Minorities are making big numeric gains across the US. This might explain why even progressive states like Minnesota have suddenly turned into racist, gun-toting people scared of their own shadows.
Look, the US is going to be less white no matter what happens. If Caucasians don’t want to sow any more ill will against populations who already have legitimate grudges, this might be the time to be less vindictive and violent; not more.
Maybe it is because I moved here from a big city going through hard times, but there is a lot of hype here about how it is becoming dangerous in Rochester.
I don’t get it.
I don’t see it.
The only thing I see are Somalis and folks like me moving in.
Hmmm, what could that possibly mean?
Republicans don’t want you to vote. At least, if you are planning to vote against them. They don’t know how you are going to vote, but going after the poor and minorities is good math for them.
Here’s a look at “voter ID”, the 21st century’s version of a poll tax.
Someone put a bomb in Spokane, Washington but you haven’t heard about it. It was set to kill the marchers in an MLK Day parade.
The FBI is calling it an act of domestic terrorism but you still haven’t heard about it.
Spokane has a history of White Supremacist activity, and Rachel Maddow goes into it (and wonders who no one is talking about this).
According to this report, the FBI thinks it IS tied to a white power hate group.
Some more on this.
White Racists trying to blow up a Unity March. You’ll never hear a word of this on FAUXNews.
Mother Jones has a reminder of who is getting helped by the health care reform law.
Think of these folks while Republicans are screeching about people’s rights being taken away or the cost of helping fellow citizens (instead of enriching, say, insurance companies).
Also, the White House is answering back these ridiculous charges with actual facts.
Some food for thought on violent incidents not labelled terrorist incidents in this nation. The primary link? The color of the shooter’s skin.
Conservatives spent this week saying that carrying signs touting violent revolution and standing behind a woman calling for folks to “reload” and “target” people she doesn’t agree with doesn’t make people think that shooting people is a valid part of political debate.
This must be the “don’t do as I say” Biblical argument I have previously never heard of.
So, bad enough, but what else have these morons been up to?
Tea Bagging Senator Mike Lee of Utah thinks that federal child labor laws are unconstitutional. He thinks this should be left up to the states. Presumably this means we’ll soon be seeing all non-white, non-Mormon children digging for uranium in the near future?
In North Carolina, a school board packed with Tea Baggers has ended school integration. Apparently this district has some of the best schools in the state. The newly segregated schools will soon only reserve those for the whitest and not the brightest.
After taking a week to ignore their contributions to our culture of loving hate and hating love, Republicans are vowing to repeal – or at least pretend to repeal – the health care reform bill. They call it “job killing”. Like all things they say, they are dead wrong about this. Ezra Klein explains.
The GOP thinks that it can spend most of it’s time demonizing and bombing brown people, some of the time trying to deport anyone not lily white, and maybe just a few moments trying to appeal to them and hope this gets them some votes.
Um, yeah, good luck with that.
One of the better opinions on this “blood libel” nonsense.
Well, the nitwit finally said something about the Tucson shootings.
Honestly, she shouldn’t have bothered.
Six people are dead. Another fourteen wounded.
But she’s the victim.
Read/watch it here if you feel you must.
No apology. No hint of even remotely tangential responsibility for throwing targets on people’s backs. No sign she’ll stop using threats of violence as a political tactic.
No class.
And in a nice bit of anti-Semitism, she used the term “blood libel” to describe how she thinks liberals are blaming her words and images for creating this culture of hate, fear, and death that, well, she has added to.
A quick search shows that:
Blood libel (also blood accusation) refers to a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, almost always Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays. Historically, these claims have-alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration-been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is, of course, Jewish.
Nice touch there Palin!