Wednesday - April 27, 2011
chop,chop. chinee boy no like racist song. where? in the ear of the beholder.
You can’t possibly question my sanity when I run clean off the rails over the issues of race, multi-kulture and diversity.
A load of crap that is sinking this once great country. The damn pc that runs amok, the weird left wing solutions that are embedded and cause more problems for more ppl then they solve. And still, for reasons maybe someone can clearly explain, the Brits put up with it.
These folks have questions too.
Why do the rational citizens of Britain put up with the garbage? - Mike, Oklahoma, USA, 27/4/2011 4:09
Because we’re not the real men and women of the 30’s and 40’s. We’re all wo-men, scared to put our comfortable lives on the line as they are doing in the Middle East. Whatever you and I think of them, at least they have passion. “Let someone else do it” is our motto, while we comment angrily from our comfortable chairs. Then off we go to make tea, take the kids to school and carry on our lives as if nothing had happened. On to the next story to comment on....
- Mr Brown, StainesSo the band were arrested for what amounts to celebrating multiculturalism and diversity, I better remember to keep my headphones on while playing blues numbers on my guitar just in-case somebody thinks I am promoting slavery or something.
- leew, lancashire,
Yeah, I have another problem but this time from an unexpected quarter. Totally unexpected. See what pc brings ya? “Everybody wants to get into the act.”
Pub singer arrested for racism after Chinese passers-by hear him perform Kung Fu FightingBy DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 8:59 AM on 27th April 2011A pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit Kung Fu Fighting.
The song, performed by Simon Ledger, 34, is said to have offended two Chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing.
The entertainer regularly performs the 1974 number one hit, originally by disco star Carl Douglas, at the Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown, on the Isle of Wight.
But after one of the passers-by reported his routine on Sunday afternoon, Mr Ledger was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment.
‘We were performing Kung Fu Fighting, as we do during all our sets,’ he said. ‘People of all races were loving it. Chinese people have never been offended by it before.
‘But this lad walking past with his mum started swearing at us and making obscene hand gestures before taking a picture on his mobile phone.
‘We hadn’t even seen them when we started the song. He must have phoned the police.’
Officers later called Mr Ledger while he was eating in a Chinese restaurant to arrange a meeting. The singer assumed it was a prank – but he was later arrested and is still under investigation.
‘They seemed pretty amazed but said the law is the law and it was their duty,’ he is reported to have said. ‘It’s political correctness gone potty. There are plenty of Welsh people at our shows – does it mean I can’t play any Tom Jones?’
Bar owner Sean Ware said: ‘The song is in no way racist and nor is Simon. There is no way he would abuse anyone. He didn’t start the song just because Chinese people were walking past. He had already started playing it.’
Mr Ledger, who was later bailed, wrote on Facebook: ‘If the lad who phoned the police is reading this, what is wrong with you?’
A Hampshire police spokesman last night said a 32-year-old man of Chinese origin had claimed he was subjected to racial abuse.
He added: ‘If a victim believes that an alleged crime is racially aggravated, the police will treat it seriously. Investigations into this incident are continuing.’
The spokesman said a 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing harassment, alarm or distress under section 4a of the Public Order Act 1986.
The man was not taken to the police station at the time, but was released on bail. He will visit Newport police station today where he will be interviewed.
Some of you reading this will I’m sure, be old enough to remember dialect comedians. Greats like the late Myron Cohen come to mind. You don’t hear them much anymore, do ya? Plenty of foul language of course (said as tho he doesn’t use it as well). Routines about body functions. Oh that’s funny.
Thing is, in today’s totally screwed up world, everything will offend everybody and everyone gets to call a cop. Where is it gonna end? When will this crap end?
One doesn’t hear many Polish jokes anymore. Not that they were necessarily fair. But they were funny and one could always change the nationality to fit the company. Brits tell jokes about the Scots and they of course have English put downs also. Don’t hear much of that either. Ppl afraid of being arrested or worse. Being sued.
Well, I guess now songs too make the racist list. What next? Or maybe I shouldn’t ask.
chop-chop. gotta get to the next story chop,chop.
There’s my racist Chinese joke for the day. chop,chop. Now sue me. (now where the hell did I leave my freekin pigtail?)
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Permalink • Tuesday - April 26, 2011
black headmistress see lynch mob in a parent’s poster and calls police.
Gee, another blow to race relations. Can’t understand why. If de big ma-moo say it be offending den I ax you ... ain’t dat nuff?
Poor dear will now most likely put in a claim.
Another example of the white man’s burden. And I’m having some second thoughts about the white guy in this story as well.
BUT ....
The black headmistress who saw lynch mob in a parent’s poster and called policeBy NEIL SEARS and RYAN KISIEL
For a poster advertising a primary school parents’ meeting, it is certainly unusual.
Using models, it depicts scientist Charles Darwin surrounded by an angry mob wielding flaming torches and makeshift weapons.
According to the school governor who created it, City executive David Moyle, it is a satirical joke about pushy middle-class parents demanding higher standards.
In his case and only based on that last line, I’d say he might be a stupid white guy. Why shouldn’t parents demand high standards? Seems weird to joke about that, don’t ya think?
Yet when black headmistress Shirley Patterson saw it, she believed it represented her surrounded by white parents.
Frightened: Headmistress Shirley Patterson called in the police after she saw the poster
She reportedly compared it to a scene from Mississippi Burning, a film about the Ku Klux Klan’s racist lynchings, saying it left her ‘fearing for her and her family’s safety’.
She called the police, claiming harassment. Then a council inquiry spent weeks determining the race of the Charles Darwin figure. Now Mr Moyle has been suspended from the governing body of Goodrich primary school in fashionable East Dulwich, south-east London, and is considering withdrawing his two younger children.
Although the police realised Darwin was white, and said no crime had been committed, Southwark council insisted it had ‘appropriately’ investigated the ‘deeply disturbing’ poster.
The Labour authority refused to reveal details of its inquiry – which involved half a dozen officers at a time when 500 jobs are set to be cut.
And it will not discuss how a model of a white, bearded, Victorian scientist could be confused with a black 21st century headmistress.
But a friend of Mr Moyle said: ‘Southwark council summoned David for a meeting and told him the posters amounted to harassment.
