Half a century after Brown v. Board, a school in Mississippi is finally ordered to desegregate.
A Republican candidate for governor in New York State is caught sending racist photos around.
Two Republican governors dismiss slavery as “diddly”.
The business and economics editor of the venerable Atlantic magazine compares 250 years of being kept as slaves to the experience of feeling alienated from grad school classmates (via Crooked Timber).
This all happened in the past few days here in post-racial America.
calipygian
Only a racist would point these things out, Doug
SiubhanDuinne
Good title. Subtle.
kommrade reproductive vigor
It’s coming. I can feel it.
This is the year the GOP tells me to vote Republican if I don’t want to get lynched.
I kid. I think they’ll go with Obama hates black people.
eastriver
I so completely don’t get your point, Dougie. Stop beating around the Mississippi Burning bush.
Cracker.
calipygian
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
That was 1980. Young black bucks, t-bones and caddies and all that…
LD50
By pointing these things out, you are playing the race card, Doug.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
It is all getting unspoofable. Reading the comments on wingers blogs, they are all cleaning their guns from an utterly parallel universe where liberals are the racists and invaders out to destroy the country.
mclaren
I believe the plan is working well.
Da, Tovarisch?
Da!
Comrade Javamanphil
You missed the Pantload claiming political correctness caused a man to kill himself. It’s been a classy couple days in the stupid-sphere. Frankly, McMegan wins for me by using the most words to once again say nothing other than “it’s so hard being me.” She needs to be renamed Veruca McMegan, especially after her gourmet salt posts.
Cerberus
Looking more narrowly, I’m actually heartened that the stealth tactics of the small-town Southern towns are starting to get nailed by the internet culture. For decades they have arranged little outs to avoid having to actually y’know integrate and otherwise skirt around laws by sheer “good ol’ boy” culture and that’s been collapsing a lot lately.
The “fake prom”/cancelled prom scam they’ve run against black people and other freaks got a firm skewering by the media frenzy over Constance. And now there’s the “hey, wait, you never integrated” kerfuffle you noted.
Not to mention the wider notation of the “faux integration” of white flight and careful school zoning and funding so “they” ended up in poorer schools with less funding while “white districts” always seemed to end up with lots of funding.
It really seems like there are less places to hide for the racists and that’s a really good thing. And also why they are freaking out so bad. They ran away so hard from the meaning of the Civil Rights victories 60 years ago and yet they still are catching up to them, no matter where they are. No corrupt culture, no suburban “planned community”, no private club seems to be safe anymore.
The slow march of history gets them in the end.
geg6
Ah, an epic takedown by the always wonderful Michael Berube, one of the most dangerous professors in America. I’m always proud that we both serve at the same liberal elite institution where no conservatives ever darken the halls or show their faces. Well, except that whole Smeal College of Business and College of Engineering thing. Oh, and JoePa. Hmmm, has McMegan ever BEEN to Happy Valley?
The Populist
Sigh…I just don’t get why people care about this race stuff anymore? Black people are Americans last I checked.
White people want black people to talk and act like them. They get it with Obama and other educated black folks YET some of these people can’t get over their own insecurities to cheer on those in the black community that make a difference and help ALL Americans.
To them it’s all about color. Sure, some black folks live up to stereotypes as do MANY white rednecks. If you live up to any stereotype you are only hurting yourself.
Education is the key here. Too bad Mississippi and other redneck states could give a flying fuck about teaching our kids to compete in a world that most likely will pass them by.
Cat Lady
The Brown v. Board decision was UNANIMOUS. Think about that. 50 years later, and it’s impossible to imagine that happening now. I didn’t imagine Obama actually got elected, right? Wow.
The Populist
@Cerberus:
I can tell you exactly what we need to do going forward…
If they hate America or new ideas, pass them by.
If they can’t make legitimate points or arguments because they didn’t want an education, pass them by.
If they cry about things in which they have no idea because they have no education (s-lism?) Don’t give them anymore government benefits and see how they feel then.
