Look First (Part Two)
In case any of us Brits though it was an American idea:
"We reserve the right to bomb niggers."
(David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister 1916-1922, from his 1932 diary as cited in V. G. Kiernan's "European Empires from Conquest to Collapse", Fontana 1982)
I thought myself beyond surprise at the more forthright utterances of our forebears, but this one floored me. Of course his use of the n-word would have elicited less disapproval at the time of writing than it does now—and referred to anyone with darker skin—but even putting the word itself aside this is a shocking declaration of the defining character of Western foreign policy towards the East and Africa, a character that continues to this day.
Balanced Perspective 3
"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."(from seattlepi.com, 11th Jan 2007)
