Sullivan posted this a few days back, in response to a really stark, racially-charged column by Pat Buchanan basically asserting that white people feel like they’ve had their country ripped away from them:
Notice that for Buchanan in this column, it is axiomatic that America was once defined by its whiteness. This is what he means […]
Entries Tagged as 'Racism'
We were never really that white
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Black and white and denied all over
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Lovely.
NEW ORLEANS – A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
“I’m not a […]
I’m a racist, but how dare you call me a racist!
October 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Ah, I see the wingers are in full tizzy mode (actually their default mode) because El Rushbo has been dropped from the group looking to purchse the St. Louis Rams.
It’s all so unfair! And Limbaugh, of course, protests that he’s not racist, he’s never been racist…
It’s just that he has a looooooong history of saying […]
Tags: Racism · Rush · Football
Ordinary blackness
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Via Kos, Ta-Nehisi Coates notes:
It’s intensely grating to live say, in Atlanta, and have some dude in Harlem crowned as your unelected leader. It’s even more grating if said dude’s agenda seems, in large measure, come down to standing in front of cameras and tweaking his opponents. It’s no mistake that O’Reilly and Sharpton would […]
Rough beasts
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
The video of the kid getting beaten on that St. Louis school bus is just horrible. If my child had been attacked that way, the administrative staff at his school would wish they had never been born.
Where was the bus driver? Why didn’t he try to put a stop to it? You can’t watch it […]
Village People populism
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Great piece from Frank Rich, and the idea of Joe the Plumber dancing to “In the Navy” will have me smiling all week:
One of the loudest birther enablers is not at Fox but CNN: Lou Dobbs, who was heretofore best known for trying to link immigrants, especially Hispanics, to civic havoc. Dobbs is one-stop shopping […]
Tags: Demographics · Racism
Full metal wingnut
July 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Wow. So you might have heard about this, the (white) Boston Police Officer is in the process of becoming an ex-Boston police officer on account of an e-mail he sent far and wide - though it seems originally intended for a Boston news outlet - in which he repeatedly calls Skip Gates a “jungle monkey” or a “banana-eating […]
Tags: Gates incident · Racism · Wingers
Sticks and stones
July 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Conservative complains that “falsely accusing someone of racism is as bad as actual racism.”
You don’t say.
Tags: Racism
Freedom Rider
July 28th, 2009 · No Comments
My favorite thing about the White Folk - like Glenn Beck - who accuse Obama or Sotomayor of racism is the sanctimony, the veiled insinuation that 49 years ago - why, Glenn Beck would have been along for the Freedom Rides, because he’s just so concerned about equality between the races.
Tags: Glenn Beck · Racism
What if Gates had a gun?
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Good call from the Rude Pundit:
Instead, think like a gun-owning white guy who thinks that the government is trying to take away his guns and that a revolution is coming … That ain’t a fantasy person. It’s the godd*mned audience for much of the right-wing rhetoric these days. Now, think, if Gates had been armed, […]
Tags: Police misbehavior · Racism · crime
Goes to intent
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
So I get this letter, via e-mail today:
Now that you have trashed the Republican Party and insinuated that racism is rampant throughout the party because some of the Republican Senators wanted to give Sonia Sotomayor a fair and thorough confirmation hearing, why don’t you write an article about the latest racial slurs from the Democratic […]
Tags: Racism
Deciphering the code
July 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Way to be, Zell Miller - because black people are just like gorillas!
The white man, he OUTRAGED!!! these days.
Because they’re all just like Ricky Ricardo!
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Wingnuttery shifts into fifth gear, courtesy of Sen. Tom Coburn: “You have a lot of ’splaining to do!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7On14l6wgc
White, the color of impartiality
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Good piece by Eugene Robinson:
Republicans’ outrage, both real and feigned, at Sotomayor’s musings about how her identity as a “wise Latina” might affect her judicial decisions is based on a flawed assumption: that whiteness and maleness are not themselves facets of a distinct identity. Being white and male is seen instead as a neutral condition, […]
Tags: Supreme Court · Racism
Wedge issue
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Have been avoiding the Sotomayor hearings, for two reasons:
1. Pretty obvious she’s going to be confirmed, regardless.
2. Then I’d have to endure wingnuttery such as this:
Lindsay Graham: “Do you have a temperament problem?
Translation: Aren’t you one o’ them HOT-BLOODED LATINAS?
Jeff Sessions: “Had you voted with Judge Cabranes, himself of Puerto Rican ancestry, had you voted […]
Tags: Supreme Court · Racism
Everybody out of the pool
July 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Lovely:
The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers’ first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.
“When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool,” Horace Gibson, parent […]
Tags: Racism
Twitter for twits
June 16th, 2009 · No Comments
The GOP, of course, has made this commitment to using social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to increase its appeal to the youngsters who use the Internets.
Maybe not the greatest of ideas.
You gotta love the composite of all the presidents, with naught but a set of eyes against a black background for Obama. Because […]
Southern strategy goes south
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Via Sullivan: Nate Silver with a post on how simple demographics make the GOP’s uphill climb all the more steep:
Gallup has data out suggesting that 89 percent of self-identified Republicans are white; the comparable figure among Democrats is 65 percent. These numbers closely match those from last November’s Presidential election, when 89 percent of John […]
Tags: Racism · Republican Party
…and Philadelphia, Mississippi, in the middle
May 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Ah, Pennsyltucky:
The Warren Pennsylvania Times-Observer (http://www.timesobserver.com) published an ad today calling for the assassination of President Barack Obama.
The text of the small classified ad reads, “May Obama follow in the footsteps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!” There is no other text and it has no attribution.
Blood and soil and bull
May 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Quick check in our archives this morning to find that that “Latino KKK” organization, the National Council of La Raza, has done a lot for Lancaster County. Though maybe local organizations should have rejected the funding becuase the group is so “radical” and “racist.”
La Raza, for example, helped fund La Academia, the charter school for […]





