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POLL! Can't a black man be a prick with the police inside his home without having to fear an arrest?
Here's what I want you to understand: I am not making excuses for Henry Louis Gates real of imagined lack of composure. You know why? BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY THE PROBLEM.
The good negro faces in quiet dignity any and all racist and bigot assaults by the poor white boys and girls who, gosh darn it, don't know any better. The bad negro stands up for himself and fights back.
And that's usually the negro that ends with a police bullet in their back.
The fact is, too many white people cannot still deal with an uppity black man or woman. It's as if we blacks/latinos/blatinos were not allowed the same kind of ego foibles as white people because ... you know ... we have to live in deference of white people all the time, thankful that they choose to not gang up on us and lynch us.
So let me be clear about this question : DO YOU THINK A BLACK MAN HAS A RIGHT TO BE A PRICK IN HIS OWN HOUSE AND NOT GET ARRESTED FOR IT?
Am voting yes. Who cares how much of a dick Skip Gates was to the police officer? IT WAS HIS GODDAMN HOUSE. He had all the right to look at the cop at scream
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A majority of Left and Right leaning bloggers agree: The GOP will pay in spades for their Sotomayor smears
National Journal did a rapid-response poll of left and right-wing bloggers about the GOPs strategy against Sotomayor. Here's my response to the question, "Would it be politically smart for Republicans to try to block the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor?"
"Absolutely not. The GOP has been smeared by the bigotry of its fringe groups -- it's why they can't make a dent among minority and young voters. They mess this one up and they'll carry it as a cross into 2010, 2012, even 2016. Latinos are the biggest minority group in the U.S. and we will become even bigger in the next few years. The GOP is doomed if they dare to use Sotomayor's ethnicity and gender to derail her nomination." Liza Sabater, CultureKitchen
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UK Home Office declares US extremists like Michael Savage as threats to their national security
This is amazing. The UK has declared quite a number of US extremists, including Eric Gliebe of the Skinheads, the Phelps from hate-filled Westboro Baptist Church and Michael Savage threats to their national security and for that matter not fit to enter the country. And not only have they've banned them but have equated them with Middle Eastern extremists as well.
Home Office name hate promoters excluded from the UK :: Home Office:
It follows the Home Secretary’s introduction of new measures against such individuals last year, including creating a presumption in favour of exclusion in respect of all those who have engaged in spreading hate.
Eric Gliebe
Has made web-radio broadcasts in which he vilifies certain ethnic groups and encourages the download and distribution of provocative racist leaflets and posters. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by justifying terrorist violence, provoking others to commit serious crime and fostering racial hatred.Stephen Donald Black
Set up Stormfront, a racist website. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by promoting serious criminal activity and fostering hatred, which might lead to inter-community violence in the United Kingdom.Mike Guzovsky
Leader of a violent group and actively involved with military training camps. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to foment, justify or glorify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to terrorist acts.Fred Waldron Phelps Snr and Shirley Phelps-Roper
Pastor and leading spokesperson of Westboro Baptist Church. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the United Kingdom.Michael Alan Weiner (also known as Michael Savage)
Controversial daily radio host. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.
Now compare this to the fact that the United States banned the most important novelist of Latin America from entering the country due to his work in Cuba and relationship with Fidel Castro.
Nevermind that Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written novels and articles against domestic terrorists everywhere, the most famous being Notas de un secuestro. The fact that the Nobel Laureate and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude was considered a threat to our national security while Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Michael Savage have carte blanche to broadcast their hatred and desires of violence against women, people of color, gays and immigrants tells you how bigotry has become a markatable product in this country and a tool of political power.
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Dealing with the Hate
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If you can bear it, the photographs are here. They are from the Musarium program, "Without Sanctuary," and they are a documentation of lynchings. Of the "strange fruit" that hangs in trees. Of what happens when the worst in the human psyche is joined with the worst in others, and mobs arise.
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On This Day
