Sunday, October 2, 2011

Rick Perry has a Racism Problem and it's called "Niggerhead"


So Ricky, when you try to run for President. Everything comes out... Everything.
 
Washington Post reports:

"In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family's secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance. 'Niggerhead,' it read."


"Ranchers who once grazed cattle on the 1,070-acre parcel on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River called it by that name well before Perry and his father, Ray, began hunting there in the early 1980s... But the name of this particular parcel did not change for years after it became associated with Rick Perry, first as a private citizen, then as a state official and finally as Texas governor... As recently as this summer, the slablike rock -- lying flat, the name still faintly visible beneath a coat of white paint -- remained by the gated entrance to the camp."
This is so unacceptable. And I'm sure this will come up in the next debate. I think this is the middle stage of Rick Perry's slow political death.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was this place used to hunt and lynch black men at some point in history? Let mesee here....MMM if it were called Gayhead would that bother me? No. Niggerhead? Yes.
This just goes to show us that Black is nothing like being gay.

Unknown said...

There is no defense for this. And to watch someone defend it... will just show their racist membership card.

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