Racism: January 2010 Archives

Sadly, what is most instructive about this NPR story are the vast amount of bigoted, Reich Wing assholes that have NPR accounts. No wonder I stopped donating to them; they are corrupted from Steve Inskeep down to the comment trolls.

Anyway, some pure bred crackers want to start an all-white basketball league. This was originally reported in Augusta, GA, one of the Southern towns the league wants a team in. Presumably because they already have a very regressive golf club there.

Just a few more stories from various sources which say about the same thing.

Sounds like something Sarah Palin and her ilk would love.

Once upon a time, minorities threatened by the Klan knew how to fight back.

Given that the Tea Party Traitors are the direct descendents, if not co-members, of the KKK, I think it is high time to give these racist bastards the same rough treatment folks used to give ignorant Kluckers.

You're never going to earn their respect, so just kick their asses and try to land as many of them in jail as possible.

More compassionate conservatism from the GOP. In short, let's go ahead and find any Haitians here illegally, then immediately put them to work digging through the rubble of their homeland.

"Illegal immigrants from Haiti have no reason to fear deportation, but if they are deported, Haiti is in great need of relief workers, and many of them could be a big help to their fellow Haitians."

The LA Times rightly commends CNN for reporting on the disaster in Haiti. They also rightly call out FAUXNews for skimping on the coverage. They may or may not be racists over at FAUX but they certainly think the deaths of at least tens of thousands is not enough to stop them from circle jerking for Sarah Palin.

A round-up of the conservative cretins that are both politicizing the Haitian earthquake and insulting those suffering and dying in that disaster. Seriously, if you are a Republican and you buy into this shit, you're not even human.

Hell, even the Hannity trolls can't stand Robertson. Well, most of them.

Hell, FAUXNews can barely be bothered to cover the story, spending less than 7 minutes covering Haiti two nights ago when the first day's work of solid news was coming in.

That said, maybe less from these racist bastards is best, as this is the crap FAUX chooses to report:

The bulk of our nation would not exist if not for Haitians fighting for their freedom from slavery.

Racist bigots like Pat Robertson and his ilk should appreciate this fact, not trying to cast a bunch of people as satanists. If Talibangelicals were capable of shame, they should be feeling it now.

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Want to know why I continue to be proud of the president I voted for and still support? He doesn't need some bullshit marketing label like "compassionate conservative". He's just a good man.

Also, from the remarks (target=_blank">transcript here):

I have directed my administration to respond with a swift, coordinated, and aggressive effort to save lives. The people of Haiti will have the full support of the United States in the urgent effort to rescue those trapped beneath the rubble, and to deliver the humanitarian relief -- the food, water and medicine -- that Haitians will need in the coming days. In that effort, our government, especially USAID and the Departments of State and Defense are working closely together and with our partners in Haiti, the region, and around the world....

Because in disasters such as this the first hours and days are absolutely critical to saving lives and avoiding even greater tragedy, I have directed my teams to be as forward-leaning as possible in getting the help on the ground and coordinating with our international partners as well....

Finally, let me just say that this is a time when we are reminded of the common humanity that we all share. With just a few hundred miles of ocean between us and a long history that binds us together, Haitians are neighbors of the Americas and here at home. So we have to be there for them in their hour of need.

Despite the fact that we are experiencing tough times here at home, I would encourage those Americans who want to support the urgent humanitarian efforts to go to whitehouse.gov where you can learn how to contribute. We must be prepared for difficult hours and days ahead as we learn about the scope of the tragedy. We will keep the victims and their families in our prayers. We will be resolute in our response, and I pledge to the people of Haiti that you will have a friend and partner in the United States of America today and going forward.

May God bless the people of Haiti and those working on their behalf.

What do conservatives have to contribute to this discourse? Nothing but hate and fear and low blows.

Lush Rimjob is convinced that Obama's desire to help is just a poltical ploy to appease the "light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country."

