Racism Is Alive And Well In The United States

If you think that racism has been conquered, I have bad news for you.

Even politicians occasionally open their mouths and reveal their true agendas.

This time it was Congressional candidate Jack Davis. He was seeking the GOP endorsement, running for Western New York's 26th Congressional District. (Recently vacated by Rep. Chris Lee after a scandal involving the Internet and a woman that wasn't his wife.) On February 20th, he said, "We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there [to the farms] and pay them a decent wage; they will work."

Yes, he didn't get the endorsement he was seeking. Instead the GOP gave it to Assemblywoman Jane L. Corwin of Clarence, NY.

I'll be honest with you, I am not surprised. I'm also not surprised that he's seeking endorsement from the Tea Party.

PULEEZE don't try to tell me that racism doesn't exist in the United States. It's pretty darn obvious that it does and worse, the ignorant fools don't even seem to realize just how rotten and offensive their thoughts about People of Color really are.

Seriously, it makes me sick just to think that Davis, a grown man who ought to know better, would think that this is OK.

Ugh.

http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/chris-lee/special-election/article367437.ece

So When Is A Citizen Not A Citizen?

These idiots want to change the 14th Amendment so that children of undocs aren't citizens.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100521/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2192

There's a few problems with this idea, which this bunch of freaking clowns never consider:

1. It's a slippery slope. First we strip citizenship of children/people born here in the United States because their parents aren't legal.
2. Next, we decide that even with one legal parent, they can't be citizens.
3. Then children born of citizens of persuasions that we don't like -- race, ethnicity, religion -- like Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Mexicans, Arab-Americans, or African-Americans all become non-citizens.
4. Then we strip citizenship from everyone else. If you aren't a member of the current regime's party, then you can't be a citizen.

Then, oh dear Lord, what then? We have created second and third class citizens who are not citizens, who have no rights in the very country that they and their ancestors were born in. So we formulate a whole new class system based on this travesty of "American, Land of the Free."

What then? Untouchables? Ghettos in the classic sense of the word? Even a return to slavery??? A Holocaust?

Think it can't happen? Better take a look at Germany in the 1930s and 40s...

Oh yeah, the blatherers will say that it could never happen here.

They're deluded. Once you start down the slippery slope, it becomes easier and easier to be a hater, to discriminate, to steal the birthright of citizens.

Of course, being mostly Welsh and Native American, I have some pretty strong opinions about citizenship rights, since my ancestors had their country taken from them AND were not citizens until well into the 20th century. And we are STILL battling the Feds for legal recognition of tribes, even though we have always been here...

Don't think it couldn't happen here. It already has. Just ask my great grandparents.

About The Tea Party Racism

Yes, I hear people talking about how the Tea Party movement isn't racist, that it's NOT about having a Black President, that we just aren't like that any more.

Huh.

Well, ya know, people can SAY anything they want, but the proof is out there, as this writer pointed out in her article, Too much tea party racism.

Even in liberal San Francisco (which is NOT as liberal as many people think), there's a lot of Conservatives and while they may get outvoted, they're a force to be reckoned with.

Don't believe me? Check it out:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2ErH-DRlNvXtWD7Pki7YHgpf1DrJsijHf03RLjnqoEr46JDD4JzINgUwKDQi3o71Syah1CVfhtQaEKYaKF_w_lUIhzFEG2L40JigfJH6H5Q8NkW3deYANXVtbuKb-FC5BPEuXecIMpjw/s1600-h/teapartypic.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYx7R2zM8w0

And from CNN: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/21/house-republicans-denounce-racial-slurs-hurled-at-democrats/?hpt=T1&fbid=qsfJsirq2lr

Just do a quick Google. You don't have to believe me, the proof is out there for all who want to see it. As for the rest of you -- sigh -- ignorance IS a lifestyle choice.

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The Tea Party -- Like Herding Cats

We hear a lot on the news about the current Tea Party Movement.

But what are they?

In my mind, they're a bunch of small minded, bigoted (even racist), conservatives who want to roll back time, back to the 50s when white was right and America's might dominated world politics.

Of course I think they're deluded.

But I read this most interesting piece about the Tea Party Conservative. Especially interesting was about halfway down the article, "The Three Flavors of Tea". According the article, the Tea Party movement is a mish-mash of various political misfits.

Talk about herding cats! They're lucky they can agree on a place and time to demonstrate!

The Time article, The Making of the Tea Party Movement by David Von Drehle, really captures the Tea Party mentality, explaining it to the rest of us who look at crowds of mostly middle aged and older whites, signs bobbing up and down with monkeys and trite slogans, and say "Whaaaaa?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100219/us_time/08599196490300;_ylt=AsX7KxX5udIvfKh3HyO1gBrQOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTM1czdtYzAzBGFzc2V0A3RpbWUvMjAxMDAyMTkvMDg1OTkxOTY0OTAzMDAEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDYW5hbHlzaXN0aGVt