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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 gunmans racist fears
Pat Boone is sick of racism at least, hes 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 Gods sake, and Americas 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 nations 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 Martins 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/
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)out of touch bigot.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Go away, Pat. I think I hear Jeeeeezus calling you home!
zappaman
(20,606 posts)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!
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)listen if you dare
treestar
(82,383 posts)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)Obama can't be held to blame. Not if racial bigots dig in their
heels and refuse to compromise their hateful opinions.