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Right wing outrage over Obama saying the N-word in 5…4…3…2…1…
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Fixed that for you.
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Unfortunately, getting anyone to see that is an uphill battle even among Democrats and Progressives.
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Good. I’m glad he used that word. No way it was accidental or unstrategic.
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I like “no more elections” Obama. He’s clearly trying to make a very valid point - but I don’t think he minds how much this exposes the ugliest part of the GOP either. The best thing one can do to expose the lunacy that is the GOP base is to get them talking - and this will get them talking, you can be sure of that. There’s strategy here, good strategy.
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Yep, pretty much on cue.
Forget the rest of his message - the POTUS said a bad word, said the party of five-year-olds.
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Actually, it’s probably going to be the outrage that "It’s OK for ‘them’ to say it but nor for ‘us’ to say it. A liberal double standard!
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Racism, we are not cured of.
No Mr. President, we as a Nation are not cured from racism and will never be. Because segments of the human race are racist and will always be. Too yellow, too white, too black, too short, too tall, too Southern, too Yankee, too backwoods, too…something. The Jim Crow laws your party established in the past might have been erased from the books but you are right, “Societies don’t, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior”.
Fortunately people have changed quite a bit from the segregation days. We will never be able to completely eradicate racism but we can surely isolate it and, if they stray, punish bigots and racists without actively driving wedges between the races.
Bullshit.
The modern Democratic party bears no relationship to the party that helped pass Jim Crow laws.
And BOTH parties in the South promoted, passed, and enforced Jim Crow laws, because it was politically safe to do so, and because both parties bought the racist model prevalent in the South.
When the Civil Rights Act was passed, it was passed largely by Northern legislators of both parties and opposed by Southern legislators of both parties.
And afterward, the hideously racist Dixiecrats—Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms et al., left the Democratic party and were welcomed with open arms by the GOP.
Since then, the GOP has been the party of racists—Nixon’s infamous “Southern Strategy,” Reagan’s announcement of his candidacy from the town in Mississippi where Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman were brutally murdered, Helms’ racist ads when he ran against Harvey Gantt, and on and on and on.
You really have a colossal nerve posting such vile and untrue bullshit.
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Elizabeth Hasselback has already expressed OUTRAGE at his use of the word. She’s really worried that he might blurt it out again so casually, say, in his next State of the Union speech. Seriously, she said that.
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Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s professional poutrage is her stock-in-trade.
This is a direct result of Hasselbeck’s overweening stupidity and her inability to keep her idiot mouth shut.
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I hope the faux “Why can’t I say it, too!” outrage brings attention to the president’s words on the subject. He’s right. Conservatives (and, frankly, some liberals) prove they are against “racism” by going into high dudgeon whenever they are accused of something so terrible. Meanwhile they’ve raised the bar for its application, so that you have to actually burn a cross during a lynching while wearing a white hood and chanting the n word.
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new civil rights movement for republicans over why he gets to say it and they don’t
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Hasselb**** is simple White trash, a fearful, anti-intellectual Whitey afraid of jungle drums and nose bones being handed out at the Democratic Convention. Her function is to incite and inflame other reactionary racists with anti-Black, anti-Democratic dog whistles.
yes, it would have been more accurate to call out conservatives, white supremacists, or right wingers for jim crow instead of trying to to tar a modern center-left party with the crime
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< xxrxkk> Paging Justice John Roberts. Justice Roberts to the Whites-Only courtesy phone. Paging Justice John Roberts.
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Fortunately you can’t change history to fit your personal views. Only but a couple of the “Dixiecrats” joined the Republican Party, all the others rejoined the Democratic Party including Robert Byrd, a KKK member and recruiter and that’s, again, is history.
In the coverage I’ve seen of the aftermath, I saw whites joining with blacks in expressing their sorrow at the killings, gathering at the church and elsewhere, leaving flowers and other items at improvised memorial sites. While the killer’s address seems to be in doubt though it may be somewhere outside Charleston, his father and uncle notified the police after seeing his picture. This kid was a lone wolf, though that is not to say he’s alone in his hatred. It’s difficult to say the least what is in people’s hearts no matter what their party identification is, but I offer this. The mayor of Charleston is a Democrat named Joe Riley, and one of the longest serving mayors in the country with 25 years in office, He thinks the lack of gun control is “insane” and is adamant the confederate flag come down and be put into a museum. Charleston is a big draw for tourism, and with that comes moderation of extreme racist views IMO. It is with the governor of the state that we see the intransigence toward racial divisions (she’ll point out her mixed race background and also point out the one African American US senator as evidence everything is fine) and her willingness to do nothing about the flag.
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Senator Clementa Pinckney before he came to the church and was killed had been at a legislative session in the capital of Columbia, and under debate there was a voter ID bill. He and one other Democrat voted no. Roberts has unleashed the dogs of hell.
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