Dear Bobby Jindal - 60+ years ago you would not have been served in some restaurants in Louisiana

[LynneSin]

You would not have been able to use certain restrooms
You would not have been able to drink from certain water fountains
You would have had to sit in a specific section of the bus, or at the local ball park or even at the movie theater.
Even walking into a local hotel you would have had to use the back door and not the main entrance.

Mr. Jindal, I know you are not African American, but because of you dark skin, some 60+ years ago many Americans would have still discriminated against you and your family because of your dark skin.

Yet many Americans including many many Anglo-Americans said 'This is not acceptable'. Even though the many of the Southern Politicians of the day (including those in Louisiana) said 'This is the way it has been since this country has been founded', there were still people who said "NO IT SHOULD NOT BE LIKE THIS". Good Americans of all backgrounds stood up to those politicians and they fought back. People of all races, nationalities - White & Black fought together to change the laws and said that people of dark skin - they are no different and they deserve the same treatment as everyone else.

So today I find it UTTER BULLSHIT that you stand in front of a group of supporters and say that LGBT citizens do not deserve equal rights because that's the way it has been for the last 200 years. That because ages ago we use to think that marriage could only be between one man and one woman we cannot change that. We have to keep our minds closed.

I am so glad that people ignored the politicians some 60+ years ago and believe me Mr. Jindal - they are ignoring you today. You will go down in history as a bigot just like those politicians back during the Jim Crow era. Is that how you want the world to remember you? SHAME ON YOU! You are where you are today because generations before you said that you deserve equal rights yet today you cannot see the same for others? It's a pity that you are so short sited and that you would destroy your reputation because of your hate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/opinion/bobby-jindal-im-holding-firm-against-gay-marriage.html?_r=0

Bobby Jindal: I’m Holding Firm Against Gay Marriage

[BlueCaliDem]

1. Piyush thinks he's White so he doesn't believe he'd be discriminated against 60 yrs ago.

[LynneSin]

2. He needs to wake up and smell the coffee

Back then he would have been horribly discriminated against. Shameful but true. I'm glad we have a country for him where he could be a Governor but it's a shame that he would not see that he could do the same for others as those before him have done for him.

[BlueCaliDem]

3. I believe all Republicans live by the motto: "I've got mine. SCREW YOU."

There's no other explanation for their constant attack of the vulnerable among us. It's as if they get a kick out of kicking the helpless around. They're narcissists of the worse kind, LynneSin. Selfish and narcissistic because they actually believe the world revolves around them and them alone.

[LynneSin]

7. I know but that article really bugged me

Because I want to think that 50-75 years ago there were Americans who fought hard to make this country a better place so people like Bobby Jindal could one day be a governor of a state.

Yet to see him turn around and says FUCK YOU like that just pisses me off. He is treating the LGBT community the same exact way that the Southern Politicians during the Jim Crow era would treat African Americans and other dark skin Americans. Just because he is Indian doesn't me he would have had it any easier. The South was a horrible place back then if you were not white.

[babylonsister]

4. I think he's just dumbfuck stupid.

That's what rethugs like? He has no self-respect at all, and I hope the citizens of LA wise up.
Please show us you are smarter than he is. Please.

[hobbit709]

8. I think he would have to rise up about 2 levels to get to dumbfuck stupid.

[msongs]

5. and proclaiming himself christian would have been no help either nt

[Thinkingabout]

6. On this point I disagree with you. In Louisiana if you are black then you are black.

If you are anything else you are white.

[LynneSin]

9. I'm not from the south but you don't think as a Dark skin man from India...

that they would know the difference.

I've seen the ignorance of white people up north. When they hate they don't check the family tree to see where you came from - they see skin tone and they hate.

But I could be wrong - I'm a yankee.

[Thinkingabout]

10. I am from Louisiana, yes they see the different skin tones but I assure you the same thinking

Is still there today. Should we be different, no, but this is how it is. On this I know.

[kwassa]

11. In February in nearby Alabama, an Indian grandfather was slammed to the ground by police.

MADISON, Alabama (AP) — A man from India who was slammed to the ground by a police officer had been singled out by police after a caller said a "skinny black guy" with a toboggan hat was walking in the neighborhood and peering into garages, recordings show.

The man, Sureshbhai Patel, 57, doesn't speak English and was slammed to the ground face-first by an officer when he didn't respond to commands. But he had committed no crime, the Madison police chief said.

Officer Eric Parker was arrested and is being fired. He has not commented publicly, and court records were not available Friday to show whether he has a lawyer.

Patel filed a lawsuit Thursday over the Feb. 6 incident in Madison, where he was visiting his son's family. His injuries include partial paralysis but he hopes for a full recovery, according to the lawsuit and Patel's lawyer. The lawsuit says Patel's civil rights were violated. It seeks an unspecified amount of money.

http://news.yahoo.com/alabama-police-officer-charged-assaulting-indian-man-062639725.html

[jaysunb]

12. " SHAME ON YOU ! "

I like that, and would love to say it to his face.

[Stonepounder]

13. +1000!!

[Jerry442]

14. Let's put Jindal, Michelle Malkin, and Dinesh D'Souza...

...together into a "Twilight Zone" time machine and send them to a restaurant in Louisiana in the 1950's to try to get served dinner.

[Thinkingabout]

17. As I posted in #6, in Louisiana if you are black then you are black, if you are not black

then you are white. If any of these entered a restaurant in the 1950's they would have been served.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. But Jindal Bells is the education governor.

Just look what he is doing for education in that state.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/04/lsu_academic_bankruptcy.html

[Historic NY]

16. Somebody ought to tell him he'd be called a "dot head".......

and more for trying to sound like he was so Americanized by using a pseudonym (Bobby) for his real name Piyush "Bobby" Jindal.

[Thinkingabout]

18. He is of the catholic faith.

There was probably very few of his parents native religious places in Louisiana when they arrived.

[Historic NY]

19. I'm using it as generic...

sense.

[Thinkingabout]

20. It may have been of value in Louisiana to be catholic.