‘A two-week investigation was carried out into the toy Charles Darwin’s ethnicity, before it was ruled “indeterminable”.
‘But the council inquiry, carried out by a whole team of officers including the assistant director of access, inclusion and education, Pauline Armour, ruled the poster was “an image of violence and intimidation”, and “deeply disturbing and damaging to children”.’
Mr Moyle, who is also a volunteer cricket coach at the school, said: ‘The poster and subsequent events have taken up way too much of my time this year. I was very surprised and disappointed that the school executive tried to criminalise me over it, especially in light of the amount of time my wife and I have given to Goodrich over the last eight years.
‘If there was a perceived problem with the image I would have thought they could have spoken directly to me about it.
Suspended: School governor David Moyle created the poster
‘And as an ardent supporter of local government, I was taken aback by the reaction of the council, who not only fully endorsed the disproportionate reaction of the school management, but also contrived additional charges about the poster that had no relation at all to the original complaint.
‘The only people involved who have applied common sense to this incident are the police and the parents of the school, and to them I am grateful.’
The friend added: ‘David is really angry. He feels he can’t have his children in a school where the headmistress tried to have him arrested. The posters were supposed to be poking fun at parents, representing them as a peasants’ revolt.
‘And the parents, teachers and police saw nothing racist about it. But once the council got involved it escalated.’
Mrs Patterson, 53, replaced a popular long-term headmaster of Goodrich school when he retired in 2007. Ofsted inspectors rated the school, which has around 700 pupils aged three to 11, a lowly ‘satisfactory’ in 2008.
In January, newly-elected parent governor Mr Moyle, who lives nearby in a £650,000 Victorian house with wife Lisa, a former treasurer of the parents’ association, and their sons aged 12 and ten and daughter of eight, was asked to advertise a meeting.
He found the image on a website mocking ‘creationists’ angered by Darwin’s theory of evolution, and stuck posters around the school.
The next week he was told Mrs Patterson had complained to the National Union of Teachers.
The friend said: ‘Mrs Patterson was previously at a school where lots of children come from migrant families and English is not their first language.
‘But East Dulwich is quite gentrified, and a lot of middle-class parents here want schools that rival prep schools.
‘They want academic excellence.
‘She feels everyone is against her and has over-reacted to a poster she thought symbolised her.’
Mrs Patterson, who lives with her daughter in a £250,000 flat in Camberwell two miles from the school, refused to comment.
Here ya go people. Here’s the infamous poster ploy. And as I was saying at the top of this page, BUT. The figure that is supposed to be Darwin IS a black figure. I don’t know how you see the color on your monitors, but I thought he was brown even in the paper. He isn’t white where I am. Still though, the guy in question here was a volunteer, he’d been doing things for the school for eight years. Is it a bit OTT to accuse him of having ‘R’ thoughts when he did this?
Why can’t his word be taken that he didn’t intend the poster to be a lynch party. Maybe cos the figure happens to not be white.
But I still have a problem with Big Ma-Moo here.
Why couldn’t she have approached him in person and asked him about the poster? But no.
She called the cops ..... she notified the council .... she called her union ....
She strikes me as one of those “professional victims” who just waits (or actively looks) for something to be offended by, and she found it.
Can reparations be far behind?
PS: And when her school finally falls below the standard acceptable, guess whose fault it will be?
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Permalink • Saturday - March 26, 2011
Letters From Littleton
Long running and “world renowned” television series [Never heard of it myself before reading the newspaper clipping Peiper mailed me] has only featured white actors for 14+ years. When asked, the show’s creator said it “wouldn’t be English” if they brought in non-Caucasians. Naturally, he got suspended for that, and now a big internal investigation is underway. I’m taking bets: future episodes will have more diversity than a “We Are The World” sing-along, and the show will be down the crapper inside a season.
For 14 years, it has found a plethora of ways to kill off unfortunate villagers while remaining remarkably unchanged in one regard: the absence of non-white faces. Now the creator of ITV1’s Midsomer Murders has landed himself in hot water after claiming that one of the reasons the drama series has been so successful is because it is entirely free of ethnic minorities.
Brian True-May said the show was “the last bastion of Englishness” and if its cultural make-up changed “it wouldn’t be the English village”.
His comments, to Radio Times, appalled ITV bosses and he was promptly suspended by All3Media, the media conglomerate that includes Mr True-May’s company, Bentley Productions.
Mr True-May gave the interview to promote the 14th series of the cosy Sunday night drama, which regularly pulls in six million viewers and has been sold around the world.
“We are a cosmopolitan society in this country, but if you watch Midsomer you wouldn’t think so. I’ve never been picked up on that, [huh? what does that mean - no one ever asked?] but quite honestly I wouldnt’ want to change it.: he said.
Asked what he meant by “cosmopolitan”, Mr. True-May, 65, replied: “Well, we just don’t have ethnic minorities involvd. Because it wouldn’t be the English village with them. It just wouldn’t work.”
“Suddenly we might be in Slough. Ironically, Causton (the town in Midsomer Murders) is supposed to be Slough. And if you went to Slough, you wouldn’t see a white face there. We’re the last bastion of Englishness and I want to keep it that way.
Slough is one of my favorite words because it can be said in three or four different ways and has half a dozen completely different meanings, from the stagnant water in a prairie sink hole to a muddy bog to the act of an old scab sliding off of a wound. By any definition “slough” is rather a dark word, certainly not a light and happy one like “rainbow”, “dolphin”, or “popcorn”. In this case Slough is a town, an industrial center just west of London proper, situated at the end of the runway at Heathrow and half a mile north of Windsor Castle. I think they say it as “slow”, another word with it’s own secondary meaning and dark aspect. East of Maidenhead, north of Runnymede, alongside places with eye-rollingly wonderful English names like Stoke Poges, Wexham Court, and Rowley Wood, you’d think Slough ought to be the absolute Mecca of white people on the planet. Ought! Alas, aught. Mecca no longer. I gather the town has no “light” aspect to it at all these days, whether the people there are happy or not.
Mr. True-May added: “When I talk to people and other nations ... they love the premise of the show. They love the perceived English genteel eccentricity. It’s not British. It’s very English.” He conceded that many people would consider that “Englishness” in the 21st century should encompass other races. “Well, it should do, and maybe I’m not politically correct” he said, “I’m trying to make something that appeals to a certain audience, which seems to succed. And I don’t want to change it.”
