{"id":9399,"date":"2009-07-17T04:12:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:12:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-17T04:12:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:12:40","slug":"barbara-boxer-accused-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/17\/barbara-boxer-accused-of-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Boxer accused of racism??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unreal.  Per Huffington Post<\/a>, Barbara Boxer was accused of being “racial” today at a hearing on climate change!  The witness, Harry Alford, was from the National Black Chamber of Commerce, which seems to be a bunch of pro-business global warming deniers who oppose fixing our climate change problem.  He claims green jobs aren’t being created in California, that they don’t exist.<\/p>\n

Later, Boxer cites an NAACP report that supports climate change legislation, and suddenly Alford goes off calling her “racial” and “condescending”.<\/p>\n

“All that’s condescending, and I don’t like it. It’s racial. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that,” he said. “You’re quoting some other black man — why don’t you quote some other Asian or some other… You’re getting racial here.”<\/p>\n

“You’re speaking on behalf of the black community?” Alford asked. “Why are you doing the colored people association’s study with the black Chamber of Commerce?”<\/p>\n

….<\/p>\n

“We’ve been looking at energy policy since 1996. And we are referring to the experts, regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-education veteran of the United States Army, that I must contend with some other “black group” and put aside everything else in here — This has NOTHING to do with the NAACP, and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We’re talking about energy. And that — that road the chair went down, I think is God awful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.  Just wow.  Here’s a question, why should we give one flying fuck about what the National Black Chamber of Commerce has to say about climate change?  If they have a legitimate claim to make, then I see no problem in Boxer citing what the NAACP has to say in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unreal.  Per Huffington Post<\/a>, Barbara Boxer was accused of being “racial” today at a hearing on climate change!  The witness, Harry Alford, was from the National Black Chamber of Commerce, which seems to be a bunch of pro-business global warming deniers who oppose fixing our climate change problem.  He claims green jobs aren’t being created in California, that they don’t exist.<\/p>\n

Later, Boxer cites an NAACP report that supports climate change legislation, and suddenly Alford goes off calling her “racial” and “condescending”.<\/p>\n

“All that’s condescending, and I don’t like it. It’s racial. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that,” he said. “You’re quoting some other black man — why don’t you quote some other Asian or some other… You’re getting racial here.”<\/p>\n

“You’re speaking on behalf of the black community?” Alford asked. “Why are you doing the colored people association’s study with the black Chamber of Commerce?”<\/p>\n

….<\/p>\n

“We’ve been looking at energy policy since 1996. And we are referring to the experts, regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-education veteran of the United States Army, that I must contend with some other “black group” and put aside everything else in here — This has NOTHING to do with the NAACP, and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We’re talking about energy. And that — that road the chair went down, I think is God awful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.  Just wow.  Here’s a question, why should we give one flying fuck about what the National Black Chamber of Commerce has to say about climate change?  If they have a legitimate claim to make, then I see no problem in Boxer citing what the NAACP has to say in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[310,7586],"class_list":["post-9399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-310","tag-7586"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2rB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}