Cenk Uygur
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Honest Answer On Interracial Marriage Gets Politician In Hot Water
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October 11, 2014
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4:01Now Playing“Brad Schimel, a Republican candidate running for Wisconsin Attorney General, went on an Oshkosh cable access program and declared that if he had been AG sixty years ago, he would have defended the state’s ban on interracial marriage, the Journal Sentinel reported.
“You’re not worried about being on the wrong side of history” on the issue of gay marriage, co-host Tony Palmeri asked. He then quoted Ronald Reagan appointee Richard Posner, who said that “‘it was a tradition to not allow blacks and whites to marry, a tradition that got swept away [and] prohibition of same-sex marriage is a tradition of hate and savage discrimination.’ Do you think Posner was wrong?”
After Schimel dodged the question by saying that, “Posner may have had a different view at a different time, I don’t know,” Palmeri rephrased the question, asking “if you had been attorney general in, say, the 1950s, in a state that did not allow interracial marriage, do you think the proper role of an attorney general then was to not put himself or herself into the mix and say this is wrong?”"* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur & John Iadarola break it down.
*Read more here from Scott Kaufman / Raw Story:
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