American and Latin American Politics, Society, and Culture
Via Moe and Duane, more Barbara Boxer race relations:
Breitbart interviews Harry Alford after he challenged Barbara Boxer:
Alford: “Let me give you a stat on San Francisco: When I was growing up, San Francisco was about 40% black. Today San Francisco is about 8% black, and of that eight percent, of that black population more than sixty percent is unemployed… That’s Barbara Boxer’s San Francisco.”
Twenty minutes long, listen to the whole thing.
Harry Alford manages to flummox Barbara Boxer by pointing out that an endorsement from the NAACP has nothing to do with energy policy, but that her condescending attitude is a problem:
The Briefing Room has the transcript:
The President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) tore into Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Thursday for what he said were “condescending” and “God awful” racial statements at a hearing.
NBCC head Harry C. Alford took strong exception to Boxer having referenced an NAACP report favoring climate change legislation during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which Boxer is the chairwoman.
“Madam chair, that is condescending to me,” Alford said. “I’m the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and you’re trying to put up some other black group to pit against me.”
Boxer defended including the report, however, saying the report reflects a “diversity” of support behind climate change legislation facing the Senate.
“If this gentleman were here, he would be proud he’s being quoted,” Boxer said in defense of the NAACP support.
Alford, however, struck back against Boxer, accusing her of “getting racial” in the climate change debate.
“All that’s condescending, and I don’t like it. It’s racial. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that,” he said. “You’re quoting some other black man — why don’t you quote some other Asian or some other… You’re getting racial here.”
“You’re speaking on behalf of the black community?” Alford asked. “Why are you doing the colored people association’s study with the black Chamber of Commerce?”
He finally concluded:
“We’ve been looking at energy policy since 1996. And we are referring to the experts, regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-education veteran of the United States Army, that I must contend with some other “black group” and put aside everything else in here — This has NOTHING to do with the NAACP, and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We’re talking about energy. And that — that road the chair went down, I think is God awful.”
Liberals have been working for decades on the premise that their own “special groups” should think alike. The phrase I’ve heard when I do not agree with a Liberal’s idea of what Puerto Ricans should think/do (regardless of what the subject at hand or the merits of my argument may be) is, “but you don’t even look Puerto Rican.”
H/t Ed.