And of course after such comment comes the predictable “We’re all appalled. Simply appalled!” reaction by the TV station management. But the real truth is out there somewhere, if you take off your Willful Blinders™ and open your eyes and your mind. The Independent’s resident stodgy white guy Matthew Norman (tie AND vest in his picture, no neck) probably put his own career on the line to opine:
Implanting a black face in Midsomer would be tokenism
The fact is that between town and country there is a colossal disconnect - two Englands unbridged by suburbia and divided by a common language.
A candidate to become the 252nd fatality in the fictional county of Midsomer’s 15-year life span emerged yesterday, although whether by unwitting suicide or capital punishment is debatable. Brian True-May hasn’t been hanged yet, but the co-creator and executive producer of ITV’s Midsomer Murders has been suspended by his production company, pending one of those top-level internal inquiries beloved of media outlets, over remarks concerning the ethnic make-up of his series.
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This is not to suggest that Mr True-May, any more than the portly Plato of the putting green, is a racist. That accusation depends not on his looks but the words, as confided to the Radio Times, which have “shocked and appalled” ITV management. Referring to the enduring global popularity of Midsomer Murders, Mr True-May sourced it, in part at least, to an “English genteel eccentricity” that would be compromised by the presence in rural villages of dark-skinned people. “We just don’t have ethnic minorities involved,” he explained. “Because it wouldn’t be the English village with them. It just wouldn’t work. Suddenly we might be in Slough.”
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Yet also buried beneath the complacent nostalgism lies the inconvenient truth that he is correct. You are more likely to come across a sex club in an English rural village than an Afro-Caribbean or Asian face. I speak on this with unwonted authority. In the tiny Dorset village where we rent a weekend cottage, we have had a swingers’ club (the sadly defunct Cleopatra’s) but never a non-Caucasian fizzog. ["fizzog"? WTH? Izzat a wog with frizzy hair, ie a black person? {no Drew, it’s UK slang for somebody’s face. Physiognomy} (Oh. Otay den.) {Wut??}]Whenever I make the drive from west London, it strikes me afresh as a journey as much through time as through space. Here in the crack- dealing tourist centre of Shepherds Bush, early 21st-century multiculturalism seems to work beautifully, whatever David Cameron, a huge Midsomer fan, may think to the contrary. If our road tends towards the lively, that is thanks to the generally white occupants of the two bail hostels opposite. Within 20 doors either side of us are Somalis, Poles, Croats, Bengalis, Lebanese, Jamaicans and doubtless another 20 nationalities. You can walk a mile along the Uxbridge road, that corner of a native land that will forever be Damascus, without seeing an indigenous white face (apart from the bail hostel boys and girls, out and about and up to no good), which is one of the area’s few charms. In 14 years we’ve not come across a scintilla of racial tension.
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In our village, somewhere between Yeovil and Dorchester, in ethnic terms it clearly is the 1950s. In three years, the darkest face I’ve encountered is my own shtetl-swarthy Ukrainain Jewish one. In the early days I was a little fearful, what with the roof being thatched, and brought perhaps more fire extinguishers than were strictly demanded. There hasn’t been a single pogrom yet.If a black or Asian family moved in, I imagine they would receive nothing but the welcoming warmth shown to us, albeit possibly tinged with rather more curiosity. About ten years ago, in a village shop in west Devon, my wife overheard a chat in the village shop between two elderly ladies who had heard on the grapevine that a black person had been sighted 25 miles away. It wasn’t remotely nasty. The old girls were simply fascinated, as they would have been by reports of a cheetah loose in Plymouth, by the exoticism of it all.
The fact is that between town and country, there is a colossal disconnection. As anyone who flits between them cannot fail to appreciate, there are two Englands, unbridged by suburbia and divided by a common language. Painting Mr True-May as a fictional ethnic cleanser because he portrays the villages of Berkshire, or Midsomer, as all white is no more than those who love to hunt out offence where none is meant indulging their hobby.
Great Googled Gollywogs! You mean that True-May may be right, and that folks oughtn’t go all Mau-Mau on him? That’s reason to behead him right there!
OTOH, the same online paper immediately ran out to Causton and found that the real town was at least somewhat properly diverse.
But the facts on the ground belie his vision. For one thing, is the last bastion of Englishness seriously not going to have a curry house?
“More than 100 people are from ethnic groups in Wallingford,” said Mr Rahman, a Bangladeshi who came to here in 2006. “It is a nice place to live,” he added.
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None of the town’s restauranteurs have seen the show.“When it is on, we are working,” pointed out Abdul Choudhury from the Wallingford Tandoori, a sentiment echoed elsewhere. [ the town eateries are “the nearby Wallingford Tandoori, ... the Turkish kebab shop, the two Chinese restaurants and the Portuguese family who run the chippy.”
Which misses the point on purpose. Blinders off, m’kay? When they film in Causton-pretending-to-be-Slough they’re filming a real town in a pretend way, portraying it along the classic English Village stereotype, fo’ shizzle my nizzle, and that means nuttin’ but White Folks. I bet the camera fill-in shots feature lots of old white guys with dried apple faces wearing funny little hats and wearing heavy tweed jackets that look like they smell of mothballs. The jackets too. The current Ethnic Line may be out past Causton at this point, but Mr. Norman argues that lands beyond the line do exist. And such remarks are beyond the pale, which is a phrase - and a punishment - Mr. Norman must be ironically familiar with.
On the third hand (OTTH), motivation for murder on this show is often rather perverse. Maybe the producers are avoiding the charge of using the old tar brush on them thar ethnics?
The producers operate a strict moral code. Hidden vices provide the opportunity for blackmail and a motive for bumping people off. Simple adultery is too suburban so it must be spiced up with incest and illicit lesbianism. S&M is also practised behind those generous drives. Drug addiction is acceptable, usually practiced by spoilt little rich girls. Midsomer has also fought off an outbreak of witchcraft, sorcery and pagan rituals.
