Carson also said his comments about Tea Partiers wanting to see blacks “hanging on a tree” were meant to be taken “figuratively,” which is obviously a total load of BS.
Via Washington Times:
Congressman Andre Carson, Indiana Democrat, spoke with Washington Times radio program America’s Morning News on Monday about his controversial remarks almost two weeks ago regarding tea party activists and lawmakers on the hill who support them.
Carson said that they would “love to see” black Americans “as second-class citizens” and “some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me . . . hanging on a tree.”
Although Rep. Carson explained to AMN that he only meant these comments “figuratively,” he did say he still had concern about lawmakers on the hill with “extremist views.” When asked which members he was referring to, Rep. Carson, said: “I was talking about a school of thought. Some want to take us back 50 or 60 years. We have to see a push next year . . . we have to see a referendum on those members of Congress who hold extremist views.”