I live in New York’s 11th Congressional District, and so my proxy in the House of Representatives, the champion responsible for advancing my interests in the august councils of this great Republic, is a woman by the name of Yvette Clarke.
Ms. Clarke recently appeared on The Colbert Report. During her brief interview, she was asked: if she were able to go back and speak to the Brooklynites of 1898 (the year Brooklyn was annexed to New York City), what would she say to them?
A partial transcript (starting at 3:54 in the linked clip):
Yvette Clarke: “I would say to them: set me free!”
Stephen Colbert: “From…?”
YC: “Slavery.”
SC: “Slavery. Really. I didn’t realize there was slavery in Brooklyn in 1898.”
YC (knowing nod): “I’m pretty sure there was.”
SC: “Sounds like a horrible part of the United States, that kept slavery going until 1898!”
YC: “Uhhh…”
SC: “Who would be enslaving you, in 1898 in New York?”
YC: “The Dutch.”
SC: “The Dutch. Those sneaky Dutch bastards!”
YC (nodding again): “Exactly.”
SC: “Okay! Excellent.”
Again: that’s New York’s 11th District, folks, if you aren’t satisfied with the representation you’re getting elsewhere.
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Just curious … does Yvette Clarke have a high-school diploma? If so, which high school is culpable for such a travesty?
BTW, is Yvette Clarke an alias for this cretin? http://hl98.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-rep-corrine-brown-d-fl-gradulates.html
I’m rolling over in my grave. Maybe she should read a book or something.
As the daughter of immigrants from the West Indies, I don’t know why we should expect Yvette Clarke to know or care when slavery was abolished in America.
How many white Americans know or care when slavery was abolished in Mrs. Clarke’s home country of Jamaica?
I honestly didn’t know it was in 1834 before I looked it up.
So what’re you hinting here Malcolm? Your Democrats’re dumber’n other state’s Democrats?
(Yes I realize it takes a little more’n forty second verbal exchange but when comparison shopping for votes – be it chicken dinners or pints of vodka – a mere 9 pages of double-spaced legalese ain’t much of a chore.)
http://posting.arktimes.com/images/blogimages/2012/09/05/1346878786-hallumindict.pdf
As the daughter of immigrants from the West Indies, I don’t know why we should expect Yvette Clarke to know or care when slavery was abolished in America.
Holy crap that was stupid.
How about because she’s an American and a Congressman in *this* country?
Careful, careful there Andy.
She’s certainly no Congressman.
The proper PC [Derb’s Etiquette Manual] is the catchall, “Congress Critter.”
Henry, it was Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow High School, if you can believe it.
If Murrow had done the interview, he probably would have swallowed his cigarette.
Is there no limit to the bovine ignorance and grievance-mongering of politicians? I was going to say black politicians, but I’m not sure they’ve cornered the market in dumb opinions.
Apropos:
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Sorry Alex no, the “Hudson Hallum” mentioned in the linked indictment happens to be white.
But something really fishy – Mr. Hallum was buying the votes with chicken dinners and cheap vodka. Oh – and he and his co-conspirators were calling the money they were using to pay for both the vodka and chicken with money they called “watermelon.”
Cheap joke? Wellll… I reckon.
JK: I was referring to Yvette Clarke who is resident in Brooklyn and appears to be black.
Sounds like Yvette Clarke is giving Michele Bachmann a run for her money as least informed member of Congress.
I think that you can pinpoint last night’s speech by the big dog as the time when the Presidential race made a decisive turn.
Left unsaid: the Democrats have a former President who is a national hero. The Republicans have a former President they are too ashamed of to have at their convention.
Won’t even dignify that with a response, Pete. See you in November.
Pah. Clinton hit the ball out of the park, and you know it.
Re November: in the fullness of time, the Truth will be revealed to us all.
Yvette Clarke gives Batshit-crazy Pelosi a run for her money as “best public servant”, in the eyes of a one-eyed jackass.
There is no question that Bubba, however, is very intelligent, as opposed to the empty-suit poser he campaigns for. Bubba is also likely to be a hero to many men who admire him for being an ass-man extraordinaire. But, given that he was impeached for lying under oath about sticking his cigar in Monica’s twat, only a jackass would claim that he is a national hero.
Keep it civil, please, Henry. I’d prefer that comments here not descend into name-calling.
Sorry, Malcolm.
Please make the following changes in my preceding comment:
“Batshit-crazy” => “Unhinged”
“jackass” => “Leftist” (2 instances)
“twat” => “pudendum”
oops; also:
“ass-man” => womanizer
“Unhinged” => “certifiable”
Peter, no question that Bill Clinton is a terrific orator (there’s never much reason to believe a word he says, but boy, does he say it well).
I couldn’t stay till the end of his speech, however — only had a few days’ worth of food in the house.
Typo corrected. Thank you Peter.
My pleasure. Pedantry and being annoying form my core competency.
According to Urban Dictionary, “pedantry” has the same root as “pederasty”.
Just sayin’ …
Gawd I LOVE this site of yours Malcolm.
‘Stead of having to listen to bickering as a captive audience I can read ’em at my convenience.
And (perhaps best) I don’t have to pay a divorce lawyer.