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Pat Boone tells President Obama he’s tired of hearing Obama use the word ‘racist’
New York Daily News
Deborah Hastings
6/25/2015
Excerpt:
Pat Boone, the former 1950s crooner and an ultra-conservative fundamentalist, is asking President Obama to stop using the r-word.
"Mr. President! For God's sake, and America's sake, quit so often calling crimes that involve a black person 'racist'! Boone wrote Thursday on the conservative site WorldNetDaily.
Boone, 81, who had string of sugary hits in the 1950s and 60s, expressed disdain that Obama refers to racism as a present and prevalent problem in the United States.
"As the president who came to office, a black man promising to bring people together, a man ideally suited for that job since you were born both black and white, you had a God-given chance to actually proclaim and demonstrate that racial divides and prejudice had greatly diminished and that our society was truly becoming colorblind," he wrote.
Boone said Obama has instead portrayed America as a racist nation.
"We are not!" Boone exclaimed.
The former pop singer is a Tea Party member, vehemently anti-gay marriage and proclaimed he was "a birther" when Obama first sought office in the 2008 election. Birthers contended that Obama was not an American citizen and had been born in Kenya, not in Hawaii.
Boone also claimed that Obama's birth certificate may have been doctored to show he was born in the 50th state.
Race, Boone said in his online column, had little or nothing to do with recent killings of unarmed black men by police, including the cases of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
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New York Daily News
Deborah Hastings
6/25/2015
Excerpt:
Pat Boone, the former 1950s crooner and an ultra-conservative fundamentalist, is asking President Obama to stop using the r-word.
"Mr. President! For God's sake, and America's sake, quit so often calling crimes that involve a black person 'racist'! Boone wrote Thursday on the conservative site WorldNetDaily.
Boone, 81, who had string of sugary hits in the 1950s and 60s, expressed disdain that Obama refers to racism as a present and prevalent problem in the United States.
"As the president who came to office, a black man promising to bring people together, a man ideally suited for that job since you were born both black and white, you had a God-given chance to actually proclaim and demonstrate that racial divides and prejudice had greatly diminished and that our society was truly becoming colorblind," he wrote.
Boone said Obama has instead portrayed America as a racist nation.
"We are not!" Boone exclaimed.
The former pop singer is a Tea Party member, vehemently anti-gay marriage and proclaimed he was "a birther" when Obama first sought office in the 2008 election. Birthers contended that Obama was not an American citizen and had been born in Kenya, not in Hawaii.
Boone also claimed that Obama's birth certificate may have been doctored to show he was born in the 50th state.
Race, Boone said in his online column, had little or nothing to do with recent killings of unarmed black men by police, including the cases of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
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View the complete article, including photos, at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2271717