Oh yeah, that’s what they’re doing alright, and for their own protection most likely. They’d be immediately burned at the stake if they featured any Africans doing pagan rituals and witchcraft. That never happens at all. Anywhere. Ever! Except when other Africans go on a murder spree and chop up all their pagans and witches, which happens in every sub-Saharan country in Africa and has been reason for several murders in Europe done by African immigrants. Which is only just, because those pagan witches were out there doing human sacrifices to bring good luck to taxi drivers. Nope, like portraying an actual Middle Eastern terrorist on the NCIS TV show after Season One, such things simply do not happen. It’s like islamic incest and homosexuality. It. Does. Not. Exist. But white people, especially rich ones, can be guilty of anything. Including being white, which is their worst crime. So expect this show to go PC and then to get canceled when the intolerant ethnics erupt after seeing their own portrayed as pervy murderers. Every week for 14+ years. Gosh, that’s stereotyping, that is.
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Permalink • Saturday - March 12, 2011
I think I felt it
As I mentioned in my previous post - which is the next post here actually since the new ones go on top - I’ve been watching Laurel & Hardy films this week. Not that I’ve ever really considered myself a serious student of film, having only taken 2 courses on it in college, but Laurel & Hardy have this reputation as being the definitive comedy team from way back when. Perhaps in stand-up routines they were. In their 5 to 10 minute short films they certainly can be. But when it came to full length films, they bombed. That’s the saddening revelation I’ve come to after watching several. I can’t claim to have seen their entire body of work. That other post wrote a bit about Pack Up Your Troubles, which was far more of a “find the orphan girl a home” film than it was a war story. And aside from the barbed wire lasso scene, a few two-idiots-in-bootcamp bits stretched over several painful minutes, and one or two falling prats, the film wasn’t funny at all. What jokes there were, were both simple and far apart. The slapstick bits I can get, even though I have outgrown Three Stooges antics. But this film, and the one I’m getting to, Pardon Us seem to be cobbled together out of 2 minute skits glued together with long and boring non-sequitor scenes. I’m trying to cut them a lot of slack, because these are old movies from the early days, and tastes have changed. But the pacing is so slow I found myself nearly falling asleep, while the “killer comedy” did little more than get a small chuckle out of me.
And then I was blown away. In a very not at all funny manner. I was watching Pardon Us. I don’t think I’d ever seen this movie before. It’s another one from the Hal Roach period, 1931, which are supposed to be golden nuggets. Nuggets is right, but not golden ones. In this one, the boys get sent off to jail for bootlegging, and it’s a dark and forbidding place. There are little bits of funny here and there, which just seem to be thrown in and glued on, like when they have to go to one of those prisoner improvement education classes and the teacher gets the class going with a question and answer session:
Ollie: N-E-I-D-L-E.
Teacher: There is no “I” in needle!
Stanley: Then it’s a rotten needle.
Teacher: Now, what is a comet? You!
Prisoner: A comet. A comet is a star with a tale on it.
Teacher: Correct.
[points to Stanley]
Teacher: Name one.
Stanley: Rin Tin Tin.
Teacher: D’oh!
and so forth. When tough guy prisoner The Tiger attempts an escape, the boys walk out the other door when nobody is looking. And having previously mused, on one of their visits to solitary, about how great life would be down on the farm, after their escape that’s where they decide to make their hide out.
Cut to the farm. Not just any farm. Dat Ole Plantation, wid da cotton fields fa fa away. It’s an outdoor shot, and while the cotton plants look a bit scraggly and far apart [ Damnyankee boy here: even with red clay soil, wouldn’t the cotton plants be closer together than 4 or 5 feet? This field looks mighty poor ]. And in the field are dozens of black folk, dressed in the requisite Mammy and Big Jim clothes (this film was 8 years before Gone With The Wind), and they’re pickin’ that ol cotton by hand, and singing spirituals all de live long day. I was flabbergasted. I could not believe what I was seeing. And for one brief moment I felt White Guilt, right there in my own living room. Holy shit. I was stunned. But as the scene went on and on, and the Colored People went from singing By and By into Swing Along and then a rousing Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet, hoppin’ and a boppin’, I realized this wasn’t anything racist at all. Hey, for all I know, poor black field pickers actually DID wear those Aunt Jemima outfits back then, and group singing at work was a black thing. I know that part was true. And then I realized that my immediate embarrassment was the result of cultural conditioning: in today’s world we deny the reality that such things ever even existed, and cry raaaaaacism whenever anything appears that shows that it actually did. We don’t just deny that black people were often portrayed in film as quaint or funny, we deny that black people ever even worked in the roles that these old films portrayed them in. And certainly not while happily singing on the job! And then the camera cuts to Laurel & Hardy, hiding out in plain sight. In the back of the cotton fields. In blackface. OMFG. Greasepaint faces and hands, with white lips and eyes. And their trademark hats. You know what the really funny part was? Neither one of them could pick cotton for shit. Stanley rips the whole plant out of the ground and stuffs them in his sack, while Ollie picks just one blossom at a time, and then plucks every last bit of dust and seed pod off before placing it softly in his bag. Meanwhile the field hands are filling up 100lb sacks, dragging them along behind, of course with the obligatory cute little black kid catching a ride on one while her momma worked. At day’s end the white guy on a horse, dat ol oberseer, calls off work ( I was almost expecting 2 boys swinging on a bell while Big Jim yells “Quittin Time!” Wrong movie ) and the workers link arms and happily dance themselves off the field and back to their shanties. Where the music continues, with an uncredited but much better and more Western dressed quartet doing some song about a train going north. How black. How soulful. People today would be outraged. The racism! The exploitation! The stereotyping! But you know what? The field hand singers were damn good, and the guys who did the train tune later on were even better. Even Ollie had a good voice, doing a very nice “Lazy Moon”, followed by Stan’s loose limbed soft shoe routine. While in blackface. A regular minstrel show. At the end of which he falls in the mud and all the black washes off. That’s the only real race joke in the whole bit, which lasts the better part of half an hour. The black keeps washing off, even when the Warden’s car breaks down by the field the next day and the boys try to fix it. Slap on a handful of automotive grease and nobody notices. They get caught and go back to prison not because anyone realized they were white, but because Stanley has a loose tooth that whistles, which everyone is insulted by because they think he’s giving them the raspberry, and the Warden remembers him from when that same thing happened back when the two were in the jailhouse.