I get why he'd think that way. A foul-mouth racist drug addict like him would never be able to grasp the concept of compassion or a sense of responsibility to his fellow man. Still, he's a pig for saying what he did.

Meanwhile, Pat Robertson is still alive and being a racist. On the entire Haitian population:

"And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal.

And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other."

He said this in response to this earthquake. While thousands are dead and dying and millions are suffering. Bastard.

Seriously, you will never convince me that cretins of this ilk deserve my vote, much less any ability for me to see as them as anything but examples of what is wrong with our nation.

Great commentary on conservative idiots on this story from a couple weeks ago on the White House calling out it's critics as fools.

Posted by commenter Ironcomr. DECEMBER 30, 2009 4:47 PM:

Birthers, teabaggers, radical right wing "christians", secessionist, healthcare anti-reformist,etc., are all the same core group of poor, uninformed ultra-conservative pawns tricked by the corporate masters and cheerleadered by AM conservative talk radio to get these people to believe and vote against their own self interest.

It isn't any wonder that the main weapon to keep the rank and file conservatives in check is fear. Conservatives fear that their guns are going to be taken away, they fear that U.S. will become socialist, they fear that health care reform will kill off the elderly, they fear that the president is a muslim, they fear that when minorities are in power that reverse racisms will run rampant, they fear that every nation under the sun wants to destroy the U.S. and on and on. This is the main message of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, et al. to be afraid. After 8 hours a day at least 5 days a week conservatives literally become brainwashed through the radio and then some on Fox news to be afraid and angry.

Conservatives don't even know what exactly they are trying to conserve. They speak of fair play and freedom but when a group other than their circumscribed group speaks about and want such things (i.e. gay rights, immigrants, minorities, the poor)these ideas suddenly become liberal pandering.

Conservatives don't realize that what they fear most is change. The changing of American society and of the world. Thus their behavior is not much different from other conservative movements around the world, i.e. Taliban, Al Qaida, Likud, Abadgaran. These groups want to maintain the status quo and use fear and sometimes violence to achieve their means. These groups target the same type of people to believe in their ideology. These are usually the poor, rural denizens who feel that the rest of society is moving too fast and that they are being excluded because the city centers are thriving and they are not.

It is this simple mind trick that has allowed the military-industrial complex to roll along unabated for so long. The very thing president Dwight Eisenhower,a Republican, warned against. However, it was only recently that Republicans were up in arms against the slashing of the military budget and discontinuance of the F-22. This is just another example of how twisted and convoluted conservatism/republicanism is. It contradicts one of their venerated leaders and ideals.

Unfortunately, contradiction and hypocrisy have become the norm for conservatives, so much so that entire shows are based on it and have become very popular (The Colbert Report, Countdown, The Daily show etc.). When conservatives are confronted with this, the usual retort is that it's the "main stream media" distortion, wholly ignoring that "main stream" = normal or average, non-fringe. Again this is just fear working on these people, fear that their ideology is being pushed to the fringe creating the us vs them mentality.

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." Edmund Burke.

What troubles me about the Reid comments is that as someone who does not know the man personally I can't help but assume that he does not have a single black American in his life that he is genuinely close to and spends any real time of consequence with on a personal level. Because if he did, I find it hard to believe that such a gaffe would be possible. (Note: black people who are paid to spend time with Reid or anyone else, as employees, whether as nannies or office staff, do not count as close, personal, friends.)

I heard Keli Goff discuss her article on Harry Reid's comments on NPR today. Here is that segment as well as another view on the issue.

In short, Harry is basically the same kid from rural, white bread Searchlight, Nevada. He probably has never been around a lot of black people. In truth, his work to get more minorities working in the halls of Congress is a testament to his trying to go the right thing.

Let's face it, the guy works in an almost exclusive white man's club. The Senate has one African-American, one Latino, three Asian/Pacific Islanders and that's only if you count White Poster Child John Ensign. And seventeen women. In a body of 100 people. That's not exactly a microcosm of America. Hell, that's not even a microcosm of upstate idaho.

