Allen West Calls Himself 'the Modern-Day Harriet Tubman'
Tea party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) explained Wednesday that he was helping black voters escape slavery of the "21st-century plantation" overseen by black liberals like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).
"When you look at what is happening, the laughable hypocrisy is that [President Barack Obama's] big black bus is not going into the black community," West told Fox News guest host Laura Ingraham.
"You have this 21st-century plantation that has been out there, where the Democrat Party has forever taken the black vote for granted," he continued. "And you have established certain black leaders, who are nothing more than the overseers of that plantation. And now the people on that plantation are upset, because they have been disregarded, disrespected, and their concerns are not cared about."
"So I'm here as the modern-day Harriet Tubman, to kind of lead people on the Underground Railroad, away from that plantation into a sense of sensibility."
"Now, you're saying Maxine Waters is the plantation boss at this point?" Ingraham asked.
"Well, absolutely," West agreed. "Because what you end up having -- and you know, I'm gonna be brutally honest -- is that white liberals have turned over to certain leaders, quote-unquote 'perceivably innocent' in the black community like, a Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, or a Maxine Waters or Barbara Lee, and said you know, pacify and keep the black community firmly behind us, regardless of the failures of our social welfare policies."
"That's the absence of this quote-unquote 'leadership' in the black community, which as I say are nothing more than overseers of this 21st-century plantation," he added.
...a modern-day Uncle Tom.
WWFSMD?
Or a modern-day ultra stupid person.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Naa... he's just another T-publican con, out to destroy the nation from within.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Yes that is so true......what a joke........they need to find this black fool something else to do out in the fields.....LMAO
Self despising Uncle Tom would have proudly ratted out Tubman to slavehunters for a pair of master's old shoes.
This handkerchief-headed negro is the reason why Harriet Tubman carried a gun when she was helping slaves to run away. I'm black, by the way, please don't get upset that I said "handkerchief headed negro"!
Another example of the "Stockholm Syndrome"! See the dear Allen in action and think back to what happened to Patty Hurst! West is nothing more than a tool for the corporatocracy as are Thomas, Keyes, and Cain among others who refuse to believe that it is actually they who are servants on the plutocrats' plantation!
I have read about the courage of Harriet Tubman. In pictures I have seen the integrity of Harriet Tubman.
You sir, are no Harriet Tubman.
WIN
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
..Allen West:
The Fixed News meatpuppets see you as nothing but a plantation minstrel dancing to their Tea Party/ White Power tune.
The morons on Fixed News who "interview" you hold you in secret contempt, hate you because of the color of your skin, & secretly giggle at the fact you sould like a race traitor when your spew Pat Buchanan talking points.
If you think all your reverse Jim Crow rhetoric is enduring you to the idiots on Fixed News, think again.
They nod & wink at each other over your overt willingness to be a pawn in their Southern Strategy bullshit.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
I imagine she might climb out of it to dope-slap the guy.
me-oww!
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Waters: Allen West's Comments 'So Odd' — And I'm Helping His Brother
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJnO2vyNWuA
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
That figures. Credibility, not a republicant concern.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
He has a point about the black bus not going to black neighborhoods. He's still a tool and otherwise full of it.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
West in nothing but an Uncle Tom who has learned to shoot an AK-47. He's a pathetic,whining coward.
Uncle Tom? This is 2011. Are there still people that think there are 'Uncle Toms' out there?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
If Clarence Thomas isn't an uncle tom, the word should be eliminated.
is that Uncle Tom wasn't an Uncle Tom.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Janeane Garofalo: Do GOP candidates have Stockholm syndrome?
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
It's GOP voters who have Stockholm Syndrome.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
When is someone going to run against this guy? I don't think he is doing any work for his constituency. Just what legislation did he push to aid the people who voted for him.
What a bizarre analogy.
He is leading blacks to Republican freedom from the Democratic plantations where blacks enslave blacks?
Someone seems to be missing in this analogy.
The twitchy smirk just before he pitches the lie is the tell on this guy.
It's the DemocratIC Party, Allen.
Pinhead.
Religion will be the downfall of Humanity.
That's him repeating his masters line, the one fat boy has been feeding his dittiots on the radio for years now. I dont remember who started the 'democrat party' business, but fat boy took it and elevated it beyond all reason.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldofarun/5367...
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
Christ, they've got NO shame at all, have they?
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Way to shit on Harriet Tubman, dude. Just another 21st century Republican with no sense or respect for history - how disrespectful... smh
I agree with L&L upthread... West would have sold out Tubman and her fellow freedom fighters for a hot meal and a two-room shack. Dude's not worth the paper he uses to wipe his ass.
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Allen West is more like Sarah Palin in blackface.
Wow......the republicans and the tea potty trash must be really getting desperate and have to be taking African Americans for fools, as usual...........Mr. Phony Blackman, please go back to your phony black life....................Obama/Biden2012
Before anyone starts screaming, yes I am black. Wanted to say something else, but I won't go there.
I have no respect for any African-American, Muslim or homosexual that wants to be party of the rethuglican party. Fuck being nice about it.
NOBODY 2012
Every Black republican I've ever met was either gaming the political system for personal economic benefit or a confused Black man in the White man's world.
Either one I want nothing to do with.
That is so right......and like they give a dam......Negro please.....Obama/Biden2012 all the way......
I know that is right.....I am a black female and I will be sticking with Obama all the way.....this idiot needs to go back to his phony black life, because the African Americans are with Obama/Biden2012 all the way..........so this guy here can go back and play with tea potty trash friends.........
I didn't know that. History is full of surprises.
Don't let the truth spoil a good yarn!
Wonder how much money Ms. Waters was paid for that stunt, she and her posses...........
allen west is right. if our economic system is not reformed? more of the same, poverty, violence, wasted lives.now, allen west's solutions? more of the same, only worse. his solutions and socialist solutions? diametrically opposed.
...more closely resembles..."Wrong way" Corrigan.
Republicans and corporatist, fake Democrats have moved the "plantation" overseas along with the millions of manufacturing jobs a black person would be payed to do here in America.
As a result, the same group has inched our standard of living closer to that of slaves.
West strikes me as one who would have sold his tribe members to the Brits back in the day.
"When you're president -- as opposed the head of a private equity firm -- your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot." - President Barack Obama
with the connivance of the supposedly socialist country of china. one must wonder, do the chinese have a long-term plan to undermine the USA? it is not beyond the realm of possibility. we have seen communist countries more than willing to sacrifice their people.........
but it's not just african-americans who have lost these jobs, it's everybody. roofing houses, packing shingles, digging ditches, building forms, tires, fencing, yours truly has done all these things, and i am def. european.
Uncle Tom?? I prefer the term "house negro".
He's got a one-way ticket on the Underground Railroad to Crazy Town...
"Fox News is a cancer on our Nation" -- Me
She would have ripped this flaccid lackey sellout a new one.
West---what a disgrace for a human being--he sold his sociopathic soul to the company till. And comparing himself with a heroine like Harriet Tubman---what an arrogant, disgusting bastard.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
One of the house negros telling all the rest of us that he's the one who's really trying to help us......by leading us into the massas woodshed out back.
If this idiot thinks that the black community is going to follow his dumb ass anywhere, then he really does have a dream. A deluded sad little dream that will never come true in his lifetime.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Allen West lives in (wait for it) Plantation, Florida.
Bonus irony: In Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's district.
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