So from my short moment, I had a bit of an epiphany about just how much social conditioning has got through my defenses, even though I’ve been aware of it and working against it for nearly two decades.
Later on I watched that scene twice more. The black washing off running joke was pretty funny, and whoever those singers were, they were really good. No reason to deny that at all.
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 08, 2011
Lines Drawn In The Sand
“We’re leaving and we’re taking all the money with us!”: oil producing Christian black southern Sudan votes to split from piss poor Arab muslim northern Sudan. Years of civil war have destroyed Sudan, and the sub-Saharan southerners have voted to divorce themselves from the pan-Saharan northerners. Borders have to be drawn, and the new country has to pick out a name. But the USA has already agreed to recognize them ($$$$), even if the country won’t even exist until July.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare independence in final results of a referendum announced on Monday, opening the door to Africa’s newest state and a fresh period of uncertainty for the fractured region.
Hundreds of south Sudanese danced, screamed and waved flags as the announcement was broadcast on a line of TV sets in a square in the center of the southern capital Juba.
A total of 98.83 percent of voters from Sudan’s oil-producing south chose to secede from the north in last month’s referendum, the chairman of the vote’s organizing commission Mohammed Ibrahim Khalil said.
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The referendum is the climax of a 2005 north-south peace accord that set out to end Africa’s longest civil war and instill democracy in a country that straddles the continent’s Arab-sub Saharan divide.Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir earlier said he accepted the result, allaying fears that the split could reignite conflict over the control of the south’s oil reserves.
“Today we received these results and we accept and welcome these results because they represent the will of the southern people,” he said in an address on state TV.
Southern officials say the question of a name for the new state is unresolved but it could become just “South Sudan.”
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“Southern Sudanese are a new people now. We have a new identity. We have respect from everyone at last. Our country has come today,” said Rebecca Maluk, a war widow and mother-of-three in the crowd in Juba.
U.S. to recognize south Sudan as a new country
President Obama says the Sudan split will be officially recognized in July. In a Jan. 9 vote, 98% of southern Sudanese voters chose independence. Obama calls for peaceful resolutions to disputes and an end to attacks on civilians in Darfur.
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The south is principally Christian, and the north Muslim. The separate countries still have to negotiate a range of issues, including citizenship, borders, and oil rights and revenues. In his statement, Obama said the “outstanding disputes must be resolved peacefully. At the same time, there must be an end to attacks on civilians in Darfur and a definitive end to that conflict.”
Funny how the more that things change, the more they stay the same. Way back when, back in the days of Pharaoh, the southern border of upper Egypt was usually considered to be either the First Cataract of the Nile (at modern Aswan), or the Second Cataract of the Nile (currently underneath Lake Nasser by present day Wadi Halfa), depending on how subservient the Nubians were being. 4000 years later, and the modern border between upper Egypt and Sudan is ... in exactly the same place. The ancient land of Damot is pretty much the modern country of Eritrea. Across the Red Sea, the biblical land of Sheba is nowadays called Yemen. These are all natural borders formed by rivers and mountain ranges.
In another Once Upon A Time, somewhere between then and now, the land of Punt ruled both sides of the mouth of the Red Sea down to the Horn of Africa, which is now part of Ethiopia and Somalia. So Punt doesn’t work as a name for the new country. I think it was also more of a confederation of tribes too, since the kingdom went across several natural borders. But Kush historically began at the Sixth Cataract, and the city near there, where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile, is called Khartoum. It makes sense to put the border near there, because the land changes radically at that point, and for all I know the people do as well. I don’t know where the population demarcations are in Sudan, but I’m pretty sure they’re not far from this city. The White Nile comes up out of the fever swamps of tropical Africa, and the Blue Nile comes down from the more temperate highlands of Ethiopia. Neither area is historically Arab. Upper Nubia would be a good name to tie this new country to it’s African roots. Aksum (Axum) would work too, and celebrate the area’s Christianity. It wouldn’t be a perfect geographical fit, but it would be one in a Prestor John kind of way, since the old kingdom of Aksum was the first African nation to go Christian. You can look at a map of Sudan and see how the northern cities have Arabic names, while the southern ones have African names. So it would seem smart to me to draw the borders on as natural a line as possible
So peace may finally be at hand in this troubled corner of the world, and a new Christian nation may be about to rise in Africa. One with an actual revenue stream. Now if they can just negotiate a border so that they wind up with a few miles of water front property on the Red Sea, they’ll be in clover. Well, maybe not clover, but emmer or kef.
UPDATE:
I do not know if the United States has ever before extended diplomatic recognition to a nation that does not yet exist. Is this a first? More importantly, is this recognition some kind of imprimatur, a sign that the nation being born has the support and backing of the USA? A Christian nation on the borders of muzzie-land? That itself would be such a bold move that ... I’m having a Vizzini Moment - “it’s inconceivable!!” - and have it happen under the pro-Arab, anti-Christian, no-push-for-international-freedom Obama regime? A total break with our historic “hands off, mostly” Africa policy? I’m thunderstruck. And if it settles the Darfur genocide without bringing in armies? Holy cow. We’re talking major legacy and another Nobel Peace prize, IF - and it seems to be a doubtful if - IF the USA is the driving force behind this. I do not think they are. I can not let myself believe that our diplomatic corps could pull off such a miracle and NOT have a single word to say about it in the press until after it was a done deal. That could never happen. So my thought is that this is a solution the people in southern Sudan came up with all by themselves. And while the world may be only too happy to recognize their nascent independence, the question remains whether their neighbors - crazy people with lots of guns on all sides - will also do so. Keep your fingers crossed.
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I try to avoid the Hollywood gossip stories, but this one blew me away. Actress Halle Berry, herself half-black, is having a custody dispute over her daughter by ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, a white guy. That makes the child one quarter black, which in the bad old days would have labeled her as a “quadroon”. 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, here in Obama’s “post racial” society, I would have thought such things were ... Gone With The Wind. Guess not.
Horry clap. The “one drop theory” - the concept of hypodescent - was the very worst part of racism. It’s the same evil core belief that brought us eugenics and the Nazi’s aryan purity. Hypodescent assigns membership to a “lesser” ethnic group all people who have even the smallest lineage to that group: you’re categorized as black whether every parent, grandparent, and progenitor you ever had is black, or even just one, no matter how far back. Was your great-great-great-great-great-grandfather black? That makes you 1/128 black - less than one percent - but you still have to use that other water fountain.
