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02/26/2004 Archived Entry: "Rep. Brown Apologizes for 'White Men' Comment"

Posted by steve @ 10:35 PM EST [Link]

DAMN, THEY ALL LOOK LIKE GERRY COONEY: U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown apologized today for saying that all Hispanics and whites "look alike to me."

Brown made the statement during a Wednesday briefing on Haiti with Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, a Mexican-American, and the Florida congressional delegation. During the meeting, attended by about 30 people, Brown sat across the table from Noriega and launched an attack on President Bush's policy on Haiti.

She said Republican leaders were "racist" in their policies toward the Caribbean nation, which is almost entirely black, and called the president's representatives "a bunch of white men."

"I sincerely did not mean to offend Secretary Noriega or anyone in the room. Rather, my comments, as they relate to 'white men,' were aimed at the policies of the Bush administration as they pertain to Haiti, which I do consider to be racist," Brown said in a statement on Thursday.

I love when racists defend their racism by declaring someone else racist. Where's the Trent Lott treatment for Brown?

Read on.

Replies: 2 comments

You're absolutely right, Steve. Although there is one good point to this news story: If you read the original reports, Noriega really stood his ground with Corrine Brown.

Posted by W. James Antle @ 02/27/2004 12:42 AM EST

Yeah, I saw those...I love how he responded that she should go and talk to Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell :-)

Posted by Steven Martinovich @ 02/27/2004 01:50 AM EST