LOL 'we're not racists, but..."

[RandomGuy]

The legacy of the Southern Strategy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) (click for background) is alive and well.

The riscible consternation of the Republican rank and file, with the predictably clueless "why don't they just love us for who we are?" speculation continues, with Pat Buchanan's seeming endorsement of a new Southern Strategy aimed at Latinos (http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/requiem-for-a-grand-old-party/)(click for op-ed). His main intent may be a bit arguable, but when you are already pegged generally as having racist tendencies, one might want to be a tad more circumspect, although I suspect he thinks he is doing that.

Dogwhistle racism aside, a much more obvious scandal has rocked the conservative Heritage foundation.

Quick summary:

JASON RICHWINE, a co-author of the widely trashed Heritage Foundation study on the the costs of immigration, "resigned" his post at Heritage Friday after his doctoral dissertation on immigration and IQ fell under a shadow of suspected racism. Hispanic immigrants are less intelligent than non-Hispanic white Americans, that this gap has a genetic basis, and that immigration policy should discriminate against less intelligent groups of people, albeit under the cover of the language of "low skill" and "high skill" immigrants.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/05/immigration-and-iq-0

The right is, as always, playing the victim card. "political correctness witch hunt" bla bla bla. For them it is yet another case where valid science is subordinated to a political ideology. That is where any hint of introspection or admission of the possibility of racism bounces off the armor of the rights impervious information bubble.

Again, the economist:

Following a useful summary of Mr Richwine's thesis, Robert VerBruggen of National Review makes a plea for letting science, rather than social opprobrium, settle scientific questions:


The Left’s labeling of Richwine’s argument as “racist” is especially dangerous. In modern America it is axiomatic that “racism,” whatever it is, is wrong — and this is a good thing. It therefore is a mistake to define racism to include falsifiable hypotheses in addition to racial hatred. If Richwine’s view is racist, what are we to do if it turns out to be correct?

It's easy to sympathise with Mr VerBruggen's gist. If scientists are to ferret out even uncomfortable truths, they cannot be made to feel that they will be punished for it. Yet racism has always been predicated on falsifiable hypotheses about racial inferiority. No one has defined racism to include the assumption of hereditary racial inequality; that's simply an assumption racists tend to have. If Mr Richwine's view "turns out to be correct", what we are to do is to acknowledge that the racists were right all along—that racism has, to some extent, a valid scientific basis.

Science should go where the evidence leads, no matter how uncomfortable that ultimate conclusion is. The topic itself is a falsifiable hypothesis, something to be tested and found valid or not valid, based on the available evidence.

Here are the bits that won't break through the right's information bubble:
1. The science was ultimately, bad.


I've perused parts of Richwine's dissertation, and … well … hoo boy. Key terms are poorly defined, auxiliary assumptions abound, and the literature I'm familiar with that is cited as authoritative is, well, not good. It's therefore unsurprising that, until last week, Richwine's dissertation disappeared into the ether the moment after it was approved. According to Google Scholar, no one cited it in the four years since it appeared. Furthermore, Richwine apparently didn't convert any part of it into any kind of refereed or non-refereed publication. Based on the comments that Weigel and others have received from Richwine's dissertation committee, one wonders just how much supervising was going on.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/author/Daniel%20W.%20Drezner (link is who he is) ....... http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/11/regarding_richwine (source link for his comments)

2. The much more damning question remains, i.e. "why pick that particular topic out of all the ones he could have chosen?"


Now, taken in either context Mr. Richwine might have some plausible cover as a legitimate scholar, "just asking questions". Either being the discredited policy paper he wrote for the Heritage foundation, or his shitty doctoral thesis.

But wait, there's more.

Richwine was a guest columnist at what can be charitably called a "white nationalist" website.

http://alternativeright.com/

Don't take my word for it, paruse yourself. A bit more background: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/heritage-immigration-study-co-author-penned-articles-nationalist-174301703.html


"We're not racist, but...."


SMH.

[TeyshaBlue]

You mean Reichwine?



*rimshot*

[boutons_deux]

Nixon's Southern (Repugs recruit racist Dems after VRA, etc in 1960s) Strategy? liberal fantasy, never existed. :lol

[RandomGuy]

You mean Reichwine?



*rimshot*

Took me a second.... I didn't seet the BA DUM TISH... and you had me looking up the spelling.

I get it, now.

[DarrinS]

This guy, Richwine, who I've never heard of (until today), speaks for all conservatives, tbh.

[boutons_deux]

This guy, Richwine, who I've never heard of (until today), speaks for all conservatives, tbh.

he was hired by VRWC propaganda mill Heritage that published his garbage, so your attempt to isolate him as non-representative outlier fails, as usual.

[Homeland Security]

I hate to have to revert back to the old days of saying intelligent things, but...

Richwine's hypothesis in his dissertation of Hispanic genetic inferiority can be disproven. If it were true, we would expect to see US-born mestizo and indio Hispanics with IQ's similar to those of immigrants. However, this is not the case. The most recent study showed that the average IQ of those US-born is 97. A trend of similar studies dating back decades shows a rise from a baseline of 85 beginning in the early 1970's. The trendline follows a proportional response curve, which when extrapolated, would predict that U.S.-born mestizo/indio Hispanics will have an average IQ of 100 by 2020. This looks like a classic case of the Flynn effect.

Furthermore, I would hypothesize that given the social stratification among U.S. Anglos (see Charles Murray's work), and the absence of analogous stratification among Hispanics, that blue-collar Hispanics are on average more intelligent than blue-collar Anglos, that they would be expected to outcompete blue-collar Anglos in the workplace on the basis of merit, and that this dynamic is the true cause of rancor among these Anglos.

[DarrinS]

I hate to have to revert back to the old days of saying intelligent things, but...

Richwine's hypothesis in his dissertation of Hispanic genetic inferiority can be disproven. If it were true, we would expect to see US-born mestizo and indio Hispanics with IQ's similar to those of immigrants. However, this is not the case. The most recent study showed that the average IQ of those US-born is 97. A trend of similar studies dating back decades shows a rise from a baseline of 85 beginning in the early 1970's. The trendline follows a proportional response curve, which when extrapolated, would predict that U.S.-born mestizo/indio Hispanics will have an average IQ of 100 by 2020. This looks like a classic case of the Flynn effect.

Furthermore, I would hypothesize that given the social stratification among U.S. Anglos (see Charles Murray's work), and the absence of analogous stratification among Hispanics, that blue-collar Hispanics are on average more intelligent than blue-collar Anglos, that they would be expected to outcompete blue-collar Anglos in the workplace on the basis of merit, and that this dynamic is the true cause of rancor among these Anglos.



This Charles Murray

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348323/defense-jason-richwine

[Homeland Security]

This Charles Murray

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348323/defense-jason-richwine
Yes, that one.

[Homeland Security]

If you study geographical crime "hotspots" both in major urban and suburban areas by race and ethnicity, you will find no statistically significant increase in crime as a function of % Hispanic in a census tract. Crime hotspots are either predominantly black or predominantly lower-class Anglo. Mostly they are predominantly black.

[Homeland Security]

The studies to date that claim a genetic basis for group intelligence differences suffer from the flaw that they assume any differences that persist after controlling for known environmental factors must be genetic. This assumption is easy to disprove -- what about unknown environmental factors? For the known factors, how do you know your correlations are right? What if you are assuming y:x when in reality y:x^2?

In order to verify a genetic basis, the study would have to be based in genetics, i.e. figure out which genes are tied to greater intelligence and determine whether they are distributed differently between groups. Of course that study will never occur in the United States because of the political implications if it were to demonstrate that blacks are genetically inferior. Therefore, the study will occur in China.

[Homeland Security]

I hate to have to revert back to the old days of saying intelligent things, but...

Richwine's hypothesis in his dissertation of Hispanic genetic inferiority can be disproven. If it were true, we would expect to see US-born mestizo and indio Hispanics with IQ's similar to those of immigrants. However, this is not the case. The most recent study showed that the average IQ of those US-born is 97. A trend of similar studies dating back decades shows a rise from a baseline of 85 beginning in the early 1970's. The trendline follows a proportional response curve, which when extrapolated, would predict that U.S.-born mestizo/indio Hispanics will have an average IQ of 100 by 2020. This looks like a classic case of the Flynn effect.

Furthermore, I would hypothesize that given the social stratification among U.S. Anglos (see Charles Murray's work), and the absence of analogous stratification among Hispanics, that blue-collar Hispanics are on average more intelligent than blue-collar Anglos, that they would be expected to outcompete blue-collar Anglos in the workplace on the basis of merit, and that this dynamic is the true cause of rancor among these Anglos.
My hypothesis also explains the growing political divide between more- and less-educated Anglos, and why a Republican Party dependent on the votes of less-intelligent Anglos can't give up its habits of anti-intellectualism and racism.

[Homeland Security]

I have another hypothesis too: the social sciences are complete bullshit, and any competent STEM professional dabbling in his spare time would be able to run rings around a social scientist PhD from Harvard.

[boutons_deux]

The Long, Sordid History of the American Right and Racismhttp://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/photo_1368867058714-1-0.jpg


Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president. Other factors have come and gone for the Right, but racism has always been there

Though definitions of Right and Left are never precise, the Left has generally been defined, in the American context, by government actions – mostly the federal government responding to popular movements and representing the collective will of the American people – seeking to improve the lot of common citizens and to reduce social injustice.

The Right has been defined by opposition to such government activism. Since the Founding, the Right has decried government interference with the “free market” and intrusion upon “traditions,” like slavery and segregation, as “tyranny” or “socialism.”

This argument goes back to 1787 and opposition to the Constitution’s centralizing of government power in the hands of federal authorities. In Virginia, for instance, the Anti-Federalists feared that a strong federal government eventually would outlaw slavery in the Southern states.

Ironically, this argument was raised by two of the most famous voices for “liberty,” Patrick Henry and George Mason. Those two Virginians spearheaded the Anti-Federalist cause at the state’s ratifying convention in June 1788, urging rejection of the Constitution because, they argued, it would lead to slavery’s demise.

The irony of Henry and Mason scaring fellow Virginians about the Constitution’s threat to slavery is that the two men have gone down in popular U.S. history as great espousers of freedom. Before the Revolution, Henry was quoted as declaring, “Give me liberty or give me death!” Mason is hailed as a leading force behind the Bill of Rights. However, their notion of “liberty” and “rights” was always selective. Henry and Mason worried about protecting the “freedom” of plantation owners to possess other human beings as property.


etc

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/long-sordid-history-american-right-and-racism

[RandomGuy]

I hate to have to revert back to the old days of saying intelligent things, but...

Richwine's hypothesis in his dissertation of Hispanic genetic inferiority can be disproven. If it were true, we would expect to see US-born mestizo and indio Hispanics with IQ's similar to those of immigrants. However, this is not the case. The most recent study showed that the average IQ of those US-born is 97. A trend of similar studies dating back decades shows a rise from a baseline of 85 beginning in the early 1970's. The trendline follows a proportional response curve, which when extrapolated, would predict that U.S.-born mestizo/indio Hispanics will have an average IQ of 100 by 2020. This looks like a classic case of the Flynn effect.

Furthermore, I would hypothesize that given the social stratification among U.S. Anglos (see Charles Murray's work), and the absence of analogous stratification among Hispanics, that blue-collar Hispanics are on average more intelligent than blue-collar Anglos, that they would be expected to outcompete blue-collar Anglos in the workplace on the basis of merit, and that this dynamic is the true cause of rancor among these Anglos.

Haven't looked into it myself, but thanks for the analysis.

As noted in the OP, it would seem that the science underpinning his work is a bit... less than stellar, to put it mildly.

The left has its horrible science and groupthink to be sure, but the main take-away I got from this is that there would appear to be some good reason to be wary of an underlying tone of racism in much of what passes for right-wing dogma.

[RandomGuy]

The studies to date that claim a genetic basis for group intelligence differences suffer from the flaw that they assume any differences that persist after controlling for known environmental factors must be genetic. This assumption is easy to disprove -- what about unknown environmental factors? For the known factors, how do you know your correlations are right? What if you are assuming y:x when in reality y:x^2?

In order to verify a genetic basis, the study would have to be based in genetics, i.e. figure out which genes are tied to greater intelligence and determine whether they are distributed differently between groups. Of course that study will never occur in the United States because of the political implications if it were to demonstrate that blacks are genetically inferior. Therefore, the study will occur in China.

... or maybe Korea, which has some headstart on China when it comes to publishing in western-style peer review.

[DarrinS]

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[FuzzyLumpkins]

There is no genetic basis for race. As such any genetic study of race is unfounded.

It's akin to studying the engine performance of cars categorized by shade of headlamp.

This gets back to epistemology and how we use categories to understand things. If you are going to categorize things for study then you better be damn sure that the categories are relevant.

It's why soft sciences like psychology really never get anywhere in their analysis. They're still mired in shitty categories like id, ego, and superego.

[Homeland Security]

There is no genetic basis for race. As such any genetic study of race is unfounded.

It's akin to studying the engine performance of cars categorized by shade of headlamp.

This gets back to epistemology and how we use categories to understand things. If you are going to categorize things for study then you better be damn sure that the categories are relevant.

It's why soft sciences like psychology really never get anywhere in their analysis. They're still mired in shitty categories like id, ego, and superego.
Boundaries between categories are often fuzzy and subjective. That doesn't mean the categories themselves are baseless.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

There is no genetic basis for race. That is the very definition of baseless.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I post youtube videos

[Homeland Security]

There is no genetic basis for race. That is the very definition of baseless.
There is a statistically significant correlation between racial self-identification and haplogroup.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I'm sure there is a correlation between running lights and engine type too.

You are unable to come up with an objective standard. Instead you use self selection as the criteria. That's even worse than using skin pigmentation.

[TeyshaBlue]

The legacy of the Southern Strategy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) (click for background) is alive and well.

The riscible consternation of the Republican rank and file, with the predictably clueless "why don't they just love us for who we are?" speculation continues, with Pat Buchanan's seeming endorsement of a new Southern Strategy aimed at Latinos (http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/requiem-for-a-grand-old-party/)(click for op-ed). His main intent may be a bit arguable, but when you are already pegged generally as having racist tendencies, one might want to be a tad more circumspect, although I suspect he thinks he is doing that.

Dogwhistle racism aside, a much more obvious scandal has rocked the conservative Heritage foundation.

Quick summary:


http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/05/immigration-and-iq-0

The right is, as always, playing the victim card. "political correctness witch hunt" bla bla bla. For them it is yet another case where valid science is subordinated to a political ideology. That is where any hint of introspection or admission of the possibility of racism bounces off the armor of the rights impervious information bubble.

Again, the economist:


Science should go where the evidence leads, no matter how uncomfortable that ultimate conclusion is. The topic itself is a falsifiable hypothesis, something to be tested and found valid or not valid, based on the available evidence.

Here are the bits that won't break through the right's information bubble:
1. The science was ultimately, bad.


http://www.foreignpolicy.com/author/Daniel%20W.%20Drezner (link is who he is) ....... http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/05/11/regarding_richwine (source link for his comments)

2. The much more damning question remains, i.e. "why pick that particular topic out of all the ones he could have chosen?"


Now, taken in either context Mr. Richwine might have some plausible cover as a legitimate scholar, "just asking questions". Either being the discredited policy paper he wrote for the Heritage foundation, or his shitty doctoral thesis.

But wait, there's more.

Richwine was a guest columnist at what can be charitably called a "white nationalist" website.

http://alternativeright.com/

Don't take my word for it, paruse yourself. A bit more background: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/heritage-immigration-study-co-author-penned-articles-nationalist-174301703.html


"We're not racist, but...."


SMH.

The Southern Strategy, as a political strategy was hugely successful for the GOP in it's day. But live by the ideological sword, die by the ideological sword.

[BradLohaus]

Furthermore, I would hypothesize that given the social stratification among U.S. Anglos (see Charles Murray's work), and the absence of analogous stratification among Hispanics, that blue-collar Hispanics are on average more intelligent than blue-collar Anglos, that they would be expected to outcompete blue-collar Anglos in the workplace on the basis of merit, and that this dynamic is the true cause of rancor among these Anglos.

