SHOCKER: KKK is Ok according to Dream Act Foe Sen. Sessions

The new ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Jeff Beauregard Sessions (R-AL), thought the KKK to be ok until Sessions soured on the racist group because of their pot use according to 1986 Senate hearings for Sessions' circuit court judge nomination. No wonder Sessions, the fierce Republican anti-immigrant demagogue, hates the Dream Act and immigration reform so much.

so what else is new?

Why doesn't this surprise me?

Ok, not much of a shocker, but Sessions' racist history is disturbing and disgusting especially as ranking Republican member of the Judiciary committee in charge of civil rights and immigration. Fortunately, Sen. Leahy can smack him down when needed as chairman of the Judiciary Committee.

TPM found this 1986 CBS News piece on the Senate's rejection of Sessions' judgeship nomination due to racial insensitivity and other controversial comments. I have no idea why the people of Alabama continue to elect this horrible person.

Thanks for that video.
It is so disgusting that people have no respect in any mean toward a race.
KKK is definitely a wrong thing. It is okay to feel negative about another race, everybody does, at a minimum level, but KKK is never acceptable.

WoW...

I know you will get confuse..
here is the explanation (this is what my health teacher used in class)
You go home at night, you see a couple black kids handing out around the corner of the street.
they wear hoodies, they look at you, are you afraid? because you usually hear about "black people robbery" on the news?
but they happen to just pass you without doing anything....

negative feeling is not racism

^ How would you like it if somebody said that about you? Shame on you, Pygmalion.

I think that what he meant, is that it is natural for people to feel apprehensive at the "dreaded other" and that everybody does it at some degree.

Of course, it is not okay to know you have negative feelings to others and let them be. Most people don't know they are stereotyping others. For example. If I think all gay people are fabulous, I am stereotyping them but I don't feel or think that. Because, you know, all gay people are fabulous.

Still, CIR is right, we are for many people the dreaded other, stereotyped and even hated. Thus, it would be hypocritical to have negative or unjustified feelings towards others while demanding to be judged as individuals.