Sessions to give remarks on African American History Month

[Miles Archer]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to deliver a speech at the Justice Department Tuesday to celebrate African American History Month.

Sessions's 1986 nomination to a federal judgeship was derailed by accusations of racism during his tenure as a U.S. attorney. Those accusations resurfaced during his confirmation hearing to be attorney general, but they didn't stop Sessions from winning confirmation.

Sessions was accused of trying to curb voting rights of black voters and for making racist comments to colleagues.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made headlines when she attempted to read Coretta Scott King’s letter during debate over Sessions's nomination. The letter criticized and urged Congress to block Jeff Session’s 1986 nomination to be a federal judge.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321511-jeff-sessions-to-give-remarks-on-african-american-history-month

[BeyondGeography]

1. First comment, ftw

This to be immediately followed by Steve Bannon's recital of his favorite passages from the Torah

[NightWatcher]

2. Who wants to bet he says "coloreds" in his remarks?

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. What's wrong with that? Beats the N word. Surely the black folk realize

that they is about to be slaves again, what they are called is the least of their worries.


sarcasm


Sessions is a racist, a very ugly racist. The United States government is now a racist entity, although to one extent or another it always has been but now it is a full blown racist entity.

Too bad there is to date not one patriot in the GOP, other than Darrel Issa, who woulda thought I would ever say that!

[regnaD kciN]

7. More like what I used to hear from older southerners when I was young...

...when they would start to use the n-word, but then correct themselves to what was an "acceptable" term of the day, so it came out "nig-roes."

And I thought we were long past those days...

[irisblue]

3. early April Fool prank? J.Beauregard Session celebrating AA History?

The mind reels in grief, dismay and, and this is a prank right?

[joet67]

4. He is probably only two generations removed from slavery. Wouldn't surprise me if his

granddaddy told stories when he was a kid. Sorry if that sounds inappropriate, but that's truly how I feel. He just oozes something from every facet of his being that repulses me. That he is our AG is something I find abhorrent and shocking. I am just stunned at what is going on in our country right now.

[angstlessk]

6. Wait, what...Tuesday is in March

African American History Month is in February...so what is that about?

[regnaD kciN]

8. So, will he deliver it in black tie or white sheet?

[gopiscrap]

9. this fucker is such an embassassment to the US

[gratuitous]

10. Some homey reminiscences

"Why, I remember my grandpappy telling me how hard those African Americans used to work. Why, they'd go from kin til kin't* and never complain a bit. Then they'd all go to their little shacks and shanties, and dance and sing up a storm, he said. Not like today, when everybody expects to be paid a full day's wage for barely working eight hours. And if I was to use grandpappy's tried-and-true methods - for their own good, you understand - why, I'd be the one arrested for breaking the law.

"Anyway, where was I? Oh yes, we're all mighty proud of all the African Americans who work here in the Justice Department, even if the waste baskets sometimes get pretty full."

*You start workin' when "kin" barely see, and keep workin' til you "kin't" see no more.