Interesting. Remember in the mid 2000s when that Harvard president got in trouble over this same stuff? He was asked why there aren't more women in the STEM fields. He said that one of the reasons was because while men and women have basically the same average IQ, the distributions aren't the same; women are tighter around the mean. So, there are more high IQ and low IQ men. The reaction to that was the same as to this today, and he resigned a few months later.

Could it be possible that there are differences in IQ distribution between Hispanics and Anglos, at least today, for some reason?

Also remember that even James Watson had to retire over a statement about intelligence in Africa, and he discovered the structure of DNA.

[Homeland Security]

I'm sure there is a correlation between running lights and engine type too.

You are unable to come up with an objective standard. Instead you use self selection as the criteria. That's even worse than using skin pigmentation.
And here is where you go off the rails and lose.

You can't dismiss the factual statistical correlation, so you just dismiss statistics.

After I just got finished saying that the boundaries for any category must necessarily be somewhat subjective, your reply is that I can't come up with an objective standard. Well, I never claimed I could, since there is no such thing. Taxonomists can't come up with an objective standard either, so I guess by your logic there is no such thing as a species.

Self-selection is what the United States census uses to determine race. Since your throwaway line about skin pigmentation clearly is meant to imply that I am a racist, I guess the United States census is racist too.

[RandomGuy]

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Dude, not everybody is a doorbell ringing, five word + smiley poster.

Some of us actually like to string more than a few sentences together, and discuss something a bit more in-depth. You should try it sometime, maybe you might be able to move beyond the mental hobbles you self-impose on yourself.

http://www.bba.org.in/news/images/070110-1.jpg

[RandomGuy]

There is no genetic basis for race. That is the very definition of baseless.

From what I understand there is.

Some genetic traits are clearly historically grouped by geography. The variations are, for the most part, pretty minor.

Further, they are being eroded by mobility and the inevitable mixing that occurs when populations move around, but there is some good evidence to support various groupings of humans based on shared traits.

Science goes where the evidence leads, not where we wish it to go.

[RandomGuy]

And here is where you go off the rails and lose.

You can't dismiss the factual statistical correlation, so you just dismiss statistics.

After I just got finished saying that the boundaries for any category must necessarily be somewhat subjective, your reply is that I can't come up with an objective standard. Well, I never claimed I could, since there is no such thing. Taxonomists can't come up with an objective standard either, so I guess by your logic there is no such thing as a species.

Self-selection is what the United States census uses to determine race. Since your throwaway line about skin pigmentation clearly is meant to imply that I am a racist, I guess the United States census is racist too.

Defining specific races and the criteria for that are very difficult. Fuzzy at best.

[DarrinS]

Dude, not everybody is a doorbell ringing, five word + smiley poster.

Some of us actually like to string more than a few sentences together, and discuss something a bit more in-depth. You should try it sometime, maybe you might be able to move beyond the mental hobbles you self-impose on yourself.




It's ok. We know what you do when team blue has a really bad week.

[ErnestLynch]

I like chinese food.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

From what I understand there is.

Some genetic traits are clearly historically grouped by geography. The variations are, for the most part, pretty minor.

Further, they are being eroded by mobility and the inevitable mixing that occurs when populations move around, but there is some good evidence to support various groupings of humans based on shared traits.

Science goes where the evidence leads, not where we wish it to go.

I oversimplified my statement of course but the overall point still stands.

It's all about unique homogeneity within a population. Selection bias aside, there is not significant basis of that for the categorization. The criteria for race is based on 19th century anthropology which is a hodgepodge of geography and plain old phrenology. The comment on skin color is apt. There is also things like shape of nose and slope of head in the descriptions.

Really though its backwards from how population genetics are determined. A geneticist looks at populations that mix and how they migrate. If there is an insular population that does not mix then that bears out but when you look at the US population the homogeneity breaks down especially betwixt minority populations. It should be absurd to group dominicans, mexicans and peruvian but our phrenology does just that. Basically what US race classification does is set up white and then group migrants into three main groups. Genetic basis is claimed because white line breeding shows up despite it breaking down in migrant populations.

What is really the most telling is that when you look at the haplogroups of the phrenological traits from various geographic regions and the homogeneity breaks down almost completely. A 'caucasian' from north america to western europe to the caucuses themselves has no significant commonality. This should make sense because they are all isolated populations.

But when you take the concept that white line breeding shows up and then think that has merit when discussing IQ scores from other arbitrary socioeconomic classifications, credibility becomes suspect. Cognitive psychology is grasping at straws as it is and it seems to be a lot of conclusions assuming the premise.

[boutons_deux]

Blacks, Conservatives and Plantations

Why do Republicans keep endorsing the most extreme and hyperbolic African-American voices — those intent on comparing blacks who support the Democratic candidates to slaves? That idea, which only a black person could invoke without being castigated for the flagrant racial overtones, is a trope to which an increasingly homogeneous Republican Party seems to subscribe.

The most recent example of this is E.W. Jackson, who last weekend became the Virginia Republicans’ candidate for lieutenant governor in the state.

In a video posted to YouTube in 2012 titled “Bishop E.W. Jackson Message to Black Christians,” Jackson says:

“It is time to end the slavish devotion to the Democrat party. They have insulted us, used us and manipulated us. They have saturated the black community with ridiculous lies: ‘Unless we support the Democrat party, we will be returned to slavery. We will be robbed of voting rights. The Martin Luther King holiday will be repealed.’ They think we’re stupid and these lies will hold us captive while they violate everything we believe as Christians.”

He continues:

“Shame on us for allowing ourselves to be sold to the highest bidder. We belong to God. Our ancestors were sold against their will centuries ago, but we’re going to the slave market voluntarily today. Yes, it’s just that ugly.”

(Jackson also took swipes at the gay community and compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan.)

The Democrat Plantation theology goes something like this: Democrats use the government to addict and incapacitate blacks by giving them free things — welfare, food stamps and the like. This renders blacks dependent on and beholden to that government and the Democratic Party.

This is not completely dissimilar from Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comments, although he never mentioned race:

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.

Star Parker, a Scripps Howard syndicated columnist, failed Republican Congressional candidate and author of the book “Uncle Sam’s Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor and What We Can do About It,” argued in an article in 2009 on the conservative Web site Townhall:

“A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched mind-sets from ‘How do I take care of myself?’ to ‘What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?’"

Mackubin Thomas Owens, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R. I., put it more bluntly in an editorial on the Ashbrook University Web site in 2002:

“For the modern liberal Democratic racist as for the old-fashioned one, blacks are simply incapable of freedom. They will always need Ol’ Massa’s help. And woe be to any African-American who wanders off of the Democratic plantation.”

That last bit hints at the other part of Democrat Plantation theology: that black Democrats and white liberals are equal enforcers of enslavement.

A 2010 unsigned article published on the Web site of the conservative weekly Human Events reads:

“If black Americans wish to be Democrats, that is their choice — or is it? Despite the fact that Democrats enjoy the support of over 90% of black America, the other 10%, those who dare to ‘stray from the plantation,’ have been routinely vilified — by other black Americans.”

The article continued:

“The not-so-subtle message? Support liberal dogma — or face social ostracism.”

Dr. Ben Carson, who delivered a speech blasting the president during the National Prayer breakfast this year and quickly became a darling of the right (The Wall Street Journal declared: “Ben Carson for President”), said of white liberals in a radio interview:

“They are the most racist people there are. Because they put you in a little category, a little box. You have to think this way. How could you dare come off the plantation?”

(Carson also got in trouble for comparing homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality. He later apologized for those comments, “if anybody was offended.”)

Unfortunately, the runaway slave image among many black Republican politicians is becoming ingrained and conservative audiences are applauding them for it.

Herman Cain, for example, built an entire presidential campaign on slave imagery.

C. Mason Weaver, a radio talk show host, failed Republican Congressional candidate from California and author of the book “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation,” said of President Obama at a 2009 Tea Party rally in Washington: “You thought he was saying was ‘hope and change’; he was saying was ‘ropes and chains,’ not ‘hope and change.’ ” Weaver continued: “Decide today if you’re going to be free or slaves. Decide today if you’re going to be a slave to your master or the master of your own destiny.” Weaver would repeat the “rope and chains” line on Fox and Friends that year.

The Rev. C.L. Bryant, a Tea Party member and occasional Fox News guest, even made a movie called “Runaway Slave,” in which he says that America should “run away from socialism, run from statism, run away from progressivism.”

While these politicians accuse the vast majority of African-Americans of being mindless drones of the Democrats, they are skating dangerously close to — if not beyond — the point where they become conservative caricatures.

The implication that most African-Americans can’t be discerning, that they can’t weigh the pros and cons of political parties and make informed decisions, that they are rendered servile in exchange for social services, is the highest level of insult. And black politicians are the ones Republicans are cheering on as they deliver it.

Now who, exactly, is being used here?

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/opinion/blow-blacks-conservatives-and-plantations.html

[BradLohaus]

I've been in Texas my entire life and the most racist people I've ever met - by far - were the east Asian economics students I knew at A&M. I'll cut off any Aggie jokes by saying I was told that everybody hates blacks in their home countries. I hate to rain on boutons' white southern republicans are the worst people in the world narrative, but it's true.

[TSA]

"The Democrat Plantation theology goes something like this: Democrats use the government to addict and incapacitate blacks by giving them free things — welfare, food stamps and the like. This renders blacks dependent on and beholden to that government and the Democratic Party."


Boutons, are you disagreeing with this?

[boutons_deux]

"The Democrat Plantation theology goes something like this: Democrats use the government to addict and incapacitate blacks by giving them free things — welfare, food stamps and the like. This renders blacks dependent on and beholden to that government and the Democratic Party."


Boutons, are you disagreeing with this?

of course.

[boutons_deux]

Tea party Republicans flocking to appear Monday at white nationalist-connected march




http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Ted-Cruz-by-Gage-Skidmore-Flickr.-jpg-615x345.jpg


Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Iowa Rep. Steve King, former Rep. Allen West and Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions are all planning to appear at an anti-immigration reform rally held by a group with close connections to the white nationalist movement. According to Right Wing Watch (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/black-american-leadership-alliance-anti-immigrant-rally-keeps-adding-fringe-activists-and-se), the Black American Leadership Association (BALA) is not the grass-roots organization it purports to be, but rather a longstanding cabal of anti-immigration activists who have “deep connections” to white nationalist John Tanton, a man the Southern Poverty Law Center calls (http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/john-tanton) “the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement.”


The march, called the “D.C. March for Jobs,” with its “Just say ‘No’ to Amnesty” theme is slated for Monday and is expected to draw a heavily tea party-affiliated, far-right crowd. Michelle Cottle at the Daily Beast wrote Friday (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/12/the-shady-group-behind-the-african-american-anti-immigration-rally.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet) that BALA is believed to be “the latest in a series of minority front groups providing anti-immigration extremists cover from charges of racism.”

Tea party leaders, wrote Cottle (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/12/the-shady-group-behind-the-african-american-anti-immigration-rally.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet), have been “downright giddy” at having a group of activists of color on hand to point to when critics call out the recent anti-immigration reform putsch by conservatives as a display of racial animus.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/12/tea-party-republicans-flocking-to-appear-monday-at-white-nationalist-connected-march/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[angrydude]

lol, southern poverty law center.

next you're going to quote the anti-defamation league?

[spursncowboys]

Funny how liberals are so concerned with a party they won't vote for, trying to appeal to them... There has to be a grinch. Shame we don't have that.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Funny how liberals are so concerned with a party they won't vote for, trying to appeal to them... There has to be a grinch. Shame we don't have that.

You think party disllusion is a Dem thing? You heard of this thing called the tea party?

[spursncowboys]

You think party disllusion is a Dem thing? You heard of this thing called the tea party?
I don't understand your statement...

[RandomGuy]

I've been in Texas my entire life and the most racist people I've ever met - by far - were the east Asian economics students I knew at A&M. I'll cut off any Aggie jokes by saying I was told that everybody hates blacks in their home countries. I hate to rain on boutons' white southern republicans are the worst people in the world narrative, but it's true.

The most outwardly, unabashedly, racist people I have ever met have been Asians.

[boutons_deux]

That Awkward Moment When The Tea Party Rally Gets Overtly Racist

Earlier this week, tea party activists and GOP lawmakers gathered near the Capitol (http://www.thenation.com/blog/175276/ugly-opposition-immigration-reform-comes-back-capitol-hill#) to rail against an immigration reform bill passed by the Senate.

While the event was linked to a number of controversial figures, including an organizer (http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/04/2094411/white-nationalist-is-behind-black-anti-immigration-reform-march/) who has argued for eugenics and called African-Americans a "retrograde species," that didn't deter Republicans like Rep. Steve King (Iowa) and Sens. Jeff Sessions (Ala.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) from showing up to join the chorus against a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

When Ken Crow -- a co-founder of the Tea Party Community -- stepped up to the microphone, however, George Zornick of The Nation said (http://www.thenation.com/blog/175276/ugly-opposition-immigration-reform-comes-back-capitol-hill#) he was taken aback by the talk of "breeding" and racial purity that followed.

From those incredible blood lines of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and John Smith. And all these great Americans, Martin Luther King. These great Americans who built this country. You came from them. And the unique thing about being from that part of the world, when you learn about breeding, you learn that you cannot breed Secretariat to a donkey and expect to win the Kentucky Derby. You guys have incredible DNA and don’t forget it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/gop-anti-immigration_n_3618392.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=071913&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry

our very own fight-me, kill-my-mama John Smith? :lol

[spursncowboys]

The most outwardly, unabashedly, racist people I have ever met have been Asians.
If we are going to racistly generalize while talking about races being racist, I would say Indians. In almost every situation I met an Indian (red dot), they were so openly racist towards blacks. I couldn't believe it because most times it was in a professional manner, and I didn't really know them well enough for them to confide that kind of stuff towards me. Also mexicans. Growing up, there were many times I couldn't meet a girl's parents because they didn't want their daughter talking to white boys. Also many circumstances where they drop the n bomb on me because I'm white so they think I wouldn't be offended.

However since I've been in the Army, I met alot of racist white people. Not racist in the fact that they'll deny them raises and promotions. But their ignorance towards black people's culture and using that to talk trash.

[boutons_deux]

Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people "Who needs Manhattan when we can get the electoral votes of eleven Southern states?" Kevin Phillips, the prophet of "the emerging Republican majority," asked in 1968, when he was piecing together Richard Nixon's electoral map. The eleven states, he meant, of the Old Confederacy. "Put those together with the Farm Belt and the Rocky Mountains, and we don't need the big cities. We don't even want them. Sure, Hubert [Humphrey] will carry Riverside Drive in November. La-de-dah. What will he do in Oklahoma?"


Forty-five years later, the GOP safely has Oklahoma, and Dixie, too. But Phillips's Sunbelt strategy was built for a different time, and a different America. Many have noted Mitt Romney's failure to collect a single vote in 91 precincts in New York City and 59 precincts in Philadelphia. More telling is his defeat in eleven more of the nation's 15 largest cities. Not just Chicago and Columbus, but also Indianapolis, San Diego, Houston, even Dallas—this last a reason the GOP fears that, within a generation Texas will become a swing state (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/19/121119fa_fact_lizza).

Remove Texas from the vast, lightly populated Republican expanse west of the Mississippi, and the remaining 13 states yield fewer electoral votes than the West Coast triad of California, Oregon, and Washington. If those trends continue, the GOP could find itself unable to count on a single state that has as many as 20 electoral votes



`the Calhoun revival, based on his complex theories of constitutional democracy, became the justification for conservative politicians to resist, ignore, or even overturn the will of the electoral majority.


This is the politics of nullification, the doctrine, nearly as old as the republic itself, which holds that the states, singly or in concert, can defy federal actions by declaring them invalid or simply ignoring them. We hear the echoes of nullification in the venting of anti-government passions and also in campaigns to "starve government," curtail voter registration, repeal legislation, delegitimize presidents. There is a strong sectionalist bias in these efforts. They flourish in just the places Kevin Phillips identified as Republican strongholds—Plains, Mountain, but mainly Southern states, where change invites suspicion, especially when it seems invasive, and government is seen as an intrusive force. Yet those same resisters—most glaringly, Tea Partiers—cherish the entitlements and benefits provided by "Big Government."

