A Safe Place For Bigots

...will always exist, since it is perfectly acceptable, even encouraged, to demean poor, white Southerners with ignorant, nasty comments and actions, but the hiding places are getting smaller for other groups. (original publication date 1/15/2014)

Redskins controversy explains everything wrong with the GOP - Salon.com

Update: Look here for the latest example of racist naming by liberal bigots. Imagine the reaction if the show were Hollywood [insert ethnic slur name] instead of Hollywood Hillbillies and featured the fattest, least attractive members of that ethnic group central casting could find.

Lying Honkie Burns Black Voters

White guy wins after leading voters to believe he’s black | khou.com Houston:

Dave Wilson chuckles as he talks about his unorthodox political campaign.

"I'd always said it was a long shot," Wilson says. "No, I didn't expect to win."

Still, he figured he'd have fun running, because he was fed up with what he called "all the shenanigans" at the Houston Community College System. As a conservative white Republican running in a district whose voters are overwhelmingly black Democrats, the odds seemed overwhelmingly against him.

Then he came up with an idea, an advertising strategy that his opponent found "disgusting." If a white guy didn't have a chance in a mostly African-American district, Wilson would lead voters to think he's black...

Deceit. Funny ha-ha.

Bad Words In The Airport

There's only one way to wipe out racism and that is to wipe out all racism. Please join me and remind people that bigotry extends beyond pigmentation.

When no one said anything: How racism goes unquestioned - Salon.com:

...Not one person said anything; I was surrounded by people...

Nor did you.

I've been called disparaging names to my face many times and routinely see offensively enraging terms used casually in the media. The Oneida don't like "Redskin" and I don't like: hick, hillbilly, cracker, or any of the other names used to insult rural Appalachian mountaineers. Every time I see or hear those racist insults I call the person out. If it's in my face, I usually say something like "I don't like being referred to that way." If it's on the Internet, I typically leave and an opinion that it is racist to refer to any group stereotypically, which sometimes sets off long and often vulgar retorts that nearly always contain the reminder that "we whipped your ass in the Civil War."

One of these days I'm really going to wind the stem on that watch. 

Somebody Needs To Talk To Somebody

My Confederate town - Salon.com

Noonan Waxes Stupid

Noonan: Obama should defend blackface rodeo clown - Salon.com:

The vibrations have spoken once agains through their instrument at the Wall Street Journal, columnist Peggy Noonan, who today advises President Obama to defend the Missouri State Fair rodeo clown who this weekend wore an Obama mask before getting run down by a bull for cheering fans. The state’s Republican lieutenant governor condemned it, state fair officials called it “inappropriate,” and the head of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association resigned over the controversy, but Noonan totally understands why the crowd would cheer the trouncing of a president in effigy, because: Obamacare.

“This is the reason many people don’t like ObamaCare. It’s also part of why people wind up making fun of the president at state fairs,” she writes today, linking to a story about disability rights advocates raising concerns about the health care law. On the blackface rodeo clown thing, “everyone should breathe deep” and calm down, she adds...

The Post-Racial Kool-Aid

Cooper presents an intelligent and thoughtful critique of recent events. She will probably have her house burned down.

Jay Z needs better race politics - Salon.com:

...Though I, too, found the president’s remarks on Trayvon Martin to be moving, powerful and important, we can’t lose sight of the bigger picture. Hope is not enough. A compelling narrative of African-American exceptionalism is not enough. The fact that the presence of a black president and a black attorney general could make no material difference to the reality of a young black male teen walking down his street in Florida demonstrate the limits of the symbolic.

This is why no one gets a gold star simply for showing up. To act as though you should suggests that not showing up is a legitimate option. But in political times like these, truancy is child’s play.

Racism And Perspective

More Americans say blacks more racist than whites: Rasmussen report - Washington Times:

Americans, by and large, see blacks as more racist than whites or Hispanics, a new survey said on Wednesday.

But political ideology plays a large role in the findings, Rasmussen Reports said...

Hillbillies Not Included

In the link below, I couldn't find any references to searches for "hillbilly, hick, redneck, racist, goober, peckerwood " or any of the other terms commonly applied to Southerners, so this map is not a real reflection of all hate speech. But I will guarantee that I will have this beaten on my head because I am from the South. Institutionalized hate like the comic strip "Snuffy Smith" and various "redneck" reality shows constantly demean us rural types but are deemed "okay" and "harmless fun" because they are aimed at whites, yet even that distinction fails when looking at some of the other white, ethnic subsets.

For instance, it seems perfectly fine to recite redneck jokes but woe be unto the government official who tells a joke involving Americans of Polish descent. Even our own government thinks redneck bashing is just fine. One government study, approved and passed on to Congress, advocating the great Appalachian land grab (called by flatlanders the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the TVA), said there would be few problems with the locals because they were all "marginal people." (Yes, that is a direct quote.) So it's all just fine because we're just barely human.

Hate in 140 Characters, Mapped | Crooks and Liars

Powell Accused Of Racism

Sununu suggests Powell motivated by race - POLITICO.com

Racial Slur In Tampa

Republican national convention blighted by racial slur | World news | guardian.co.uk

An attendee to the US Republican party convention was removed from the conference after allegedly throwing nuts at a black camerawoman from CNN, saying "this is how we feed animals".

The incident was reported by the former MSNBC news anchor David Shuster, who tweeted: "GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African-American CNN camerawoman + saying "This is how we feed animals..."