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Related: About this forumGOP Candidate: Duck Dynasty Star Is ‘Rosa Parks Of Our Generation’
DANIEL STRAUSS DECEMBER 20, 2013, 1:39 PM EST
A Republican congressional candidate in Illinois puts 'Duck Dynasty' patriarch Phil Robertson on par with Rosa Parks.
In a fundraising email to supporters, Ian Bayne, who is running in the Republican primary to challenge Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) in the 11th District, compared Robertson to Rosa Parks. The fundraising email began: "Today, Ian Bayne called Phil Robertson, star of the A&E series "Duck Dynasty," the 'Rosa Parks' of our generation."
Robertson has been in national headlines lately for ranting about the "sin" of homosexuality in an interview with GQ. In that same interview Robertson also discussed the welfare of African Americans during the era of Jim Crow. He said that during that time blacks were carefree and essentially didn't experience any mistreatment.
"In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians," Bayne wrote in the email. "What Parks did was courageous."
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Tis worriesome that people are feeling free to say this stuff, tho.
used to be social conventions kept them quiet on a public stage.
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)This republican is stupid and would fit in well with the Texas GOP delegation
indepat
(20,899 posts)of our generation, for it is most telling and illuminating of the mindset of such individuals.
TeamPooka
(24,225 posts)TeamPooka
(24,225 posts)- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)nm
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Here I thought he just chose to one..
alp227
(32,023 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)that Republicans DON'T compare to the civil rights era and slavery nowadays?