My new hero Harry C. Alford takes on Barbara Boxer!
July 16, 2009 5 Comments
It has made my day to know that Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) got boxed around by Harry C. Alford, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. When Boxer would not be quiet Alford just continued to talk and not back down. I needed a hero today and I have one in Mr. Alford! Ms. Boxer must be used to having the last word and almost everyone’s expense. Not today.
Read the transcript below and I believe you will have a new hero, as well.
“Madam chair, that is condescending to me,” Alford said. “I’m the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and you’re trying to put up some other black group to pit against me.”
Boxer defended including the report, however, saying the report reflects a “diversity” of support behind climate change legislation facing the Senate. “If this gentleman were here, he would be proud he’s being quoted,” Boxer said in defense of the NAACP support.
Alford, however, struck back against Boxer, accusing her of “getting racial” in the climate change debate. “All that’s condescending, and I don’t like it. It’s racial. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that,” he said. “You’re quoting some other black man — why don’t you quote some other Asian or some other… You’re getting racial here.” “You’re speaking on behalf of the black community?” Alford asked. “Why are you doing the colored people association’s study with the black Chamber of Commerce?”
He finally concluded:
“We’ve been looking at energy policy since 1996. And we are referring to the experts, regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-education veteran of the United States Army, that I must contend with some other “black group” and put aside everything else in here — This has NOTHING to do with the NAACP, and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We’re talking about energy. And that — that road the chair went down, I think is God awful.”
I listened to the video clip and noticed that the Boxer woman finally just gave up and started talking to someone else. So she verbally and physically was disrespectful to Mr. Alford. To me this needs to be a BIG wake up call for our elected officials that many are watching what they are doing to Americans. The incident with Boxer vs. Alford has generated a lot of interest. Boxer was caught being Boxer but this time she did so in a place and with a person that showed her to be the racist that she has been for a long time. I hope this story has legs and keeps walking for a long time- all the way to the next time Boxer thinks she needs to be reelected to be rude and disrespectful to more American citizens.
Too bad we only have this one man to stand up to this odious moron.
He is my new hero as well. Please keep him coming.
Mr Alford you have two more votes for President. We here in California sent Barbara Boxer to Wash D.C. with the hope that she would never come back- not for her to speak for us. Thanks for putting her in her place.
He is my hero as well. I saw Harry on O’Reilly tonight. He say he has a lot of new fans.lol He received over 7,000 postive emails. I am trying to find a way to send him an email. Does anyone have any suggestions. I stumbled on this site looking for a way to write to him. The National Black Chamber of Commerce website didn’t seem to have a way to write to him. Let’s hope more people will get the stones to stand up to the likes of Boxer. These fools forget that they are paid by us.