I think it was Martha A Bridegam who said...
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with rotten little Britain.
'On Sunday Mr Wright had spoken in front of a 10,000-strong NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) audience
in Detroit where he also proclaimed a message that there were only
“differences”, not “deficiencies” between ethnic groups. But he then
went on to mimic the Boston accent of President Kennedy, who he said
had pronounced “ask” as “ear-sk”, and the Texas drawl of President
Johnson — “ma follo Om-oricans” — adding: “It was only African-
American children who were told they could not speak English
properly.”
Today he declared: “The Christianity of the slaveholder is not the
same as the Christianity of the slave,” before pointing out “this
country has never apologised” to America's blacks. “I'm not going to
forgive you for stepping on my foot if you're still stepping on my
foot.” He ended this remark by turning to his questioner, saying:
“Understand? Capiche?”
Asked about his claim that the US Government invented the HIV/Aids
virus “as a means of genocide against people of colour”, he replied:
“I believe our Government is capable of anything.” A new Associated
Press poll suggested for the first time in weeks that Democratic
voters now believe that Hillary Clinton is more electable than Mr
Obama, leading Mr McCain by 50 to 41 per cent.'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3835577.ece
Martha Bridegam
> ...that America has made so much progress in race relations compared
> with rotten little Britain.
>
No, I said we'd gotten past the easy pitfalls and moved on to the hard
ones. It means our hypocrisies are more sophisticated than yours, not
that we're doing any better.
As for whatever that is Robbie quoted, it doesn't take conspiracy
theorizing to agree that the U.S. medical system is racist, lots of U.S.
"white" people tell pollsters that racism no longer exists, many "white"
people from Eastern Massachusetts, including the Kennedys, do use
non-standard English pronunciations, and one in eight prisoners
*worldwide* is an African-American male.
Rgds/M