Their objections come when outsider groups ask for consideration, too. Even recent immigrants to this country sense the "hidden hand" of Calhoun's style of dissent, the extended lineage of rearguard politics, with its aggrieved call, heard so often today, "to take back America"—that is, to take America back to the "better" place it used to be. Today's conservatives have fully embraced this tradition, enshrining it as their own "Lost cause," redolent with the moral consolations of noble defeat.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112365/why-republicans-are-party-white-people#

"noble defeat" noble? is there anything "noble" about today's Repugs? :lol

[exstatic]

Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people "Who needs Manhattan when we can get the electoral votes of eleven Southern states?" Kevin Phillips, the prophet of "the emerging Republican majority," asked in 1968, when he was piecing together Richard Nixon's electoral map. The eleven states, he meant, of the Old Confederacy. "Put those together with the Farm Belt and the Rocky Mountains, and we don't need the big cities. We don't even want them. Sure, Hubert [Humphrey] will carry Riverside Drive in November. La-de-dah. What will he do in Oklahoma?"


Forty-five years later, the GOP safely has Oklahoma, and Dixie, too. But Phillips's Sunbelt strategy was built for a different time, and a different America. Many have noted Mitt Romney's failure to collect a single vote in 91 precincts in New York City and 59 precincts in Philadelphia. More telling is his defeat in eleven more of the nation's 15 largest cities. Not just Chicago and Columbus, but also Indianapolis, San Diego, Houston, even Dallas—this last a reason the GOP fears that, within a generation Texas will become a swing state (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/19/121119fa_fact_lizza).

Remove Texas from the vast, lightly populated Republican expanse west of the Mississippi, and the remaining 13 states yield fewer electoral votes than the West Coast triad of California, Oregon, and Washington. If those trends continue, the GOP could find itself unable to count on a single state that has as many as 20 electoral votes



`the Calhoun revival, based on his complex theories of constitutional democracy, became the justification for conservative politicians to resist, ignore, or even overturn the will of the electoral majority.


This is the politics of nullification, the doctrine, nearly as old as the republic itself, which holds that the states, singly or in concert, can defy federal actions by declaring them invalid or simply ignoring them. We hear the echoes of nullification in the venting of anti-government passions and also in campaigns to "starve government," curtail voter registration, repeal legislation, delegitimize presidents. There is a strong sectionalist bias in these efforts. They flourish in just the places Kevin Phillips identified as Republican strongholds—Plains, Mountain, but mainly Southern states, where change invites suspicion, especially when it seems invasive, and government is seen as an intrusive force. Yet those same resisters—most glaringly, Tea Partiers—cherish the entitlements and benefits provided by "Big Government."

Their objections come when outsider groups ask for consideration, too. Even recent immigrants to this country sense the "hidden hand" of Calhoun's style of dissent, the extended lineage of rearguard politics, with its aggrieved call, heard so often today, "to take back America"—that is, to take America back to the "better" place it used to be. Today's conservatives have fully embraced this tradition, enshrining it as their own "Lost cause," redolent with the moral consolations of noble defeat.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112365/why-republicans-are-party-white-people#

"noble defeat" noble? is there anything "noble" about today's Repugs? :lol

It won't take a generation for TX to go blue. More like two presidential cycles.

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It won't take a generation for TX to go blue. More like two presidential cycles.

Hispanics don't vote. If they did, TX would already be Dem.

[BradLohaus]

I'm not sure how any political analyst in the 60s could have predicted just how much the non-white share of the population would grow in 50 years, given the subsequent immigration explosion, plus the growth in rates of divorce and single motherhood, all of which strongly favors the left. Maybe there was a 20 something back then who called it and now goes around saying, "I told you we'd end up screwed."

And BTW, minorities in the US vote Dem for the same reason that Muslims in the UK vote for Labor ... for abortion, gay and women's rights, of course!!!:lol There was someone on the left who said a few years back, "We'll beat the Republicans by making them turn into Democrats."

It's funny that the left loves to point out that there is this big divide between whites and non-whites in voting habits for the two parties , but in the next breath they will say how great this whole multiethinc, multicultural experiment is going to work out, just as soon as we fix that majority of wrong - thinking whites. I know the masses of left wing voters believe it religiously, but I go back and forth on whether or not the bulk of the leadership actually does. If I had to guess I'd say that I doubt it.

[boutons_deux]

"You start out in 1954 by saying, “******, ******, ******.” By 1968 you can’t say “******”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “******, ******.” "

”I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” the president said (http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/1987_winter/second.html). “If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll even empty his pockets for you.”

(TGB: exactly how Repugs get red state/rural whites to vote Repug and against their best financial interests)

While the right wants to focus on black culture (http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/07/24/2347581/bill-oreilly-blames-civil-rights-leaders-and-black-culture-for-crime/)and “black-on-black” crime, they refuse to acknowledge that “white-on-white” crime is statistically nearly as common (http://www.theroot.com/views/why-don-t-we-talk-about-white-white-crime) and happens much more often, as white people, who are the vast majority of the population, commit the vast majority of violent crimes in this country.


Negative aspersions on so-called “food stamps,” like Ronald Reagan’s old “welfare queens,” often carry a racial connotation. But government assistance in this country is actually used by ethnic groups pretty much in proportion (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/who-benefits-from-the-safety-net/?_r=1) to their share of the population:

African-Americans, who make up 22 percent of the poor, receive 14 percent of government benefits, close to their 12 percent population share.

White non-Hispanics, who make up 42 percent of the poor, receive 69 percent of government benefits – again, much closer to their 64 percent population share.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/how-the-right-talks-about-race-even-when-theyre-not-talking-about-race/

******* above = n!gg@, a new "auto edit" of ST.

[pgardn]

The studies to date that claim a genetic basis for group intelligence differences suffer from the flaw that they assume any differences that persist after controlling for known environmental factors must be genetic. This assumption is easy to disprove -- what about unknown environmental factors? For the known factors, how do you know your correlations are right? What if you are assuming y:x when in reality y:x^2?

In order to verify a genetic basis, the study would have to be based in genetics, i.e. figure out which genes are tied to greater intelligence and determine whether they are distributed differently between groups. Of course that study will never occur in the United States because of the political implications if it were to demonstrate that blacks are genetically inferior. Therefore, the study will occur in China.

So an IQ test is equivalent to measuring some protein level in the blood?

You don't need genetics, stats, and all to be skeptical of a test designed to measure "intelligence".
What the hell is intelligence? The ability to see numerical and or language patterns? Number sense? The ability to take objects drawn in 2D, but visually representing objects in 3D, and manipulate them? What the hell is it?

The fact that people take IQ tests as some God stamped number is disturbing and astounding. IQ tests were intended to find SEVERE inabilities for very specific tasks in people that have supposedly been subjected to in previous training.

[pgardn]

Hispanics don't vote. If they did, TX would already be Dem.

Look up gerrymandering.

Texas has made this into an art form.

[boutons_deux]

Look up gerrymandering.

Texas has made this into an art form.

Progressives/Latinos should sue TX for the gerrymandering. I'm sure DoJ will go along.

[pgardn]

Progressives/Latinos should sue TX for the gerrymandering. I'm sure DoJ will go along.

Texas has already been told by the Supreme Court to redraw. So new maps with a Rep. bend are drawn. Texas Rep. are waiting for the 5th part of the Voting Rights act to be struck down by the Supreme Court so they won't have to keep manufacturing unfair voting districts maps. They will just redraw unfair maps that get rejected.

[boutons_deux]

Why The GOP Won’t Let Congress Fix The Voting Rights Act


“Ain’t gonna happen,” Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) said late last week

Republicans have little to gain and a lot to lose politically if they cooperate.

Attempting to fix the law would require Republicans to give public scrutiny to racial disparity in the party’s geographic base. And it would require backtracking on years of political rhetoric warning of federal government overreach and downplaying racial inequality.

More specifically, the jurisdictions likely to be included in any new preclearance formula comprise regions of the country that are dominated by conservatives. These are the places where attempts at voter discrimination are most common, and therefore subject to greater scrutiny.

A more cynical reason is Republicans recognize that without Section 4, their state and local colleagues have greater flexibility to enact laws that make it harder for minority groups like blacks and Hispanics, who disproportionately support Democrats, to vote. Such efforts to expand voter ID laws are already underway in Texas and North Carolina. It also gives states more flexibility to gerrymander maps in a way that alienate minorities.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) recognized this fatal problem immediately after the Supreme Court’s ruling, warning that “[a]s long as Republicans have a majority in the House and Democrats don’t have 60 votes in the Senate, there will be no preclearance.”

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/07/congress-wont-fix-the-voting-rights-act.php

So hypocritically Constitution-adoring Repugs, always so strong and tough on law enforcement (esp on blacks and browns), are free to fuck blacks and browns out of their voting rights.

[boutons_deux]

criminal Repug Dick Nixon and Atwater were brilliant politicians, recruiting Confederate racists into Repug party. Then add in all the racist rednecks and rural bubbas from non-Confederate states, and you have the Repug BASE. :lol

And the KKK and white supremacy parties, militia don't vote Democratic!

How Southern Slavery Turns White People Into Republicans 150 Years Later

Drawing on a sample of more than 39,000 southern whites, we show that whites who currently live in counties that had high concentrations of slaves in 1860 are on average more conservative and express colder feelings towards African Americans than whites who live elsewhere in the South.

That is, the larger the number of slaves in his or her county of residence in 1860, the greater the probability that a white Southerner today will identify as a Republican, express opposition to race-coded policies such as affirmative action, and express greater racial resentment towards African Americans.

We show that these differences are robust to a variety of factors, including geography and mid-19th century economic conditions and political attitudes. We also show that our results strengthen when we instrument for the prevalence of slavery using local measures of the agricultural suitability to grow cotton.

In fact, our findings indicate that in the counterfactual world where the South had no slaves in 1860, the political views of white Southerners today would be indistinguishable from those of similarly situated white Northerners.

http://www.alternet.org/how-southern-slavery-turns-white-people-republicans-150-years-later?akid=10902.187590.oz3xYW&rd=1&src=newsletter893942&t=9

[boutons_deux]

tea bagger hero comes out blatantly racist :lol

Ted Cruz: 'We Need 100 More Like Jesse Helms' In The Senate

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/ted-cruz-jesse-helms_n_3909610.html

you racists are too damn politically correct, more like just chickenshit, to out yourselves as racists.

[boutons_deux]

Fox News host: new Miss America, Nina Davuluri, doesn’t ‘represent American values’

“Well they just picked a Muslim for Miss America. That must’ve made Obama happy. Maybe he had a vote,” said one user (http://news.sky.com/story/1142271/miss-america-faces-abuse-over-indian-descent).

“I am literally soo mad right now a ARAB won. #MissAmerica” wrote another (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421711/New-Yorker-accused-calling-predecessor-fat-s--wins-Miss-America-injured-Miss-Florida-tattooed-Army-sergeant-Kansas-defeated.html).

But according (https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/statuses/379437735980711936) to Fox News Radio host (https://www.facebook.com/ToddStarnesFNC) Todd Starnes, the American-born Davuluri doesn’t “represent American values,” unlike the blonde-haired, blue-eyed contestant from Kansas, Theresa Vail.

This is not to say that Vail isn’t an unprecedented contestant in her own right (http://missoutdoorgirl.com/?page_id=43): she’s spent five years in the Kansas Army National Guard and is double-majoring in chemistry and Chinese at Kansas State University. But, according to Starnes on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ToddStarnesFNC/posts/516240001784170), she lost because “the liberal Miss America judges were not interested in a gun-toting, deer-hunting, military veteran.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/16/fox-news-host-new-miss-america-nina-davuluri-doesnt-represent-american-values/

:lol

We're not racists, but .... :lol

Mortdick's Fox Repug Racist Propaganda network ain't too subtle in its dog whistling.

( Will black voters be persuaded ( fooled ) to vote Repug because Fox Repug network now has added LOTS of black talking heads? aka reachout :lol )

[boutons_deux]

Republicans And Race: The GOP’s Frayed Relationship With African-Americans, 1945-1974

“Since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has attracted more than 15 percent of the black electorate, and few GOP candidates for other offices have fared much better.”

for this fractured relationship between the GOP and African-Americans — an increasingly politically active demographic — the excerpt here is his postscript to years of research. Thirty years of conservative policy brought the U.S. to the election of its first African-American president.

The gulf between blacks and the GOP grew even more pronounced when Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) became the first African American president. Obama tried to downplay race and enfold blacks’ concerns within a universalist framework. That approach reflected his personality and ideology, but it also stemmed from a political calculation that whites resented overt attempts to aid blacks. “Anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan coalition,” Obama observed. Indeed, surveys showed that whites opposed efforts targeted at blacks and were much more likely than blacks to believe that racial equality had been achieved.

After expanding debt greatly during the Bush years, Republicans now preached an urgent need for austerity. Obama and the Democrats, they alleged, were driving the nation to fiscal ruin through profligate spending. Republicans demanded tax cuts (primarily for the wealthy), deep budget cuts for social welfare programs, and repeal of much of Obama’s health care initiative. Blacks, who were twice as likely as whites to support Obama’s health program, saw the GOP as a direct threat to their economic well-being.

Racial polarization was evident in other respects. Sizable percentages of Republican voters believe that Obama had not been born in the United States, was a Muslim, and favored socialism. They were also likely to think that Obama was taking their tax dollars and redistributing them to undeserving blacks and other nonwhites. A majority of Republicans responding to a 2010 poll thought that discrimination against whites was just as significant as that suffered by nonwhites. A Congressional Republicans usually preferred to let such talk percolate among grassroots groups and conservative media, although a few openly embraced these sentiments. Republican votes as well as GOP lawmakers vehemently denied that racial malice was involved. A majority of African Americans, however, thought that racial animus was a significant factor among the president’s opponents.

The nation’s shifting demographics, not the troubled economy, was the most important story of the campaign. “Republicans have run out of persuadable white voters,” two GOP pollsters warned a month later. Relying almost solely on whites—a viable GOP strategy for much of the post-1945 era—was now insufficient. The white share of the electorate, in decline since the 1990s, would almost certainly continue to shrink. Although Republican leaders agreed that their party needed to become more diverse, they made no serious bid to win over black voters.

Republicans also showed little inclination to rethink long-standing attitudes about race, politics, and the role of the state. Stung by his defeat, Romney consoled supporters by telling them that Obama had used the Democrats’ “old playbook” by offering “gifts” to blacks and others in return for votes. A two-term African American president, elected largely by women, youth, and nonwhites, indicated that much had changed since the New Deal. Yet as far as Republicans were concerned, nothing had changed.


http://www.nationalmemo.com/weekend-reader-republicans-and-race-the-gops-frayed-relationship-with-african-americans-1945-1974/

therefore, VOTER SUPPRESSION is a key strategy for Repugs, but they can only accomplish disenfranchisement reliably in red states, which don't have enough racists to win the Presidency. Purple states under Repug democratic destruction are still in play.

[RandomGuy]

The most outwardly, unabashedly, racist people I have ever met have been Asians.


If we are going to racistly generalize while talking about races being racist, I would say Indians. In almost every situation I met an Indian (red dot), they were so openly racist towards blacks. I couldn't believe it because most times it was in a professional manner, and I didn't really know them well enough for them to confide that kind of stuff towards me. Also mexicans. Growing up, there were many times I couldn't meet a girl's parents because they didn't want their daughter talking to white boys. Also many circumstances where they drop the n bomb on me because I'm white so they think I wouldn't be offended.

However since I've been in the Army, I met alot of racist white people. Not racist in the fact that they'll deny them raises and promotions. But their ignorance towards black people's culture and using that to talk trash.

Actually, I wasn't generalizing. I was merely relating a summary of my own experience.

This is generalizing:

I think Asian cultures tend to be racist.


There is a difference, however sublte. I do think that by the way. If that makes me a racist, so be it. I think most cultures on the planet tend to be racist, some more than others.

There is though, some rather solid scientific evidence about how groups of humans tend to view "otherness" that underlies this human tendency. We are wired to have racists tendencies. It is possible to overcome them with some thought, but that streak is there.

[boutons_deux]

Fox News asks Nicaraguan meteorologist to host ‘Taco Day’ segment: ‘You grew up on tacos’

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Friday said he assumed that the network’s Latina meteorologist “grew up on tacos,” even though it is not a traditional food in her native country of Nicaragua.

