Self-described 'Confederate' running for Parkway School Board says she's no racist
Source: St Louis Post Dispatch
A Parkway School Board candidate who has identified herself as a Confederate, called Michelle Obama a giant rat on Twitter and retweeted a message about banning Islam in the United States argued at a candidate forum Sunday night that she is not anti-Islam or racist.
I am not a xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist, Jeanie Ames said in her opening statement at the forum, which was held at the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis in Ballwin.
She claimed that people have waged a vile smear campaign against her. She said she thinks she faces opposition because she wants to be a pro-life, conservative voice on the school board, which scares the board because it challenges their status quo.
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hedda_foil
(16,379 posts)Permanut
(5,714 posts)but the heck with the school board, she should be in the Senate.
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)and didn't say a word. From one incomplete talking point, to another incomplete talking point, a mish-mash of nothing from the mouth of a no one. Go ahead, tie yourself to Trump's coat-tails and see where that gets you, dullard.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)but Trump.
Cosmocat
(14,589 posts)in what they believe?
Her two main priorities are sovernism and capitalism, which ... run counter to one another.
You can't have the great capitalist environment by shutting yourself out from the rest of the world.
forgotmylogin
(7,540 posts)You can be a proud modern Southerner with a rich heritage of strength and tradition. You don't have to be a Confederate with all its current racist and xenophobic implications...
Unless of course, a racist is what you want to be.
Coventina
(27,224 posts)genxlib
(5,547 posts)But these types are always trying to teach abstinence only which just makes abortions more likely.
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)onetexan
(13,081 posts)Skittles
(153,310 posts)safeinOhio
(32,756 posts)Confederate. Call them what they are, Surrender Monkeys.
NickB79
(19,301 posts)They pissed on the Constitution and tried to destroy our nation.
radliberal
(51 posts)These people are complete hypocrites.
IronLionZion
(45,666 posts)Because I hadn't thought Roy Moore was anti-semitic until his wife informed us that they were not because they had a Jewish lawyer.
Whenever someone states I am not a xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist, they've probably done and said some things that were xenophobic, homophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist,.
MurrayDelph
(5,305 posts)It would have been bad-enough if she had said that she can't be anti-Semitic because one of their lawyers was Jewish. What she said, and followed up with a big so-there grin, was "one of our lawyers is a Jew," which she pronounced with three syllables.
(And her Jew lawyer turned out to be a "Jew for Jesus," or as we call them, not-Jewish, as where she knew him from was her church)
Paladin
(28,287 posts)CottonBear
(21,598 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)from Websters:
confederate
kənˈfed(ə rət
noun
1. "a person one works with, especially in, something secret or illegal"
So, you're running as a crook? Seems to fit!
tclambert
(11,087 posts)'Cause, see, it's only racist if you have exclusively black slaves. If you allow white slaves, well, then not racist. Right?
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)you know, freedom of religion and the practice of religion.