So, yeah, his words are unsavory. Mind-numblingly stupid in a sense. Not that anything he said was incorrect. The first black president of America was always going to have to alleviate the fears of rural Democrats. Obama managed to do that.

But to have these racist "Kill the Kenyan socialist" asshats calling for Reid's resignation is too much.

I say Reid should take each of them to task for their overblown charges of racism. When THEY quit, he will too. We lose the majority leader and the whole damn GOP has to resign and get replaced by uneducated Palinite teabaggers. Serves them right.

A selection of comments concerning the shooting at the Federal Courthouse on Monday. There are a couple I missed because they were deleted, one of which was truly heinous. The Review-Journal story predictably has the worst of it as it is the local conservative rag. But the Sun has some filthy bastards of their own commenting.

Mad American wrote on January 04, 2010 09:40 AM:
Its starting to happen. Citizens against the oppressive government.

Too_many_laws wrote on January 04, 2010 10:39 AM: .. create demand for more US CourtHouses, Courtrooms, Judges and Attorneys. Bad news for Nevada and individual liberty. Government by the lawyers, for the lawyers.

These animals really hate the local firefighters, as evidenced here:

Las Vegas Firefighters wrote on January 04, 2010 11:12 AM: Notice To Costco:

LVFD

And this guy really has an axe to grind since his home invasion didn't override crime still in progress.

James the Lawyer wrote on January 04, 2010 04:28 PM: To "CCFD Family",
To answer your comment, I had a break-in at my expensive house recently. I immediately called Metro and was told by a Metro Officer they WOULD NOT COME OUT TO MY HOUSE. They will always run or sprint to the funeral parlor at the drop of hat for a union brother though.

P.S. Was your posted "attorney comment" a physical threat against me and/or my family? If yes, inform me of your real name.

And then there's just generic cretins who apparently hate everyone. Mormons, Democrats, African-Americans, Firefighters, Policemen, Muslims. If you've got a group, they'll hate it and want it dead:

djones wrote on January 04, 2010 03:38 PM:
Glad Wicks was shot and killed. Saved us taxpayers some money and Social Security too.

YAY! wrote on January 04, 2010 01:44 PM:
i love when they print happy new! Great way to start the new year. My heart does the dance of joy ever time a pig died. I hope they all burn in hell.

I mean, I'm not the hugest fan of the police, particularly the Vegas version, but never have I been thrilled at the death of a law enforcement officer of any department dying doing his job. That said, I do reserve the right to chuckle if Joe Arpaio strokes out.

There is some push back against these trolls, but it is drowned out by the hate:

By mred 1/4/10 at 11:49 a.m.
Did the murderer drive up in a vehicle with a "Rush is Right" bumper sticker

The poster is ONE PERSON -- union-hater Helen Weils, who has a hundred aliases.

And a warning that the Rethugs have been stocking up on weapons solely because we have a black president:

Mark wrote on January 04, 2010 04:13 PM:
More black on white crime. We need to clean house. How much more do we have to take?

I mean, seriously, do Republicans just forget other people are listening or do they just plan to be this racist for the hell of it?

I mean, this comes from a guy who swears he doesn't think of himself as a white person and that all citizens should just think of themselves as only Americans, and then says shit like, "this president has exposed himself, I think, as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or white culture."

The irony here is this asshat can't help himself from demanding that folks who don't look like him refrain from declaring any type of cultural identity...in the interests of "freedom" supposedly.

Here's the law-and-order anti-immigration Sheriff in action abusing yet another human being.

Look like this teabag leader is both illiterate AND a racist. Read more here.

I figured it was just a matter of time before this got brought up.

I mean, between Walt's anti-Semitism and Song of the South, you gotta wonder what took these guys so long in fixing their image.