Harry Alford: Barbara Boxer and Bigotry 101

Last Friday, John Ziegler interviewed Harry C. Alford, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, about the dust-up he had with Barbara Boxer during a Senate hearing on Thursday.

Boxer made racist, condescending comments to Alford and he called her on it.

It's a big story when a U.S. senator is revealed to be a racist.



Transcript

JOHN ZIEGLER: You were not aware before today that she (Barbara Boxer) has had it out in I believe very disrepectful and inappropriate ways with Condoleezza Rice, who's obviously a black woman, and Janice Rogers Brown, who is a black female judge from California, both of whom she voted against, both of whom she lied about, both of whom she disrespected. After you've had this experience with Barbara Boxer, and after what you've learned about her M.O., as you put it, do you believe that Barbara Boxer is a racist?

HARRY ALFORD: I do. She certainly is -- more than just a racist. You know, there are people who have racial animus, and there are old-timers, and there are people who grew up this way; but you can deal with that. You know, you know how to deal with it and you can still respect one another. But the way she does it, she does it in a very evil-spirited way to hurt people. She uses it as a fear and that is the worst kind of...

ZIEGLER: Why do you think that things got sideways between you and Barbara Boxer yesterday?

ALFORD: Well, you know, I know of her. Of course, I know her. I know she's obnoxious and I know she can be caustic and all that, but it never occurred to me that her persona is reeking with racial animus. And it really took me by surprise when she started doing this I'm saying to myself, 'This is Bigotry 101. And it stinks.'

ZIEGLER: When she said, 'You don't know when I came,' how did you interpret that?

ALFORD: That you're a dumb little Negro and you don't know a thing. You don't have the brains to know where I come from. You can't read. You can't research. I mean that's how... that's her thought. She didn't prepare for her opponent because she totally assumed, that because of the color of my skin, that I'm going to be some little ignorant jigaboo up there.

These remarks are incredible, yet Alford is being ignored by the mainstream media.

Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, points out, "[A]ccording to LexisNexis, not one major media outlet other than FNC thought it was at all newsworthy that Harry Alford called Boxer 'God-awful' for pitting the opinions of other black organizations against his."

Not one.

That really is amazing.

If Boxer were a Republican, the lib media would be drooling all over this.

It's a terrible double standard in reporting.

Worse than that double standard, of course, is how disgracefully Boxer treated Alford.