nevada's legislature is debating a voter ID law, and one GOP lawmaker seemed to get upset at some of her colleagues and witnesses at the hearing for bringing up the "race card." She proceeded to tell them that it is 2015, and we have a black president. And, then she praised one of her colleagues for being the first "colored man to graduate from his college."
From The New Civil Rights Movement:
It’s impossible to have a conversation about voter ID laws without bringing up race, as those laws disproportionately affect minorities and support for voter ID restrictions usually stems from “racial bias.” But Nevada’s GOP politicians can’t seem to grasp that concept.
"We’re in 2015 and we have a black president, in case anyone didn’t notice," Assemblywoman Michele Fiore said at a hearing about two proposed voter ID bills. She was upset that voter ID opponents were pulling "the race card," according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.
To make matters worse, she then congratulated Harvey Munford (D-Las Vegas) for being the first “colored man to graduate from his high school.”
As The Raw Story’s David Ferguson points out, Fiore also thinks that cancer is a fungus and can be cured by “flushing out the fungus.”
From The Review Journal:
And there were apparently audible gasps in one of the hearing rooms after Fiore referred to colleague Harvey Munford, D-Las Vegas, who is black, as the first “colored man to graduate from his college.”
Ouch, baby.
That comment blew up on Twitter, but Fiore was undeterred. After Lonnie Feemster, the Nevada director of the NAACP National Voter Fund testified against the bill, Fiore tried to argue.
“At what point do we stop dividing by design? And at what point do we stop using the race card?” she said.
“We will stop when discrimination stops,” Feemster replied.
statements made by those in denial don't really count as part of trying to resolve the ever present problem they only forestall to another time, other people, and than it repeats itself because those who oppose don't see a past that they deny so they are destined to repeat it. until the that blind effort to repress truths is dealt with by those doing it we won't see an end, best we can hope for is macro-nority of those who oppose giving room to the rest to have meaningful dialogue admissions not condesention and refusal to except is the key. recognize
