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Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
Last edited Fri Nov 18, 2016, 04:04 PM - Edit history (1)
from 2009.
Jeff Sessions, racist, and now hypocrite racist
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. As in Jefferson Davis and Confederate general Pierre G. T. Beauregard. Sessions is the chief interrogator of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court.
Sessions’ nomination to the Federal bench was rejected by the very same committee twenty years ago for ‘racially insensitive’ statements asserting that he thought that the Klan was OK until he found out they smoked ‘dope’ and calling white civil rights lawyers ‘race traitors.’Nor did it help Sessions when he admitted to routinely referring to an African-American attorney who worked for him as “boy” — even once warning that attorney to “be careful what you say to white folks!”
And it wasn’t just talk, either.
Sessions, it was disclosed, had a disturbing record of indicting black civil rights activists as US Attorney in Mobile, Alabama. Invariably the cases were later dismissed. He was also accused of not investigating the spate of black church burnings that swept the state of Alabama the year he became attorney general.
Sessions further injured his own reputation when he prosecuted a black couple who suggested in a news article that US Attorney Sessions may have been less than diligent during his investigation of a jail lynching of a black man accused of shoplifting.
Sessions’ nomination to the Federal bench was rejected by the very same committee twenty years ago for ‘racially insensitive’ statements asserting that he thought that the Klan was OK until he found out they smoked ‘dope’ and calling white civil rights lawyers ‘race traitors.’Nor did it help Sessions when he admitted to routinely referring to an African-American attorney who worked for him as “boy” — even once warning that attorney to “be careful what you say to white folks!”
And it wasn’t just talk, either.
Sessions, it was disclosed, had a disturbing record of indicting black civil rights activists as US Attorney in Mobile, Alabama. Invariably the cases were later dismissed. He was also accused of not investigating the spate of black church burnings that swept the state of Alabama the year he became attorney general.
Sessions further injured his own reputation when he prosecuted a black couple who suggested in a news article that US Attorney Sessions may have been less than diligent during his investigation of a jail lynching of a black man accused of shoplifting.
https://seesdifferent.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/jeff-sessions-racist-and-now-hypocrite-racist/
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"I tell ya son, I tell ya." "You gonna be
missin' a whole lot of them civil rights when I'm done with this here country."
