TEXAS GOP CANDIDATE'S TRUST FUND PAID HIS CHILDREN TO MARRY SOMEONE WHITE
TEXAS GOP CANDIDATE'S TRUST FUND PAID HIS CHILDREN TO MARRY SOMEONE WHITE
A Texas Republican running for Dallas County Commissioner encouraged his children to marry someone of the same race by rewarding them with cash incentives.
Vickers (Vic) Cunningham admitted he bribed his children with money to make sure they married someone he approved of, which included being a member of the opposite sex who was white.
“I strongly support traditional family values,” Cunningham told The Dallas Morning News .
“If you marry a person of the opposite sex that’s Caucasian, that’s Christian, they will get a distribution,” he said of the “trust” he set up for his children.
“There are milestones set out in the trust. The milestone is, you get a distribution if you get an advanced degree. Milestone, if you run for public office. When you turn 35, 40, 45, you get a distribution. The same thing… when you get married,” he added. “It’s my religious belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.”
Following the interview, The Dallas Morning News announced it was pulling its support for Cunningham, which it had previously backed for the Precinct 2 Seat on the Dallas County Commissioners Court.
“Recent developments have caused us to reconsider, and we are withdrawing our recommendation of Cunningham,” the publication said in an article that also claimed a family member and a former staffer reported that Cunningham frequently used the N-word.
Cunningham's brother Bill Cunningham, who is in an interracial same-sex marriage, spoke out against the views he claimed the candidate held, the HuffPost reported .
Bill Cunningham claimed his brother referred to his husband, who is black, as “your boy” and had refused to have him in his house.
“His views and his actions are disqualifying for anyone to hold public office in 2018,” Bill Cunningham told The Dallas Morning News . “It frightens me to death to think of people in power who could hurt people.”
The candidate suggested his views on interracial marriage had evolved from when he penned the financial incentives (in 2010), particularly given his son had married a Vietnamese woman, The Washington Post reported , however he said it was too late to change the terms of the trust.
We see this sort of racism every day, but the Trumper deplorables think racism went out when Obama got elected.
Idiots.
So... His son marries a white girl, gives her a cut, divorces her and marries his hot, hunky black man. Problem solved.
that earned a giggle
What part of the Bible supports this mans beleifs?
Wanna bet that he's a tradition Southern Baptist?
That would be the most likely religion.
It seems he goes to the First Baptist Church in Dallas, an SBC megachurch. I guess the correct phrase is "duh".
It is not the Bible, it is the idiot racist interpreting it to suit his own twisted ideology!
The SBC adherents find a justification in the Bible
So is what you are saying is that anybody who is of the Southern Baptist denomination are all tarred with the same racist brush because of their particular faith?
Not all, but the Southern Baptists did justify slavery using the Bible, didn't they?
They did, but they certainly were not the only ones. Makes no sense to single out just one group but not others.
I'm not the only one who paints with a broad brush around here. At least I can admit it
If you are inferring that I specifically accused you of such, please accept my apologies as that was not my intent. I was referring to the overall theme being presented by multiple people posting here.
They have to know their sects twisted interpretation of the bible to support slavery and racial separation. Their leaders apologized for their racist views of the past, so it is well known.
It took until 2017 for the SBC to condemn the alt-right.
Then I'm very sorry for taking your comment the wrong way.
shake?
Peace. I am a Southern Baptist of mixed Mexican/American heritage who grew up in a small town on the AZ/Mexico border. I grew up with racist attitudes. As a kid in the 50's and 60's I would regularly get beat up by the Mexicans for being half white and beat up by the whites for being half Mexican! How's that fir identity issues? But as I grew up I made peace with my dual culture heritage and many of those folks who treated me badly are now close friends. I live in the same town I grew up in. Racism is in fact a entirely curable condition. By the way, like the Cheech and Chong song goes, I married a white girl named Debbie and got a brother in law named Jeff. For real!
It's great that the SBC has finally started condemning racism despite the racist origins of that sect, but it's too bad that they haven't evolved at all regarding homophobia and misogyny. Maybe in a few more decades they'll evolve to where more mainstream Christian sects already are?
No offense, but it seems that you are assuming that because someone is a Southern Baptist that they all share the same views espoused by the so called leadership. I assure you that we do not. I firmly believe in live and let live. There are many factions to the church that are very tolerant and peaceful. Do not believe all the propaganda being put out by what passes for media nowadays. Do some in depth research on your own before judging the whole organization. I may be Southern Baptist, but I never said I was a good or practicing one. By the way, I was actually raised as a Roman Catholic in the 50's and 60's and I could not find a worse bunch of uptight self righteous bigots anywhere. I married outside the church and was threatened with excommunication for which I told them go right ahead. Do not know whether they did or not and do not care either way. Have a good evening.
My comments were strictly about the doctrinal views of the SBC itself.
Okay understood. Thank you for the clarification.