Turn hypodescent around and it becomes hyperdescent, which is the same idea only the group you get assigned to is the “superior” one. And these days, it is not difficult to argue that being black is a distinct advantage for certain people, at least for those with some combination of money, education, fame, and good looks.
But hypo- or hyper-, I’m a bit shocked. I had hoped we were past all this. Ok, maybe not ALL all this, but at least the “one drop” part. My God. Certainly if you enforce such a thing, and do your genetic research, you’ll find out that your labeling system doubles, triples, or maybe even quadruples your ethnic base. Which would mean that black people are no longer a minority; they’re the majority. In which case all those special rules, regulations, scholarships, and work opportunities would instantly become the racist tools of the oppressor, because “the man” is the one who is the majority.
Halle Berry has said she considers her daughter Nahla, who is at the centre of a bitter custody battle, to be ‘black’. Her comment emerged a week after the fight between Berry and her ex boyfriend Gabriel Aubry over the two-year-old turned ugly.
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The Oscar-winning actress, 44, tells Ebony magazine ‘I feel like she’s black. I’m black and I’m her mother and I believe in the one-drop theory.’The ‘one-drop theory’ refers to the controversial racial classification of African-Americans that determined who was black in the US. Although it was only made law in the early 20th century for decades before that it was used in some states to determine who was black, regardless of how many white ancestors they had or even if they looked Caucasian.
When asked to define her daughter’s race, Berry - who has both white and African-American heritage - tells Ebony: ‘What I think is that that’s something she’s going to have to decide. ‘I’m not going to put a label on it. I had to decide for myself and that’s what she’s going to have to decide - how she identifies herself in the world. ‘And I think, largely, that will be based on how the world identifies her. That’s how I identified myself. ‘But I feel like she’s black.’
This is at odds with a report on website TMZ which alleges the French-Canadian model did not like his mixed-race daughter being identified as black. Sources connected with the former couple told TMZ: ‘Whenever Gabriel would read a story about Nahla that referred to her as “black,” he would go off, insisting his baby was white.
Berry says that she struggled to determine her own racial identity. Her parents had a turbulent relationship and, while being raised by her white mother, the actress sees herself as being black.
She says: ‘I identify as a black woman, but I’ve always had to embrace my mother and the white side of who I am, too.
Wouldn’t it be great if Americans could move beyond all this color garbage? If we could advance to some kind of “melting pot” culture? Kind of like what France has been mostly able to do? Speak French, think French, act French and you are French; it doesn’t matter too much whether you’re pale French or dark French. Be citizens instead of ethnics. Seriously, when you’re at the point where you and your child have to actively CHOOSE what race you belong to, isn’t it all a bit moot?
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‘Racist US bankers’ to blame for credit crisis … that’s what this brit thinks … figures.
See? There’s the problem right there. The big ‘R’ at work again.
Dig deep enough and the great depression had it’s roots in racism too. Right?
Does anyone really buy this? I know what the banks are supposed to have done. But a racial issue?
Damn Yankees! As usual.
‘Racist US bankers’ to blame for credit crisisThe failure of racist American bankers to provide black home owners with fair mortgages fuelled the financial crisis, Trevor Phillips, the equalities chief, will claim in a major speech this week.
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
Calling on the Government to ensure that the programme of public sector cuts does not fall disproportionately on minorities, Mr Phillips will warn that discrimination can have unexpected economic consequences.
Addressing the Policy Exchange think tank, he will argue that the phenomenon of subprime home loans, which led to the 2008 banking collapse, emerged because even wealthy black families could not obtain regular mortgages.
A number of banks involved in the crash, including Lehman Brothers and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), were over reliant on toxic subprime loans to customers who could not afford to maintain repayments.
Mr Phillips will say: “I know it’s not a thing that the bankers and economists like to talk about, but the American financial crisis was precipitated at least in part by racial prejudice.
“Why were so many minority families taking these expensive loans?
Because discrimination left them with no choice.
“The rapid growth of the sub-prime market in the past decade probably owed more to the history of racial discrimination than any other factor.”
Mr Phillips said before the crash that black families in the US were more likely than white people to be charged higher interest rates and have a subprime loan.
In order to prevent a repeat of the problem here during the recovery, he said the Equalities Commission would carry out a review of the Coalition’s cuts programme.
Mr Phillips will say: “Racism did not cause the crisis … we would probably have faced a meltdown at some point even if all the loans had been to white folks.
“But there is no doubt that when the full story is unravelled we’ll find that a racial factor did play a role in what happened.
“We now know what it led to. Perhaps now is the time to make sure that we don’t repeat the mistakes we made going into recession on the way out.
“The spending review and the cuts that follow must not fall disproportionately on already disadvantaged social groupings.”
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Permalink • Saturday - January 29, 2011
Mom Got Schooled
Ohio mother convicted of felony because she said her kids lived with their father so that they could attend a better, safer public school. Now she’s a felon, and her career as an aspiring teacher is over.
Kelley Williams-Bolar, a 40-year-old mother of two, was convicted of a felony last week and sent to jail for 10 days. Her crime? Falsifying records so her kids could attend a safer school in the district where her father lives.
Uh-oh! Sounds like two little girls were trying to get a free education off the back of hard-working tax payers, and if that’s not worth a felony charge, I don’t know what is. Williams-Bolar, according to the prosecution, lives in subsidized housing in Akron, Ohio, and not with her father in Copley Township—as she claimed on several official school forms when she enrolled her two daughters. The Copley schools are, it seems, better and safer than the schools in Akron. (They are also whiter. Williams-Bolar is black. But obviously race has nothing to do with this case!)
The school district grew suspicious enough about the Williams-Bolar kids to, apparently, hire a private detective, who filmed Williams-Bolar dropping her children off at a bus stop near her parents’ house.
According to the presiding judge, Patricia Cosgrove, who spoke with The Akron Beacon-Journal, “the state would not move, would not budge, and offer Ms. Williams-Bolar to plead to a misdemeanor,” despite several pretrial hearings.
Williams-Bolar, a teaching assistant, is working towards a teaching degree, but her felony conviction will likely derail that.
