Courtesy of the Nebraska Unicameral Information Office
Sen. Ernie Chambers said last week that all white people are racist, and that he’s not black because his blood was polluted by white people. Audio clip from KFOR Radio, embedded.
[From article]
Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers said all white people are racist and that his blood was “polluted” by white people last week while filibustering a bill and lambasting a state education board member who has rejected calls for his resignation after his blog called the president a “half-breed.”
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While trying to whittle away eight hours filibustering, Chambers talked Thursday about how his ancestors were enslaved and sexually abused by some of the nation’s “righteous,” Christian founding fathers.
What they were declaring in the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence was that they could do anything they wanted with black girls and women, he said.
“Oh yes, I have a great store of bitterness in me,” he said. “Why do you think I’m not black? Because some white person or persons jumped a fence and polluted the blood that is in my veins to this day.”
Recounting how blacks were promised voting rights if they served in the military, he said “white people don’t keep their word.”
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Some said Chambers is a racist and should resign, too.
Chambers routinely denigrates “white people” and his fellow senators as racist and is rarely challenged, but his diatribe Friday finally raised the ire of a fellow filibusterer, Sen. Dave Bloomfield, R-Hoskins.
“I grow a little weary of the constant charge that we are all racist,” Bloomfield said on the floor of the Legislature. “What I see Senator Chambers doing here on a regular basis here I also feel is wrong.”
http://watchdog.org/196917/ernie-chambers-2/
State senator says all white people are racist and ‘polluted’ his blood
By Deena Winter
Nebraska Watchdog
February 2, 2015
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