To celebrate National Taco Day, Fox & Friends asked Fox News Weather team member Maria Molina, who was born in Nicaragua and grew up in South Florida, to host a segment (http://www.buzzfeed.com/dorsey/fox-news-host-to-nicaraguan-co-host-you-grew-up-on-tacos-rig) explaining how to make tacos.

“So what are the tips we need to know?” Kilmeade asked Molina. “You grew up on tacos, correct?”

“No, I did not grow up on tacos!” Molina shot back. “I’m Nicaraguan. It’s not a native food.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/04/fox-news-asks-nicaraguan-meteorologist-to-host-taco-day-segment-you-grew-up-on-tacos/

[Th'Pusher]

The confederate flag won't help conservatives win shutdown

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/confederate-flag-wont-help-conservatives-win-shutdown/70479/

[boutons_deux]

The confederate flag won't help conservatives win shutdown

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/10/confederate-flag-wont-help-conservatives-win-shutdown/70479/

"front pages of Breitbart, Twitchy, Drudge, Blaze, Townhall, Daily Caller, etc"

:lol preaching lies and proganda to the choir of ignorant bubbas, rousing the rabble, inflaming the flaming assholes :lol

Why didn't the police beat the shit out of and pepper spray the barricade tossers the way they did to OWS?

[boutons_deux]

I see where the ignorant, paranoid Confederate racists, birthers also were yelling for Barry "to put the Quran down."

[scott]

War of Northern Aggression.

[boutons_deux]

The Tea Party Republicans Biggest Mistake: Confusing Government with Our System of Government

Representative Mo Brooks, Republican of Alabama and a fierce critic of the Affordable Care Act, has just changed his tune. He now says (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/us/politics/business-groups-urge-congress-to-reopen-as-shutdown-drags-on.html?pagewanted=all): "My primary focus is on minimizing risk of insolvency and bankruptcy. There are many paths you can take to get there. Socialized medicine is just one of the component parts of our debt and deficits that put us at financial risk."

Translated: House Republicans are under intense pressure. A new Gallup poll (http://www.gallup.com/poll/165317/republican-party-favorability-sinks-record-low.aspx) shows the Republican Party now viewed favorably by only 28% of Americans, down from 38% in September. That's the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992. The Democratic Party is viewed favorably by 43%, down four percentage points from last month.

So Republicans are desperately looking for a way of getting out of the hole they've dug for themselves

http://robertreich.org/post/63660547187

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a compact history of Repug racism, race baiting, dog whistling over the past 45+ years

The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/11/the_racism_at_the_heart_of_the_reagan_presidency/

and of course much of the obsession of wealthy white 1%ers in cutting the social safety net is to fuck blacks and browns, although 60% on public assistance are white.

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Southern Republican says racism drives GOP opposition to immigration reformA Republican lawmaker admitted yesterday (http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/01/30/3226951/immigration-gop-racism/) that his party is having difficulty moving forward with immigration reform due to deeply rooted racist animus expressed by a portion of their own constituent base.

In an interview with Buzzfeed (http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/some-republicans-see-racism-as-a-factor-in-immigration-stale), the Southern congressman, who wished to remain anonymous, explained that members of his party felt handcuffed and unable to pass a comprehensive immigration reform package due to fear of push back from hometown constituents.

“Part of it, I think — and I hate to say this, because these are my people — but I hate to say it, but it’s racial,” admitted the lawmaker. “If you go to town halls people say things like, ‘These people have different cultural customs than we do.’ And that’s code for race.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) added , “There will always be people [who have] different reasons for opposing the change. We have a history in this country of demagoguery when it comes [to immigration]. You know, ‘Irish Need Not Apply.’ There’s nothing new going on today that’s gone on before. This isn’t the first time that there’s been some ugliness around the issue of immigration.”

Despite widespread bipartisan support (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/immigration-reform-support-poll-99532.html) for immigration reform that would include a pathway to citizenship for undocumented children and immigrants who are already in the United States, progress has been glacial due in no small part to high profile members of the Republican party including Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who often uses incendiary rhetoric (http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/07/24/2346651/king-defends-drug-mules-comparison/) to bolster his national ambitions (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/09/18/rep-steve-king-wont-rule-out-presidential-bid/).

On Tuesday night, President Obama made immigration reform a major point of his inaugural address calling it ” …a responsible pathway to earned citizenship—a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/southern-republican-says-racism-drives-gop-opposition-to-immigration-reform/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[RandomGuy]

“ I hate to say it, but it’s racial,” admitted the lawmaker. “If you go to town halls people say things like, ‘These people have different cultural customs than we do.’ And that’s code for race.”

An honest republican in Congress.

That makes me have a little bit of hope, I was beginning to despair a bit.

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Florida Ku Klux Klan leader boasts of ‘invisible empire’ of sympathetic public officials

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/loyal-white-knights-of-the-kkk.jpg

Residents in central Florida have become increasingly aware (http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/9-investigates-ku-klux-klan/nc7fS/) that the Ku Klux Klan is in their midst.

WFTV 9 reports (http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/9-investigates-ku-klux-klan/nc7fS/) that recruitment flyers for the Florida chapter of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) have appeared in neighborhoods throughout the central part of the state.

One flyer of the flyers implores readers to join the KKK “ecause [B]the KKK has twice saved this nation from destruction as history clearly records.”

According to the organization’s perspective on American history, the KKK “saved” the United States from “n*gger terrorists” who threatened to destroy the country after the Civil War. Between 1865 and the early 1870s, former Confederate soldiers resorted to extrajudicial measures in order to restore the social hierarchy shattered by the war.

The Klan targeted free blacks, northern “carpetbaggers” and even Union soldiers before President Ulysses S. Grant signed the 1871 Civil Rights Act, which allowed local authorities to suspend habeas corpus if the Klan did not dissolve, which most chapters did.

The second time the Klan believes it “saved” America happened in the early 1920s. D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation had romanticized the Klan’s first flowering, and many Protestants — largely concerned with Catholic immigration and increased urbanization and unionization — felt the social order the first Klan had sought to restore was, again, in need of defense.

According to the flyers being plastered and passed around central Florida, it is once again time to defend their version of American society. According to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan’s website, “[i]t is the duty of all white Christian men and women to fight against the Communist who have stolen our Nation.”

The site and the flyers invite prospective KKK members to “Change your life; Achieve your goals; Expand your opportunities; Experience success; Gain self-confidence; Meet new people; [and] Make a difference in the world.”

In an interview with WFTV 9, the “grand dragon” of the Florida chapter — who remained hooded throughout the interview “ecause I care about my job” — said that the flyers are “just the tip of the iceberg right now,” and that he belongs to an “invisible empire.”

“[B]We have police officers, paramedics, judges,” said the grand dragon. “They’re everywhere.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/31/florida-ku-klux-klan-leader-boasts-of-invisible-empire-of-sympathetic-public-officials/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Understanding Paul Ryan's Racism in Three Easy Steps

Paul Ryan has attempted to clarify his racist argument (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/14/1284799/-How-the-Irish-Became-White-Paul-Ryan-s-Ugly-Public-Embrace-of-Anti-Black-Racism-and-Eugenics) that “inner city” black people are lazy and do not want to work. He issued a statement that:

After reading the transcript of yesterday morning’s interview, it is clear that I was inarticulate about the point I was trying to make. I was not implicating the culture of one community—but of society as a whole.

This is a false and disingenuous pseudo apology. Paul Ryan is the leader of a political party that is the country’s premier white identity organization. The Republican Party has also merged conservatism and racism in such a way that appeals to white racial resentment are its Lingua Franca and a taken for granted way of thinking about political and social reality.

Paul Ryan traffics in racism (http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2014/03/colorblind-racism-and-white-racial.html) because the Republican Party is a racist organization. The calculus is not complicated.

There has been some smart writing (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/opinion/krugman-that-old-time-whistle.html) about Paul Ryan’s use of coded racial appeals (http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/16/is-paul-ryan-racist/). However, the majority of the news media is asking the wrong question. Instead of trying to figure out “if” Paul Ryan is a racist, the more revealing question is “what type of racist is he?”

There are three basic ways to understand Paul Ryan’s racism, both as part of a pattern of behavior by Republicans, and as an example of (symbolic) white racism in the post civil rights era.

The Southern Strategy.

Paul Ryan’s claim that black people have “bad culture”, may be genetically defective, and do not have “normal” “middle class” values about the merits of “hard work”, is a simple channeling of legendary Republican strategist Lee Atwater’s tactics for mobilizing white voters by leveraging their hostility to black Americans.
Atwater famously advised Republicans to:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “n!gg@, n!gg@, n!gg@.” By 1968 you can’t say “n!gg@”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “n!gg@, n!gg@.”

The Southern Strategy has been the cornerstone of Republican politics for at least five decades. While former Republican National Committee chairmen Ken Mehlman and Michael Steele admitted (and apologized) that Republicans use racist appeals to motivate white voters, the Southern Strategy remains central to their party’s electoral logic and approach.

Paul Ryan’s racism and embrace of the Southern Strategy is the Republican Party’s conventional wisdom in practice.

Colorblind racism and White Victimology.

Paul Ryan’s use of “dog whistles” and coded racial appeals to disparage and slur African-Americans exist within a social context where overt racism is a violation of public speech norms and values.

Following the triumphs of the civil rights movement, colorblind white racism has largely replaced “old fashioned” racism.

While whites still use very explicit and racist speech in the “backstage”, private spaces, or online, America’s embrace of multiculturalism and pluralism have deemed such acts anathema to “decent” people. This is especially true for a nationally known politician like Paul Ryan.

Colorblind racism inverts reality and distorts the facts. It involves denying that racism still exists as a serious social problem; black and brown people are limited in their life chances not because of institutional discrimination but because of their “bad culture” or “laziness”; white supremacy and systems of white racial advantage are dismissed as either exaggerated or non-existent; racism is reduced to mean words by white people, as opposed to systematic institutional discrimination against people of color.

The most perverse result of colorblind racism is that many white people now believe that they are “victims” of "racism", and that “anti-white racism” is a larger problem in the United States than is discrimination against black and brown Americans. Mountains of research and empirical data detail how Americans society is oriented around maintaining white privilege and white material advantages over people of color.

Colorblind racism overrides those facts by distorting white people’s (and some others’) ability to process and understand reality.

Paul Ryan’s “inner city” comment is a quintessential example of colorblind racism. He cannot plainly state that lazy black people are genetically predisposed to idleness, crime, violence, and sexual promiscuity. However, Ryan can suggest that the supposed failures of black people are really their own fault, and that all they need to do is “work hard” and have “good culture” to get ahead in America like "normal" (read: white) people.

Paul Ryan’s defenders are enabling colorblind racism by trafficking in its other distortion of reality: white victimology. Paul Ryan is portrayed as a victim of political correctness. His black conservative pets such as Ron Christie (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/13/in-defense-of-paul-ryan-he-isn-t-racist-he-s-right.html) claim that Ryan is a “truth-teller”. Ryan will tell interviewers that he is just misunderstood and is being unfairly criticized.
Once more, colorblind racism protects white people from the consequences of their racist behavior by transforming them into “victims”.

White privilege and white racial innocence.

Paul Ryan’s faux apology emphasized his intent, and how he was “inarticulate” in his claim that black people are lazy and have bad genes.

Paul Ryan meant what he said and said what he meant. White privilege is more than the unearned advantages that come with being identified as “white” in American society and elsewhere. White privilege is an assumption that whiteness, and white people, are benign. White privilege is also an assumption of preeminent good intent and innocence.
The historical record suggests otherwise: whiteness was born of violence towards people of color. Whiteness works and is made real through many lies both small and large.
Paul Ryan, like other racists, will deploy the common phrase “I didn’t mean it that way” or “that was not my intention”.

By contrast, the twin facts of white privilege and white racism are not dependent on intent.

The racist cannot tell the victim of the former’s racism how and if they should be offended.

Moreover, Paul Ryan’s claim to have made a mistake will be granted because he is white and male. The errors of prominent (as well as rank and file) African-Americans for example, are never excused away or viewed as aberrations or outliers. No. When black folks are “inarticulate” or “misspeak” the white racial frame deems such moments as indications of incompetence, or proof that people of color are somehow “not qualified” or as “intelligent” as white people.

The white gaze does not view black Americans as individuals. When a black person makes a mistake it becomes the focus of a “national conversation” about the black community, one in which “black leaders” are forced to publicly explain and condemn the actions of other black people. There is not an equivalent ritual for white people. White conservatives and the white community will not be forced to condemn Paul Ryan. Nor will white people be held publicly accountable for Paul Ryan’s and the Republican Party’s racism.

Whiteness deems that Paul Ryan is a “racial innocent”, an “individual”, and that he should be treated as such.

Paul Ryan and other movement conservatives are racial political arsonists. Ryan’s racist claims about lazy black people with bad genes are a function of a willful political strategy and determined worldview. They are not exceptions, outliers, or bizarre happenings.

Racism is a habit for white conservatives because racism and conservatism are the same thing in the post civil rights era.

Paul Ryan and other conservatives can claim that they are innocent of their racist political arson. But, they are repeatedly caught, hiding behind the dumpster, or in the bushes, as the building burns. One hand is busy, down the trousers, working in onanistic fervor as the conflagration spreads. The other hand is concealing a lighter. The police approach, shake their heads, and say “you again!”

Paul Ryan and his fellow racial political arsonists in the Republican Party apologize, flummoxed, and indignant with the police that “you have the wrong guy!”

The police will just slap his wrist and say “don’t do it again”. Why? Because Paul Ryan and other racial political arsonists in the Republican Party are really decent people who are just misunderstood.

http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/chaunceydevega/understanding-paul-ryans-racism-three-easy-steps?paging=off&current_page=1

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House GOP releases ag budget

And in a surprising twist, the bill language specifies that only rural areas are to benefit in the future from funding requested by the administration this year to continue a modest summer demonstration program to help children from low-income households — both urban and rural — during those months when school meals are not available.

Since 2010, the program has operated from an initial appropriation of $85 million, and the goal has been to test alternative approaches to distribute aid when schools are not in session. The White House asked for an additional $30 million to continue the effort, but the House bill provides $27 million for what’s described as an entirely new pilot program focused on rural areas only.

Democrats were surprised to see urban children were excluded. And the GOP had some trouble explaining the history itself. But a spokeswoman confirmed that the intent of the bill is a pilot project in “rural areas” only.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/house-gop-agriculture-budget-white-house-106831.html

poor redneck kids eat, poor black/brown kids don't.

Repug reachout to minorities continues :lol

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Not Just Whistling 'Dixie': Peroutka Stands Up for Southern Secession - (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/30/1317953/-Not-Just-Whistling-Dixie-Peroutka-Stands-Up-for-Southern-Secession)

Michael Peroutka, the Republican candidate for Anne Arundel County Council, stood up for secession and the white nationalist League of the South, at a hastily called, standing-room-only press conference on July 30 in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Peroutka has been under fire for months for his involvement in and leadership of the League of the South, a white nationalist group that advocates conservative, Christian theocracy and secession (http://www.politicalresearch.org/2014/02/27/two-neo-confederate-leaders-join-republican-democratic-parties-to-run-for-office/#) to form a Southern Republic. Top Democratic and Republican leaders had called for him to resign from the group.

Most prominently, Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan, Jr., recentlydisavowed (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/anne-arundel/pasadena/bs-md-ar-peroutka-20140725,0,4903658.story) Peroutka because of his involvement in the racist and theocratic group. Hogan campaign spokesman Adam Dubitsky said: "Larry absolutely disavows him. Those views have never been a part of the Republican Party and they never will." :lol

But before the state press corps, Peroutka refused to resign from the the League, which he calls "a Christian, free market group." :lol

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/30/1317953/-Not-Just-Whistling-Dixie-Peroutka-Stands-Up-for-Southern-Secession?detail=email

Georgia! :lol

fat sleeveless bubbas' Confederacy Lives! :lol

[pgardn]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/loyal-white-knights-of-the-kkk.jpg






So it's come to this.

KKK members require help from Mom in cutting out proper eye-holes.
Look at that fraying cloth around the openings... how's a cracker supposed to locate a prospective lynching victim?

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Is Southern Conservatism Just Plain Old Racism?