Looks like the father and grandfather are also in a bit of trouble over this. Williams-Bolar was released early from jail and is now making a big fuss and demanding complete exoneration.
A whole bushel of links on the story can be found here.
Interesting situation. A black woman wants her kids out of the lousy and dangerous local black school, so she says they live with the other parent, who has an address in the better, whiter school district. Both districts are within the city of Akron, so it isn’t like neither parent was paying school taxes into the city system. Or were they? I would assume Mom is on some level of public assistance, since she lives in subsidized housing, but she works at least part-time. Does the father work? He lives elsewhere, with his father, but everyone still seems to be on speaking terms. Are they married? Were they ever married? Is he working but living with his father only so that she and the girls can get rent free housing? Did the Copley Township schools only push this case to court because she’s black? (a dozen cases a year like this come up, but none ever go to trial, much less conviction). Had Williams-Bolar tried for a waiver before this, or did she just decide to falsify things from the get-go?
If you try to make things better for your children by following the rules and get nowhere, is it Ok to bend or break the rules to get what you want? This case is a victimless crime, isn’t it?
Or perhaps the whole thing is a big miscarriage of justice. According to one article I read,
The effect of divorce on a student’s residence also is a factor for districts. A child in joint custody with parents in different districts has a right to go to either, said Russell Chaboudy, superintendent of Coventry school.
Any $2 lawyer could get “divorce” interpreted as “living separately” considering how rare actual marriage is these days. If Chaboudy is paraphrasing actual law, then this case may have been really poorly handled if certain legal priorities exist. By which I mean the “divorce” rule overrides the “actual residency of the child” rule, which it certainly could if parental custody was exactly 50-50.
I read several articles about the case, but not all of them, and it does not look like she is overtly playing the race card. That in itself is interesting, because a quick look at the other dozen cases per year that come up would point out any racial bias, and you’ve got to wonder about it, since the Copley school board hired a private detective to make their case, which is something they’ve never done before. And with all the other cases clogging up the court system, and plea bargains buzzing around like mayflies, the prosecutors were 100% unwilling to make any kind of deal on this case? So maybe she ought to be playing it for all it’s worth. Or maybe it’s in play just by having her picture in the paper. Or maybe, just for once, race is merely coincidental to the case.
h/t to careyb
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Permalink • Thursday - January 27, 2011
Oh Look
The 1954 Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ruled that “Separate But Equal” schools aren’t. This led the way to de-segregation, and was one of the key decisions that kicked the Civil Rights Movement into high gear.
Here’s a map from Wikipedia:
Golly, that division looks pretty familiar doesn’t it? It almost looks like
from 90 years before. Note that California and Oregon were also part of the Union, and that Oklahoma was not actually a state until 1907. Also see here and here for maps of the CSA that show how Missouri, Kentucky, and the Indian Territories (Oklahoma) were claimed by the Confederacy, along with the southern halves of the Arizona and New Mexico territories. If you consider those “border states” as “indecisive” or “mixed opinion”, then the relationship from back then to the 1954 realities of segregation are quite stunning. Don’t forget that Kansas was an actual battleground over abolition even before the war started.
It would take perhaps an hour to make another map or two, circa 1964; one would show states that historically were Democrat controlled at that point, the other one would show how that state voted on the Civil Rights Acts. I’d bet you’d have at least 80% congruence.
All of this history ... and just last year the Republican Party had a black guy as chairman who said that he couldn’t find a single reason why any black person would vote for his party. Unreal.
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Permalink • Friday - January 14, 2011
The World Still Exists, Part III
When thinking of traveling to the Dominican Republic, many things come to mind – a tropical drink, sandy beaches, upscale, all-inclusive resorts.
And whales?
An often overlooked fact about the island of Hispaniola is the seasonal prominence of humpback whales off the coast of the Dominican Republic. Between the months of January and March, a portion of the humpback whale population migrates to the warm waters of the Caribbean to find their ideal mate, or give birth to the next generation of humpbacks.
The appropriately named animals play an interesting mating game in the waters of the Samana Bay. The male whales remain on the outskirts of the perimeter, aggressively pursuing the females with posturing and flashy aquatic moves. The available females stay on the inside of this show, waiting for their chosen mate and keeping the inner bay safe for the newly born calves.
Apart from the odd visual of nursing mothers huddling in the center, this particular mating ritual may be similar to what often occurs on land in typical tourist hotspots. Ecologically speaking, winter in the Caribbean sea is like Spring Break for the humpbacks.
Looks like Whales Just Wanna Have Fun!
But ... SAY WHAT??? I didn’t even know there was such a thing as Fox News LATINO. WTF?? What the hell is with these damn minorities? You don’t get to have no more Separate But Equal bullshit. It isn’t, so we don’t. None of us, you included. We don’t lay it down on you, and you don’t push it up on us. Fox News Latino? The mere existence of such a sub category of news is RAAAAAACIST. And pretty stupid too, since more than half the stories are written in English. Nothing wrong at all with categorizing news events by where they happen: the Far East, Africa, Down Under, South America, North of the Border, South of the Border. Whatever. And if you want to make a Spanish or French or Portuguese language edition of your news that’s fine. Those are the main languages spoken in the Western Hemisphere. I’m cool with that too. But don’t you DARE go and create a special sub branch of the news. Especially when specific “latino” stories include “New dinosaur species found in Argentina”. News is news, and of interest to all. If this sub genre thing is legitimate, then I demand Fox News Whitey, a code word access only venue that the blacks, browns, yellows, and rainbows can’t get at. That’s only fair. Except, gosh, it would be 90% of the news, wouldn’t it? TOO BAD.
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so this self serving black bastard wants to silence or make rush explain himself ….
I was just getting ready to clear the decks and retire when I realized I hadn’t checked one of my in boxes in a week.
Days and days go by, don’t hear from Doc Jeff and then suddenly there he is, with something that so pisses me off I know I’ll need a Valium to come down. Maybe Xanax. Maybe both? No kidding this N%**!* makes me see red and don’t tell me Al Sharpton isn’t one of those. I guess anything he doesn’t agree with is automatically racist and offending. It’s folks like him that are the problem with race relations.
Rush Limbaugh can do a good job defending himself. If I were so clever he needed me, then I’d have his job.
