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During President Barack Obama's September 9 th , 2009 address to the joint session of Congress he outlined various elements of his health care reform. One of those elements was the claim his reform will insure illegal immigrants is false. He said, "the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally."
From his seat on the Republican side, Representative Joe Wilson, of South Carolina, pointed to President Obama and shouted, "You lie." Members of both parties condemned Joe Wilson for his outburst. Some Republican members of Congress characterized Wilson's actions as "Totally disrespectful" and that "there's no place for it in that setting or any other and he should apologize immediately."
Later that night, Wilson's office issued a statement that read "This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the Presidents remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill. While I disagree with the President's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the President for this lack of civility."
The non-partisan Factcheck.org noted that "the President was correct" and Wilson was wrong.
Wilson immediately recorded a YouTube video to defend his position on Obama's health care reform and request donations for his reelection.
Anyone who thinks Wilson's outburst was the result of his disagreeing with Obama's health care proposal should also think about not smoking crack. Wilson is a racist and the media seems to be content with not bring that fact to light. In 2003, Wilson had no problem voting to provide federal funds for illegal immigrant's health care. He voted for George Bush's Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. This act contained Sec. 1011 authorizing $250 million annually between 2003 and 2008 for government reimbursements to hospitals who provide treatment to uninsured illegal immigrants. So why is it okay with Joe Wilson when George Bush gave health care benefits to illegal immigrants, but has a problem with it now. Its not about health care, it's about a black man being President.
In 2000, Joe Wilson was one of seven Republicans in the South Carolina Senate to vote to continue flying the Confederate battle flag over the state house. At the time he said,"The Southern heritage is very honorable." The Senate voted 36 to 7 to take the flag down. He is also a member of the "Sons of Confederate Veterans." This membership says a lot about Wilson. After all, the Civil War began in 1861 in South Carolina and as a result 93,000 confederate soldiers were killed in action, 260,000 total dead in the south and 137,000 plus were wounded in an attempt to prevent the end of slavery, restore the Union and the strengthening of the role of U.S. Government.
In 2003, Wilson was one of the people who doubted Essie Mae Washington-Williams' claim that she was the child Strom Thurman had out of wedlock. Wilson said even if the story is true, she should not have revealed it because "it's a smear" on Thurman's image and was a way to "diminish" Thurmond's legacy. After the Thurman family acknowledged Washington-Williams was Thurman's child, Wilson apologized, but added she should not have revealed Thurman was her father. According to Wilson's statements, it appears Thurman's legacy would not have been affected by the fact that Thurman, a married man, was cheating on his wife by sleeping with and having a baby by his black maid.
But Joe Wilson is simply following in the footsteps of his South Carolina predecessors.
In 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks, of South Carolina, entered the Senate chamber carrying a gold tipped cane. After exchanging a few words with Senator Charles Sumner, Brooks began to beat him in the head with his cane. Sumner was a martyr for the anti-slavery cause.
In 1902, Senator Benjamin Tillman, of South Carolina, assaulted Senator John L. McLaurin. Tillman was one of the most outspoken and unapologetic advocates of white supremacy ever to serve in Congress. Tillman once said, "We of the South have never recognized the right of the negro to govern white men and never will." It would not surprise me if Joe Wilson feels the same way. Tillman also said, "We have never believed him (Negros) to be the equal of the white man and we will not submit to his gratifying his lust on our wives and daughters without lynching him." After Booker T. Washington dined in the White House with President Theodore Roosevelt and his family, Tillman predicted, "The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they learn their place again."
Throughout the 1960's Senator Strom Thurman, Senator from South Carolina received low marks from the press and his fellow Senators in the performance of his Senate duties. He often missed votes and rarely proposed or sponsored any noteworthy legislation. In 1964 he assaulted Texas Senator Ralph Yearborough to prevent the Senate Conformation of a moderate from Florida. Thurman had a strong disapproval of the Supreme Court opinion in Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, which ordered the immediate desegregation of schools in the American South. Thurman was once Joe Wilson's employer.
Joe Wilson is a racist and although the media is always talking about how racism needs to be discussed, they are the very ones keeping that discussing from taking place and Joe Wilson is the perfect example. There are people saying Joe Wilson was simply exercising his First Amendment rights, I guess the same can be said of the Ku Klux Klan. When Jessie Jackson referred to New York City as "Hymietown" I didn't see or hear one white person say he was exercising his First Amendment rights. He was branded "Anti-Semitic."
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