Mitt gets booed at the NAACP convention.

[classicman]

Not sure if its true or not, but this would worry me a LOT more than what he was purported to have said.

he would remain perfectly sober and put on a police uniform and pull people over.

According to TV producer Robin Madden, a former friend of Romney during his time at Stanford:

“He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father,” George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniformed troopers. “He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler. We thought it was all pretty weird. We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty creepy.’ And after that, we didn’t have much interaction with him.”

In another story during Mitt’s high school days in Michigan, Mitt would pretend to pull his friends over while they were on dates.

Given the current climate of “being outraged over everything” it’s surprising, then, that nobody thinks it weird that the potential future president used to dress up like a police office and scare the shit out of people? I mean, yeah, I could see that shit flying in Michigan (because God hates Michigan and there is nothing to do there), but the behavior continued when he was in college in California during the late ’60s? Go to a reading. Go see a band. Don’t dress up like a police officer and pretend to pull people over FOR FUN.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by classicman

Not sure if its true or not, but this would worry me a LOT more than what he was purported to have said.

Has that story not made its rounds of the cellar? it.. should. yeah, thats a big deal. i just wanted to shed a little light on the obviously racist undertones of the followup to the NAACP booing, given the fact that more than one of us here have pointed out that he probably basically wanted to be booed (so he could say something like, THAT)

[Griff]

I'll probably get in trouble here because I have not heard the quote in context... but that never stopped me before. Will it be racist when Biden says, "Vote for us, we'll give you free stuff." There are many ways to be racist, assuming people are not capable of taking care of themselves would be one. Romney is expressing an actual political position. He is full of shit since he believes in free stuff for the oligarchs, but the position is only racist if his lack of commitment to the under-class is based of skin color not an assumption that they are capable of independence.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Griff

I'll probably get in trouble here because I have not heard the quote in context... but that never stopped me before. Will it be racist when Biden says, "Vote for us, we'll give you free stuff." There are many ways to be racist, assuming people are not capable of taking care of themselves would be one. Romney is expressing an actual political position. He is full of shit since he believes in free stuff for the oligarchs, but the position is only racist if his lack of commitment to the under-class is based of skin color not an assumption that they are capable of independence.

the racism is in the othering of black people inherent in the rhetoric and the policies of the party as a whole, and mitt's own personal consistent comments. Also, "racism" isn't "stuff that acknowledges race" - its stuff that helps contribute to the systems of oppression of minority groups, duh. "Reverse racism" is not racism.