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Archae

(46,328 posts)
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 01:28 PM Jun 2015

Pat Boone is tired of racism...

Racism being called out, that is.

"It wasn't racism, it was SATAN!"

Pat Boone asks Obama to empathize with Dylann Roof as he echoes Charleston gunman’s racist fears

Pat Boone is sick of racism – at least, he’s sick of people pointing it out.

The conservative commentator and one-time teen idol complained that President Barack Obama pointed out the racial element in every highly publicized killing of an unarmed black person by a white police officer or vigilante, reported Right Wing Watch.

“Mr. President! For God’s sake, and America’s sake, quit so often calling crimes that involve a black person ‘racist’!” said Boone, who was best known for his sanitized versions of rock songs by black artists in the 1950s, in a column posted online by World Net Daily.

Boone said he was deeply disappointed that Obama, the nation’s first black president, continued to discuss racial issues.

“As the president who came to office, a black man promising to bring people together, a man ideally suited for that job since you were born both black and white, you had a God-given chance to actually proclaim and demonstrate that racial divides and prejudice had greatly diminished and that our society was truly becoming colorblind,” the former pop singer complained.

Boone expressed similar concerns to Charleston terror suspect Dylann Roof about the coverage of Trayvon Martin’s killing by George Zimmerman, and he echoed police claims about the shooting of Michael Brown – who he described as a “very large black man.”

“At no time do I recall your mentioning the far greater instances of ‘black on black’ crimes, the high percentage of crimes of all types committed annually by blacks, or the senseless looting and violence that follows the inflamed ‘protests’ after one of the above-mentioned incidents,” Boone said. “Strange that you, our half-white president, have little to say about these things.”

Boone dismisses the massacre of nine black worshipers last week by an avowed white supremacist as a “satanically inspired” attack against Christians.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/pat-boone-asks-obama-to-empathize-with-dylann-roof-as-he-echoes-charleston-gunmans-racist-fears/

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Pat Boone is tired of racism... (Original Post) Archae Jun 2015 OP
Pat Boy is just another wing-nut Wellstone ruled Jun 2015 #1
We are tired of Pat Boone. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #2
Pat Boone influenced so many black artists zappaman Jun 2015 #3
Yes, yes. Truly, no one has ever had as much soul as Pat Boone. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #5
That's only because Pat Boone is a hateful racist. eom MohRokTah Jun 2015 #4
I think Pat Boone's been riding the Crazy Train demwing Jun 2015 #6
I'm tired of these idiots going on about black on black crime treestar Jun 2015 #7
" ... a black man promising to bring people together" lpbk2713 Jun 2015 #8
He is apparently not tired of bad toops. longship Jun 2015 #9

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
3. Pat Boone influenced so many black artists
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 01:45 PM
Jun 2015

with songs he wrote like "Ain't That a Shame", "Tutti Frutti", and "Long Tall Sally".
What an innovative cutting edge guy he was and still is!













treestar

(82,383 posts)
7. I'm tired of these idiots going on about black on black crime
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 02:01 PM
Jun 2015

as thought it has some relevance. There is a lot of white on white crime.

And missing the racial element of Roof's shooting is disingenuous.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
8. " ... a black man promising to bring people together"
Sun Jun 28, 2015, 02:04 PM
Jun 2015




Obama can't be held to blame. Not if racial bigots dig in their
heels and refuse to compromise their hateful opinions.

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