http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/17/gene-alday-crazy-welfare-checks_n_6695570.html
Here are some quotes from the article:
A Mississippi lawmaker says racist comments recently attributed to him were taken out of context and supposed to be off the record.
State Rep. Gene Alday, a Republican, told The Clarion-Ledger he was against increased funding for education, in particular funding to improve literacy. During his explanation, Alday said he comes "from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks.' They don't work."
Alday also told the newspaper about a time he visited an emergency room.
“I liked to died. I laid in there for hours because they (black people) were in there being treated for gunshots," Alday was quoted as saying.
Alday didn't deny the comments attributed to him. However, he said he was not a racist.
"I am definitely not a racist, at all," Alday told Mississippi News Now. "Because, I mean, I get along with everybody. And I've spent a lot of time helping people."
Yes, of course you get along with everyone, Representative Alday. You get along with all those blacks in your hometown on welfare crazy checks who don't work, as well as all those people who had gunshot wounds in the emergency room.
Wanna know how I know he's lying about the emergency room? Think about visiting an emergency room. Really try to put yourself there, sick, so sick that you had to lay down. My wife had excruciating kidney stones and she sat up. But you're so sick that you have to lay down. And you have to lay down for hours. And when you're able to pick your sick self up enough to pay attention to something outside of your sphere of personal pain, you notice that the emergency waiting room is filled with people bleeding all over the place. It's not immediately clear why they're bleeding, because they're applying pressure to their bloody wounds. And they're groaning, at least, in pain. And they, too, have been there for hours. Of course they've been there for hours, because you are there for hours behind them. Either that or there's just a stream on people who come in bleeding. And, ultimately, somebody tells you that all these people have been shot. What is your reaction? I'll even give you some choices, although there are many more choices than what I'm about to give you.
1. you worry that your town might be under attack, because there is a steady stream of people coming in to the emergency room needing medical attention for hours on end
2. you are concerned about all the people bleeding around you, and you don't want to get their blood on you, so you have a difficult time finding a place to lay down
3. you're pissed off that you aren't being seen before anyone who is bleeding out in front of you and is actually running the risk of dying
4. you assess the race of the shooting victims, and notice that no white people have gunshot wounds, only black people, and they are the reason you are being held up
Number 4, incidentally, doesn't happen. Ever. Period. What ACTUALLY happens is IF Alday had to visit an emergency room (which is suspect to begin with), he walked in and had to wait for hours, and in his head he noticed the waiting room was filled with people, and his eyes notice many of those people are black people, and he assumes they are there for gunshot wounds because he wants to judge them harshly for holding up his health care, or he has a political agenda against affordable health care, or he is *gasp* a racist who can't see sick people and only sees skin color. And then, as with all racists, he lies about it.
Do not for a second believe that the waiting room Alday visited was the way he says, because what he's describing doesn't make sense in a world filled with human beings, and conservatives and racists bank on your understanding and compassion to at least hear what they're saying. "Well," you say, "it sounds reasonable. Emergency rooms might be filled with people with gunshot wounds. And they might all be black. He might be telling the truth." And just like that, you're complicit. You have helped him lie another day, and you are part of the problem.
But that's not even the most upsetting thing.
When one of the members of my email group mentioned that Alday wasn't backing down from his statements, even though they were "taken out of context" and were supposed to be off the record, one of the members of my group responded like this:
Well at least he is standing by his comments. Most people bow to social bull…no saying he is right but he is entitled to his opinion’s ( as wrong as they may be) thank GOD we live in America!
Yes. Thank GOD we live in America, where you can be as stupid and ignorant and publicly dangerous as you want to be, and people will be proud of your actions. Thank GOD indeed, who, apparently, created us in his own image. Thank GOD we live in America.
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