RACISM

09 November 2008

Not Politics Anymore and a Moral Conundrum

kids-collage Once upon a time (1999 or so) I had a friend who was a racist. We had not been friends for long, but she knew how I felt about racism, so she never showed me her own until one evening at a local pub, as we were enjoying burgers and drinks. I don't remember precisely what she said, but it was something that was clearly racist.

Yeah, she was drinking, but that's no excuse. And, in fact, that she said it out loud wasn't the issue. What mattered, of course, was that she viewed people as "us and them", and that she considered the "them" part of the equation to be less than the "us".

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17 October 2008

The Anti-American Activities of the GOP in the 2008 Presidential Election - Part One

18 more days until the election The GOP is hard at it in attempts to discredit the Democratic candidate, Senator Barack Obama, in a manner which is certainly not befitting a major party. To the contrary, the GOP is behaving more and more like a fringe group, inciting violence, racism, and attempting once again to steal the election from the Democrats. We will not let them do it this time. And, yeah, this kind of stuff completely infuriates me, and also compels me to keep going until election day. I do not want to live in a country where one party rules. Uh, that's called 'fascism', and yeah, I am dead serious.

waterboardflierobama The GOP's anti-American activities this week include many more incidents than I can cover here, but I can highlight the most egregious of those activities, starting with the GOP in California.

Yesterday the news broke that the  Sacramento County Republican Party website was encouraging readers to 'waterboard' Barack Obama and comparing him to Osama bin Laden. Screenshot to the left courtesy of The Sacramento Bee. The material has since been removed from the website, as have the comments left there. Interested in seeing what waterboarding, a technique used at Guantanamo to torture prisoners, looks like? View the video after the jump.

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Another incident orchestrated by a California Inland Republican women’s group, created and circulated a newsletter with the image of a food stamp. Screenshot to the left, courtesy of The Press Enterprise. featuring Obama’s head on the body of a donkey,  and surrounded by fried chicken, ribs, and watermelon. Unbelievably, the president of the group, Diane Fedele, has denied racist intent. She disingenuously stated that It was just food to me. It didn’t mean anything else.

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15 October 2008

Demonizing Barack Obama: The Politics of Hate

 20 more days until the election
The video was produced by Brave New Films and Color of Change (one of the most influential African-American political organizations in the US).

It is a video compendium of some of the worst behavior at McCain/Palin rallies in just the past week.

In my mind, Senator McCain has lost his honor. Governor Palin, who appears to enjoy her race baiting, deserves to be removed from office. She is beyond stupid; she is malicious and evil.

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12 October 2008

Politifact Examines McCain's Claims About Obama and Ayers - Calls McCain Claims False and Malicious

 22bl On October 8, the McCain campaign released a new web ad. In it, McCain claims  that "(Bill) Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together."¹

On October 9, PolitiFact deemed McCain's claims false............and something more. Bolding is mine.

This attack is false, but it's more than that – it's malicious. It unfairly tars not just Obama, but all the other prominent, well-respected Chicagoans who also volunteered their time to the foundation. They came from all walks of life and all political backgrounds, and there's ample evidence their mission was nothing more than improving ailing public schools in Chicago. Yet in the heat of a political campaign they have been accused of financing radicalism. That's Pants on Fire wrong. 

Read the complete article at politifact.com.

¹ John McCain on Thursday, October 8th, 2008 in a Web ad.
FactCheck.org has also deemed McCain's claims FALSE.

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08 October 2008

Sarah Palin Engendering Racial Hatred, Encouraging the Insanity on the Campaign Trail

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I have loathed Sarah Palin and everything she stands for since the day I began researching her, which was during her introduction by McCain to the American people.

However, at this point, I am way beyond loathing her.  She is a woman without the intellectual wherewithal to compete on the national stage.  She is a joke in a quest for a position that is so far beyond her abilities, she doesn't even understand the responsibilities of said position. She is stupid. She is racist. She is unethical. And, unfortunately, we can not just ignore her.She is dangerous.

Sarah Palin's recent attacks on Obama are without any real basis in fact, and Palin's supporters demean her, as Palin demeans all Americans. Encouraging, rather than condemning her supporters who yell horrific things such as " kill him" , "he is a traitor", "treason", "terrorist", and other things of that nature in reference to the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, Barack Obama, is beyond stupid, beyond politics, and bordering on insanity. Palin herself calls him "the best friend of a terrorist", a claim totally without basis in fact, and the Republican party has already acknowledged this. One of her supporters hurled a racial epithet at a network sound guy, and yet she didn't tell the supporter to leave, apologize, nothing. This woman needs to go. Quickly. Away.

Palin needs to recuse herself from this election and allow McCain to select another running mate, hopefully someone with intelligence, ethical limits, and the ability to campaign without arousing racial hatred, among other things.  And if she won't resign, McCain needs to grow some real cojones.  So I say, show us some real patriotism, Senator McCain. Put your country first.

Give Sarah Palin the boot. 

   

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07 September 2008

Sarah Palin to Friends - "So Sambo beat the bitch!"

From the LA Progressive:

"Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”

September 5, 2008

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