Photos: Paul Ryan’s black girlfriend, cheerleader, relationship forced Ryan to confront racism
Oh, and she donated to Obama. So, get ready to hear that.
via Revealed: Paul Ryan’s black girlfriend — Mail Online.
This is the cheerleader Paul Ryan dated at college who helped forge his uncompromising opposition to racism.
The relationship and the backlash he suffered from his so-called friends were a formative experience in the political evolution of the Republican vice-presidential pick who described himself as a ‘big, big fan’ of Martin Luther King and is a staunch advocate of civil rights.
In a 2005 interview, Mitt Romney’s future running mate said that he had been confronted with racism personally, because he had dated an African- American and also had a brother with a black wife. ‘I have a sister-in-law who’s African American,’ he told Milwaukee Magazine. ‘My college sweetheart was black,’ he added. ‘I just experienced some ugly comments, some racist views from people who I thought were friends of mine.’
There’s a photo of Deneeta Pope, now 40 in 2010, as well. She declined a request for comment – read more here.
Today Mail Online reveals the woman whose romantic attachment led Ryan, who electrified the Republican convention in Tampa with his speech on Wednesday night, to experience racism first hand.
That’s the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats can think reasonably and can empathize. Republicans are trapped in their own little worlds, and can only arrive at conclusions based on personal experience. Ryan sees the racism in America because he experienced it. Cheney is pro-gay marriage because he has a lesbian daughter. Without personal experience they would tow the ignorant Republican line. Democrats don’t need to experience things themselves to arrive at reasonable conclusions. They can think and empathize.
Oh, please, oplease. Democrats are unable to think reasonably about anything. The current administration is Exhibit One in that regard – no brainpower yet demonstrated.
What a self-serving, bragging load of BS. Which sounds like something you have lots of personal experience with.
What experience causes democrats to toe the fantastically, mind-numbingly ignorant liberal line? Please let us have the benefit of your vast wisdom.
Seriously, do they hand out gobs of arrogant ignorance with a Democratic party membership?
No facts or information in your reply. Just name-calling. You’ve kind of proved his point.
Isolate some facts and “information” in Oplease’s lil’ conceit fantasy.
Seems like you prove OUR point…seeing what is not there.
As Ragspierre points out, there’s no “there” there, just an assumed sense of superiority, with absolutely no foundation.
On the other hand, maybe oplease had a point. I have noticed that liberals will buy into ANY amount of BS, no matter how unbelievable (See “Obama, election of”)while conservatives require proof, or at least evidence.
That must be what he meant.
What a conceited, delusional, condescending phuc!
But what a great EXAMPLE of how Collectivist’s inner lake of BS informs them.
I don’t profess to know much about “Republicans” or “Democrats” as party members. The labels seem to switch ideologies about every quarter-century.
But leftists in the U.S. are about the same as leftists everywhere: statist and anti-subsidiarity as a matter of policy; vandalous, violent, and nekulturny as a protest style; and irrationally embracing the latest decadal zeitgeist as a substitute religion as a matter of personal devotion.
Right-wingers in the U.S., oddly, don’t seem to exist in the same way as they do elsewhere. You have what are called right-wingers, but they aren’t monarchists. They are traditionalist, but not in a government-enforced way save abortion. You’d think that was a big exception, but they don’t justify it on the basis of enforcing tradition or some racialist natalism or national identity like a real “right-wing” movement would anywhere else. Rather, they justify it on the basis of defending the individual rights of a defenceless person which is a liberal conceit.
Do you Americans realize how peculiar your country’s idea of “right-wing” is? Your right wing are what everyone else in the world calls “liberals!”
But one aspect of your right-wing is the same as elsewhere: Your so-called right-wingers are stodgy in their adverts. The left always has an easier time with that.
And that’s what I see in this thread. “Oplease” does the usual libels against your right-wing: racist and sexist and whatnot, which is nonsense. There’s evidence for that on the European right, but in the U.S. it’s sad and hilarious how the right jumps through hoops about it.
I notice my right-leaning neighbors get along with folk of other races and types and seem oblivious to class, while my left-leaning neighbors never socialize with anyone different from them. U.S. leftists are the worst NIMBY-ists about race and class: They don’t mind black people and Asians existing, so long as it isn’t in their neighborhood. (Gay people are the exception: Every American left-winger wants one or two around as a sort of good-luck talisman.)
Well. Those are my observations. Enjoy your peculiarity.
Oplease, I take it you understand about all of life’s problems because you are a Democrat. Problem is, Republicans are told that they are anti-environment, gay, black, etc, by idiots like you and then they feel the need to have to defend themselves.
“Democrats can think reasonably and can empathize.” As long as they aren’t thinking or empathizing about Republicans. Then it’s okay to let loose a tirade of erroneous, baseless ad hominems lacking any semblance of reason whatsoever.
Here are some facts from Oplease’s post “Ryan sees the racism in America because he experienced it. Cheney is pro-gay marriage because he has a lesbian daughter.” But you probably didn’t read that far.
Those are assertions of pure, unsupported OPINION, you moron.
Those are NOT “facts”. No wonder you are a Collectivist.
Those are not facts. Here’s the difference, since you obviously missed it: Ryan dated a black woman, and Cheney has a gay daughter. The idea that those facts in turn lead to their attitudes is pure speculation on your part. Maybe it’s true, but maybe is as far as you can go.
I have never dated an African American. Unless they’re doing a pretty good job hiding it from their boyfriends, my daughters are not lesbians, and my son is not gay. I’m a Republican. I support gay marriage (approved by legislatures or referendums, not by court fiat), and I’m not racist. (I was a Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout troop that was probably 75% African American). So how did I get this way?
Always seem like liberals are obsessed with categorizig people – blacks, gays, ec in order to define their pandering approach. It is apparently hard for Dems to just address issues all Americans might face without coloring them with some victimhood label.
shagging a black woman does not change a rigid racist. ask strom thurmond!