If the Republicans seriously want to attract minorities, they have to get rid of bigots like Rush Limbaugh. This jackass can't help himself. You can skip to the 3:00 mark where Rush explains the difference between light skinned Cuban Hispanics and all those "others" adding that Cubans are unpopular in the Hispanic community because they have a work ethic.
Showing posts with label Republican racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republican racism. Show all posts
Thursday, November 08, 2012
Saturday, May 22, 2010
In America, Jim Crow Rides Again
America's racist past is being revived today by the country's far right.
Lincoln may have freed the slaves but Republican Rutherford Hayes sold them out in exchange for the presidency in 1877, an event known as the Great Compromise. With that, the federal government abandoned all efforts to protect the civil rights of southern blacks facilitating everything from lynchings to institutional segregation. Miscegenation laws passed by some states banned interracial marriage and blacks were widely disenfranchised.
The Civil Rights movement that took hold in the 50's culminated in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 under Lyndon Johnson. The bitter slave state south has been fiercely Republican ever since.
A lot of progress was made over the past half-century. However the election of president Barack Obama has sparked an ugly, racist backlash in America even to the point of pundits and pols defending racial discrimination.
Colorofchange.org is fighting back. Here's an excerpt from their latest e-mail campaign:
On Wednesday, Rand Paul, the GOP’s US Senate candidate for Kentucky repeated his claim that a central piece of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was wrong, and that businesses should be free to discriminate against whomever they please.1
Paul and his supporters don’t seem to care that without federal intervention, Black people might still be second-class citizens in many aspects of American life: where we eat, where we work, even where we live.
Then, on Thursday, FOX anchor John Stossel went even further, calling for the section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that applies to business to be repealed. And he’s refused to back down.
While Paul may have started this outrage, he can be taken care of at the ballot box — FOX News can’t.
Stossel’s position is an affront to Black America and everyone in this country who believes in racial progress. It’s one thing to be a candidate with backwards views. It’s another to be employed by a supposed news network and to use that platform to push hateful ideas that our nation repudiated decades ago."
Fox News, of course, is the fetid nest of that other bigot Glenn Beck who proclaimed that Obama hates white people. Beck freely peddles racist diatribes.
And then there's Rush Limbaugh. Here, for your entertainment and illumination, are a few gems from Limbot:
"I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for a hundred years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the south. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
"You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you James. Godspeed."
"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"
"The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practise robberies."
This is the ugly face of America, its increasingly vocal far-right. The far right in Canada isn't really any better, it's simply running behind.
Lincoln may have freed the slaves but Republican Rutherford Hayes sold them out in exchange for the presidency in 1877, an event known as the Great Compromise. With that, the federal government abandoned all efforts to protect the civil rights of southern blacks facilitating everything from lynchings to institutional segregation. Miscegenation laws passed by some states banned interracial marriage and blacks were widely disenfranchised.
The Civil Rights movement that took hold in the 50's culminated in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 under Lyndon Johnson. The bitter slave state south has been fiercely Republican ever since.
A lot of progress was made over the past half-century. However the election of president Barack Obama has sparked an ugly, racist backlash in America even to the point of pundits and pols defending racial discrimination.
Colorofchange.org is fighting back. Here's an excerpt from their latest e-mail campaign:
On Wednesday, Rand Paul, the GOP’s US Senate candidate for Kentucky repeated his claim that a central piece of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was wrong, and that businesses should be free to discriminate against whomever they please.1
Paul and his supporters don’t seem to care that without federal intervention, Black people might still be second-class citizens in many aspects of American life: where we eat, where we work, even where we live.
Then, on Thursday, FOX anchor John Stossel went even further, calling for the section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that applies to business to be repealed. And he’s refused to back down.
While Paul may have started this outrage, he can be taken care of at the ballot box — FOX News can’t.
Stossel’s position is an affront to Black America and everyone in this country who believes in racial progress. It’s one thing to be a candidate with backwards views. It’s another to be employed by a supposed news network and to use that platform to push hateful ideas that our nation repudiated decades ago."
Fox News, of course, is the fetid nest of that other bigot Glenn Beck who proclaimed that Obama hates white people. Beck freely peddles racist diatribes.
And then there's Rush Limbaugh. Here, for your entertainment and illumination, are a few gems from Limbot:
"I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for a hundred years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the south. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
"You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you James. Godspeed."
"Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"
"The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practise robberies."
This is the ugly face of America, its increasingly vocal far-right. The far right in Canada isn't really any better, it's simply running behind.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Redneck Republican Racism
Reports are beginning to emerge of racist hate campaigns underway among Republican groups in the runup to the US election. A Republican women's group in California circulated the fake food stamp shown here, arguing that Obama would be the first US president to appear on a food stamp instead of on a dollar bill. Naturally the image of Obama is surrounded by watermelon, a slab of ribs and a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The head of the Republican women's group said she got the image in several e-mail chain letters and was simply reproducing it although she apologized if anyone was offended. Say what?
But wait, there's more, a lot more than can be handled in this post. Here's one incident from TPM Cafe.
Earlier this week, the Sacramento County Republican Party and its chair, attorney Craig S. MacGlashan, caught some well-deserved flack for posting anti-Obama materials on the county GOP website including a call to "Waterboard Barack Obama" and a statement equating Obama with terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
Incidents like this reveal that, even within Republican Party organizations, racist degenerates like this still sometimes hold sway and feel bold enough to circulate this garbage. They seem to be surprised, not ashamed, when they get confronted. Astonishing.
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