Barbara Boxer...Racist?

When I heard the soundbite of this on Hugh Hewitt's radio show yesterday afternoon, I knew this was going to make the rounds and expose Senator Boxer as the partisan (and now racist?) hack that she is. She claimed to be showing the "diversity" of groups that supported Mr. Alford and his energy policies. Instead of simply advocating the science of the reports of Alford, Boxer went out of her way to expose her inner racism and wave around those position papers from the NAACP and 100 Black Men of Atlanta to name but two.

What does the NAACP have to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce? Or more importantly, enrgy consumption? Apparently the senator thinks there's some sort of connection between the two. I guess she thought Alford would jump up and sing her praises and welcome her with open arms into the black community. "She truly is one of us! She knows our pain!" Well, Mr. Alford pretty much put the kabosh on that. This again shows just how much the Democrats really don't respect the black community, but use tactics like this to try and show their "liberalism" and "diversity" that nobody is buying into. Well, at least not those who have seen this before and know what Dems like Boxer are up to.

Don't you just love it when white politicians, from either side of the isle, propourt to know what's best for black people, then embarrass themselves when those same black people throw back in their face? This was simply priceless.

Here is a partial transcript:

Boxer was speaking to panelist Harry C. Alford, the president & CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.
They first started talking about where he lived, which led to Boxer telling him, "Let me talk to you, this is friendly."
Boxer then quoted a NAACP resolution that passed and put it in the record.



Alford: "What does that mean?"

Boxer: "Sir, we're going to put that in the record..."

Alford: "What does that mean, though? The NAACP has a resolution, what does that mean?"

Boxer: "Sir, they could say the same thing about what do you mean..."

Alford: "I've got documentation."

Boxer: "Sir, they passed it. They passed it. Now, also, if that isn't interesting you to we'll quote John Grant, who is the CEO of 100 Black Men of Atlanta." [She goes on to read quote.]

Alford: "Madam Chair, that is condescending to me. I'm the National Black Chamber of Commerce and you're trying to put up some other black group to pit against me."

Boxer: "If this gentlemen were here he would be proud that he was being quoted."

Alford: "He should have been invited!"

Boxer: "...just as he would be proud.." Alford: "It is condescending to me."

Boxer: "...he's proud, I'm sure, that I am quoting him."

Alford: "All that's condescending, and I don't like it. It's racial. I don't like it. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that!"

Boxer: "... offense at the fact that I would quote ...?"

Alford: "You're quoting some other black man. Why don't you quote some other Asian ... or ... you are being racial here. And I think you're getting to a path here that's going to explode."

Boxer reviews what she had been doing and then mentions that "there is definitely differing opinions in the black community. Just as there are in my community."

Alford: "You're speaking on behalf of the black community?"

Boxer: "No. I am putting in the record a statement by the NAACP."

Alford: "Why?"

Boxer: "Because I think it is quite relevant."

Alford: "... Why are you doing the Colored People Association study with the Black Chamber of Commerce?"

Boxer: "I am trying to show the diversity of support that we have."

Alford: "Diversity?"

Boxer: "And I will go ahead and do one more diversity of support..."

Eventually Alford declares, "We are referring to the experts regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-educated veteran of the United States Army that I must contend with some other black group and put aside everything else in here -- this has nothing to do with the NAACP and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We're talking energy and that road the chair went down, I think, is God-awful."

God awful.