The Huffington Post | By Ed Mazza Email Posted: 02/17/2015 1:59 am EST
A Mississippi lawmaker says racist comments recently attributed to him were taken out of context and supposed to be off the record.
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| State Rep. Gene Alday, a Republican says racist comments |
State Rep. Gene Alday, a Republican, told The Clarion-Ledger he was against increased funding for education, in particular funding to improve literacy. During his explanation, Alday said he comes "from a town where all the blacks are getting food stamps and what I call 'welfare crazy checks.' They don't work."
Alday also told the newspaper about a time he visited an emergency room. “I liked to died. I laid in there for hours because they (black people) were in there being treated for gunshots," Alday was quoted as saying. Alday didn't deny the comments attributed to him. However, he said he was not a racist.
"I am definitely not a racist, at all," Alday told Mississippi News Now. "Because, I mean, I get along with everybody. And I've spent a lot of time helping people."
Alday blamed Clarion-Ledger reporter Jerry Mitchell for quoting his remarks out of context. "The interview, he just took me out of context," Alday said. "He asked for one thing and started asking another thing." more
Sorry is a lame excuse for a cheap shot. Fact is you created the welfare and crazy checks system to ensure yourself a position that your diploma qualifies you for. Education and job training was cut for the welfare and crazy check people so you were assured a position making government funds for these programs you created was to be your lifetime goal. Now when the pay is not there for you these same people you labeled are now lazy and crazy liars. They continue to receive benefits from a system that assessed them but now detest them, because the plan was to keep them that way. There was a glass ceiling for everyone but yourselves and when the money dwindled and your pay is threaten these people are now crazy lazy liars who don't want to do a damn thing. You tried to ensure that you would have it all well you do now deal with it. Job training and education was a far better call than what you did to some of these people. What's been done to them had become the norm but your labels backfired on you. Now you look crazy and lazy because the money is not there for your salary and positions and those same people you medicated and gave food stamps too were the lowlies then and now!
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