Allen West: Keith Ellison Represents ‘The Antithesis Of The Principles Upon Which This Country Was Established’

from ThinkProgress:

Allen West: Keith Ellison Represents ‘The Antithesis Of The Principles Upon Which This Country Was Established’ (Updated)



During a recent episode of The Shalom Show, host Richard Peritz asked freshman Rep. Allen West (R-FL) how he planned to cope with regular interactions with political opponents, in particular Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who the host described as someone that “supports Islam.” In his reply, West painted Ellison as someone who “really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established”:

PERITZ: Since you’re with a new crowd, people you haven’t really met before, and will be very closely associating with in the future, including Keith Ellison, who supports Islam, how will you manage that, if I may ask, because it’s not really easy to be polite with individuals one totally disagrees with, which I believe may be the case.

WEST: Well I think it’s most important that I stand upon the principles that people elected me to go to Washington, DC and represent them on Capitol Hill. So that when you run into someone that is counter, or someone that really does represent the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established, you’ve got to be able to defeat them intellectually in debate and discourse, and you to just have to be able to challenge each and every one of their assertions very wisely and very forthright.

Just what values doesn't Congressman Ellison represent? The commitment to public service? The commitment to family? The commitment to community?

Just what values is West talking about?

In case West doesn't know his American history, here are some of the principles upon which this country was founded: the genocide of the Native Americans, and that his Black behind would be considered 3/5ths of a human being. Are THOSE the principles that Ellison doesn't represent?

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Allen West Needs to go somewhere and sit down

This is Congressman-elect Allen West.

This is what West just said about the Congressional Black Caucus- a body he is set to join in January.

from The Hill:

Black Republican: Black Caucus preaches victimization and dependency
By Gautham Nagesh - 11/20/10 05:23 PM ET

Congressman-elect Allen West (R-Fla.), who said he plans to become the only black Republican in the Congressional Black Caucus, accused the organization of failing the black community by promoting dependence on government welfare programs.

"The Congressional Black Caucus cannot continue to be a monolithic voice that promotes these liberal social welfare policies and programs that are failing in the Black community, that are preaching victimization and dependency, that's not the way that we should go," West said on Fox News Friday. "And those are not the types of principles that my mother and father raised me with in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia."

According to the U.S. Census, 5% of the Black population receives Government Assistance- welfare.

Five percent of the Black population in this country.

I follow the CBC, and have issues with them, but please lead me to the speeches where the voices of the CBC preached victimization and dependency. I'd like to know.

Considering that West has never had anything other than a GOVERNMENT JOB all his adult life, why doesn't HE get off the Government dole? He's got his paychecks, his healthcare from the Government all his adult life, but deliberately misrepresents the numbers of Black people actually on public assistance in this country, all while shucking and jiving that free market, Obamacare is socialized medicine, the Free Market is everything good about America bull that Republicans shill.

See, these are the problems that I have with Black Republicans. If all that West is going to do is parrot White Republican nonsense about Black people, then he can go somewhere and sit down. West has no more to say about problems in the Black community than any Representatives from the following states: Alaska, Washington, West Virginia, Hawaii, Iowa, New Mexico, Oregon, and any other community where the Black population is negligible. Representatives from Arizona, Colorado, and Nebraska represent more Black people - percentage wise - than West does in his Congressional District.

And why did West leave that Government job in the military?

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