No. One of the things that bothers the hell out of me tonight, is that having seen the clip Jeff sent to me, I now see the signs of the very same exact thing that happens here in the UK. Exactly the same, and I’ve been ranting about this and worried about this in the USA.
Just another reason to wish it had been LBJ that caught the bullet that killed Kennedy. Cos were it not for him, maybe we wouldn’t have to put up with someone like AS which is one S short of ass.
My immediate thought was ... damn it. Why hasn’t anyone shot this bastard after all these years? But then better judgment took over. Hell, I don’t anyone to hurt a hair or whatever is left on his coon head. No way. Cos then we’d be FORCED to endure another public holiday and have banks closed and roads and highways renamed, all to make a show of how inclusive we really are and to toss the black mobs a bone to placate for awhile, else cities will get burned. Again. And the left would have a field day with that and legislation would be passed banning bb guns. You know the drill.
Jeez that guy gets my freekin goat.
My guess is many may have seen this already but I’ve just been made aware for the first time.
The arrogance of the shit. The nerve.
When the left can’t win an argument ... they try and shut down the speaker. Or as here, either that or force him to explain himself.
Ppl like A.S. are professional victims and will go out of their way to scream race at every opportunity. And racism to them is anything they do not want to hear or anything they don’t agree with and that means shut the debates down.
So Doc ... I won’t be thankin’ ya for the ulcer ... and keeping me up.
H/T though for the link and story. Maddening. More then maddening.
H/T Doc Jeff
Al Sharpton said he had a “fruitful” conversation with the FCC on censoring Rush Limbaugh.
Sharpton says the FCC will hold public hearings where Limbaugh (or one of his representatives) will have to attend and defend some of his “racist” statements.
Sharpton says the FCC will “shape policy” based on these hearings.
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 01, 2010
A Prayer in your Heart and Money in your Pocket
I believe is was the current *sshole Attorney General Holder who stated: we are a nation of cowards about race.
The only cowards in my lifetime have been n*ggers like Eric Holder. I’ve been discussing ‘race’ for my whole 50+ years. Some of my best friends have been n*ggers. (sorry Wilfred, didn’t mean to ‘out’ you like this...) I might also add that I’ve two half-bros and a half-sis out there. So black is family to me.
This is NOT a ‘racist’ country. Otherwise, how do you explain the popularity of Oprah (okay, if you CAN explain that, get with me...), Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby, and: the late, great, Richard Pryor:
Where has AG Eric Holder been? The discussion has been over for over 30 years. Do you think I’d laugh if I was ‘racist’?
So why did I post this? I just spent a few hours listening to the ‘complete Warner Bros. recordings of Richard Pryor. I’d forgotten how funny (and how vulgar) he was. It’s taken me a couple of hours to recover from my laughter…
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Permalink • Friday - July 23, 2010
“NOT the whiteman’s bi#ch”
Unfortunately, it appears that the bi#ch is the whiteman’s burden.
H/T Weasel Zippers:
State elections officials narrowly rejected a Milwaukee Assembly candidate’s attempt to run with the slogan “NOT the ‘whiteman’s bi#ch’ ” under her name on the ballot.
Ieshuh Griffin, a Milwaukee independent running to replace retiring Rep. Annette “Polly” Williams (D-Milwaukee), said in response she would sue the Government Accountability Board for infringing on her freedom of speech.
“I’m not making a derogatory statement toward an ethnic group. I’m stating what I’m not,” Griffin told board members. “It’s my constitutional right to freedom of speech.”
Okay…? Personally, I don’t mind if she uses that on her own campaign materials. But she’s asking the taxpayers to foot the bill to have that printed on ballots. The only thing I’ve ever seen on a ballot was a name and party affiliation. So unless NOT the ‘whiteman’s bi#ch is the name of her party… nyet.
Even Rush Limbaugh commented on this.
The only reason I posted this was because of the comments at Weasel Zippers:
Running Bare says:
July 21, 2010 at 9:19 PMSo… ummm… this begs the question – whose bitch IS she, then?
9-11 infidel says:
July 21, 2010 at 9:22 PM‘NOT the ‘whiteman’s bi#ch’ ? Hmmm…interesting slogan. I wonder what she would think if a white chick ran for the same job under the slogan “Not the “ni**er’s ho?” Would she then also be stating what she is not? Would that be her constitutional right too? Nah. Not with your double standard… bee-yatch.
Wiley C. says:
July 21, 2010 at 9:23 PMBut you are a BITCH – right?
Now we know who’s bitch she isn’t. But we’re still haggling over her price.
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Permalink • Friday - July 16, 2010
exZAKly
Grand Old Partisan’s Michael Zak reminds us that the renewal of the 1865 Freedman’s Bureau Act, (a forerunner of the 1866 Civil Rights Act that I wrote about the other day), was vetoed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, and had it’s veto overridden by the Radical Republicans who controlled Congress, 144 years ago today. Thanks Mike! The Freedmen’s Bureau brought education and medical care to the former slaves across the South. Johnson’s veto of this Act, his veto of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, and his generally racist views and pro-ante bellum attitudes would later culminate in his impeachment in 1868.
He also takes the opportunity to speak truth to power and schools Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), [link to speech right here] who clamored for a seat on the racism bandwagon at the NAACP meeting the other day and said that the Tea Party has ties to the KKK.
Silly Sheila. The Klan is a Democrat institution, not a Conservative/Independent one.
It would have been far more truthful for the congresswoman to have admitted the fact that all those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them to wear Democratic Party clothing. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democratic Party. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan murdered thousands of Republicans — African-American and white – in the years following the Civil War. Yes, the Republican Party and a Republican President, Ulysses Grant, destroyed the KKK with their Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
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Starting in the 1980s, the Democratic Party elevated a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), to third-in-line for the presidency.
Yes Sheila, it was your party that put a Klansman that close to the big chair.
No wonder the dems don’t want straight up history taught in schools anymore. If any black kid ever learned the truth, she’d realize quickly her people have sold their souls for 30 slices of government cheese.
I own a copy of Zak’s book, Back to basics for the Republican party. It’s a good concise read and covers a lot of history. Alright, I knew most of it already, but that’s only because I read a lot of history. I was surprised at just how anti-black Woodrow Wilson was. A real hater. They never told me that in school.
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- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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