Why did the Democratic “Solid South” of old become such a stronghold of Republican strength? Lyndon Johnson, one of the smartest Southern politicians ever, had no doubt in his mind — “There goes the South for a generation,” he reportedly said, after signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

But the South was already halfway out the door at the time. Missouri, with a fair amount of Southern culture in its veins, is nonetheless a border state, home to Harry Truman, whoseenunciation of a civil rights agenda (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/truman-civilrights/), followed by integration of the armed forces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981) and strong civil rights platform in 1948 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_presidential_election#Democratic_Convention), led to the walkout of the Dixiecrats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat), which cost him a dramatic 20 percent drop in the share of the Southern vote from where it had been in 1944. That launched a transitional era that is strangely lost to most who ponder such things today.

what exactly is meant by “small-government conservatism”?

And how does that square with the fact that Southern states almost universally get far more money from the federal government than they send in by way of taxes?

And finally, how to explain the findings in a2005 paper by Nicholas Valentino and David Sears (http://web.posc.jmu.edu/seminar/readings/4a-realignment/race+party%20realignment%20in%20the%20south%20old% 20times%20not%20forgotten.pdf), which found that “whites residing in the old Confederacy continue to display more racial antagonism and ideological conservatism than non-Southern whites,” and that “Racial conservatism has become linked more closely to presidential voting and party identification over time in the white South”?

But there’s also another problem with the “it’s-not-race-it’s-principled-small-government-conservatism” explanation — namely that race and small government conservatism are inextricably linked.

This is not to say that all small government conservatives are racists. But it is to say that racial attitudes and attitudes toward robust government activism are strongly linked, statistically;

the more positive (or negative) your attitudes toward activist government are, the more positive (or negative) your attitudes toward blacks are likely to be, and vice versa as well.

Negative racial attitudes manifest both in terms of opposition to black political power, and in blaming blacks for their subordinate status. If this sounds like a damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don’t sort of situation, you’re right. That’s exactly what it is.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/southern-conservatism-just-plain-old-racism

[RandomGuy]

Paul Ryan’s claim that black people have “bad culture”, may be genetically defective, and do not have “normal” “middle class” values about the merits of “hard work”, is a simple channeling of legendary Republican strategist Lee Atwater’s tactics for mobilizing white voters by leveraging their hostility to black Americans.



That many in the GOP don't see it that way is a problem and of itself.

Ryan, to his credit has realized that his "makers and takers" spiel is horribly condescending.

Not that I would vote for him, but he did move the needle with the previews that I read in his book.

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That many in the GOP don't see it that way is a problem and of itself.

Ryan, to his credit has realized that his "makers and takers" spiel is horribly condescending.

Not that I would vote for him, but he did move the needle with the previews that I read in his book.

"many in the GOP don't see it that way is a problem" but those "many" won't vote out the Repugs that do see it that way.

Paul and his handlers know we must must move to center to get elected, like by ghost-writing a carefully dishonest book incompatible with his many years of bullshit, but moving to center is not in the direction the Repugs have been, are moving.

I can't find any history that RP has been providing free eye care abroad, so I consider this trip to Guatemala nothing but a campaign/publicity stunt. As an isolationist, I'm sure he's all for reducing/killing US foreign aid (that isn't military aid, even he won't touch the MICs honeypots).

Any needle moving has been by default since there's nobody else in the Repug field, which says how fantastically WEAK the entire Repug field is nationally, including RP.

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The GOP's Worst Race-baiting Ad Since Willie Horton

http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/horton.png

In the race for Nebraska's second congressional district, Republicans have just put up a new television spot that seems like Willie Horton all over again—or Willie Horton 2.0.

The ad shows an image of Bradford next to a picture of Nikko Jenkins, who was imprisoned for armed robbery and assault but then was released under a Nebraska law that allows early release for good behavior; Jenkins went on to murder multiple people.

The ad blames Bradford (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/lee-terry-brad-ashford-111981.html) for not restricting the Nebraska law that allows early release, and by extension seems to place blame on him for the murders.

And of course, the imagery of Bradford, next to a black, tattoo-adorned black convict is the money shot – its racial connotations are immediately obvious in a state where only about five percent of the population is black (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/31000.html).

http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/watch-gops-worst-race-baiting-ad-willie-horton

The RNC must run this ad, for ONE DISTRICT!, because NEBRASKA is so dangerously PURPLE! :lol

ok, ok, you rednecks want to claim that the Repugs "aren't assholes", but all y'all's politicians are SURELY racist. :lol

Also, almost-moderate-on-immigration McLiar has mostly admitted Repug xenophobia/racism has now totally destroyed any hope for immigration reform.

[RandomGuy]

YLRx3YzqwPU

The kinda shit they say when they think no one is looking.

[Yonivore]

Yeah, Republicans are the racists...

Black Republicans break barriers: Mia Love and Tim Scott win big (http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/black-republicans-break-barriers-mia-love-and-tim-scott-win-big)

Meanwhile, back on the Democrat Plantation...

Are African Americans Abandoning Democratic Party? (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/10/28/are-african-americans-abandoning-democratic-party/)

African-Americans seem to finally be waking up to the fact they've been used and abused by the Democrat Party for decades

BUSRZo1BE5o

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Yeah, Republicans are the racists...

Black Republicans break barriers: Mia Love and Tim Scott win big (http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/black-republicans-break-barriers-mia-love-and-tim-scott-win-big)

Meanwhile, back on the Democrat Plantation...

Are African Americans Abandoning Democratic Party? (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/10/28/are-african-americans-abandoning-democratic-party/)

African-Americans seem to finally be waking up to the fact they've been used and abused by the Democrat Party for decades



A few steppin fetchit Uncle Tom's who figured out they could be the racist Repugs token blacks, yep, that's really flipped the racist Repugs into black-hugging Repugs. :lol

What have the Repugs done, plan to do, to help blacks?

cut pollution around black communities?

decriminalize mj, the cops' favorite tool for "n!gg@ fryin" ?

increase the federal minimum wage?

pass the VAWA?

keep/expand school breakfast/lunch support?

protect child health insurance?

expand pre-K?

expand medicaid?

yes, the Repugs are fantastic supporters, protectors, enrichers of non-white, non-wealthy non-Euro-Americans.

Repugs are the party of racists, period. The Repug base is the racist Confederacy and racist rural WHITEs.

and what have Dems done to "abuse" blacks? :lol

[Yonivore]

A few steppin fetchit Uncle Tom's who figured out they could be the racist Repugs token blacks...
Who's the racist?

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The GOP's Worst Race-baiting Ad Since Willie Horton

http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/horton.png

In the race for Nebraska's second congressional district, Republicans have just put up a new television spot that seems like Willie Horton all over again—or Willie Horton 2.0.

The ad shows an image of Bradford next to a picture of Nikko Jenkins, who was imprisoned for armed robbery and assault but then was released under a Nebraska law that allows early release for good behavior; Jenkins went on to murder multiple people.

The ad blames Bradford (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/lee-terry-brad-ashford-111981.html) for not restricting the Nebraska law that allows early release, and by extension seems to place blame on him for the murders.

And of course, the imagery of Bradford, next to a black, tattoo-adorned black convict is the money shot – its racial connotations are immediately obvious in a state where only about five percent of the population is black (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/31000.html).

http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/watch-gops-worst-race-baiting-ad-willie-horton

The RNC must run this ad, for ONE DISTRICT!, because NEBRASKA is so dangerously PURPLE! :lol

ok, ok, you rednecks want to claim that the Repugs "aren't assholes", but all y'all's politicians are SURELY racist. :lol

Also, almost-moderate-on-immigration McLiar has mostly admitted Repug xenophobia/racism has now totally destroyed any hope for immigration reform.



Is that Nikko Jenkins or not? If it is then what are you possibly complaining about

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Who's the racist?

Repugs, bubbas, SOUTHERN Baptist Convention (created with the Confederacy), rednecks, rurals, "patriots", gun fellators, the entire Repug base.

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Repugs, bubbas, SOUTHERN Baptist Convention (created with the Confederacy), rednecks, rurals, "patriots", gun fellators, the entire Repug base.
Are you White? Then get on board with the other Whites.

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“It’s symbolic annihilation of history, and it’s done for a purpose. It really enforces white supremacy”: Edward Baptist on the lies we tell about slavery

Edward Baptist on horrifying truth that we memorialize Confederate soldiers and not Americans who died enslaved

there were profits, of course, and large ones. Slavery, after all, is a cost-efficient way to extract labor from human beings. It’s an exceptionally brutal flavor of capitalism. And it worked: In 1860, the U.S.’s four wealthiest states were all in the deep South. After the Civil War, though, white Americans found ways to downplay the profit motive. “Above all, the historians of a reunified nation insisted that slavery was a premodern institution that was not committed to profit seeking,”

Baptist traces the flow of human capital from the Atlantic seaboard to the cotton fields of the deep South. He describes how slavers used whippings to extract more work from their property. He details how slave labor and loans secured with human collateral helped drive the industrial revolution.

These observations aren’t new. Baptist’s real achievement is to ground these financial abstractions in the lives of ordinary people. In vivid passages, he describes the sights, smells and suffering of slavery. He writes about individual families torn apart by global markets. Above all, Baptist sets out to show how America’s rise to power is inextricable from the suffering of black slaves.

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/09/it%E2%80%99s_symbolic_annihilation_of_history_and_ it%E2%80%99s_done_for_a_purpose_it_really_enforces _white_supremacy_edward_baptist_on_the_lies_we_tel l_about_slavery/

and we have right here on ST right-wing assholes who claim the Civil War wasn't about slavery! :lol

[Yonivore]

Repugs, bubbas, SOUTHERN Baptist Convention (created with the Confederacy), rednecks, rurals, "patriots", gun fellators, the entire Repug base.

The same that sent this man to the U. S. Senate by nearly 25 points?


http://c0.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_slideshow/public/election_304.jpg?itok=KVhSkpZe

Black Republican Scott making history with landslide win (http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141104/PC1603/141109735)

[angrydude]

Republicans hate blacks so much they keep electing them to congress.

[angrydude]

YLRx3YzqwPU

The kinda shit they say when they think no one is looking.

You're the one making the connection between black people and food stamps. He just called the democratic base poor.

[RandomGuy]

You're the one making the connection between black people and food stamps. He just called the democratic base poor.

I'm going to take a stab, and guess you aren't familiar with the particular areas of Houston the guy was referring to.

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Republicans hate blacks so much they keep electing them to congress.

there's always a steppin' fetchit / Uncle Tom, who like Repug base, votes/politics against his/its own best interest.

[RandomGuy]

The same that sent this man to the U. S. Senate by nearly 25 points?


http://c0.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_slideshow/public/election_304.jpg?itok=KVhSkpZe

Black Republican Scott making history with landslide win (http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141104/PC1603/141109735)

Mr. Scott was appointed rather specifically by the Governor to replace Jim DeMint, and ran against a mostly inactive opponent in the primary.

Window dressing given overall minority participation in the GOP, but a good first step.

Wake me up when the GOP picks him to run for president, winning active primaries against the rich white guys, and token Palins.

[RandomGuy]

Yeah, Republicans are the racists...

Black Republicans break barriers: Mia Love and Tim Scott win big (http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/black-republicans-break-barriers-mia-love-and-tim-scott-win-big)

Meanwhile, back on the Democrat Plantation...

Are African Americans Abandoning Democratic Party? (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/10/28/are-african-americans-abandoning-democratic-party/)

African-Americans seem to finally be waking up to the fact they've been used and abused by the Democrat Party for decades

BUSRZo1BE5o

Democrats should not take the black vote for granted, but I would hardly call them "abused", spin-boy.

[Yonivore]

Democrats should not take the black vote for granted, but I would hardly call them "abused", spin-boy.
I believe "abused" were their words, not mine.

Here's another example from another black Democrat "Uncle Tom" (as Boutons would call him) in another state, Ohio.

ZovQrbyjEaY

"I understand what the focus is, that you want to have people together so you can manage them like they’re on a plantation. That’s just unacceptable. It’s insulting to my intelligence. It’s insulting to the people who honor me with the opportunity of serving a community and serving in the Ohio House of Representatives. You can’t have a process where you tell people, ‘You’re black, you go over here.’ It’s almost telling me I have to go in the back door of a restaurant."

Again, his words - not mine.

[RandomGuy]

I believe "abused" were their words, not mine.

Here's another example from another black Democrat "Uncle Tom" (as Boutons would call him) in another state, Ohio.

ZovQrbyjEaY

"I understand what the focus is, that you want to have people together so you can manage them like they’re on a plantation. That’s just unacceptable. It’s insulting to my intelligence. It’s insulting to the people who honor me with the opportunity of serving a community and serving in the Ohio House of Representatives. You can’t have a process where you tell people, ‘You’re black, you go over here.’ It’s almost telling me I have to go in the back door of a restaurant."

Again, his words - not mine.

LOL Tu Quoque.

Keep 'em coming.

Maybe you could get Mr. Scott a committee chair:
http://www.sccdp.org/sites/default/files/House-Gop-Chairs.jpg

Or put him next to the new incoming senate majority leader like Boener did with this group:

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/01/housegop-republican-party-westcott.jpg

[RandomGuy]

dZh6WGbZUvA

Not, of course, an elected official, but a Republican nonetheless.

[RandomGuy]

TEXAS REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE URGES BORDER RESIDENTS TO SHOOT ‘WETBACKS’ ON SIGHT


South Texas businessman Chris Mapp, 53, told this editorial board that ranchers should be allowed to shoot on sight anyone illegally crossing the border on to their land, referred to such people as “wetbacks,” and called the president a “socialist son of a bitch.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20140216-editorial-we-recommend-john-cornyn-in-gop-primary-for-the-u.s.-senate.ece


Not quite an elected official either. Wonder how long it will take before I find one... macacca aside.

[RandomGuy]

“My dad, as you probably know, was the governor of Michigan and was the head of a car company. But he was born in Mexico… and had he been born of, uh, Mexican parents, I’d have a better shot at winning this. But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. He lived there for a number of years. I mean, I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.”

To which a rejoinder from an actual Latino:


“It’s not about being a Latino that would make Romney a better candidate,” Gonzalez said. “Latinos, and all Americans, look at the substance of a candidate’s proposals to determine who is the better candidate and who best represents the priorities of their community.

[RandomGuy]

To be clear:

Not all Republicans are slobbering neo-nazi's.

What is most definitely there is a rather subtle undercurrent, a result of the Southern strategy.

I might have posted that here before.

If not for those interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy


Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[13] but merely popularized it.[14] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[2]

[elbamba]

To which a rejoinder from an actual Latino:

The Gonzales quote is crap. You could stop any 20 people on the street and they would not know the substance of what a candidate stands for. That goes for Republicans or Democrats, minorities and non-minorities. Romney was wrong because being a minority in the Republican party does not guarantee you votes from whatever minority one belongs. Rubio running for office would not guarantee him Mexican-American votes.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

To which a rejoinder from an actual Latino:

If only that were true.

[boutons_deux]

To be clear:

Not all Republicans are slobbering neo-nazi's.

What is most definitely there is a rather subtle undercurrent, a result of the Southern strategy.

I might have posted that here before.

If not for those interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

"The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South," is not the point. the more blacks that were ALLOWED access to the polls by the VRA and voted Dem, the more white Dem racists, Confederate Dems vs. Lincolns' Federal Yankee Republicans, switched to Repugs, with Repug encouragement/"southern strategy", turning the moderate Republican party interested in actually governing into the extremist, racist Repug party of today wholly not interested in governing, but rather destroying those parts of govt that don't enrich Repugs' paymasters.

[Yonivore]

TEXAS REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATE URGES BORDER RESIDENTS TO SHOOT ‘WETBACKS’ ON SIGHT



http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20140216-editorial-we-recommend-john-cornyn-in-gop-primary-for-the-u.s.-senate.ece


Not quite an elected official either. Wonder how long it will take before I find one... macacca aside.
Look for some Joe Biden quotes.

[RandomGuy]

Look for some Joe Biden quotes.

Meh. I already regret playing the gotcha game that you seem to like. I personally find it a bit juvenile. You might have some emotional need for it, but I generally don't feel it is productive.

I think there is more than enough evidence that there is a pretty solid core of outright racists within the Republican party, and a subtle undertone of racism in a lot of right-wing rhetoric. To be accurate and honest: not all Republicans are racist.

Again, I will be happy to admit Democrats have their own problems. It is a big party. Even so, they are relatively minor.

