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Not surprising, since this group has ties to white supremacists...
Gun Owners of America Embraces Racist 'Black Hurricane Names' Meme
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Friday, 8/2/2013 12:03 pm
Earlier this week, the Congressional Black Caucus recommended that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee replace Janet Napolitano as the head of the Department of Homeland Security, so naturally the American Family Associations One News Now turned to Gun Owners of America for comment. Gun Owners of America is no fan of the DHS under Janet Napolitano the groups executive director, Larry Pratt, thinks the agency is raising a private army that will allow President Obama to overpower the US military. But the groups objections to Jackson Lee are unrelated. Seizing on a bizarre meme popular among Internet racists circa 2006, GOA spokesman Erich Pratt (Larrys son), told One News Now that Jackson Lee thinks one of the top pressing issues of our time ... is the group NOAA, which takes part in naming hurricanes. She thinks that they're racist because they don't use black-sounding names like DShaun and Keisha and Jamal and names like that." As Snopes explains, Jackson Lee did in fact express concern in a 2003 interview that all racial groups should be represented in NOAAs hurricane names and hoped that the agency would try to be inclusive of African American names. Her comment then provoked a storm of anger among right-wingers including Rush Limbaugh and WorldNetDaily, which published a comment from a reader asking, This is ridiculous. How about naming the storms after gang members, or infamous criminals? It also spawned at least one horribly racist chain email.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gun-owners-america-embraces-racist-black-hurricane-names-meme#sthash.ddwB2jM0.dpuf
tularetom
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rdharma
(6,057 posts)Robb
(39,665 posts)So stop saying that!
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(8,217 posts)Bimbaugh...
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)I'd rather not survive Hurricane Whack-a-Doodle-Do and Tropical Storm Limbaugh.