Category Archives: Racism

Georgia’s state of hate

This begins with a roundup of thing Georgia has done to make it very uncomfortable to be Latino down there. Hell, it’s been dangerous to be non-white there for centuries.

And it isn’t just a color thing. These cretins are both proud to have voted for a guy who questioned the patriotism of a paraplegic honored veteran AND supported Michael Vick AFTER the dog killing facts came out.

I know folks who love Atlanta, can’t say enough about the rest of the state. That’s fine. Personally, I’d let a modern day Sherman re-enact the burning of the place.

The more I read, the more I’m inclined to help fund such an effort.

HB 87 is the bill that makes it state law to hunt down undocumented immigrants and, well, I don’t know really. Something draconian and “Christian” I imagine, like forcibly breaking up a family, burning the birth certificates of any children born here, or something along those lines.

Turns out a downside to trying to make your state lily-white – or less brown anyway – is that no one is around to pick your produce. Using folks on probation hasn’t worked out so well.

A lot of the stories related to this has passed their freshness dates but Jay Bookman at the AJC puts out some good news reporting on this, follow this and this for some background.

We’re all probably going to pay more at the market as these racist Tea Baggers keep pulling this kind of thing. It isn’t enough for them to let the rich live tax free, they have to amp up the cost of everything for the rest of us too. In short, we’re paying for them to be racist pricks to folks just looking for some money to feed their families.

Nice job.

Not all that funny. Or “Fair and Balanced” for that matter

John Stewart went on Fox News Sunday and basically got Chris Wallace – a journalist who became a shill apparently without even knowing it – to admit that FAUX is pushing an ideological agenda.

We all know that they are, but he’s their prize reporter, the guy they turn to whenever people call them talking-point-driven liars. Even he knows he’s pushing a side.

Stewart calls out the fake coverage of some of what he said (and he knows from fake journalism, right?) and then lays down a volley of things said on FAUX that have never been corrected.

Ta-Nehisi Coates over at The Atlantic reminds us of Stewart’s core argument: he’s a comedian that runs a show mocking the news.

Having Chris Wallace try to compare Comedy Central to FAUX is hilarious. In short, he points out that Comedy Central’s jesters are folks like Pamela Anderson getting roasted with jokes about Tommy Lee’s dick. And FAUX’s jester – until he’s unemployed next week – is Glenn Beck, the guy who wants to be taken seriously as a “prophet” who laments the fact that no one has shot the president yet.

For more on what conservatives view as fun, read this. Then, if you can stomach it, you can watch the video. The material isn’t the worst thing I’ve heard from a conservative’s mouth, but the vile, gleeful, lusty laughter from the crowd just makes you want to instantly hate these people.

Oklahoma GOP Lawmaker Demonizes African-Americans in Bid to Eliminate Affirmative Action | AlterNet

Psst! Oklahoma! Your racism is showing.

Again.

And yes, I lived there a few years. In a fairly enlightened college town. And I still heard associate deans teaching foreign students how stupid foreigners were compared to Americans. And that’s actually a half-decent example of how folks behaved there.

Don’t start me on the ROTC marching with weapons through the (mostly international) family housing section after 9/11.

Armadillos Likely Transmitting Leprosy to Humans in Southern U.S.: Scientific American

Not that I expect Lou Dobbs or those other racists to apologize, but here’s the news about the occasional case of leprosy down south. Folks are getting it from armadillos.

Little armored rodents.

NOT illegals or Mexicans or brown people in general.

Like I said, the bigots will refuse to hear the truth. They’ll deny ever tying Latinos to leprosy. Anything to avoid taking responsibility for their hatred.

Poll: Miss. Republicans think inter-racial marriage should be illegal

Yeah, I know, this shouldn’t be that big of a surprise. The South is racist, Mississippi even more so.

And Republicans? Yeah, they’re cornering the market on bigots lately, even after Hillary Clinton’s PUMAs in the mix.

But 46 percent of those angry bigots openly stating they want to make my marriage and other “race mixing” couples illegal? That’s some bold honesty in this day and age.

Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home

Congratulations America. We educate millions of foreign students, give them the foundation to be innovators and entrepreneurs, than, because our inept handling of immigration reform is in permanent limbo, they go home.

Once there, they start the companies that challenge our industries here.

This needs fixed, and quickly.

We also need to finally address our attitude problem towards immigrants. When we lived in Oklahoma, after 9/11 the Air Force ROTC goon-in-charge liked to march his cadets in full uniform, gear, and guns up the hill through the family housing areas – where most of the international students lived.

Some of these families came from countries where the soldiers are the cops. And whatever pass for justice wasn’t interested in fairness, legality, or the fate of the common man. Kids were yanked inside by terrified parents. The local campus police, to their credit, did everything they could to stop this behavior.

In many cases, the damaged was done. This didn’t happen before 9/11. This wasn’t a necessary task. The head officer actually bragged about what he was doing.

You just don’t need to change the laws to let folks know they can and should stay and make their dreams come true here. You also need to tell bigots that we ALL came from somewhere else and a person’s religion, gender, melanin tone, or whatever else they want to separate us by do not matter.