GOP congressional hopeful Corey Poitier Calls Obama "BuckWheat"

[my2sense]

In the midst of delivering an impassioned speech decrying President Obama's healthcare reform, GOP congressional hopeful Corey Poitier veered dangerously off-script.

"Listen up, Buckwheat -- this is not how it is done!'' Poitier blurted out.

The apparent comparison of the nation's commander-in-chief to a 1920s Our Gang and The Little Rascals character -- a character seen as demeaning and offensive by many African Americans -- sent a jolt of notoriety through Poitier's previously unknown campaign.

"The press has run amok with this and turned me into a racist,'' said Poitier, who is himself black. The candidate complains CNN never bothered to interview him before running its own version of the story. ``I've never seen Buckwheat as a disparaging character. People love Buckwheat.''

Poitier says he and his brother have in fact called each other ``Buckwheat'' as a way to gently chide the other for being foolish -- essentially a substitute for the word ``dummy.''

More: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/24/1546021/gop-congressional-hopeful-corey.html

[CakeGrrl]

1. "Dumbass" is more like it.

Keep stepping in it, GOP. Keep stepping in it. Maybe you'll finally sink.

[YOY]

2. Classy...

n/t

[Hekate]

3. Another black Repub?! I though Steele and Clarence Thomas were the only ones

:wow:

[Dappleganger]

5. Yeah, but he's black repuke so he gets a pass

and can say any stupid thing he wants, right?

He sounds more like Steele than anyone else--same dumb shit.

[Doremus]

7. Oh no, you also have Armstrong Williams, Ken Blackwell,

crazy Alan Keyes, Lynn Swann and a whole shitload more self-loathing masochists.

[madmax]

4. A damn disgrace. nt

[Berry Cool]

6. Your hopes are over, Mr. Poitier.

It doesn't matter that I'm half Italian American myself, I wouldn't go far in a congressional campaign if I said in public "Listen, Nancy Pelosi, you Dago Wop--"