Tough love folks. I worked my ass off from the bootstraps. Some college, lots of hard work to become a business owner and a successful earner. Never took a dime from the government but I don’t fault those that need it. I go back to college to learn new things and I always push education and it’s importance to any young people I meet.
In the end, I am not whining about the changing of America’s demographics. I could care less. I welcome anybody, regardless of race, sexual orientation or national origin who wants to be an American and think about ways that we all can grow as a society.
These cowards on the right really should take notice that they are on their last legs here. America is going to pass by the ridiculous dumbass rednecks and move to do what’s good as a nation at some point soon.
If the necks don’t like it, fuck them.
HRA
I was hoping the bottom had been met and we were over it. Then daydreaming was always my favorite sport.
It was yesterday when I turned onto my street that I was awakened when I saw a sign for Paladino on the lawn of the 1st house. This morning I saw 2 more signs of his signs on the route I take to the Thruway. I am really having a hard time trying to understand why anyone would support him and why they are so close to home. Hell, they could put a Palin sign up and I would not get this ugly feeling.
Polish the Guillotines
Wow. I just read Berube’s takedown of Veruca Salt at the Crooked Timber link.
How does anyone as obviously intellectually lazy as Veruca get a job writing for any journal not kept in her nightstand?
jrg
Someone needs to explain to McArdle that smearing feces on the wall does not make you Jackson Pollock. It makes you a fucking monkey.
Polar Bear Squares
Not so good.
Comrade "Tank" Hueco
I have a feeling that a couple new private “Christian academies” are going to open up in Walthall County, MS.
beltane
Why is it that white supremacists all happen to be rather inferior themselves? Sorry, but if I were given the job of ranking humanity according to strengths and weaknesses, these people would be rate pretty damn near the bottom.
beltane
@Polish the Guillotines: Any pampered, private school seventh grader in Manhattan could do a better job than McArdle. There are few things as distasteful in this world as a thirty-seven year old spoiled brat.
I blame the parents.
Citizen_X
@Cerberus: Along the same lines: we’ve been hearing for decades from neoconfederates that “the Civil War wasn’t about slavery!” This week, however, the Confederate History Month thing pops up, and boom! Everybody starts linking to/quoting the original Orders of Secession of the various states. I had never read those before.
Before, the historically-challenged might be met with, “That’s not true! Lemme go get a book out of the library, and I’ll, uh, prove you wrong next week.” Now, though, you can read the original words of the Founding Traitors, screaming “Slavery forever, YEE-HA!”
Warren Terra
I still can’t get over the “Business And Economics Editor” of the Atlantic not understanding that the reason it’s hard to find a house “at a decent price” that sticks around in the market long enough for her and Mr. McMegan to find and buy it is because Supply And Demand dictates that if the price is too low then demand will be higher than supply. I’m almost sure they covered Supply And Demand in her MBA courses, unless they figured that any student who hadn’t already mastered it was hopeless.
beltane
@Warren Terra: The laws of Supply and Demand are for other people. Megan McArdle is not other people. Megan McArdle is special. If Megan McArldle wants to buy a certain house at a certain price, she will cry and stomp her feet until mommy and daddy buy her that house.
Cerberus
@Citizen_X:
I know.
Call me a technophile, but I just love this anarchic mess we call the internet. So much information just a click away for so many people with such pervasive reach.
There’s just so fewer places to hide.
We often despair at the state of the media, but shit like this was always swimming around and only now can we instantly debunk and tell the real history of things on such a massive scale.
It’s beautiful.
The Truffle
From Mary Matalin, professional moron:
Going back to where we came? The Bush presidency, you mean? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
Comrade Kevin
Michael Bérubé is awesome, but siccing him on McMegan is like that old Python sketch, with the Australian hunters shooting mosquitos with bazookas.
Cerberus
@The Truffle:
If they just clap hard enough, they know that the tide of history will reverse itself and stop leaving them behind. They. just. need. to. clap. harder.
How’s that complete split from reality thing working for them?