JewsOnFirst.org Pwns Pastor John Hagee; Greenwald Nails Joe Lieberman
(Christian) Zionism: yr doin it wrong:
I’m with Glenn: Serious Centrist™ Joe Lieberman is totally getting a whiteboy pass from the media for appearing at an event sponsored by this anti-Semitic extremist.
Jesse Helms: Satan’s Values
I have been insanely busy the last few days with a new editing project, so I did not get a chance to add anything to the flood of commentary on Jesse Helms’ death yesterday. Not to mention that the day Helms died is also the day I was born, so I was a bit distracted.
Ralph Nader Deals Race Card Against Obama, Reminds Apathetic Media and Public That He’s Still the #1 3rd Party Spoiler (Fnck Bob Barr!)
Honourary soul brotha Ralph Nader was utterly shocked when Illinois State University president (and alleged POC) Al Bowman declined to sip from the third party pimp cup - photo by Andrew Benning
Re: “talking white” - what Shark-Fu said:
Black is not a monolith and we do not all think, act, talk, eat, pray, fuck, sing, dance, vote or manifest anger the exact same motherfucking way.
You goddamn fucking right.
Also see Liss, Steve M, and Ta-Nehisi Coates for more on Nader’s racist dumbfuckery.
Some People Never Learn
I guess, my only question would be; is he gonna get “fired” this time, too?
A Quick Remedial Course In Racist Iconography
Okay, once again for those in the cheap seats.
Monkey:
Cute, entertaining, educational, not racist.
Depicting black people as monkeys:
Ridiculously racist.
So, Can We Count On Your Vote?
Occasionally, morbid curiosity drives me to check out what people are saying on the white supremacist web sites. I don’t know why, really; it’s not like there’s ever anything new. Mostly there’s a lot of pseudo-scientific and pseudo-religious justification for their arguments that white people are superior. Some even keep it relatively clean; you know, because what good is a racist movement if it’s not family friendly?
But it’s been a while since I took a jaunt to our friendly internet racists, and to be honest, I’m not sure I could have handled what I would have seen. I’m still not exactly sure what to make of this.
When Dreams Collide
I am in full agreement with Armando for once, and I mean that neither ironically nor sarcastically.
Larry Johnson Unites All Parts of Political Blogtopia
Even the most hardcore right-wingers are making fun of Larry Johnson and his “stunning” video, aka “the Michelle tape.” Supposedly there was a tape of Michelle Obama using the word “whitey” and other “racist” and “anti-American” language, and supposedly Larry Johnson had a copy of this video, and supposedly he was going to post it on his blog at 9:00 this morning.
Here’s the Problem With Obama: He’s Ambitious and a Politician. We Can’t Have Someone Like That in the White House!
Have you ever read a book or seen a movie where the villain puts a gun to someone’s head and says to him, “Now do exactly as I tell you and everything will be all right,” and the guy does exactly as he’s told and gets killed anyway?
Yeah?
Well, that is precisely how I felt when I started reading the response from the far right and Clinton supporters to the news that Barack Obama resigned today from Trinity Church.
Building Bogeymen
Please Don’t Think This Is About Obama, But Did You Hear About the Latest from Obama’s Church?
Armando apparently is unfamiliar with the concept of white privilege. I don’t know how else to explain why he has such a bad case of the vapors over this video:
More on Clinton and Sexism
Joe Gandelman has a must-read post on the Clinton sexism video. It’s fairly long, but I want to quote snips from it, because Joe makes a lot of excellent points (my bolds below):
New YouTube Video Attacks Obama for Gender Bias Against Hillary Clinton
Here is the latest Obama attack video:
Libby’s response is nail-on-the-head perfect:
Cutting Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face
There is a line that separates support and obsession. That same line acts as the boundary between activism, and self destructive action. This line is etched in anger, and what ultimately decides which side you are on is your ability to control that anger.
You know, I was just thinking that America is entering a post-racist future…
Here’s a screenshot of No Quarter’s front page as of this minute:
Calling a Spade a Spade
Yesterday Matt posted a video that had moved me deeply, and I think cut to the heart of the matter not just in how much more work there is left to be done in regards to race relations in this country, but also in the political struggles that face minority and women politicians as they struggle to etch a name for themselves.
Focusing on the political side of things, as I tend to do, it is highly significant that we see the high-wire act that Obama’s campaign has had to maintain because of his ethnicity, and we caught a glimpse of the lack of trust that is still harbored against him among the same African American demographic that is too easily counted as in the bag for the Democratic party’s likely nominee.
Post Race Era? Once Again, My Black Ass.
Contra Barack Obama and Frank Rich, the reaction to the Sean Bell verdict shows that Americans still have a long way to go to “[transcend] the racial and cultural rifts that [have] divided them for centuries”, says Max Blumenthal.