On balance though, Republican priorities and policy preferences actively harm people trying to wade out of the historic economic mire that the very blatant racism of our country's past have left a lot of non-whites in. This is the real reason that non-whites vote Democratic, they recognize this instinctively. Republicans, in general, simply do not represent their interests. Not to say Democrats do a perfect job. We don't, and I think we could do a far better job of it.

A good litmus test of this will be the next presidential election, after there is no longer an historic black candidate running.

[Yonivore]

Meh. I already regret playing the gotcha game that you seem to like. I personally find it a bit juvenile. You might have some emotional need for it, but I generally don't feel it is productive.
Nope. I wasn't playing "gotcha," you were. I merely posted hard evidence there are black Democrats that finally see what you refuse or fail to ... That it is Democrat policies that tend to enslave minorities to government dependency. That it is Democrats that have taken the minority vote for granted and, as such, have made promises they can neither keep nor ever intended to, in the first place.


I think there is more than enough evidence that there is a pretty solid core of outright racists within the Republican party, and a subtle undertone of racism in a lot of right-wing rhetoric. To be accurate and honest: not all Republicans are racist.

Again, I will be happy to admit Democrats have their own problems. It is a big party. Even so, they are relatively minor.

On balance though, Republican priorities and policy preferences actively harm people trying to wade out of the historic economic mire that the very blatant racism of our country's past have left a lot of non-whites in. This is the real reason that non-whites vote Democratic, they recognize this instinctively. Republicans, in general, simply do not represent their interests. Not to say Democrats do a perfect job. We don't, and I think we could do a far better job of it.

A good litmus test of this will be the next presidential election, after there is no longer an historic black candidate running.
We simply disagree on the point that it is Republicans or conservative policy that is racist. Republican, conservative, and libertarian policies tend to attempt to even the playing field -- ensuring that everyone is judged by the content of their character, instead of the color of their skin. It is only Democrats that claim there are races that should be treated differently.

All those people holding fire hoses in the 60's? Democrats...like Robert "Sheets" Byrd.

I would like to see how you reconcile a Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Ben Carson, Mia Love, or Tim Scott with the notion that it is the Republican or conservative ideology that is racist.

The five black Democrats in the two videos I posted have explained why it is the Democrat or liberal ideology that is racist. And, people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, and Eric Holder continue to perpetuate the policies and ideology that continues to keep blacks on the "Plantation" of Government Dependency. If they don't vote Democrat, they may lose their Obamaphones.

[DarrinS]

Dems holding onto this narrative by their fingernails.

[boutons_deux]

Dems holding onto this narrative by their fingernails.

narrative? as in revisionist bullshit? :lol Repugs as the party wealthy Euro-American racists IS PROVEN HISTORY, and ongoing.

[boutons_deux]

Chris Rock is right: White Americans are a lot less racist than they used to be.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/01/chris-rock-is-right-white-americans-are-a-lot-less-racist-than-they-used-to-be/?tid=pm_business_pop

Of course, Chris isn't referring the hard-core racist/xenophobic/nativist red-state, rural base of the Repug party.

[DarrinS]

Chris Rock is right: White Americans are a lot less racist than they used to be.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/01/chris-rock-is-right-white-americans-are-a-lot-less-racist-than-they-used-to-be/?tid=pm_business_pop

Of course, Chris isn't referring the hard-core racist/xenophobic/nativist red-state, rural base of the Repug party.




boutons and RandomGuy -- birds of a feather

[Trill Clinton]

chris rock is a genius. here are some good vids:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdSsBYO1oNI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDYlh28hQSE

[Uriel]

The problem with this thread is that many people on SpursTalk (particularly the NBA Forum) are not only racist, but make no pretensions of hiding it.

[Uriel]

Meh. I already regret playing the gotcha game that you seem to like. I personally find it a bit juvenile. You might have some emotional need for it, but I generally don't feel it is productive.

I think there is more than enough evidence that there is a pretty solid core of outright racists within the Republican party, and a subtle undertone of racism in a lot of right-wing rhetoric. To be accurate and honest: not all Republicans are racist.

Again, I will be happy to admit Democrats have their own problems. It is a big party. Even so, they are relatively minor.

On balance though, Republican priorities and policy preferences actively harm people trying to wade out of the historic economic mire that the very blatant racism of our country's past have left a lot of non-whites in. This is the real reason that non-whites vote Democratic, they recognize this instinctively. Republicans, in general, simply do not represent their interests. Not to say Democrats do a perfect job. We don't, and I think we could do a far better job of it.

A good litmus test of this will be the next presidential election, after there is no longer an historic black candidate running.
Yeah, just a historic woman candidate. :lol

[boutons_deux]

The same that sent this man to the U. S. Senate by nearly 25 points?


http://c0.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/styles/homepage_slideshow/public/election_304.jpg?itok=KVhSkpZe

Black Republican Scott making history with landslide win (http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141104/PC1603/141109735)


black on black crime

[Dirk Oneanddoneski]

Found RandomCuck and jewtons :lol

MR0FT9oTRr4

[TheSanityAnnex]

Found RandomCuck and jewtons :lol

MR0FT9oTRr4

That is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Thanks.

[spurraider21]

dZh6WGbZUvA

Not, of course, an elected official, but a Republican nonetheless.
does this mean if i find an evil person that is a democrat, that i can smear their party and all members of it?

[Yonivore]

does this mean if i find an evil person that is a democrat, that i can smear their party and all members of it?

Democrats are child predators...

https://lintvkoin.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/terry-bean-and-obama.jpg?w=650

I'm sorry, I forgot the obligatory, "Not, of course, an elected official, but a Democrat nonetheless."

[boutons_deux]

Democrats are child predators...

https://lintvkoin.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/terry-bean-and-obama.jpg?w=650

I'm sorry, I forgot the obligatory, "Not, of course, an elected official, but a Democrat nonetheless."

child predation isn't a Dem strategy

racism, both black and brown, voter suppression/intimidation, gerrymandering IS a Repug strategy.

[Yonivore]

child predation isn't a Dem strategy

racism, both black and brown, voter suppression/intimidation, gerrymandering IS a Repug strategy.
Racism isn't a Republican strategy

Child predation IS a Democrat strategy.

See how that works, boutons. Anyone can say any shit they want. Doesn't make it true.

[boutons_deux]

Racism isn't a Republican strategy

Child predation IS a Democrat strategy.

See how that works, boutons. Anyone can say any shit they want. Doesn't make it true.

the 2007 housing crisis was caused by the big bad govt CRA forcing banks to write toxic mortages. see how that works?

that you deny: "racism, both black and brown, voter suppression/intimidation, gerrymandering IS a Repug strategy" shows what a Repug/VRWC checkbox propaganda tool you are.

There's tons of evidence that racism is a Repug strategy. What evidence do you think you have the child predation is a Dem strategy?

[Yonivore]

the 2007 housing crisis was caused by the big bad govt CRA forcing banks to write toxic mortages. see how that works?

that you deny: "racism, both black and brown, voter suppression/intimidation, gerrymandering IS a Repug strategy" shows what a Repug/VRWC checkbox propaganda tool you are.

There's tons of evidence that racism is a Repug strategy.
Your tons of evidence?


What evidence do you think you have the child predation is a Dem strategy?
https://lintvkoin.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/terry-bean-and-obama.jpg?w=650

[boutons_deux]

Your tons of evidence?


https://lintvkoin.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/terry-bean-and-obama.jpg?w=650

a single criminal is NOT a party's political strategy. :lol

goddam, you simple-minded right-wing pricks take all the fun out my bitch slapping y'all.

[Yonivore]

a single criminal is NOT a party's political strategy. :lol

goddam, you simple-minded right-wing pricks take all the fun out my bitch slapping y'all.
So, where's your "tons of evidence" Republicans are the party of racists?

You do realize, of course, Bull Conner and George Wallace were Democrats, right? And, you also realize, the KKK was a group of Democrats out to undermine the Republican abolition movement, no?

[boutons_deux]

So, where's your "tons of evidence" Republicans are the party of racists?

You do realize, of course, Bull Conner and George Wallace were Democrats, right? And, you also realize, the KKK was a group of Democrats out to undermine the Republican abolition movement, no?

:lol I'll deal with you later, boy. You're pretty clever, but your right-wing ideology makes you stupid.

And next tell us how Repug Lincoln freed the slaves! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Court tosses case after prosecutor recites pro-slavery ‘Dixie’ song at black man’s lewd conduct trial

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ktrv_kaillin_141230a-3-800x430.jpgPOTATO FED! LOL

The Idaho Court of Appeals ruled this week that a prosecutor had inspired enough racism in jurors by citing a pro-slavery Civil War anthem to convince them to unfairly convict a black man.

While prosecuting James D. Kirk in 2013 for felony lewd conduct with a 17-year-old girl and sexual battery of a 13-year-old girl, Canyon County Deputy Prosecutor Erica Kallin paraphrased the lyrics to “Dixie” to make the point that defense attorneys were hoping that jurors would ignore certain evidence, the Idaho Statesmen reported (http://magicvalley.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/appeals-court-overturns-conviction-after-prosecutor-recited-confederate-anthem/article_7e747601-5a2f-55d2-88ab-f6ec65bf47ae.html).

“‘Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton. Good times not forgotten. Look away. Look away. Look away,’” Kallin told the jurors. “And isn’t that really what you’ve kind of been asked to do? Look away from the two eyewitnesses. Look away from the two victims. Look away from the nurse and her medical opinion. Look away. Look away.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/court-tosses-case-after-prosecutor-recites-pro-slavery-dixie-song-at-black-mans-lewd-conduct-trial/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

fucking red states!

[Trill Clinton]

is there a thread on steve scalise being exposed as a white supremacist?

[boutons_deux]

Boner, in a huge vote-getting gesture to blacks, supports Scalise.

[scott]

But his best friend is black I heard

[boutons_deux]

is there a thread on steve scalise being exposed as a white supremacist?

it's Louisiana, it's the Confederacy, it's racist Repugs.

[boutons_deux]

freak show gun fellator news

Gun Owners of America chief blames ‘small group of black leftists’ for racism in America

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Gun-Owners-of-America-executive-director-Larry-Pratt-Screenshow-800x430.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/gun-owners-of-america-chief-blames-small-group-of-black-leftists-for-racism-in-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

:lol fucking hilarious as you assholes self-ridicule

[Winehole23]

David Duke (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/david-duke/), the former head of the Ku Klux Klan (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/ku-klux-klan/), sent out a somewhat ominous message to Republican Party operatives to treat Rep. Steve Scalise (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/steve-scalise/) fairly, or he’ll start naming names of others in the political arena with whom he’s met and maintained ties.

“If Scalise is going to be crucified — if Republicans want to throw (http://fusion.net/story/36233/steve-scalise-david-duke-euro/)Steve Scalise (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/steve-scalise/) to the woods, then a lot of them betterhttp://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/david-duke-ex-kkker-gop-back-steve-scalise-or-else/#) be looking over their shoulders,” Mr. Duke (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/david-duke/) said, Fusion reported.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/david-duke-ex-kkker-gop-back-steve-scalise-or-else/#ixzz3NVIJF51L

[boutons_deux]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/david-duke-ex-kkker-gop-back-steve-scalise-or-else/#ixzz3NVIJF51L





The Repugs know they need their racist base all over the country, so I don't expect Scalise to be crucified.

[RandomGuy]

So, where's your "tons of evidence" Republicans are the party of racists?

You do realize, of course, Bull Conner and George Wallace were Democrats, right? And, you also realize, the KKK was a group of Democrats out to undermine the Republican abolition movement, no?

What's funny is that those people would all identify as Republicans in the modern era. The Southern Strategy worked all too well.

[RandomGuy]

One for the "Where the white women at?" files:

Maine Gov. Paul LePage Says Drug Dealers Named “D-Money” Are Impregnating White Girls


Although Maine Gov. Paul LePage intended on finding solutions for his state's drug problem during a Wednesday night town hall in Bridgton, the Republican's racially charged comments regarding how heroin enters the state stole the show. "These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, these types of guys, they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home," the 67-year old governor told the audience. "Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road."

A LePage spokesperson said "race is irrelevant" in a statement to ABC News. "What is relevant is the cost to state taxpayers for welfare and the emotional costs for these kids who are born as a result of involvement with drug traffickers," the statement continued.

LePage is no stranger to controversial statements. In 2011, he disagreed with the Maine Board of Environmental Protection recommendation to ban the chemical bisphenol A in plastics available in Maine, saying, "The only thing that I've heard is if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and you heat it up, it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. So the worst case is some women may have little beards," according to Bangor Daily News.

http://news.yahoo.com/maine-gov-paul-lepage-says-004025921.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qJyRQ3GsKcQ/UJWl3Dzc6iI/AAAAAAAAGW8/EqMpRAfA6ew/s640/facepalm-bert.jpg

[boutons_deux]

One for the "Where the white women at?" files:

Maine Gov. Paul LePage Says Drug Dealers Named “D-Money” Are Impregnating White Girls


Lepage won because Maine elects gov by plurarity, no runoff, so the two progressive candidates total vote was much bigger than Lepage's.

This big greasebag is also being considered by the legislature for censure or impeachment for using defunding for political retribution, just like TX's own corrupt JimmyRicky.

[DarrinS]

What's funny is that those people would all identify as Republicans in the modern era. The Southern Strategy worked all too well.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/uncategorized/7/71/197517/the-myth-of-a-gop-southern-strategy
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html

[boutons_deux]

http://chicago.suntimes.com/uncategorized/7/71/197517/the-myth-of-a-gop-southern-strategy
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html

both articles are total bullshit.

Southern racist Dems converted to racist Repug in reaction the to the 50's, '60s rights progress for blacks, NOT because Repugs offered better economics! :lol

Proof: the slave, red states are STILL well under the wealth levels of the other states, got/get nothing but financial screws from the Repugs.

[CosmicCowboy]

both articles are total bullshit.

Southern racist Dems converted to racist Repug in reaction the to the 50's, '60s rights progress for blacks, NOT because Repugs offered better economics! :lol

Proof: the slave, red states are STILL well under the wealth levels of the other states, got/get nothing but financial screws from the Repugs.

Your red/blue wealth premise totally destroyed....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/04/solved-why-poor-states-are-red-and-rich-states-are-blue/

[boutons_deux]

Your red/blue wealth premise totally destroyed....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/01/04/solved-why-poor-states-are-red-and-rich-states-are-blue/

Forbes Capitalist Tool destroyed: http://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-in-red-vs-blue-states-2015-7

right to work slave, red states have lower wages than union states

etc, etc, etc.

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao

"neighborhood advantage score"

clips top ten and bottom ten and ignores 80% of the population.

Talk about cherry picking...:lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Does anyone here take CC or especially DarrinS at their word? Feel comfortable in their ability to relate links accurately?

I know I find them lacking credibility or honor.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I mean CC is trying to act like the GOP isn't the industrialists party. Boutox pust up a direct rebuttal that refutes his study by name and claims the following


The economic distress was determined by examining seven variables in over 25,000 ZIP codes: educational attainment, housing-vacancy rates, unemployment rates, poverty levels, median-income ratios, percent changes in employment, and percent change in establishments.

The city with the highest inequality rate is Dallas, Texas, which has not voted for a Democratic candidate for president since 1976, when it voted in favor of Jimmy Carter.

According to the Post, these are the top 10 cities with a population above 400,000 that have the biggest economic disparity (in no particular order, except for Dallas): Dallas, Austin, Fresno, Phoenix, Omaha, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Memphis, Indianapolis and Louisville.

Fresno is the only city in that group located in a blue state, with 48% of the population living in distressed areas. The least unequal city in terms of economic differences is Erie, which is in the blue state of Pennsylvania.

But among the 10 most distressed large cities in the US, six are in blue states (Fresno, Las Vegas, Chicago, Milwaukee, Baltimore and Detroit) and four are in red states (Tucson, Memphis, Houston and Atlanta). The Economic Innovation Group outlined the metrics for measuring economic distress below:

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/559a97f4ecad0493024b5c44-1200-1000/cities%20and%20explainer%20(1).jpg

Now I'm sure that our local bubba will try and paint me as insignificant and try to play word games with my name. He really sucks at argumentation. You can tell he is used to browbeating employees,women, and children conditioned not to question him. He definitely likes yes men.

