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America's New Scapegoats
This story isn’t new, indeed it’s over a millennium old, dating back to the crusades. Yet, I’ve been struck over the past few days by the depth and breadth of racial hatred directed at Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans. Perhaps it was watching Isaac and Ishmael last night (yay for my parents’ Netflilxs subscription and my struggling social life). Perhaps it was this story of a Muslim family who was kicked off a plane for… well… mostly for being Muslim. Most likely, it was the vitriolic comments on the Detroit Free Press articles about Hamas, Palestine, the would-be flyers. Many were rapidly deleted as hate speech, but the ones that were gentle enough to remain can be seen if you (more…)
Posted in America, Blog, Domestic Affairs, Social Justice
Tagged anti-muslim, bigoty, hate, hatred, islam, muslim, racism, white-trash
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There Goes the Neighboorhood
- Not the future Ex-President’s house.
After hibernating for the past two days, venturing out only for Spinach Artichoke dip, I made a blog round and stumbled across this interesting tidbit. Once vacating the White House (before fumigation) the Bushes plan to move to a swanky Dallas neighborhood, home to other wealthy and super-wealthy Texans. While some residents are eagerly awaiting the soon-to-be-ex-presidential family’s arrival, others fear the president’s low approval ratings, poor press coverage, and overall dickhead manner will bring an unsavory and potentially dangerous element to the neighborhood.
The neighborhood, Preston Hollow, has some interesting history as well. Well into the second millennium the neighborhood ‘covenant’ had the following language: (more…)
Posted in Blog, George W. Bush, Social Justice
Tagged bush, neighborhoods, racism, Sam Marvin, SamMarvin, Texas
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Goodness they're desperate
Sarah Palin has accused Barack Obama of being friends with a former PLO spokesperson. Although the PLO is now a mainstream party, especially when compared extremists like Hamas (or Likud), Obama’s freind worked for the PLO in the 70s and 80s when they were unabashidly a terrorist organization. Except they’re not friends. And he never worked for the PLO.
Posted in Barack Obama, Blog, Sarah Palin
Tagged Barack Obama, John McCain, lies, mccain, obama, palin, racism, Sarah Palin
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Quote of the Day
Racist Douche
“Just from what little I’ve seen of [Michelle Obama] and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity”
We all knew, didn’t we? When the Republican smear-machine began to refer to Barack Obama, a man who grew up on food stamps and worked his way through school, as “elitist” while running a man with seven houses, a beer fortune, and an admiral father that made sure he didn’t fail out of the Naval Academy when he surely deserved to, I think we knew what they meant. Surely he wasn’t “elitist” compared to McCain, or Bush, or the other Bush, or Romney or any of the other aristocrats that the Republicans trot out every four years. No, he was elitist because he had the audacity to think that maybe, just maybe, he belonged at Harvard, in Congress and in the White House. The hack-artists was playing to those who thought that he belonged on the plantation instead.
So maybe “uppity” was a slip, though perhaps a Freudian one. Perhaps referring to a United States Senator as “mister” was an honest mistake and not the political equivalent of calling a grown man “boy.” Maybe. But when asked to clarify his racist language Rep. Westmoreland didn’t back down. “Uppity, yeah,” he confirmed.
P.S.: The same Lynn Westmoreland had another quotable moment when, defending his legislation that would have placed the Ten Commandments in both houses of Congress he was asked to name them. “Don’t murder, don’t lie, don’t steal… uhhh… I can’t name them” he stuttered.”