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Re: Duck Dynasty Star Booted
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Originally Posted by SiblingRevelry
You know, it's interesting how everyone latched on to the homosexuality, but nobody has said a word, a PEEP about something else Phil Robertson mentioned in the same interview. And that would be his casual approval of Jim Crow-era racism....
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The media didn't "latch" onto this because they know they would have to take his statements out of context. He was describing his personal experience as "white trash", being on the same socio-economic level as the black community when he was a young man. He said the black people he worked with in the cotton fields seemed happy and weren't singing the blues; he didn't state, nor did he even imply, that he approves of racism. If anything, those statements imply that he felt like he fit in with the black community at that time, and further serve to illustrate his own "suck it up and don't whine" pragmatic mentality. Even the liberal MSM knew better than to run with that story. 
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