QoTD: Scott Garrett and "ethnicities"

by: Rosi Efthim

Mon Oct 31, 2011 at 05:19:41 PM EDT

Blue Jersey's Quote of the Day is out of the mouth of Congressman Scott Garrett, of New Jersey's 5th congressional district, and its 90% whiteness.

I only take note of the 5th CD's whiteness, because I confess I'm baffled what the hell Scott Garrett was talking about on a "backwoods" tour of (even lily-whiter) Warren County for some business visits last week, ending up at Rudolph Research Analytical in Washington Township (in Morris County, but near Hackettstown, in his purview). Rudolph Research Analytical is a 30,000 square foot lab that designs devices for the pharmaceutical, chemical, petroleum & food industries. Some labs have an outsize demographic of Asian people working in them (and plenty don't) and some people think all Asian people are alike. Is that what Garrett was talking about? Or was he commenting on people darker than himself? What, what, Scott Garrett? What does this mean?

The lab's director, Richard C. Spanier, said something nice about dealing with people in the American Midwest. Their attitude is "straight-forward". To which Garrett replied:

"Other ethnicities are not that way," Garrett said. "They'll say yes to you constantly and then you'll realize they really didn't mean it."

Other ethnicities? Dude. What are you talking about? You scare me.

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This is a national story (0.00 / 0)

Earl Butz and James Watt resigned their cabinet posts for similar comments. Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" reference to New York derailed his presidential ambitions. Scott Garrett needs to be taken down, if he won't resign voluntarily at least he and his teabagger followers will be exposed for the bigotry and racism they represent.

We need to do everything we can to send this story to appropriate media outlets.

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by: ken bank @ Mon Oct 31, 2011 at 22:27:05 PM UTC

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Garrett's stab at revisionism (0.00 / 0)

He cleaned up his comment - or tried to - after the meeting. Said that what he meant by "ethnicities" was "people in other countries".

Amazing that he thought that took care of it. This guy is a federal elected. Represents our country on trips and in communication with other ~~countries~~, I mean ethnicities.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.

by: Rosi Efthim @ Mon Oct 31, 2011 at 23:10:19 PM UTC

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What ethnicities does he refer to? (0.00 / 0)

He can't clean up this one by saying he meant other countries. What countries did he mean? Italy? Israel? Poland? Ireland? Latin America? Asia? Africa? There's no way he can weasel out of this one. Hopefully, this becomes a national story so he and his teabagger followers are exposed for their racism and bigotry.

Trent Lott's comment about Strom Thurmond was bad enough, but this is worse IMHO. And look what happened to Trent Lott. We need to do a "Trent Lott" on Scott Garrett.

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by: ken bank @ Tue Nov 01, 2011 at 00:11:14 AM UTC

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This story is starting to spread (0.00 / 0)

Mother Jones and other progressive media outlets are starting to pick up on it. Let's hope it spreads so that Garrett goes the way of Earl Butz, James Watt, and Trent Lott.

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by: ken bank @ Tue Nov 01, 2011 at 08:04:45 AM UTC

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