Tag Archives: Race

The Slow Creep Toward 1861

Nullification is the precursor to secession in so far as it essentially allows a state to divorce itself from federal laws. And, of course, it’s one of several tools employed by racist states rights’ yayhoos. Alabama is eerily close to … Continue reading
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Super Stupid

Holy crap. Another Republican didn’t get the outreach memo. Rep. Don Young (R-AK) used an ethnic slur to describe Mexican farm workers in an interview with a local station KRBD on Thursday. “My father had a ranch; we used to … Continue reading
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A Morning Bigotry Quiz

See if you can name which of the following statements was made about same-sex marriage, and which was made about interracial marriage. “They cannot possibly have any progeny, and such a fact sufficiently justifies those laws which forbid the intermarriage … Continue reading
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The same CPAC crew that thought black slaves should’ve been grateful for the food and shelter are going to be patrolling the Towson campus. At night. It’s not difficult to imagine racial profiling and “self-defense” assaults in the near future. … Continue reading
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Rush Limbaugh Opposed to Liberating Oppressed People

Rush Limbaugh is offended by young people who want to emancipate people. Yes really. Once again: he’s the most popular conservative talk show host on the radio. Tens of millions of listeners. Continue reading
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Republicans Issue Report on Minority Outreach, Quickly Ignore It

My Tuesday column begins like so: I spent some time this morning familiarizing myself with the Republican Party’s “Growth and Opportunity Project” document, or “GOP” for short. Get it? It’s an unintentionally hilarious report that seeks to repair the demographic … Continue reading
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Totally Not Racist

Here’s a CPAC participant who both defended slavery and segregation as “good” for African Americans. A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as … Continue reading
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Republicans Seek to Eliminate ‘Obamaphone’ Program

My Thursday column and another Republican attack on poor people: When the Republicans determined that ACORN had somehow helped President Obama win the 2008 presidential election, and following a heavily-doctored video prank by James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart, the Republicans … Continue reading
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Worst Person in the World

Adam Corolla for marketing in what could be one of the most racist conversations I’ve heard in quite some time. Here he is implying that African Americans and Hispanics have some sort of short-circuit in their genes that prevents them … Continue reading
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Supreme Court Set to Resurrect Jim Crow

My Thursday column: In early March of 1857, the Roger B. Taney Supreme Court handed down its infamous ruling on the Scott v. Sandford case, also known as the Dred Scott decision. The Supremes decided 7-2 that African American slaves … Continue reading
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