So Wes Pruden wants to bring mamas and daddies into it?

[Enrique]

this is the fellow who just wrote that Obama lacks the "blood impulse" to really understand America, because he was "sired by a Kenyan father..."

http://undercoverblackman.blogspot.com/2009/11/dreams-from-his-father.html

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So. Pruden wants to bring mamas and daddies into it? Let’s talk about HIS father... the Rev. Wesley Pruden, Sr. (pictured below).

As the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center has pointed out, Pruden the Elder was a staunch segregationist in Little Rock, Arkansas... the New York Times once describing him as “a hot-eyed pastor.”

According to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Pastor Pruden pumped up the white mobs in front of Central High School in 1957, “verbally encouraging them, according to Reed, ‘to fight niggers, communists, and cops!’ ”

Here’s what the New York Times reported when Rev. Pruden’s Broadmoor Baptist Church was kicked out of the Pulaski County Baptist Association in 1959:

“Mr. Pruden is the chaplain and former president of the Capital Citizens Council, which has promoted resistance to the racial integration of Little Rock’s public high schools. He has also directed ‘freedom fund’ collections for the legal defense of persons arrested in segregationist demonstrations.”

So when Wesley Pruden, Jr., talks about having a blood-borne understanding of what America is all about... I am led to wonder about his natural instincts.

After all, his great-great-grandfather – John Pruden – was a slaveowner in North Carolina. Can’t get more American than that.

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[Canuckistanian]

1. Sounds like fair game to me

Yes, indeed, let's bring Wes Pruden Jr.'s family into this, if he thinks "blood-borne understandings" are relevant.

[Cha]

2. Thanks for this and thanks

to the undercoverblackman for pointing out the hypocricy.

Actually pruden jr's racism was on full display.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. I read somewhere that Pruden's mom threw away the bay and raised the placenta.

It's true you know.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Kick and Rec... nt

[Bitwit1234]

4. How about Sarah Palin

her grand parents were immigrants. So they weren't real Americans. She wasn't a true bloodied American. You know folks. If you have a library card, ask your library if they have Heritage Quest online. It is free and you can get the census from 1790 to 1930. All years aren't indexed and you have to browse. But just think you can check out all the so called Americans. Mitt Romney's grandparents were born in Mexico. His family left America and went to Mexico because they wouldn't let the men have multiple wives. Because of some thing I don't remember what, they allowed Mitt Romneys father to run for president. They even voted in the senate to relax the rules so he could run. But look at the way the damn republicans are having a fit about Obama and slurring him around that he wasn't born in this country. So you could check out this stuff yourself, you would be surprised as to what you could find, just with the census. I love to hunt these republicans who pretend they are true blue Americans.

[zbdent]

5. When Repugniconvicts go on and on about Obama's "associates",

they should be denouncing the secessionistas ...

[RepublicanElephant]

6. this wing-nut didn't fall far from pappy's hangin' tree. nt

[me b zola]

7. K&R

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. I also have on good authority that Mr. Pruden came out the wrong hole during birth. nt

[martymar64]

10. Dude, that was just too funny!

My first LOL moment of the day.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. Thank you. One just has to wonder about these people sometimes it's unbelievable. nt