"Sessions Subordinate: I Thought I'd Be Fired If I Objected To Being Called 'Boy' "...

[BlooInBloo]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/sessions-colleague-i-thought-id-be-fired-if-i-objected-to-being-called-boy.php

"Today we obtained a copy of the transcript of the Sessions hearings--over 500-pages worth--and it turns out there's quite a bit more. We're still going through it, of course, but the Figures testimony alone contains some damning details.

Figures recalled one occasion in which the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sent them instructions to investigate a case that Sessions had tried to close: "We had a very spirited discussion regarding how the Hodge case should then be handled; in the course of that argument, Mr. Sessions threw the file on a table, and remarked, 'I wish I could decline on all of them.'"

All of them, according to Figures, meant civil rights cases generally. As he explained at one point: "he statement, the manner in which it was delivered, the impression on his face, the manner in which his face blushed, I believe it represented a hostility to investigating and pursuing those types of matters."

Figures said that Sessions had called him "boy" on a number of occasions, and had cautioned him to be careful what he said to "white folks. "Mr. Sessions admonished me to 'be careful what you say to white folks,'" Figures testified. "Had Mr. Sessions merely urged me to be careful what I said to 'folks,' that admonition would have been quite reasonable. But that was not the language that he used."

In response to these allegations, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) asked him if he'd ever objected to this behavior. Senator "Did you ever say anything to them? Did you ever say, knock it off, or quit it?"

Figures admitted he hadn't: "Senator, I felt that if I had said anything or reacted in a manner in which I thought appropriate, I would be fired. I always felt that my position was very tentative around Mr. Sessions.""


Clearly a master at "playing the race card", eh?

Good thing there are no historical inequities that need correcting via affirmative action, eh?

Damn "reverse racists".

:rofl:

[cliffordu]

1. K&R.

[annabanana]

2. Sessions is a nasty piece of work alright..

old rotten piece of offal, clinging onto the substructure of the racist scaffolding that this country was built on. .

[immoderate]

4. And he never comes off as being bright.

--imm

[Overseas]

3. K&R -- More evidence that Sessions is unfit to serve on the judiciary committee. //nt

[Bobbie Jo]

9. He's unfit to serve in public office. Period.

[msedano]

5. Sgt, if you see a boy, kick his ass...

This was the standard reply back when I was in the Army. The soul brother sergeants understood immediately and would sputter and flash anger but correct themselves. The anglo / white sergeants would look surprised, then confused, then generally correct themselves, e.g.

"police the butt, boy."
"sergeant, you see a boy, you kick his ass"
huh? look, "well, just pick it up, troop."

[BlooInBloo]

6. (snarfle)

[northofdenali]

7. Jeff Sessions is a skank. Always has been, always will be.

Maybe he should hook up with Sarah; they could start their own white-Repuke-redneck-gun nut state somewhere on a different continent (or a different planet).

[NNN0LHI]

8. I swear Sessions is the good old boy who was playing the banjo in Deliverance

Or his twin brother?

Don