This picture got me kind of heated. The press conference too. The old negro clergymen looking like they hating they 65 years old and still gotta shuck and jive for chump change and eat shyt for whitey. My grandaddy used to say "you too old to be this stupid".......... This "sista" doing way too much. She went into overdrive in her c00ning. She aint had to do all that to receive her campaign donation and her pat on the head. She on that mammy shyt. Change the clothes on the cac slightly, put a do-rag on her head and a long dress and this look like some Gone with the Wind shyt. The fact that the cac looks like a skinny Jay Cutler only serves to make me angrier.
I had to look up this c00n in particular:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia_Pittman
fukk her and her barren womb.
You think I should email her this thread?
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dalla...ou-sen-anastasia-pittman-for-the-chance.html/
Oklahoma state Sen. Anastasia Pittman, left, D-Oklahoma City, stands with Levi Pettit, right, a former University of Oklahoma fraternity member caught on video leading a racist chant, during a news conference at Fairview Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Wednesday.
It would have been so easy to turn demagogue over the gross racism that erupted on a fraternity bus at the University of Oklahoma.
It would have been so easy for a politician to use it as a wedge, to fire up the community, to gather some cheap support with a call to us-versus-them.
There’s enough us-versus-them in this country as it is.
State Sen. Anastasia Pittman of Oklahoma understands that. She understands that wounds need to be healed and pouring salt in them isn’t the way to do it.
If you don’t yet know who Pittman is, you should. She is the woman who saw a 20-year-old man who had said horrible things about her and her community and reached out to him with grace, dignity and forgiveness.
She is someone who saw an opportunity not only to heal him but to help him heal us. From what we see in this incident, she is a person in the best tradition of the leaders of our country.
Yesterday,
Pittman stood arm-in-arm with Highland Park’s Levi Pettit as he extended an apology for leading a racist chant on the Sigma Alpha Epsilon bus at OU.
The young man standing before a crowd of people he had slurred looked like a much different young man than the one swaying and singing on that bus. He looked both shaken and grateful.
It is Pittman to whom he most owes his gratitude.
Before Pettit apologized publicly, Pittman had spoken to him. He wasn’t a racist, she concluded, but someone who made a terrible mistake. And she extended to him the opportunity to make right on his mistake.
All of us will make terrible mistakes in our lives. All of us will fail. We probably won’t do it in the way Pettit did, and it probably won’t be as public. But it will happen.
We need people like Anastasia Pittman in our lives – people who will extend to us forgiveness and remind us of the possibility of redeeming ourselves.
More important, perhaps, we need people like Pittman in our public life. We need leaders who are willing to unite us, who are willing to see past our mistakes and our differences to see that we can be something better than we are. And we need leaders who won’t leap to every opportunity to point out how wrong the other guy is to show how right they can be.
Levi Pettit did nothing to earn the chance Anastasia Pittman gave him yesterday. His earning is ahead of him now. He has a debt. He seems to understand that. But it’s a debt he can pay, thanks to a woman he didn’t know, who few of knew, but who we should thank today.