SC senator: We’ve ‘got one raghead in the White House, We don’t need another in the Govr’s Mansion'

[Emit]

Knotts' slur stirs the Haley storm
Lawmaker calls candidate a 'raghead' on Internet show

Lexington state Sen. Jake Knotts called political rival and Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley a “raghead” on an Internet political talk show Thursday evening.

The term is a slur typically used against Arabs or other ethnic groups who wear turbans or headdresses. Haley, a state representative from Lexington, is the child of Indian immigrants.

“We already got one raghead in the White House,” Knotts said. “We don’t need another in the Governor’s Mansion.”

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Knotts said his comments were meant as humor.

“My ‘raghead’ comments about Obama and Haley were intended in jest,” Knotts said in a statement. “Bear in mind that this is a freewheeling, anything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It’s like local political version of ‘Saturday Night Live.’

“Since my intended humorous context was lost in translation, I apologize. I still believe Ms. Haley is pretending to be someone she is not, much as Obama did, but I apologize to both for an unintended slur.”

Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2010/06/03/1315978/knotts-uses-slur-to-describe-haley.html#ixzz0ptRSiabt

Via: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/03/sc-senator-weve-got-one-raghead-in-the-white-house-we-don%e2%80%99t-need-a-raghead-in-the-governor%e2%80%99s-mansion/

[marmar]

1. No need to disguise the racism anymore.....just let it out.

What a pile of sh*t he is.

[PDJane]

2. The man needs a more sophisticated sense of humour.

[Solly Mack]

3. "...unintended slur.” ????

Nothing unintended about it.

[rurallib]

10. It wasn't slurred. It was easily understandable through the white sheet.

[Solly Mack]

11. Zing!

Good one!!!

[laughingliberal]

4. Nauseating. nt

[Angry Dragon]

5. This man is mentally challenged

When you have politicians talking and acting like this how can they expect the people to act any different??

People that utter phases like this should be kicked out of office on the spot. If they are running for office they would have quit their campaign.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Jesse Helms couldn't have said it better.

[RamboLiberal]

7. Guess this racist POS wouldn't call Bobby Jindal a raghead as well

Amazing the racist makeup of so many in the Repuke party!

[bulloney]

8. My knee is all bruised up from slapping it so many times from this guy's humor.

I wonder what the good senator calls those members of the Saudi Royal Family who held hands with GWB and kissed him on the lips during Bush's presidency.

[LeftinOH]

9. "I apologize to overly-sensitive ragheads who don't understand my sense of humor"...

-that's basically his apology.

[emulatorloo]

16. "Sorry if you Ragheads were offended. You must be idiots"

I hate these "apologies" that blame others.

[struggle4progress]

12. Knotts is a shithead. I mean that in a humorous way, of course

[Raineyb]

13. Why anyone of color would join the Republican party in this day and age is

beyond me. Eventually they always show their true racist colors.

[kestrel91316]

14. 20 years from now, TX schoolbook committees will be demanding that

textbooks tell the truth: that President Obama was, in fact, a muslin.

Somebody just shoot me now. I can't take this anymore.

[ncteechur]

15. Mr. Knotts, here is some humor for you...FUCK You!

You racist mother fucker.

[Bluebear]

17. ++++++++++++++

[JerseygirlCT]

18. So... bigotry is ok if you're trying to be funny, and the show is

free-wheeling?

Am I getting this right?

[Toucano]

19. Fucking raghead? Knotts is a fucking hog!

Separated at birth?





Xenophobia and racism are in inextricable component of the Republican party.