AL. state Sen apologizes for calling blacks ‘aboriginals’

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By Andrew Jones

A powerful Alabama politician apologized Tuesday evening for an inflammatory remark made about African-Americans.

State Sen. Scott Beason (R) was caught on tape in June calling blacks in Green Country, Alabama “aboriginal.” The scene was filmed during an undercover FBI investigation on whether politicians were bribed by special interests to pass a bill legalizing poker video games.

Beason told the audience at a press conference that his words were “inappropriate, careless, and unnecessary.”

“My purpose here today is to say that I’m very sorry and I apologize to anyone whose feelings were hurt by my comment,” he said. “It’s the right thing to do. I look at it as if I said something that would hurt one of my friend’s feelings.”

Read more and watch the video from Youtube, which appeared on September 27, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/al-state-sen-apologizes-for-calling-blacks-aboriginals/

[quinnox]

1. wow, I guess he was really restraining himself from saying

n----r, what a racist buffoon.

[efhmc]

2. The truth of these people is revealed more and more.

[Ian David]

3. You don't apologize JUST to those whose feelings you hurt.

You apologize to EVERYONE for being a douchebag.

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. I am constantly surprised, although I shouldnt be,

by the words that are used to "skirt" the N word here.

[yesphan]

5. He also doesn't seem

to know the meaning of the word aboriginal. Of course, its intent is evident.

[Xithras]

6. Not only racist, but an uneducated racist.

Aboriginal: The first or earliest known Indigenous Peoples of an area, who live or lived a pre-colonialist or pre-contact lifestyle.

Lakota tribes before the white man came: Aboriginal.
The modern Cherokee nation: Non-aboriginal.
Africans living in cities in South Africa: Non-aboriginal.
San Bushmen living off the land: Aboriginal.
Aztec citizens living in Tenochtitlan in 1518: Aboriginal.
Aztec descendants living in Europeanized villages as Catholics in 1618: Non-aboriginal.

Calling someone an aboriginal requires two elements. First, they must be native to the area. Second, they must live their pre-contact lifestyle.

It goes without saying that there isn't a single African American anywhere in this country who meets EITHER of those qualifications.