GOP Official Removed for Racial Remarks
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AP, September 28, 2008
The spokeswoman for the Republican Party in Nevada’s most populous county was removed from her post Saturday, after she said the Democratic Party made black people “dependent on the government.”
Didi Lima, the Clark County GOP communications director, also was removed from her volunteer role as a Hispanic community liaison for Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign over the remarks made earlier in the day while working at a McCain campaign booth.
“We don’t want (Hispanics) to become the new African-American community,” Lima told The Associated Press. “And that’s what the Democratic Party is going to do to them, create more programs and give them handouts, food stamps and checks for this and checks for that. We don’t want that.”
“I’m very much afraid that the Democratic Party is going to do the same thing that they did with the African-American culture and make them all dependent on the government and we don’t want that,” she said.
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“Didi Lima is no longer a part of this campaign, her comments don’t reflect Senator McCain’s beliefs and are not tolerated on his campaign,” McCain spokesman Rick Gorka said after learning about her remarks.
Lima is the second Republican Party official to land in hot water this week over comments perceived as inflaming tensions between blacks and Hispanics.
The chairman of the Republican Party in New Mexico’s most populous county resigned Thursday, nearly a week after saying “Hispanics consider themselves above blacks” and won’t vote for Obama.
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(Posted on September 29, 2008)
Comments
Sorry, Didi. It’s no longer possible to speak the truth without suffering consequences in this country, especially if you speak out about the chosen people. Isn’t it strange that so many in this country will choose the welfare of illegal aliens over its own citizens? A second-grader knows that working Americans put their money back into THIS ecnonomy. Illegals send their home. Now, which one helps the USA more? Perhaps it’s because we, the people, don’t profit from illegal immigration, but we know those who do.
Posted by June at 6:18 PM on September 29
And once again, the Pandora’s box has been opened by the truth. Telling the truth is a dangerous thing for careers. People are so intellectually challenged in today’s Amerika. Speak the truth and suffer the consequences.
Posted by at 6:43 PM on September 29
I thought it was white women, taking on black boyfriends, who make black mothers dependant on the government? Maybe she has a point, saying it’s the Democratic party, that makes blacks dependant on government. I wouldn’t know.
Posted by white man at 6:51 PM on September 29
“In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
That truth about this country can never be quoted enough.
Posted by Ranger at 7:58 PM on September 29
“I’m very much afraid that the Democratic Party is going to do the same thing that they did with the African-American culture and make them all dependent on the government and we don’t want that,” she said.
Here it is…they called me crazy but I am not the only one who figured this out….the name of the game is creating and perpetuating an underclass through government hand-outs at the expense of othters.
Posted by at 12:07 AM on September 30
How dare he state the obvious. Doesn’t he know the liberals expect you to walk around with your head up your butt like they do? Well now he knows. If Obama gets the white house, he’ll pass that into law.
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 2:20 AM on September 30
She was removed for what — telling the truth? This is why the Republican Party, even to those of us who are members, is often referred to as “The Stupid Party.”
Posted by at 2:20 AM on September 30
As an African American, I can only agree the Democratic party was the worst thing that Blacks could ever buy into believing that the Liberal Left with its handouts is really trying to help and improve their overall economic and social living standards.
I’m an Independent, I tend to slightly lean a tad bit to the right and most Blacks don’t get it. They are shocked and flabbergasted. I get constantly ridiculed and mocked for my self-reliance beliefs. But many Blacks think that the Democratic party is the party that really cares about them and their issues of false promises. Since I don’t not support Mr. Obama, I am a sellout and I don’t understand what is to struggle in life. I actually don’t know, because I come from a family and a father that loathes entitlements.
My old man always told me, “no one will ever feel sorry for you, you can only rely on yourself and never depend on anyone else, especially the government.” Self-reliance is the key to success and empowerment.
I knew this back when I was a student at UCLA. I love my race and I love and respect Blacks that take the initiative to be a productive member of society and not blame Whites for slavery that happened over 150 years ago and to think American owes them anything. The only thing America owes me is a “chance” and I took it and used it in a way most decent Americans would.
If Blacks don’t learn now that following the democratic liberal ideology is further eroding the Black community, they never will and they can’t expect anyone to feel sorry for them, that is their own demise, I hate to say it like that, but it is.
Posted by Hope at 7:22 AM on September 30
Well God bless you for that Hope. I too am an independent and don’t see how usurping state power to force a self-destructive authoritarian ideology riddled with error down upon our heads solves anything. Google: The Outcome of Modern Liberalism
It’s time we all wake up and become realists and that’s the point of this site. Peace to you Hope
Posted by Unemployed WASP at 11:02 AM on September 30
Those who punish truthful speech work for liars.
Posted by Gary at 12:47 PM on September 30
I suspect that the Democrats originally were trying to help, Hope, and that the dependency on government we have seen were really just an unintended consequence. Part of the problem related to dependency was that at about exactly the time the Johnson administration’s “Great Society” welfare schemes were enacted, Japan and Western Europe (especially Germany) had largely recovered from the ravages of World War Two, which meant that US manufacturing industry - on which many black families relied for a living - now faced very serious competition instead of merely reigning supreme the way it had since 1945. I think they naively imagined a world in which they would like to live, and then proceeded to believe they were actually living in such a world.
That may have been the case then, but I strongly believe that the Democrat Party elites today are cynically using tax money to buy the loyalty of ethnic bloc voters with these dependency-producing entitlement programs. Unfortunately, the Republicans (at least the neoconservatives) seem to want to get into the same business, encouraging illegal immigration to keep big business happy, while throwing money around like a drunk sailor on shore leave to keep the peons dependent on them. In the meantime, the US middle class shrinks while it has to pay for it all.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 2:52 PM on September 30
What great truth did this person tell? What, blacks are under normal circumstances self-sufficient high-achievers? Give me a break.
The people who are screwed by the welfare sugar daddies in government are not the takers, but the productive majority. The big bad government did not steal this noble tribe’s fire! If you want to blame the government for anything, blame it for stealing our money in order to subsidize the underclass’ breeding program.
Posted by at 11:02 PM on September 30
An additional problem for US industry in the 1960s - which relates directly to black dependency on the welfare state, Hope, was that while ominous signs of renewed competitiveness were coming from Europe and Japan, US labor unions and management were sharply divided against each other, and both had become very complacent. Philco, for instance, which was once a US electronics giant, voluntarily withdrew from manufacturing consumer electronics products in 1968 because they “didn’t think there was any future in it.” In retrospect, this decision can only be described as tragic.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 1:22 PM on October 1
“Didi Lima is no longer a part of this campaign, her comments don’t reflect Senator McCain’s beliefs and are not tolerated on his campaign”.
Too bad. If her comments DID reflect McCain’s beliefs, he MIGHT be worth voting for.
Posted by Superman at 7:01 PM on October 3