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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:21 PM
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Confirmed: Jindal (R frontrunner for La. Gov.) called Jena 6 protesters "outside agitators"!
This one's been bouncing around the La. blogosphere (than which there is none better) for a couple of weeks now, but now it's turned up in the Shreveport daily:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071005/OPINION0106/710050316/1007/OPINION

On Sept. 20, the day people from throughout the nation gathered in Jena to march in protest of the unjust treatment of the Jena 6, gubernatorial candidate Bobby Jindal was in Shreveport speaking to students at LSUS. When asked about the impact of racial conflict in Louisiana, his response was déjà vu — unpleasantly reminiscent of the words and attitudes of southern politicians of not so long ago. When asked to comment on the demonstration in Jena, he said, "We don't need anybody to divide us. We certaiDuring the struggle for civil rights waged by blacks in the 1960s, supporters from outside the south who joined the struggle were dubbed "outside agitators" and accused, by the powers that were, of stirring up the blacks, who according to them would have remained satisfied with the way things were — sitting in the back of the bus, unable to vote, going through back doors, unable to try on clothing or shoes in department stores, unable to eat in "whites only" restaurants, unable to find lodging or restrooms while traveling, and being subjected to daily insults.
nly don't need outside agitators to cause problems
"»" Accusing "outside agitators" of causing problems is a scapegoat and an attempt to avoid taking responsibility for the unresolved issue of race and fair and equal treatment.


For those of you just joining us, the phrase "outside agitators" is nearly as redolent of old-line segregationism as the nooses that sparked the Jena 6 incident.

During the struggle for civil rights waged by blacks in the 1960s, supporters from outside the south who joined the struggle were dubbed "outside agitators" and accused, by the powers that were, of stirring up the blacks, who according to them would have remained satisfied with the way things were — sitting in the back of the bus, unable to vote, going through back doors, unable to try on clothing or shoes in department stores, unable to eat in "whites only" restaurants, unable to find lodging or restrooms while traveling, and being subjected to daily insults.

Of course, this won't be enough to take the little twerp down -- but not to worry: the rumor mill has a juicy sex scandal in the works! :eyes:

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MikeNearMcChord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:26 PM
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1. Wasn't one of the reasons Jindal lost the last time
Edited on Sun Oct-07-07 07:34 PM by MikeNearMcChord
because many Louisianans wouldn't vote for a dark skinned person no matter how conservative. I guess next time, Jindal would be dressed as a Confederate General with Nathan Bedford Forrest in the background.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:32 PM
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4. Yup, Blanco actually carried Jena in 2003 probably for that reason
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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:26 PM
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2. What do Indian-Americans think about Mr. Piyush Jindal?
Just wondering.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:35 PM
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5. I'm Indian-American
I suppose he's our Uncle Tom...I hate using the phrase, so I'll just say he's an ass hole.

The irony though. If those "outside agitators" never went south, he'd be using colored drinking fountains and restrooms and sitting on the back of the bus. Unless somehow he thinks he's too white for that to have happened.
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Colobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:37 PM
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6. Dude probably hates his race/ethnicity.
Every minority has several of those.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:39 PM
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7. Yeah, I've seen a couple of those...
Edited on Sun Oct-07-07 07:40 PM by fujiyama
Unfortunately we've got some real douchebags - Dinesh D'Souza, Ramesh Ponereru...I'm sure there are a few more...

Fortunately a majority of Indian-Americans are Dems...
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Colobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:28 PM
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3. Bobby Jindal = Jesse Lee Peterson.
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DemocratSinceBirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 07:39 PM
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8. Sadly...That Will Probably Help Him In Louisiana
That is the state where David Duke got 40% of the vote for governor despite prominent Republicans endorsing his Democratic opponent...
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-07-07 09:31 PM
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9. Can't even remember the last time I heard "outside agitators"
Back in the Vietnam/ civil rights days maybe? Thanks for playing an old favorite Bobby! I can almost see George Corley Wallace sneer as those words drip from his curled lip.
Almost brings a tear to my eye to see the old South rise again (I mean it, this really does bring a tear to my eye)
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BurningDog Donating Member (184 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 03:30 AM
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10. While a poor choice of words, I can't say that I entirely disagree with him.
The Jena Six case was already statewide news well before it became a national campaign. Once it became a nation wide cause, the discussion quickly went from a case about a biased District Attorney and degenerated into "All white people in Louisiana are stuck in a civil war era mindset and are racists who hate dark colored people." A sentiment that has already been echoed multiple times in this thread.

I'll admit that we have a lot of problems and a lot to be ashamed of, but the way this has been portrayed as such a (pardon the phrase) black-and-white issue hasn't helped race relations at all. Whenever an incident becomes phrased as "Its the Whites vs the Blacks!", it is already dividing people into 'teams' and makes it seem that if one side wins, the other has to lose, which in turn, divides people.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 04:30 AM
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11. Reminds me of Tulia, Texas
State and local folks couldn't (or wouldn't) deal with the injustice until "outside agitators" got involved and made a national issue out of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulia,_Texas
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BurningDog Donating Member (184 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 05:14 AM
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12. Let me expand on what I was saying.
Its obvious that cases like those are a travesty of justice, I'm not arguing that.

Its well known that black Americans are arrested, charged, prosecuted, and sentenced disproportionately and unfairly throughout the entire country. However, the only time that it becomes an outrage is when a picture could be painted of southern white racists in a small town persecuting the black minority.

I can almost guarantee that 46 black men are arrested every year in any major U.S. city on false drug charges like in Tulia, however when there isn't a specter of civil war era racism to blame it on, its just business as usual.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-08-07 08:17 AM
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13. His use of the term "outside agitators" is the giveaway
It was (and apparently remains) the locution of choice for racists who would prefer to practice their bigotry away from prying eyes. For years in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and even into the 1970s, a certain strain of White folks in the South complained about the attention they received from their fellow citizens for they systematic denial of rights to a significant segment of the population. Instead of being able to justify "separate but equal" facilities, they spread a thin veneer over their racism and instead decried the unwanted attention from a larger society that was at first shocked and then angered when the finer points of their de facto apartheid became apparent.

Jindal knows exactly what he was saying, and exactly who he was communicating with when he used the term. The only polarization occurring is being perpetrated by the racists who want to be left alone with their poisonous philosophy and their victims.
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