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao

And fuzzy cuts and pastes around where they explained their premise demographic. Typical lack of intellectual honesty.

[DMX7]

What the heck is EIG?

[DarrinS]

What the heck is EIG?

Matlab fuction for eigenvalues and eigenvectors, tbh

[CosmicCowboy]

Inequality was calculated by determining a "neighborhood advantage score" based on household income, homeownership rates, housing values, and college attainment and then comparing the top 10% of Census tracts to the bottom 10% across the US.

They excluded 80% of the demographic

[boutons_deux]

‘You lost 150 years ago’: NAACP crushes Georgia governor for silence on GOPer’s KKK ‘rebranding’

The Georgia chapter of the NAACP lashed out at Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) this week after he refused to condemn a state lawmaker for praising the Ku Klux Klan.During an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/top-ga-lawmaker-criticized-for-klan-comments/nqFFF/) last month, state Rep. Tommy BeMont (R) accused those who want to remove Civil War symbols of “cultural terrorism.”

BeMont argued that the KKK had been unfairly maligned because it “was not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order.” :lol

“It made a lot of people straighten up,” he insisted. “I’m not saying what they did was right. It’s just the way things were.”

On Tuesday, members of Georgia’s NAACP chapter pointed out that Gov. Nathan Deal had refused to rebuke the lawmaker’s “continued assertion of white supremacy.”

“Are you on the side of those neo-confederates who want to glorify a lost cause or are you on the side of Georgia that wants to move forward?” NAACP President Francys Johnson said. “Which side are you on, Gov. Deal?”

“These sorts of ridiculously extreme comments defending the indefensible, the murderous, thuggish band of anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-god-fearing KKK is just beyond absurd.”

Johnson added: “These are individuals who are trying to relaunch an effort to win a war they lost 150 years ago. And that’s sad, and that’s pathetic.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/you-lost-150-years-ago-naacp-crushes-georgia-governor-for-silence-on-gopers-kkk-rebranding/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

:lol How many whites did the KKK murder or lynch? :

Once a slave state, ....

[boutons_deux]

Fox News opens Black History Month by insulting black voters: “Blacks have shown a slave - ish support for the Democrat party”

Fox hosted a black conservative to call black voters "political dummies"

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/01/fox_news_opens_black_history_month_by_insulting_bl ack_voters_blacks_have_shown_a_slavish_support_for _the_democrat_party/

Blacks would really have to be dummies and/or paid to vote Repug.

[spurraider21]

Well black Americans do vote very one-sided. And were black Americans significantly better off under Barry? I don't recall the news going ham about cop killings to this degree before

[boutons_deux]

Well black Americans do vote very one-sided. And were black Americans significantly better off under Barry? I don't recall the news going ham about cop killings to this degree before

Repugs have done even less for non-whites than they have for whites, duh.

Repugs are the party of racists, xenophobes, jingoists, white supremacists.

Blacks voting Dem because they don't want to be screwed by Repugs is much more intelligent than dumb whites voting Repug and not realizing Repugs screw them.

[spurraider21]

Well that did nothing to answer my question but I'm glad you got your slogans and talking points out

[boutons_deux]

Well that did nothing to answer my question but I'm glad you got your slogans and talking points out

significantly? a lot of them got access to subsidized health insurance and Medicaid.

Repugs blocked anything else that Barry tried to do that could have helped everybody, including blacks.

btw, Obama is President of all Americans, not just blacks. If he had done anything that significantly, specifically helped blacks, no doubt you rightwingnuts would have been whining, bitching, screaming racism.

[spurraider21]

You don't have to pass race-specifc legislation to benefit minorities. Even under aca blacks are significantly more likely to be uninsured than whites. Bernie would do more for black Americans than Obama ever did.

[boutons_deux]

You don't have to pass race-specifc legislation to benefit minorities. Even under aca blacks are significantly more likely to be uninsured than whites. Bernie would do more for black Americans than Obama ever did.

Bernie, or Hillary, won't be able to do shit because the Repug Congress will continue to obstruct all Dem bills.

I'd like to see the FEDERAL minimum wage raised to $25/hr over 10 years, and indexed to inflation and regional cost of living.

That would be a huge help to poor blacks, esp poor black single mothers. And below a certain income, a family would get free child care, since child care costs often eat nearly all the poor woman's take home pay. It doesn't pay some poor mothers to find work because child care is so expensive.

[spurraider21]

I'm in favor of min wage increases, but it has to be able incremental. Min wage workers demanding it go instantly up to $15 are nuts. I've worked the same part time job for a small business for year while in school, and I know how much money they generate. I'd be laid off before I ever saw 15 an hour I'd they went for that instant hike

[RandomGuy]

Donald Trump.

... 'nuff said.

[RandomGuy]

What, Congressman Steve King Asks, Have Nonwhites Done for Civilization?


“This whole ‘old white people’ business does get a little tired, Charlie. I’d ask you to go back through history and figure out where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you are talking about? Where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?”



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/politics/steve-king-nonwhite-subgroups.html?_r=0

um, yaaaaah.

[RandomGuy]

http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/-9Fl25R4xn6Crk3vgfNEpopCWhQ=/950x534/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fima ge%2F147972%2Fe26dd87651b047ce8f0321adddae12a4.png

How about Paul Ryan with the GOP interns?

Notice anything missing?

[RandomGuy]

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2718590.1469026597!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/interns.jpg

Maybe you can find it here.

[RandomGuy]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/18/11/3661C39B00000578-3695505-The_GOP_speaker_posted_a_picture_on_Instagram_capt ioned_I_think_-m-68_1468839586422.jpg

or... lets get a whiter, er wider angle view of the future of the GOP.

[vy65]

Not nearly sanctimonious enough ...

[DarrinS]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/18/11/3661C39B00000578-3695505-The_GOP_speaker_posted_a_picture_on_Instagram_capt ioned_I_think_-m-68_1468839586422.jpg

or... lets get a whiter, er wider angle view of the future of the GOP.



Obama campaign interns 2012

https://uncouthreflections.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/obama2012staff.png

[boutons_deux]

http://dcist.com/attachments/dcist_rsadon/201607_internphoto.jpg

http://dcist.com/2016/07/democratic_interns_flaunt_their_own.php#photo-1

[RandomGuy]

Not nearly sanctimonious enough ...

Maybe we should be letting the interns starve?

[RandomGuy]

Obama campaign interns 2012

https://uncouthreflections.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/obama2012staff.png

"staff".
obama2012staff.png

Local staff where exactly?

Context matters. Would this be as remarkable, that a locality that was predominantly white?

Why or why not?

How would that differ from a pool of candidates drawn from the entire country?

[RandomGuy]

Not nearly sanctimonious enough ...

Someone who blames poor people for being born poor calling someone else sanctimonious.

GMAFB

[vy65]

Maybe we should be letting the interns starve?

They look well fed to me.

[vy65]

Someone who blames poor people for being born poor calling someone else sanctimonious.

GMAFB

Virtue signal harder.

[tlongII]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/18/11/3661C39B00000578-3695505-The_GOP_speaker_posted_a_picture_on_Instagram_capt ioned_I_think_-m-68_1468839586422.jpg

or... lets get a whiter, er wider angle view of the future of the GOP.

I guess you don't like white people?

[RandomGuy]

I guess you don't like white people?

I like white people. Some of my best friends are white.

[RandomGuy]

Virtue signal harder.

Always happy to rub your nose in your despicable comments. Feel free to show a shred of humanity and regret wishing slow miserable deaths on children for something their parents did.

or not. Your call.

[RandomGuy]

Illinois senator rebuked for cringeworthy debate comment about opponent’s heritage

Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk is under fire for a racially charged quip made against Democratic challenger Rep. Tammy Duckworth after questioning her family’s military service.

During Thursday night’s debate, Duckworth, who was born in Thailand to a mother of Chinese descent and a white father from the United States, proudly cited the extensive record of military service on her father’s side of the family, stretching back to the dawn of the country.

Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran and former assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs, argued that it’s important that senators understand the burden carried by military families when debating whether to send the nation’s men and women in uniform into harm’s way.

“My family has served this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution. I’m a daughter of the American Revolution. I’ve bled for this nation,” she said at the University of Illinois in Springfield. “But I still want to be there in the Senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war, and I want to be there to say, ‘This is what it costs; this is what you’re asking us to do. And if that’s the case, I’ll go.’ Families like mine are the ones that bleed first.”

When it was Kirk’s turn to respond, the Republican uttered a single sentence that was intended to be a zinger but merely resulted in awkward silence: “I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington.”

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-senator-rebuked-for-cringe-worthy-debate-moment-about-opponents-heritage-142730072.html


(edit)

Looks like this is going to be a +1 Dem Senate seat, -1 GOP.

[RandomGuy]

Also:

Donald J. Trump.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/018/774/c54650b7278f88a3eeaa7aa7d5fce4f7.jpg

[boutons_deux]

They can't help themselves. And they don't even try.

Repug = racist, xenophobe, misogynist, liar.

[vy65]

Always happy to rub your nose in your despicable comments. Feel free to show a shred of humanity and regret wishing slow miserable deaths on children for something their parents did.

or not. Your call.

Your crusade is truly admirable. And not at all pathetic. You're having a real impact, keep it up...

Lol 7-21-2016

[DarrinS]

White devils, tbh

http://www.weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cu2zaRTXYAIbHO7.jpg

[DarrinS]

https://i.redd.it/ur1mixopn3cx.jpg

[RandomGuy]

https://i.redd.it/ur1mixopn3cx.jpg

??

Looks like meme I am not in on. Sorry.

[RandomGuy]

Your crusade is truly admirable. And not at all pathetic. You're having a real impact, keep it up...

Lol 7-21-2016

Meh. You have me confused with someone who is overly concerned about your posts. Sorry it was too delayed for you. :lol

[vy65]

Meh. You have me confused with someone who is overly concerned about your posts. Sorry it was too delayed for you. :lol

Fair enough, I was thinking of the guy who digs up my posts from 3 months to 3 years ago and shows them to his kids. Must be someone else.

[RandomGuy]

Fair enough, I was thinking of the guy who digs up my posts from 3 months to 3 years ago and shows them to his kids. Must be someone else.

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that.

The discussion was a good one with my kids, in terms of critical thinking and morals.

"Do you think it's moral to make children suffer and die for something their parents did?"
"No"

Pretty intuitive. We then talked about the basis for morals, in terms of harm, and how one can think though moral problems and so forth.

BjbdWGre370

Do you consider yourself a moral person?

[vy65]

:lmao

[RandomGuy]

:lmao

:lmao

My guess:

You weren't really serious, but are too much of a pussy to admit you were wrong.

Which is also funny.

[vy65]

I think you need to be much more concerned with what you show your kids (:lmao) and less about policing the morals of this forum. Or digging up posts of mine from years ago that still burn you.

Nice dig on calling me a pussy. What's next, you gonna ask me to fight tough guy?

[boutons_deux]

Why one Oklahoma lawmaker is targeting American Muslims

Oklahoma state Rep. John Bennett (R) called the executive director of the state chapter of an Islamic-American relations group a terrorist. Is this a political tool?

Remarks by one state legislator spurred a state hearing :lol this week to determine what threat "radical Islam" plays in Oklahoma.

accused a local imam and the state chapter leader of the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR) this week of being terrorists.

Only three lawmakers attended (http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/capitol_report/state-representative-brands-cair-ok-its-director-and-a-local/article_a8464102-f1a7-5389-afe1-12a9abd5c4c7.html) Bennett’s study to discuss his accusations, :lol

Chris Gaubatz, a security consultant with Guandolo's website, told attendees that CAIR’s real mission is to establish an Islamic state in the United States and destroy Western civilization. :lol

Less than 1 percent (http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-tradition/muslim/) of Oklahoma's population identifies as Muslim, while about 1 percent of American citizens nationwide, or 3.3 million people, practice Islam

just 14.6 percent of respondents to a Reuters/Ipsos survey following the San Bernardino terrorist attacks (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/1205/Can-Americans-separate-terrorism-from-Muslims-Yes-says-poll) last December said that they are fearful of Muslims, others say that anti-Muslim hate crimes are on the rise.

Bennett says he is currently working on legislation to evict CAIR from the state of Oklahoma :lol

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2016/1027/Why-one-Oklahoma-lawmaker-is-targeting-American-Muslims

Repugs! :lol Okie Repugs! :lol Okies! :lol

Bennet knows the low-wage, low-education white racist dumbfucks he's pandering to.

[cd021]

I like white people. Some of my best friends are white.

:lol I see what you did there.

[RandomGuy]

I think you need to be much more concerned with what you show your kids (:lmao) and less about policing the morals of this forum. Or digging up posts of mine from years ago that still burn you.

Nice dig on calling me a pussy. What's next, you gonna ask me to fight tough guy?

Nope. Not my thing.

Perhaps I should clarify what I mean by "pussy", since you appear unable to grasp the subtlety:

"pussy" = too concerned with appearing to be right all the time to admit mistakes

If you prefer:

"pussy" = intellectual/emotional coward

[RandomGuy]

:lol I see what you did there.

Thanks. Glad to see someone got it. :)

[spurraider21]

"pussy" = too concerned with appearing to be right all the time to admit mistakes

If you prefer:

"pussy" = intellectual/emotional cowardwhy do you associate females with being too concerned with appearing to be right all the time or intellectual cowardice?

[vy65]

We should all vote for Hillary because women need positive role models ...

[DMX7]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPxapsmUsAAyAmH.jpg:large

[AaronY]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPxapsmUsAAyAmH.jpg:large
fucking rofl

[baseline bum]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPxapsmUsAAyAmH.jpg:large

:rollin

[RandomGuy]

why do you associate females with being too concerned with appearing to be right all the time or intellectual cowardice?

(shrugs)

"wimp" then. The word is less important that the cowardice/insecurity.

[spurraider21]

Lol "I'm not sexist but I associate cowardice and insecurity with femininity "

[RandomGuy]

Lol "I'm not sexist but I associate cowardice and insecurity with femininity "

https://deshannonspeaks.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/keep-calm-and-try-again-444.png


Meh. Mea culpa.

Does this mean that there are a lot of racists in the republican party then?

[RandomGuy]

Nothing?

Didn't think so.

[boutons_deux]

wealthy black lady sings at Country Music Awards and ...

‘She hates cops, white people’: Internet bigots have white hot meltdown after Beyonce performs at CMAshttp://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/she-hates-cops-white-people-internet-bigots-have-white-hot-meltdown-after-beyonce-performs-at-cmas/

shitkickers, bubbas, cowboys just hate them uppity knitters.

[spurraider21]

Nothing?

Didn't think so.i dont actually think you're sexist... just pointing out it can be absurdly easy to find a bad comment and label somebody an -ist

[pgardn]

We should all vote for Hillary because women need positive role models ...

I thought we already had that in Michelle Obama.

[RandomGuy]

i dont actually think you're sexist... just pointing out it can be absurdly easy to find a bad comment and label somebody an -ist

It can be, indeed.

What do you think about what was said about Duckworth? Out of context or no? Racist or no?


“My family has served this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution. I’m a daughter of the American Revolution. I’ve bled for this nation,” she said at the University of Illinois in Springfield. “But I still want to be there in the Senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war, and I want to be there to say, ‘This is what it costs; this is what you’re asking us to do. And if that’s the case, I’ll go.’ Families like mine are the ones that bleed first.”


“I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington.”

[boutons_deux]

Slave State News

Trump-supporting Georgia governor rants about ‘colored people’ in speech about ‘failing schools’

“The irony of some of the groups who are opposing doing something to help these minority children is beyond my logic,” while referring to the NAACP. He continues, “If you want to advance the state of colored people, start with their children.”

He has previously used terminology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRuzGEry5n8), such as, “ghetto grandmothers.”

He once said during a panel discussion, “My wife tells me she could look at her 6th grade class and tell you which ones were going to prison and which ones were going to college.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/trump-supporting-georgia-governor-rants-about-colored-people-in-speech-about-failing-schools/

In the warped minds of slave stater Repugs, the failures of knitters are exclusively the fault of the knitters.

Here's the game: "We Repugs hate govt and knitters, so we fuck them up, to prove they are fucked up"

[spurraider21]

It can be, indeed.

