I don’t know which scares me more, the true winger reaction or the possibility of a writer at Daily Dish musing about National Review’s thoughtful take on the issue: Word has hit the net that the New US Civil Rights Commission has met, sans right wing cultural activists from the Bush Administration, and the reconstituted …
Post-racial America
Remember the Spokane Bomb?
The NYTimes reports on “A Mystery With No Good Solution“: … Nearly a month after a cleanup crew found the live bomb along the planned route of a large downtown march honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the F.B.I. is investigating the incident as an act of domestic terrorism. And Spokane has cycled …
What if Sarah Palin Were Black (cont.)
I think a lot of the stuff is obvious, but I think it is even more basic than what people would have thought about her out-of-wedlock grandchild. IMHO, if Sarah Palin were black, we wouldn’t even be talking about her, because A.) statistically, there is a pretty damned good chance she wouldn’t be from Alaska, …
What if Sarah Palin were black?
Every now and then, I see a simple comparison or insight that I find really striking: George Carlin’s football/baseball comparison, for example. So it is with the question of how Sarah Palin would be viewed if she were black. It’s an easy question to ask, but I’d never considered just how deep it goes: If …
Empathy Fail
I know this topic has been beaten to death, but Barbour’s comment still stuns me: In interviews Barbour doesn’t have much to say about growing up in the midst of the civil rights revolution. “I just don’t remember it as being that bad,” he said. Everyone seems to be focusing on the Citizen Council and …
Give ’em enough thread
For Haley Barbour: What are all you sovereign citizens up to tonight?
The Abominable Racist Snowman
Nazi the Snowman… was a white pride racist soul; with a lynchin’ rope, and a pointy hood, and two eyes made out of coal… This cracks me up is an outrage! Some crazyface in Idaho has been charged under nuisance laws for displaying a KKK-Snowman on his lawn: “Mark,” a Hayden, Idaho man who has …