GOP Congressman Under Fire for Most Racist Office Display Ever
While it may seem shocking to find this in a congressman’s office, Miller was even more appalled when he read the page that was displayed from the open book:
In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a political and moral evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it, however, a greater evil to the white than to the black race, and while my feelings are strongly interested in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are strongly for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race, and, I hope, will prepare and lead them to better things. How long their subjection may last is known only by a wise and merciful Providence.
The. Book. Was. Inside. A. Glass. Case. Open. On. That. Page.
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When another union member asked a staffer if they had seen the throwback racism manual on display, the staffer said no, but asked them if they’d like to see more cool stuff, like a lock of George Washington’s hair. (The union members didn’t note how they responded, but I’m sure they declined to check out a 200-year-old lock of white people’s hair. Probably smelled like a roll of old nickels.)
Ferguson never showed up at his office, but the Union members demanded an apology for the indecent book. Miller told CNN that the Georgia Republican later called to apologize and say that he had no idea how that racist book got in his office.
It was probably ghosts. Or maybe it was the staffers who already said they hadn’t even looked at the book. Every office has a story about how some low-level aide brought white supremacist office decorations to secretly place in their boss’s office without his knowledge and no one ever knows how it got there. You’d be surprised. It happens all the time.
But don’t dismiss the ghost theory.
“He said he wasn’t aware the book was there. He apologized maybe 15 times on the phone,” Miller said. “It seemed as if they just said what was necessary to try to mitigate the situation.”
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