What do you think about what was said about Duckworth? Out of context or no? Racist or no?it was certainly a misinformed comment. i'm assuming he was under the impression both her parents were from thailand. that doesn't necessarily mean he thinks white americans are better than thai people.

dude very well might be racist or prejudiced, but extrapolating that out of one poor-choice comment seems unfair

[DarrinS]

When people are actively looking for confirmation that racism is everywhere, idiotic shit like this happens

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/wait-whats-that-kkk-sign-doing-at-the-cubs-indians-game/

[boutons_deux]

it was certainly a misinformed comment. :lol

one poor-choice :lol

He's Repug, therefore, hewing NECESSARILY to party orthodoxy, he's misogynist and racist, and taking Trash's lead, he trashes the military.

[Trill Clinton]

wealthy black lady sings at Country Music Awards and ...

‘She hates cops, white people’: Internet bigots have white hot meltdown after Beyonce performs at CMAs

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/she-hates-cops-white-people-internet-bigots-have-white-hot-meltdown-after-beyonce-performs-at-cmas/

shitkickers, bubbas, cowboys just hate them uppity knitters.





the racism got so bad that the CMA's had to scrub anything beyonce related from their social media accounts smh.

794297812947271684

[Chucho]

Slave State News

Trump-supporting Georgia governor rants about ‘colored people’ in speech about ‘failing schools’

“The irony of some of the groups who are opposing doing something to help these minority children is beyond my logic,” while referring to the NAACP. He continues, “If you want to advance the state of colored people, start with their children.”

He has previously used terminology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRuzGEry5n8), such as, “ghetto grandmothers.”

He once said during a panel discussion, “My wife tells me she could look at her 6th grade class and tell you which ones were going to prison and which ones were going to college.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/trump-supporting-georgia-governor-rants-about-colored-people-in-speech-about-failing-schools/

In the warped minds of slave stater Repugs, the failures of knitters are exclusively the fault of the knitters.

Here's the game: "We Repugs hate govt and knitters, so we fuck them up, to prove they are fucked up"







You realize slave states were and still are the result of centuries of systematic genocide handed down by your disgusting slave master, string-pullers, right?

I love your bat-shit crazy sensationalism even though you are run of the mill, disgusting, racist deflective hate monger and supporter of a Facist regime.

[Chucho]

it was certainly a misinformed comment. :lol

one poor-choice :lol

He's Repug, therefore, hewing NECESSARILY to party orthodoxy, he's misogynist and racist, and taking Trash's lead, he trashes the military.


I just want to make sure we are staying consistent with your hypocrisy...

So it's OK to shit on the military when the Repugs are in charge and it's NOT OK to shit on the military IF A REPUG shits on it?

OK, got it.

[DarrinS]

the racism got so bad that the CMA's had to scrub anything beyonce related from their social media accounts smh.


There are racist trolls on the internet? No way!

[FuzzyLumpkins]

i dont actually think you're sexist... just pointing out it can be absurdly easy to find a bad comment and label somebody an -ist

Pussy comes from pussy cat which tend to be prone to a fear response.

You're trying very hard for the tit for tat response. Your preferred ideology is still full of white nationalists and misogynists.

[spurraider21]

Pussy comes from pussy cat which tend to be prone to a fear response.

You're trying very hard for the tit for tat response. Your preferred ideology is still full of white nationalists and misogynists.
thanks for informing me of what i believe in :tu

[FuzzyLumpkins]

thanks for informing me of what i believe in :tu

Again, you are prone to double speak and your assertions are not credible.

Your entire schtick is to disproportionately criticize liberals and pretend that you are moderate.

[spurraider21]

Again, you are prone to double speak and your assertions are not credible.

Your entire schtick is to disproportionately criticize liberals and pretend that you are moderate.
thanks for informing me of what i believe in :tu

i would offer you the chance to fill my ballot in for me, too, but i already mailed that in a couple weeks ago. actually, i still have my vote by mail instruction booklet here with all my selections marked in, shall we go through it one by one? you can correct me on the votes that contradict what you assert my views are

[DarrinS]

"A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags."

-Bill Clinton about a certain president

[RandomGuy]

"A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags."

-Bill Clinton about a certain president

... and now, you have a president actively supported by every white nationalist scumbag mother fucker, and active Nazis running on the Republican ticket.

[RandomGuy]

This guy, Richwine, who I've never heard of (until today), speaks for all conservatives, tbh.

Corey Stewart.

Want to see some pictures of this Republican Senatorial candidate chumming around with neo-nazis?

[boutons_deux]

Rep. Steve King Disparages New Orleans Katrina Flood Victims

The Iowa congressman claimed a FEMA official told him that

Hurricane Katrina victims only asked for help,

unlike Iowans who “take care of each other.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-king-new-orleans-katrina_n_5c93ddb2e4b0a6329e13d2ae?ncid=newsltushp mgnews__TheMorningEmail__032219

dog whistling to lillywhite IA: knitters bad, white people good.

and the shithole IA racists prove themselves racists by re-electing racist King for almost 20 years.

[RandomGuy]

Georgia county official: Interracial marriage ‘is not the way Christians are supposed to live’


ut when it comes to things like marriage, he said his Christian faith comes into play.

“I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage. That’s the way I was brought up and that’s the way I believe,” he said. “I have black friends, I hired black people. But when it comes to all this stuff you see on TV, when you see blacks and whites together, it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live.”
http://deadstate.org/georgia-county-official-interracial-marriage-is-not-the-way-christians-are-supposed-to-live/

[Trill Clinton]

Georgia county official: Interracial marriage ‘is not the way Christians are supposed to live’


http://deadstate.org/georgia-county-official-interracial-marriage-is-not-the-way-christians-are-supposed-to-live/

What Bible do these WASP's read?

[Pavlov]

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/councilmancleveland1-800x430.jpg

These assholes really can't die soon enough.

Any guesses as to how he voted for president in 2016?

[FrostKing]

Georgia county official: Interracial marriage ‘is not the way Christians are supposed to live’


http://deadstate.org/georgia-county-official-interracial-marriage-is-not-the-way-christians-are-supposed-to-live/
"AJC found that Mayor Theresa Kenerly told a City Council member that she barred Keith Henry from being among the four finalists for the job of city administrator “because he is black, and the city isn’t ready for this.”

Hoschton, which is about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, is a nearly all-white community."

Why the forced diversity? They CHOOSE in a supposed free society to live amongst Whites. Respect their personal choice,

[Pavlov]

"AJC found that Mayor Theresa Kenerly told a City Council member that she barred Keith Henry from being among the four finalists for the job of city administrator “because he is black, and the city isn’t ready for this.”

Hoschton, which is about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta, is a nearly all-white community."

Why the forced diversity? Keep being told European colonizing was evilWhat is he was the best qualified candidate?

[FrostKing]

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/councilmancleveland1-800x430.jpg

These assholes really can't die soon enough.

Any guesses as to how he voted for president in 2016?
Liberals aren't having children and especially not White ones. The next generation of White Americans will be born in a non-White majority America and be more "racist"

[Pavlov]

Liberals aren't having children and especially not White ones. The next generation of White Americans will be more "racist"You don't have any children.

[FrostKing]

You don't have any children.
I still plan to.

Liberals think "racism will die out". You'll have to complete your genocidal master plan first

[Pavlov]

I still plan to.You'll have to have sex first.

With a woman.

[FrostKing]

You'll have to have sex first.
Let me guess, the gay kind

[Trill Clinton]

I still plan to.

Liberals think "racism will die out". You'll have to complete your genocidal master plan first

Just stop being racist fam. I bet if we met offline you'd enjoy me, no homo.

[Pavlov]

The gay kind?Every kind has rejected you.

[FrostKing]

Just stop being racist fam. I bet if we met offline you'd enjoy me, no homo.
We would. My circle of friends is diverse.

:huddle:

[Trill Clinton]

We would. My circle of friends is diverse.

:huddle:

:bobo

[spurraider21]

Your entire schtick is to disproportionately criticize liberals and pretend that you are moderate.
:lol

[RandomGuy]

Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada's chief of staff Cade Cothren resigned Monday night, and it wasn't just because he'd allegedly tried to frame a black student activist. It turns out Cothren has a repulsive history of sending racist and sexist text messages. He's also made gross advances toward former interns, lobbyists, and campaign staffers. He's a full deck of House of Cards.

The text messages are from 2014 to 2016. Cothren was the House Republicans' press secretary at the time, so in theory he should've known a better way to communicate with people. Cothren also seems to think three to five years ago is the distant past.


COTHREN: I'm just not the same guy that I was several years back. I was young and dumb and immature. There's no excuse for it at all, and I'm not trying to make excuses, but I can tell you that I have changed since then... While I'm not proud of who I was in the past, I am proud that, with God's grace and a strong support system, I've been able to achieve so much in the years since.

We normally believe that "existence precedes essence" but Cothren's actual existence is putrid and slimy. Texts show that Cothren requested oral sex and nude photos from interns like he was using a pervert's GrubHub. He told a lobbyist that he'd be up for sleeping with an older woman (charming). He also asked an intern about her underwear and orgasms. He could've just called a phone sex line, but he probably enjoyed exerting his dominance over women in the workplace....

https://www.wonkette.com/racist-sexist-pos-tn-speakers-aide-now-unemployed-pos

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tennessee-house-speaker-says-his-lewd-text-messages-with-aide-were-locker-room-talk

[RandomGuy]

Texas lawmaker ends campaign over ‘Asian’ candidate remarks


AUSTIN, Texas — A white Texas Republican lawmaker who suggested his political rivals on the ballot were motivated to run against him because they’re Asian dropped his reelection bid Tuesday following a backlash that included losing the endorsement of the state’s GOP governor.

He said the quiet part out loud.

:cry

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https://images.dailykos.com/images/746513/story_image/6sPrzhY.png?1576252701

[DMC]

Texas lawmaker ends campaign over ‘Asian’ candidate remarks



He said the quiet part out loud.

:cry

Were you vicariously traumatized?

[RandomGuy]

Were you vicariously traumatized?

Not at all.

Amused at overall conservative stupidity.

Saddened that such things seem to be more acceptable these days to many Trump party officials and rank and file. I think that is directly attributable to the tone at the top.

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Far-right Mississippi :lol

governor predicts ‘1000 years of darkness’ if state elects first black senator in over 139 years

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/espy.jpg



Espy is running against Hyde-Smith again in 2020, and

far-right Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is predicting that terrible things will happen if Espy wins.

Journalist Joe Jurado analyzes Bryant’s hysteria in a January 9 article for The Root (https://www.theroot.com/1000-years-of-darkness-will-begin-if-mississippi-elects-1840885059),

noting that Espy would be Mississippi’s “first black Senator in over 139 years” if he wins.

“I intend to work for @cindyhydesmith as if the fate of America depended on her single election.

If Mike Espy and the liberal Democrats gain the Senate,

we will take that first step into

1000 years of darkness.” :lol knitterhood!

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/far-right-mississippi-governor-predicts-1000-years-of-darkness-if-state-elects-first-black-senator-in-over-139-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[RandomGuy]

Far-right Mississippi :lol

governor predicts ‘1000 years of darkness’ if state elects first black senator in over 139 years

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/espy.jpg



Espy is running against Hyde-Smith again in 2020, and

far-right Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is predicting that terrible things will happen if Espy wins.

Journalist Joe Jurado analyzes Bryant’s hysteria in a January 9 article for The Root (https://www.theroot.com/1000-years-of-darkness-will-begin-if-mississippi-elects-1840885059),

noting that Espy would be Mississippi’s “first black Senator in over 139 years” if he wins.

“I intend to work for @cindyhydesmith as if the fate of America depended on her single election.

If Mike Espy and the liberal Democrats gain the Senate,

we will take that first step into

1000 years of darkness.” :lol knitterhood!

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/far-right-mississippi-governor-predicts-1000-years-of-darkness-if-state-elects-first-black-senator-in-over-139-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29




Parties tend to be a bit hyperbolic when asking for money. Lots of cringe here, and both sides are truly equal here, IMO.

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Parties tend to be a bit hyperbolic when asking for money. Lots of cringe here, and both sides are truly equal here, IMO.

how is Espy "truly equal" to Bryant / Hyde-Smith?

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Conservative confirms Nevada Republican said

‘my white ass is more qualified than somebody’s black ass’

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Michele-Fiore-KTNV.png


remarks she allegedly made Saturday to 250 people at the Clark County Republican Convention.

“She says that

‘If there’s a job opening and

my white ass is more qualified than somebody’s black ass,

then my white ass should get the job,’”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/conservative-confirms-nevada-republican-said-my-white-ass-is-more-qualified-than-somebodys-black-ass-report/

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Ohio Senator Asks if “Colored People” Who “Don’t Wash Their Hands As Well” Are Responsible for Coronavirus Spread


Ohio Senator Steve Huffman (R), who also happens to be an emergency room physician,

asked (https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/502214-ohio-lawmaker-asks-if-colored-population-is-hit-harder-by-coronavirus) if “the colored population” is more disproportionately impacted by the novel coronavirus because

they “don’t wash their hands as well.”

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/11/ohio-senator-asks-if-colored-people-who-dont-wash-their-hands-as-well-are-responsible-for-coronavirus-spread.html

[RandomGuy]

how is Espy "truly equal" to Bryant / Hyde-Smith?

The tone of the fundraising emails is a bit "OMG it's the end of the world".

[RandomGuy]

[Defends his assertion that systemic racism doesn't exist with a racist statement]


https://media.giphy.com/media/LGDzwkwgdw5tm/giphy.gif

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Self-pwnage noted.

That was epic. :lol

[RandomGuy]

"We're not racists, but .... the pandemic surge was caused by black people."

:lol

[RandomGuy]

"we're not racist, but... black lives matter burned down whole cities"

[Thread]

"we're not racist, but... black lives matter burned down whole cities"

Yes, black lives matter burned down whole cities.

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Repugs on want "quality" voters

Mitch McConnell Argues for Disenfranchising Black Voters

he “fervently” opposes HR 1, the For the People Act (https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/03/whats-in-for-the-people-act-election-reform-legislation/6891622002/) of 2021.

McConnell claimed HR 1

″would give Washington, D.C., unprecedented power over the way our nation conducts elections” and

restrict “free speech.”

(McConnell equates campaign donations — including unlimited dark money — to free speech.

HR 1 would also limit the ability of megadonors to sway elections.)

Kentucky election laws, he said, were “appropriate around our unique experiences in our elections.” :lol

While all of the laws make it harder to vote, none of them are “an out-right effort to disenfranchise all Black people or all poor people,”

the Rev. William J. Barber II (https://www.breachrepairers.org/blogs/what-james-crow-esquire-looks-like-in-the-21st-century),, “they are, by design, ‘surgical’ because [the Republicans] …

know they just need small percentages.

Jim Crow’s son went to law school and learned to crunch the data.

I call him James Crow, Esquire.

He has the same intent, but he can make it look more respectable than the old literacy tests and poll taxes.”

Today, most of the minority vote is Democratic because the Democrats mainly are the party of federal civil rights activism, as typified by HR 1.

https://www.laprogressive.com/disenfranchising-black-voters/

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"We're not racists, but .... the pandemic surge was caused by black people."

:lol

These are not racist statements anymore than saying black people are under represented in Congress or that Mexicans are crossing the border. Just saying the name of the race doesn't make the subsequent statement racist. Identifying race doesn't lead to racism. If it did, the US Census is racist.

If someone said "being black means you're too stupid to get vaccinated"... that would be racist. You cannot even identify racism so you've broadened your net to call everything mentioning race in an unfavorable manner "racist", except white people.. that would be "woke".

[ChumpDumper]

:lol DMC's whatabout

[Adam Lambert]

These are not racist statements anymore than saying black people are under represented in Congress or that Mexicans are crossing the border. Just saying the name of the race doesn't make the subsequent statement racist. Identifying race doesn't lead to racism. If it did, the US Census is racist.

If someone said "being black means you're too stupid to get vaccinated"... that would be racist. You cannot even identify racism so you've broadened your net to call everything mentioning race in an unfavorable manner "racist", except white people.. that would be "woke".

If you're singling out black people as a cause of low vaccine rates while purposefully ignoring the even lower rates among your white ideological adherents, yeah, that's racist by exclusion. I mean maybe not as racist as


Yes, I do believe American religious muslims support jihad and many support sharia.

...but still racist.