My husband is of Mexican/American Native heritage. He grew up in an Italian/Mexican neighborhood and got beat up a lot, too. LOL!
No big deal here. Theys just gopers. Besides, in GOPer/world money walks and talks.
Don't like Asians either, huh? Antebellum still lives.
I wonder if someone can find pictures of him wearing his native dress? A sheet.
I wish that I could read these juicy replies before they were deleted. I seem to have a gift fo causing a few people to post replies that are outside the boundary.
Perhaps if you stopped twisting their arms they would not be compelled to post those CoC violations.
No, you don't want to see it. Accusations and name calling is as good as conservatism gets.
I miss the pragmatic conservatives of 30-35 years ago, but now they would be considered Hillary voters and undecideds.
I sincerely do try not to ask loaded or leading questions that might cause someone to lash out in anger.
A late friend on a former forum took to calling me Diogenes because of my tendency ask people questions instead of replying with statements.
I miss GIR/Mark. He could say more in 1 sentence than I can in an entire paragraph.
Conservatism is dead. Murdered by Reagan and Supply Side Economics.
I think it was murdered by the very bible-babblers that Goldwater warned the GOP about, ie this bigot in Dallas.
Ya gotta love those kind of people who can cut off their imaginary gigantic balls off in less than 10 words. I know a few like that as well. We could use some like that here on NT.
This guy is a revolting piece of shit.
He's a Republican; that kinda goes without saying!
Probably a good thing since it sounds like there was a lot of inbreeding in the family.
Well.
He seems nice.
You people are going to worry yourselves to death.
I'm not worried. This guy is just another conservative racist, and the GOP seems not to have a problem with his beliefs.
Why do you always have to argue that what he is doing is acceptable by suggesting that others are just as bigoted?
Which group is more offensive to you? Atheists, progressives, LGBT or BLM members?
Is that what you have convinced yourself?
That's a fact! It is his money and his business.
No I wouldn't have a problem with it at all but this guy is still the very definition of a racist. He's also running for Congress so I think it's important that the voters know it.
doesn't stop anyone from pointing out his obvious deficiencies.
True. I don't see it as a deficiency.
No surprise there.
Because they are...and he is right.
Sorry to disappoint you but racism is not something confined only to conservatives and the GOP. To be fair, progressive left wing liberals have more than their share as well!
Who do we lefty progressives harbor racist beliefs toward?
While you are correct that he has the right to distribute his money as he sees fit, it is also very telling about him as a person.
Christianity does not say you have to marry within your own race. He is trying to sell this as a christian value and it is not. Had he just said that he wanted a hetro marriage I would have agreed that it could be part of certain denominations beliefs. It is his own bigotry that made race as part of qualifications of that distribution.
At least Iceman admits the guy is an asshole.....
Then an A+ to iceman but I must have missed that in his comments.
If you have to ask that, then you have no clue whatsoever and missed the entire point of my comment!
You made a declaration whose veracity is doubtful. You have been asked to back it up. Can you? Or must you resort to insulting epistte's intelligence to avoid supporting your statement?
So by your statement you are asserting, just like Epistte seemed to, that progressive liberals are not capable of racism? If so, that is a very small and narrow minded world view! I made a generalized statement based on logic, common sense and sadly human nature that I should not have to needed empirical and documented evidence to back myself up. I simply stated, out of all fairness, that racism knows no political restraints and all are capable of it. It seems you missed my point as well. I meant no insults to anyone and if they took offense, then I apologize to any that did. In either case, it is not my responsibility do to research that others are just as capable of finding themselves if they want. Have a good day.
Where did I say that? You'll always have outliers.
Liberals in general tend to be more open-minded when it comes to matters of race, IMO. Liberal policies tend to support equal rights, while conservative policies have tended to support inequality. Slavery, Jim Crow - those were defended by conservatives, and ended by liberals. Does that mean all conservatives are racists? Of course not. But their party's platform has traditionally supported racism, and I don't see any white supremacists running as Democrats. It's unfortunate that the GOP has embraced such politics, but it has, and still occasionally does, or at least winks and nods at racism.
No value [ph]
John you must stop making personal comments about people. The only reason I am giving you a break here is that Six opened the door.
You're right, I should have replied like this "You people who worry about communists in America all the time are going to worry yourselves to death"
I thought it was Marxist Fascists these days?
So we should not comment on racists because ...... Muhammad Ali. Is that your story and you're sticking to it?
At that stage of Ali's life, he was flirting with a separatist mentality. That is why he says civil rights was a white man's game. That is , of course, ridiculous, as Ali came to realize as he got older and wiser.
That was Malcom X, not Muhammad Ali and this was before his trip to Mecca. He changed his POV after that.
A Work in Progress, Cut Down
Originally after changing his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali , Ali was a devotee of the black separatist Elijah Muhammad (hence Muhammad Ali) and Ali did at times suggest rather plainly that blacks needed to operate psychologically outside of the dominant white society.
As he got a little older his original black Muslim beliefs receded.
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