Ironically, the republican party was formed to free the black slaves.

Just what they need, this racist f**ker.

"I apologize to the quorum, I apologize to anyone who took offense. In no way did I mean that to be degrading in any way."

Dear Sen. Buttars,

Your efforts to make an apology seem blatantly insincere, and sounds like a hollow attempt at saving your ass. At least, in expressing your bigotry, you are being true to yourself.

Keep it up, Butthole Buttars.

Im so confused, what the f**k were they talking about black babies for?

The bill was about splitting school funds or something, so throughout deliberations, they kept referring to it as a baby (cause of the King Solomon story of cutting a baby in half).

Douchebag Buttars just decided to take it an extra step with a completely uncalled for racist remark.

Everyone is racist to an extent, whether or not you're willing to admit it.

Maybe he didn't mean to have the racist insinuations everyone is interpreting from his comment. Black can mean a number of things outside of describing ones race. Maybe you're all racist by automatically assuming black refers to people of African descent considering the term black can be seen as derogatory.

My guess is that he was actually thinking of the term "tar baby", which is used in politics to describe a sticky situation, although it isn't used much anymore because of its racist connotations.

But whatever he was trying to say it definitely wasn't appropriate.

I think there's a little too much speculation going on. The phrase uttered was, "This baby is black. It is a dark, ugly thing."

Now, to use the word 'baby' in place of something, especially something that you are creating, is commonly accepted. Now, 'black' not only refers to the color, or African-Americans. if one were to look up black in the dictionary, one would find that black can also mean something that is twisted, dishonest, dismal, stained, ill-boding, or immoral. In other words, something that is dark and ugly.

It seems rather more likely that Buttars made an unfortunate choice of words, especially seeing as other senators had compared to what they were doing to Solomon splitting babies.

You ever have one of those times where you say something, and you feel you've expressed yourself pretty well, but then you realize that the way you constructed your sentence could be totally misconstrued, and if someone were to take your word choice in the wrong way, there would be no way that you could convince them that what you really meant was not the horrible thing it may seem like you said? Is it possible that this happened here?

He didn't say, "this baby is African American." He said, "This baby is black. It is a dark, ugly thing." If you pop "black" into dictionary.com--oh, here I'll do it for you:



You'll see that there are 19 adjectival definitions for black, of which I'd say six or seven are possibly fitting interpretations. And one of those 19 is "African-American". Now, I'm not saying Buttars isn't a racist son of a b***h; I'm just saying there is a completely legitimate, non-racist interpretation of what he said, and sometimes we need to give people the benefit of the doubt.

EDIT: thebluefrog is apparently a faster typist than me. But obviously we're on the same wavelength. If I'd refreshed my page and seen what you posted, I wouldn't even have bothered. You expressed my thoughts very well!

I also see how this comment is perhaps not racist. I see it as probably being an unfortunate choice of words, like bluefrog said.

kinda like when someone calls someone else "black" hearted...black-referring to someone's wicked disposition-not race

Yeah, I'm going with BlueFrog and duane on this. People are quick to attach a racial meaning to a famous person's words, and especially if he or she is a white republican.

He referred to the bill as 'baby' and called it "black" and "a dark, ugly thing". He never mentioned a black baby, nor did he use any explicitly racial terms.

Just another example of mincing a quote and then blowing it way out of proportion. Makes for a good headline I guess.

Apology accepted... you rascal!

yea alot of the news needs more context to make knowledgeable understandings of what that person ment.